Williamsburg student earns multiple college scholarships
Rebekah Ellerman of Williamsburg received Kansas State University's 1200 Leadership Scholarship at a Feb. 7 ceremony. She also obtained a Seaton Scholarship totaling 9600 over four years, conditional on remaining in K State's College of Engineering with a 3.3 GPA. Ellerman will attend Washburn University May 4 for the Governor's Scholar award. At the same time, the Kansas Tourism Division granted 340000 to 13 communities, including 22404 to the Franklin County Historical Society for the Old Depot Museum restoration.
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Williamsburg
Rebekah Ellerman
Kansas State University
Kstate
Pat Bosco
Seaton
Ellerman
College of Engineering
Washburn University
Kansas
Historical Society
Tourism Division of
Franklin County Historical Society
Old Depot
Forrest Lowry
Louis Reed
Marilyn Palmer
Wellsville
Joan Bckermann
Ottawa
Doug Loyd
Rex Cummings
Loyd
Palmer
Bckermann
Old Depot Museum
Group arranges last rites for woman who died alone
A small makeshift group in LATHE Kansas organized a memorial for Geneva Marie Myers, 74, who died alone March 10 in an Olathe nursing home. Neighbors, students, nurses and a minister gathered at her grave on Good Friday, filling in for a family she never had. They found a faded wedding notice showing Geneva Zimmerman and George Myers, a 66 year old bride and 22 year older groom, to be married in a nursing home.
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Lathe
Kan
Geneva
Marie Myers
Angela Bryant
Blue Valley Northwest
Myers
Nancy Ellis
W.L. Frye & Son
Funeral Home
Elc
Vicki Lawrence
Royal Terrace Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
Frye Funeral Home
Geneva Marie Myers
Geneva Zimmerman
George Myers
George
Group Forms to Save Documents After Disaster in Kansas
The Kansas Disaster Recovery Assistance Network unites preservation experts to protect books photographs manuscripts and other valuable documents after floods fires or storms. Led by Mike Kelly Wichita State University the group aims to train volunteers in disaster recovery lessons inspired by historic Halstead library flood damage in 1993.
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Ichita
Kan
Kansas Disaster Recovery Assistance Network
Mike Kelly
Wichita State University
Kelly
Kansas
Halstead
Earhart II tribute flight begins around the world
Linda Finch, a 46 year old Texas millionaire, departs Kendall Airport in a restored Lockheed Electra 10E on the first overseas leg of her circumnavigation. She follows Amelia Earhart's route from Oakland to San Juan, with stops in Burbank Tucson New Orleans and Miami and plans a wreath drop near New Guinea.
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IAMI
Amelia Earhart
U.S
Linda Finch
Kendall- Tamiami
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Earhart
Ms. Finch
Three killed in Easter weekend accidents in Kansas
The Associated Press reports at least three people died in Kansas Easter weekend crashes. Cynthia M. Cornelius, 28, and her 5-year-old daughter Jennifer Cornelius, both of Osborn Missouri, were killed when their car struck another vehicle at U.S. 73 and an Atchison County road. Elmo C. Wilcox II, 28, of Kansas City Kansas, died about five hours after his motorcycle collided with a pickup truck in Kansas City Kansas.
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Associated Press
Kansas
Cynthia M. Cornelius
Osborn
Jennifer Cornelius
Cornelius
U.S. 73
Atchison County
Kansas Highway Patrol
Kansas City
Kan
Elmo C. Wilcox II
Weather forecast turning cooler with chances of rain
Tonight becomes partly cloudy and breezy with lows near 40s and south wind about 15 mph. Wednesday brings a chance of rain and cooler highs in the 50s with lows around 30s to mid 40s. Thursday looks for a good chance of rain and thunderstorms with highs in the 50s and lows in the mid 30s to 40s.
Voting Places and Precincts for Ottawa Area Elections
Front Page continued lists voting locations for Ottawa area precincts and townships. It details church and hall venues for 1st through 8th precincts plus township and special district polling sites across Franklin, Centropolis, Wellsville, Greenwood, Harrison, Hayes, Homewood, Lincoln, Ohio, Ottawa, Pomona, Pottawatomie, Richmond and Williamsburg townships, and several out-of-county districts with home-county voting areas.
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Jeff Casten
Quenemo
Ottawa City
Wesleyan Church
Main
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Appanoose Township
Appanoose Baptist Church
Centropolis
South Centropolis
Richter Church
Cutler Township
Rantoul Presbyterian Fellowship
Franklin Township
Wellsville
Greenwood Township
Greenwood Community
Harrison Township
Hayes Township
Homewood
Lincoln Township
Ohio Township
Princeton
Ottawa Township
Ottawa
Peoria
Briles
Pomona Township
Pomona
Pottawatomie Township
Pottawatomie
Richmond Township
Richmond
West Franklin
Osage County
Michigan Valley
Vassar
Lincoln
Melvern
Anderson County
Reeder Township
Harris
Douglas County
North Baldwin
South Baldwin
American Legion Hall
Miami County
Richland Township
Johnson County
Edgerton
Ottawa High School MDA fundraiser expected to raise top money
Officials hope this year breaks records for Ottawa High School’s MDA event. Teachers and parents will supervise as OHS students report Friday evening and finish Saturday morning, continuing a long tradition of high school fundraising statewide.
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Ottawa
Rasarvoir
Clinton
Hilldale
Malvern
Pomona
Ottawa High School
MDA
OHS
McVeigh Trial Begins Amid Media, Guarded Entrance
The McVeigh case opens with a restricted overflow courtroom and armed guards as attorneys arrive for jury selection. About 100 reporters and a section of the courthouse plaza are present while a protest area across the street sits empty. McVeigh faces the death penalty if convicted of murder and conspiracy in the April 19, 1995 bombing. co defendant Terry Nichols will be tried later. Jury selection expected to last about two weeks with 380 potential jurors questioned.
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10Th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
McVeigh
Penetate
Stephen Jones
Terry Nichols
U.S
Richard
Oklahoma City bombing trial opens with jury questions
Matsch conducts trial amid security as McVeigh faces capital punishment option. Jurors screened after 64 eligible, each side may dismiss 20 without cause. 12 selected, six alternates chosen with three per side. Prosecutors cite The Dallas Morning News and Playboy stories about his claimed confessions. McVeigh kept in a restricted holding cell. a closed circuit camera monitors the courtroom. Witnesses and relatives watch via telecast. public attendance small. McVeigh, a Gulf War veteran from Pendleton New York, is described as a plain American. Prosecutors link him to hate and anti government ideology, referencing The Turner Diaries.
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McVeigh
Matsch
Oklahoma City
McVeigh and
Nichols
Pendleton
N.Y
Oklahoma
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Gene Kelsey
Jean Rosgnan
Many
Wayne Snow
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