Ottawa High adds Bremer Keane and Loyd to Wall of Honor
Three Ottawa High School graduates Jack Bremer Judith Keane and Robert Loyd are named to the Wall of Honor for 2004 following student and staff selection from 19 nominees They will be honored Sept 16 17 with talks to students and a halftime induction at the football game A fourth honoree Dr Thomas Pinney will be recognized in 2005 Tickets for the Sept 16 banquet go on sale Aug 16 at the high school office priced at 10
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Burlington
U.S
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Faculty For Human Rights
el Salvador
Central America
Loyd
Big Brothers
Big Sisters
John Knox
Franklin County Historical Society
Johnson County
James Wood Green
University of Kansas Law School
University of Kansas
OHS
Ottawa plans U.S. 59 bypass impact study with Peter Swift
Civil engineer Peter Swift from Colorado will lead a three day workshop in Ottawa for Your Town Citizens Institute on Rural Design. The sessions, starting August 5, address design and planning options before the bypass is completed. Swift outlines vehicle dominant and walkable mixed use plans to guide downtown strategy.
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U.S. 59
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Ottawa workshop previews plan for growth and preservation
National and local experts will join residents to discuss Ottawa's growth. Topics include changes to U S 59, downtown revitalization as a canvas, historic preservation and traffic impact, and walkable, mixed use development options. Ottawa Main Street Association urged long range planning with a July 30 application deadline.
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Mary Allison Haynie
Ottawa Main Street Association
Filipino hostage freed as peacekeepers pull out of Iraq
Angelo dela Cruz, a Filipino truck driver held for nearly two weeks, was released and handed to the UAE embassy in Baghdad after the Philippines withdrew its last peacekeepers. He was later taken to Abu Dhabi for a medical checkup as his family celebrated the news.
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Angelo Dela Cruz
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Pampanga
Freed Marine says he didn’t desert from post
Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun, 24, of West Jordan Utah, denies desertion after vanishing June 20 from his unit near Fallujah. He says he was captured and held by anti coalition forces for 19 days and appeared unharmed in Lebanon on July 8, with footage of his kidnapping surfacing later in Beirut.
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Wassef Ali Hassoun
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Quantico Marine Corps
Four banks seek to bid on government deposits
Four county banks appeal to Franklin County Ottawa Board of Education and Ransom Memorial Hospital to bid on government deposits and excess funds. The letter, signed by Michael Skidmore of Citizens State Bank Pomona, Ed York of First Bank of Ottawa, Kay Wilburn of TeamBank, and Scott Cooper of Patriots Bank, notes public entity accounts feed taxpayer funds and mentions a past rotation system. County Treasurer Debbie Hough discussed the letter with county commissioners.
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Ottawa Board of Education
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Ed York
First Bank of Ottawa
Kay Wilburn
TeamBank
Scott Cooper
Patriots Bank
Debbie Hough
York
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