Franklin County Literature Festival brings authors to Ottawa University
About 1200 students from Franklin County will meet 10 authors an illustrator and a storyteller at the inaugural Franklin County Literature Festival on the Ottawa University campus. Organizers aim to make it annual, with sponsors including Ottawa Herald Kansas City Power and Light Friends of the Library Wal-Mart and more.
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Franklin County Reading Council
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Kansas City Power
Ottawa Library Telesensory device aids readers
A reader letter celebrates Ottawa Library new Telesensory machine that enlarges and displays text on a color screen. It helps with fine print and supports reading books, newspapers, and magazines.
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Ottawa
Paul Archer
Recreation center ranked as top Ottawa dream project
In a Vision column the writer argues cost is not an issue and advocates funding a recreation center and complex with pools gym space racquetball walking tracks and community rooms plus a citywide plan for parks trails and sports facilities. The piece notes Ottawa Vision work groups are weighing recreation and other needs for the ten to fifteen year plan and invites public input at meetings and surveys.
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Kansas
Ottawa Recreation Commission
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Ottawa Vision Program
Ottawa Vision
One-time money could fill Kansas budget hole
Kansas faces a 680 million hole in revenue with calls for a mix of spending cuts and new revenue. Lawmakers eye one-time funds such as senior citizen and tobacco settlement trusts, plus monetizing future tobacco revenues, while dodging accounting tricks. The piece critiques framing Kansas as a business and warns against risky short-term fixes.
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Senior Citizens Trust Fund
Kansas Department of Aging
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