Swim for Heart Tuesday at Forest Park Pool
Swimmers at Forest Park Pool join a 11 am Swim for Heart event to raise funds for the American Heart Association. Budgets per lap donate money. participants pledging at least 15 dollars earn a prize. Top fundraiser competes in a Swim-off at Oceans of Fun in Kansas City Missouri.
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Forest Park
American Heart Association
Bob Fluke
Fluke
Forest Park Pool
Oceans of Fun
Kansas City
Swim For Heart
The
Wefald Headlines Annual KSU Picnic
Kansas State University alumni, friends and boosters attend K-State Night in Ottawa at Celebration Hall Franklin County Fairgrounds. President Jon Wefald attends with other KSU leaders for a barbecue dinner priced 4.25 for adults and 2.25 for children 12 and under. Reservations due August 8.
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Kansas State University
Manhattan
Ottawa
Celebration Hall
Franklin County Fairgrounds
KSU
Jon Wefald
K-State
K State
Walter Woods
College of Agriculture
Dave Mugler
Dick Elkins
Larry Weigel
Alumni Association
Terry Hallauer
Lori Schellenberger
Franklin County Extension Office
Kan
Franklin County Friends of
Gene Vining
Richmond
Jim Lancaster
Beth Chambers
Wellsville
Jeff van Horn
Care-Giving Topic Highlighted by Local Alzheimer’s Group
A gerontology focused nurse will headline the Franklin County Alzheimer's and Related Disorders Association meeting on August 5. Diane Bottorff of Topeka, pursuing a KU nursing degree with a gerontology emphasis, studies caregiver roles for families caring for a demented relative at home. She directs outreach at the United Methodist Home, Topeka, and leads an adult day health program. The event, at 921 S. Sycamore, is part of the Topeka chapter’s activities.
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Franklin County
The
Alzheimer’s and Related Disorders Association
Diane Bottorff
Topeka
University of Kansas School of Nursing
United Methodist Home
Brain Dead Mother Delivers Healthy Baby After Prolonged Life Support
In Santa Clara a brain dead woman kept on life support for 742 weeks before disconnecting and dying shortly after a Caesarean birth. The baby Michele Odette Poole, born at Kaiser Permanente Hospital, weighed 4 pounds 5 ounces and is said to be thriving. The baby's father, Derrick Poole, fought a court battle to keep the life support on until birth, later gaining custody.
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Santa Clara
Calif
Michele Odette Poole
Kaiser Permanente Hospital
Derrick Poole
Marie Odette Henderson
Ms. Henderson
Edna and
Otis Henderson
Detroit
Poole
Stephen Fernbach
Kaiser
Fernbach
Odette
Michele
Donald Dyson
Dyson
Lost WWII Letters Finally Delivered
Forty two years after Raul Alvarez wrote to his sweetheart Terry Espinosa they married in 1950. On Wednesday the former Miss Espinosa received the long awaited letter hand delivered by the postmaster general. The 1944 letters were found after a duffel bag with others was unearthed in Raleigh. Postal authorities traced senders and delivered ten more letters to veterans and the spouse of a deceased writer.
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Washington
Raul Alvarez
Alvarez
Terry Espinosa
Miss Espinosa
United States
Algeria
Newport News
Raleigh
N.C
Ross Garulski
Michael Minguez
Veterans Administration
Walt Dropo
Boston Red Sox
Caleb Strong
Postal Service Seeks 79 Veterans Letters From 1944 Ship
The U S Postal Service asks relatives of 79 former servicemen who sailed aboard the Liberty Ship Caleb Strong from Newport News to Oran in May 1944 to contact Washington D C postal authorities if a letter they wrote is theirs Mail found in a Raleigh attic includes names such as Sgt William Andrews and Cpl Benjamin Atkinson with no hometowns listed and requests follow up at V Mail Communications Department 475 L Enfant Plaza S W Washington D C 20260 3100
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Ters
Robert Kirsch
North Huntington
Manford C. Peins
North Plainfield
N.J
Ruth Kidd
Alvarez
Livermore
Calif
Washington
U.S. Postal Service
Caleb Strong
Newport News
Oran
Algeria
Raleigh
N.C
Postal Service
V-Mail
Communications Department
L’enfant Plaza
S.W
Washington, D.C
Dear Ann Landers Letters on Sun Risk and Unemployment
A dying 33 year old mother warns sun tanning kills, urges readers to avoid tanning and use sunscreen while sharing her regret. A reader from Ohio defends Texans and unity, and Zsa Zsa Gabor announces an August barn wedding to Prince Frederick von Anhalt with horse guests planned at a Saratoga estate.
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Ann Landers
Ann
C.J
Miss Gabor
Prince Frederick von Anhalt
Germany
Duke of
Saxony
Saratoga, N.Y
Liz Whitney
Elizabeth Taylor
Joan Collins
Julie
Eva
Magda
Gabor
Prince Frederick
Tennessee Walker
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Wefald
S. Sycamore
Dropo
William Andrews
Benjamin F. Atkinson
Robert E. Aughinbaugh
Clarice Beauchamp
H.E. Brooks
V. Cafiso
Clayton N. Carpenter
Robert S. Chase
John R. Conley
Edward G. Decker
Anthony Delegato
D. Kosolowotz
Luther R. Fagher
H. Fatsone
L.M. Fisk
A.J. Fuchs
James J. Gallagher
C.L. Garber
F.A. Gidani
Hollis Gillespie
Charles Glaab
Hulon R. Graves Or Graves
E.E. Greenwell
S.M
H.M. Lelchook
A.L. Levy
George W. Ley
James Maljan
BJ. Michel
Mielearek
John Morris
Henry P. Mueller
E.R. Novak
Paul Obermeier
Andrew Onufer
J.W. Padgett
C.D. Poland
Rollin Pooler
R.L. Proper
James Rawls
Charles Reass
R.D. Robbins
William J. Rose
Edward Roth
John D. Serpico
C.F. Smith
Leland G. Strawn
John J. Thomas
Fred Weik
Thomas C. Wildnauer
Louis A. Wilson
Edward F. Winterbauer
William T. Wick
Texas
Ohio
Los Angeles
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Conn
Stans Claning Service
Dorothy Nichols
Nichols
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