Ottawa Chamber Plans Blood Drive and Local Openings
Ottawa Chamber of Commerce promotes a Blood Mobile visit at Faith Lutheran Church on East 13th from 11 30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Donors save lives with 30 minutes of time. Local business updates include remodeling at 625 N Main, a new steakhouse on North Main, Main Street overpass work, a new small engine shop at 415 S Main, and new sales manager Dane Detty at Bob White Motors. Community forums are scheduled for March 20 and March 22 at OMS with candidates from City Commission and US C 290 Board of Education, co sponsored by Chamber and Farm Bureau.
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Larry Powell
Ottawa Chamber of Commerce
Faith Lutheran
N. Main
James Dunn
Jim Daniels
North Main
Main
Wilson North
Janes Edgecomb
Pomona
S. Main
Dane Detty
Bob White Motors
Larry Miller
Action Realty
Creditthrift
Olathe
City Commission
Ottawa Middle School
The
Chamber and
Farm Bureau
U.S.C. 290
Board of Education
OMS
Garfield and Middle School
PTAS
New Alco Manager Named for Ottawa Store
Gregory Dean leaves Ottawa 15th and Main store after ten years for Dalhart Texas. Keith Hanson from Newton steps in as manager designate, joining Alco after three years with the chain. Hanson, 26, holds a business degree and will relocate from Newton, previewing a transition on St Patrick's Day week.
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St. Patrick’s Day
Ottawa
Alco Discount Department
Main
Gregory Dean
Dalhart
Texas
Keith Hanson
Newton
Dean
Alco
New Mexico
Nebraska
Hanson
Goodland
Cherokee
Austin
Minn
Middle School Remains on Break and Memory Book Plans
Ottawa U.S.C. 290 declares week-long spring break with no classes next week. March 21 resumes classes. March 25 ends third quarter and may trigger new courses. OMS Memory Book “Bright Beginnings” will showcase Fifth and Main school changes through the years. Dorothy Chaney invites photos and people connected to OMS to loan images for inclusion. Chaney’s Art B class visited Topeka for Youth Art Month with Laura Devore and Melissa Potter displaying watercolors at the State Capitol, plus a Kansas Historical Museum tour. Cindy Montague’s sixth graders publish “The Sixth Grade Star,” a student news paper featuring interviews, editorials, cartoons, jokes, puzzles, grease news and an Ann Landers style Q and A.
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Ottawa U.S.C
OMS
Dorothy Chaney
Topeka
Kansas
State Capitol Building
Laura Devore
Melissa Potter
Capitol Building
Kansas Historical Museum
Cindy Montague
Ann Landers
Notable vocalists to perform in Ottawa concerts
Robert Hale, leading bass baritone with the New York City Opera Company, and Dean Wilder, vocal studies director at William Jewell College, are to give a concert Tuesday evening March 15 at 7 30 in the Ottawa University Chapel. The Southwestern College A Cappella Choir also performs at 7 30 p m Thursday at the First United Methodist Church. Laura Devore and Melissa Potter, Ottawa Middle School students, showed watercolors at the Kansas Youth Art Exhibit in the State Capitol Building. Hale, a sought after opera and concert singer, has sung with the New York City Opera in Los Angeles and Washington D C for 14 seasons. Wilder trained under notable figures and has an active concert career averaging over 100 performances annually. Since 1966 Hale and Wilder have toured together internationally, performing nearly 3 000 concerts.
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Robert Hale
New York City Opera Company
Dean Wilder
William Jewell College
Ottawa University
Southwestern College
First United Methodist Church
Fourth
Hickory Streets
Laura Devore
Melissa Potter
Ottawa Middle School
Kansas
State Capitol
Laura
Melissa
Hale
New York City Opera
New York Company
Los Angeles
Washington, D.C
Wilder
Boris Goldovsky
Julius Rudel
Thomas Martin
John Moriarty
Allen Rogers
United States
Fran Herta Klust
Germany
Hale and
Community Event Briefs and Openings Highlights
Local venues announce entertainment and service updates including Drake Jewelry repairs and ad specials, The Feed Barn Truckload sale, The Coach Club flights nightly with two evenings of rock and $2 cover, BUDGE'S Sport Center opening at 234 S Main, Eagles Lodge steak night with reservations, Wagon Wheel Pomona dance nights, Elks steak night with reservations, Lillian's Antiques and China Studio daytime classes starting March 16, Rhythm Ramblers at The Other Place, Looking Glass spring fashions, D and D Exercise hours, and contact numbers for details.
