Franklin County Fair Schedule and Events Overview
Thursday events include fair rides exhibits and judging for 4 H rabbits poultry sheep geology forestry and open class rabbits with Ottawa Arts Council board meeting and Carnogie chaos at City Hall Franklin County planning and annex meetings plus 4 H concession stands opening rides rodeo and various judging events Friday brings more 4 H shows muzzleloading range events animal shows basket and club ranges market sales and a Farmers Market Saturday features Round Robin showmanship kiddie tractor pull market animal sale rodeo cats handsets muzzleloading matches and a square dance with a range of community activities at Pomona Lake plus an aircraft event and municipal road gang cruise night active throughout the weekend with a police summons line for information.
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Franklin County Fair
Ottawa Community Arts Council Board
Ottawa Recreation Commission
Franklin County Planning Commission
Franklin County Annex
Santa Fe Plainsmen Club
Pomona Lake
Franklin County
Appanoose
Prate Flyers Experimental Aircraft Association
Ottawa Municipal Air
Markets Slip Amid AOL Time Warner Concerns on Wall Street
Markets mixed as concerns over AOL Time Warner's accounting weighed on investor sentiment. The S&P 500 fell 6.43 to 899.61 and the Nasdaq dropped 14.79 to 1382.46 amid continued hesitancy in the market. Local stocks include United Parcel, Wendy's, WalMart, O'Reilly Auto, and SLM, with grain prices steady at regional coops and farm services.
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New York
AOL Time Warner
Wall Street
Standard & Poor
United Parcel
Casey’s
Gen St
Wendy’s
O'Reilly Auto
Comm Fed Corp
Clarcor Inc
SLM Corporation
Praxair Inc
WalMart
Suntron
Edward D. Jones & Co
Lottery results and jackpots across games
Lottery numbers and current jackpots reported for Powerball Kansas Cash Ball Super Cashball and related draws. Powerball numbers 10 11 25 40 45 with Powerball 25 show a new jackpot of 41 million. Kansas Cash Ball 16 16 31 32 and Super Cashball 2 list a next jackpot of 825000.
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Kansas
Dance and garage sale ads light Ottawa weekend
Ad briefs list event details: a Saturday dance at VFW Post 5901 with Full House band from 6:30 to 11:30 p.m. Sandwiches served and guests welcome. Hair appointments offered at The Hairport with discounts on caps and foil highlights. A large garage sale runs Friday and Saturday morning with AC, furniture, clothes and misc. Vendors are invited for a fall festival and asked to send business cards with contact info to Ottawa Herald.
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VFW
Obituary for Dorothy Mohler of Overbrook 1929 2002
Dorothy Mae Mohler, 73, longtime Overbrook and Richland resident, died July 16, 2002, at Midland Hospice House. Funeral July 19 at Overbrook United Methodist Church. burial in Overbrook Cemetery. Survived by son Paul, sister Darlene Osa, companion Harold Hoffsommer. former assistant director at Kansas Alcoholic Beverage Control. Memorials to Sons of the American Legion Scholarship Fund.
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Dorothy Mae Mohler
Overbrook
Richland Area
Midland Hospice House
Topeka
Overbrook United Methodist Church
Robert Conway
Overbrook Cemetery
Richland
Thomas and
Ollie M. (Witt) Bame
Berryton High School
George Mohler
Kansas Alcoholic Beverage Control Office
Overbrook Busy Bee Club
Kansas Fur Harvesters Association
Paul
Darlene Osa
Tecumseh
Harold Hoffsommer
Lawrence
Greenwood-Roberts-Hesse
Sons of the American Legion Scholarship Fund
Greenwood- Roberts-Heise
P.O. Box
Lone Terrorists Reframe US Security Tactics
U S officials debate whether terrorism can be carried out by individuals rather than organized groups. The proposed TIPs system would recruit workers like truckers and train conductors to report suspicious activity, drawing civil libertarian criticism and objections from the Postal Service.
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Washington
U.S
Los Angeles International Airport
Bush
The
American Civil Liberties Union
Postal Service
Jeanne Phillips Now Sole Writer of Dear Abby Column
Universal Press Syndicate announced Jeanne Phillips, not Pauline Phillips, is the sole author of Dear Abby. Pauline, also Abigail Van Buren, admitted she cowrote since 1987. editors and readers were informed after Jeanne's on Larry King Live.
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Jeanne
Pauline
Phillips
Abby
Kansas City
Pauline Phillips
Abigail van Buren
Daugh
Ter
Jeanne Phillips
Universal Press Syndicate
Universal
Kathie Kerr
Dear Abby
Kerr
Esther Lederer
Chicago Sun-Times
Giant 7 1/2 foot squid found on Puget Sound beach
Richard Prine found an 85 pound 7 1/2 foot squid on July 7 near Lofall Washington. He and Suquamish Tribe biologist Paul Dorn preserved it in formaldehyde for research at the University of Washington. Experts note giant squid commonly inhabit deep Pacific waters and occasionally surface.
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Calimari
Bremerton
Wash
Richard Prine
Prine
Lofall
Puget Sound
Suquamish Tribe
Paul Dorn
Dorn
University of Washington School of Aquatics and Fisheries Sciences
Katherine Pearson
Alaska
Pearson
Pacific
Seattle Aquarium
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Ottawa Herald
Clean
Ottawaherald.com
S. Cedar
Ottawa
Ottawa Community Arts Council
S. Main
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Sandy Hunter
Old Depot
Munsees
W. Tecumseh
First Baptist Church
Fourth
Hickory
Narcotics Anonymous
First United
Methodist Church
Community Four Square Church
Sth
Franklin County Mental Health
E. 15Th St
Advance Auto
S. Princeton
Vickery
Bill Abbott
Ottawa Middle School
Overbrook Coop
Milo
Edgerton
Franklin County Consolidated Farm Services
Ad Briefs
Jamie Morlett
Hairport
N. Poplar
Cedar
Sarre
Moulton
United States
Los Angeles
Matthew Levitt
FBI
Jeff Christiansen
Puget
Sound
Manitou Springs
Colo
Lou Smith
Smith
Jen Dawson
Homer
Dawson
Robert Lowrey
Lowrey
ECEAN
Ecean Central Office
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