Ottawa area calendar highlights and events list
The Herald Calendar lists community events for Ottawa and Franklin County including planning and library meetings, fairs, triathlons, safety camps, boards and committees, parades, dog shows, and cultural gatherings from early to late August. Notable items include Skunk Butt Days, Gamnett Triathlon, Jayhawker Days, and various educational and civic meetings across local venues.
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Planning Commission
Ottawa Library Board
Ottawa
Quenemo
National Guard
Farm Bureau
Art Guild
OCAC
Franklin County Extension Service
Fairgrounds
Gamnett
Board of Education
Main
Board of Directors
Chamber
Education and Health Committee
City Commission
City Hall
AARP
East Central Kansas
Ottawa Personnel Association
RMH
Kansas Army National Guard Band
City Park
Pride
Courthouse Square
Ottawa Community Ans Council
Negotiations Move On With Extension Of Time Pact
Negotiations between the Ottawa district and teachers continue as they consider a flat increase to offset future salary schedule losses for veteran staff. Brecht argues time demands grow with burnout and retirements. The board and teachers sign an Extension of Time agreement to avoid impasse and keep talks open.
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Don Duncan
Brecht
Ly, Yi
Ottawa Middle School
Margaret Betterton
Terry Jennings
Tonight's Forecast With Showers and Storms Ahead
Local forecast predicts showers and thunderstorms likely tonight with possible severe storms. Heavy rains possible in spots as the low remains in the 60s. East winds 5 to 15 mph, becoming variable and gusty near dawn. Rain chances noted throughout the period.
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Eam
Pressure mounts as North Korea removes fuel rods
UN and U S officials press North Korea as it removes reactor fuel rods amid calls for full inspections to prove peacetime aims. South Korean President Kim Young-sam travels to Moscow seeking Russian backing, to meet Yeltsin and other officials. A Seoul envoy heads to New York for talks with U S on the crisis.
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Unted Nations
North Korea
U.S
South Korea
Kim Young-sam
Moscow
Russia
Kim
Seou
Boris Yeltsin
New York
Chelsea votes to relocate town under flood protection plan
Chelsea Iowa council approved a nearly seven million dollar federal package to move up to 132 houses uphill from the flood plain along Otter Creek. The 3-1 vote follows years of repeated flooding and includes assurances residents won’t be forced to relocate.
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Helsea
Iowa
Chelsea
Rodney Horrigan
Otter Creek
Todd Banes
Vivian Trogu
Harold Jack
Beatrice Dvorak
Rostenkowski Indicted On 17 Counts Aimed At Greed
A 17 count federal indictment portrays Representative Rostenkowski as a powerful House chair who pursued opportunities to reward allies at taxpayers expense over two decades. He faces charges of plundering nearly 640000 from the U S Treasury and loses his Ways and Means chairmanship as health care reform looms. Reactions from White House, Rangel, and Gingrich acknowledge the shock while arraignment is expected within 10 days.
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Rostenkowski
House
U.S. Treasury
Ways and Means Panel
Congress
Clinton
White House
Mark Gearan
NBC
Rangel
Newt Gingrich
Georgia
Leah
Robert Bennett
Chicago
Dan Webb
City agenda previews budgets and zoning changes tonight
City commissioners plan a public hearing on the next city budget and consider an ordinance letting vendors sell in neighborhoods and a change to enroll residents in the utility payment plan in May and September. They will appoint volunteers, place planning commission members on zoning appeals, vacate Powhattan Street right of way, approve Wal Mart plat east of Main and north of 23rd, pursue a beer license for Another Place, adjust Parmelee Inc utility rates, authorize a city car allowance for Fire Chief Towe, and sell about three acres south of 15th Street to J D Development for 33000 dollars.
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Page
Eisenhower Road
15Th Street
Planning Commission
Board of Zoning Appeals
Powhattan Street
Country Club
Noel Douglas
Douglas
Wal-Mart
Main Street
23Rd
N. Main
Parmelee Inc
Richard Towe
J.D. Development Company
Lawrence
Community events and services notice roundup
Local listings include Country Inn restaurant hours and live band on June 3, pillow cleaning by Royal Cleaners, road grading services, Summer Aerobics program from June 8 to July 20, and a Kinder Garten physicals application by The Fr.Co Health Dept. Plus Vacation Bible School at First Baptist Church from June 6 to 10 at noon.
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First Baptist Church
Melvern teen remains in serious condition
Adam Burnett an 18 year old from Melvern remains in serious condition after a diving accident at Melvern Lake. He underwent a three hour neck surgery to fuse vertebrae and had limited arm function with no leg feeling. Doctors offered no prognosis. Burnett injured his spinal cord diving into shallow water at the lake.
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Melvern Teen
Topeka
Melvern
Melvern Lake
Adam Burnett
St. Francis Hospital
Marie
Adam
Burnett
Pygmy sperm whale released off Florida coast
A 7-foot 350-pound pygmy sperm whale named Inky, saved after washing ashore sick with plastic debris in New Jersey, was released with Blinky about 30 miles off the Florida coast after recovery at the National Aquarium in Baltimore.
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Port Canaveral
Fla
Atlantic
New Jersey
Inky
Florida
Blinky
National Aquarium
Baltimore
Ottawa Herald Subscription Rates 1993 Update
The Ottawa Herald lists daily publication details and advance payment rates for subscriptions starting October 1, 1993. Rates vary by delivery area including Ottawa, rural towns, Franklin County, Miami in multiple counties, and statewide mail, with monthly, quarterly, semiannual and annual options.
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Ottawa
Uwhelms Us
Franklin County
Miami
Douglas
Osage
Anderson
Kangay
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