Ottawa First Baptist carillon rings six times daily
Ottawan Charles Gillette leads a five to six year drive to restore a carillon at Ottawa's First Baptist Church 410 S Hickory St. The playback system chimes three times each morning and afternoon for several minutes and features Westminster Chimes and a joyous wedding toll among other tunes.
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Goat Milk Soap Store opens in Ottawa downtown
The Goat Milk Soap Store debuts at 202 S. Main St. Ottawa offering bath bombs lotions and soaps with labels featuring Bible verses. Owners Joe and Julie Riggins cite faith guiding fair customer service and family adoption as core values linking their business to their community. Julie urged goats as a source for milk while noting lactose intolerance among eight children.
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Statewide drive collects all unsubmitted rape kits
Kansas law enforcement leaders from Ottawa and Franklin County joined a 20 member KBI working group to push a state initiative testing all unsubmitted sexual assault kits. The KBI completed a statewide inventory through voluntary participation of 383 city and county agencies.
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Ottawa
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Franklin County
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Testing unsubmitted sexual assault kits see state effort scale
A 20 member working group coordinates voluntary participation of 383 state law enforcement agencies to test 2 220 unsubmitted kits across 86 agencies. Kansas began this comprehensive effort with a 2015 $2 million federal grant to expand lab resources and address untested kits.
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Kansas
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