Prime Pastureland Sells for $325 Per Acre in Kansas Auction
Approximately 659 acres of pastureland near the Franklin Anderson county line sold Friday for a total of 213999.50 dollars, averaging nearly 325 per acre. The McGrath estate sale drew 100 plus onlookers with three tracts bought by local farmers. bidders reported futures and improvements would have boosted value.
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Bob Bartch
Franklin
Anderson County Line
Claude Myers
Centropolis
Myers
Franklin County
Patrick W. McGrath
McGrath
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
Williamsburg
George Marshall
Library Line Garden Tillers and Bronte Sisters Quiz
Community Information File lists two garden tillers Joe Bristow and Steve Stottlemire. Jane Eyre author Charlotte Bronte had four sisters Maria Elizabeth Emily Anne and a brother Branwell. Maria and Elizabeth died of tuberculosis in 1825. the remaining sisters became authors. Bus depot at 2nd and Hickory opens 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and from
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Joe Bristow
Steve Stottlemire
Charlotte Bronte
Maria
Elizabeth
Emily
Anne
Branwell
2Nd
Hickory
Ottawa community meals and court news brief wrap
Ottawans sixty plus may join meals March fourteenth to eighteenth with reservations at 242 7440. The page reports arrests, thefts, vandalism, probation denials, pleas and marriages, plus a Kansas cattle market summary and local Q A on silk screen removal and tax forms.
Library info hub offers help and contacts
The library expands beyond books with a Community Information Center at 5th and Main. Call 242-3080 or write for assistance. This week’s question asks who to call to till a garden.
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Middle School News
Chaney
Ad Briefs
Drake Jewelry
Budge’s Sport Center
Eagles Lodge
Spice
Lillian
Antiques and China Studio
Rhythm Ramblers
Looking Glass
13Th & Main
E. Wilson
Memoriam
Lamb-Roberts
Funeral Home
Brownie Hermreck
Garnett Rfd
Francis G. McDonald
Lena Collins
RFD
Collins
Marshall
Bob Burtch
Jack Nelson
the Daily Report
Sheriff’s News
Scott A. Tedrow
Coffey County
Goldie
Phyllis A. Wyatt
Wellsville
VFW
Lee
Connie Toumberlin
S. Oak
Public Safety News
Conoco
402.S. Main
District Court News
Roger E. Schmanke
Richard Allen Loehr
Fort Dodge
Iowa
Harvey E. Ballard
Shawnee
Harewood
Loehr
Kansas State Industrial Reformatory
Hutchinson
Loretta Phoenix
Osage Drive
North Pence
Iga
James Christopher Wood
Lafayette
Ind
Kansas State Penitentiary
Lansing
Dennis Crigui
Christine Szabo
Quenema
Szabo
Leonard Ray Burbank de
Baldwin
Leslie Kay Mason
Wallsville
Roger D. Clemmons
Susan Ann Lawson
Brian Lee Roller
Edie Jeanne Hamilton
Carolyn Sue Elder
Dennis Clark Elder
King
Barbara Ellen Davis
Kansas City
Charles Gladden Davis Sr
Mary J. Hopkins
Maybelle F
John R. Walker
Standard Chemical Manufacturing Co
Larry Davis
Davis Liquid Feed
Midwest Termine
Joliel
Sioux Falls
St. Paul
Omaha
Sioux City
Pearla
Jaliot
Joliet
Barrows and Gills
St. Louis
Burrows
Sendy
Paul East Cous
Mon
Sat
Dallas Turner
State
Democratic
Holiday Inn
Box
Jefferson
St. Patrick
Patrick
Ireland
Kansas Dept. of Revenue
Laura Sutton
Sutton
Demonstrator
Bob White Motors, Inc
Chrysler
Dodge
Plymouth
N. Main & K-68
South Hickory
Ottawa Taxi
Paxson
Blast-from
Man
Marcel
Maple
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