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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1997
Page
1
Forecast calls for showers likely Friday with a few thunderstorms possible. Cooler temperatures expected, high in the lower 60s, with northwest winds turning breezy and increasing to 15 to 25 mph. Rain chances near 60 percent.
RMH held a memorial service at 9 a.m. on its front lawn for Paulie Pacheco Ivy Pacheco and Judith Rombold who drowned off the California coast Friday. Flag was lowered to half mast. Paulie was a data processing supervisor on vacation at the time. A funeral service for Paulie and Ivy was scheduled for this afternoon.
Three top items faced the Kansas Legislature as it neared adjournment for 1997. The omnibus appropriations bill passed the House and was set for Senate debate. A child support bill with a proposed registry to track delinquent parents faced an early kill vote that failed. Conference talks continued on renewing school district local option budgets as leaders warned of potential Saturday session.
Linda Finch, 46, Texas businesswoman, lands her 1935 Lockheed Electra 10-E at Chiang Mai airport while aiming to continue to Bangkok after starting March 17 from Oakland. The achievement mirrors Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan's historic departure from that hangar, 60 years earlier.
Ottawa High School invites nominations through May 15 for its Wall of Honor. Open to any graduate from any year, with 10 years since graduation, the program plans to induct up to five in its first year and add more annually. Nomination forms available at the high school office and local banks.
More than 90 people attended Ottawa High School's first senior prom for 60 and older participants in the south gymnasium. Decor from the regular prom, music by the Ottawa City Jazz Band, and intergenerational volunteers from the NHS and junior class highlighted a touching evening.
Franklin County commissioners approved a resolution to zone Ohio Township as agricultural A-3, grandfathering current uses and restricting subdivisions to five acres. Officials noted zoning protects farm identity, with public hearings completed after earlier procedural gaps and upcoming zoning for Greenwood Township May 15.
Kansas DOT District Engineer Hugh Bogle says most of the US-59 widening from Ottawa to the Anderson County line should wrap up by mid June. Urban Richmond area may take longer, but overall progress is on track and well ahead of the contract November deadline.
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