Ottawa youth win national recognition for volunteering efforts
USA Today highlighted Ottawa youth for volunteer work during National Volunteer Week. ECKAN director Richard Jackson and Volunteer Center Coordinator Dianna Mitchell expanded participation from 78 to 175 volunteers and hours from 150 to 550 between 1999 and 2000. Students painted, weeded, collected food, assembled bags, and raised funds for causes, inspiring lifelong civic involvement.
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Ottawa
USA Today
Eckan
Richard Jackson
Dianna Mitchell
Franklin County
Hoisington
Gene Ramsey
Kansas
Sign commemorates Ottawa cross country state champions
Local residents unveil bright red signs along westbound K-68 near the Ike and Mike RV storage facility honoring Ottawa Kansas KSHSAA Class 4-A State Champion Lady Cyclones Cross Country teams from 1996 to 1999. Funded by Jim Trendel with help from Barbara Corder, the signs celebrate past glory amid waning participation. further signs planned near the city entrance and another location south of town.
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Ottawa
Kansas
Lady Cyclones
Jim Trendel
Rachel
Barbara Corder
Readers invited to submit forum letters at Ottawa Herald
The Ottawa Herald welcomes reader opinions in its Reader Forum. Submissions must be hand signed with the author address and telephone number. Letters should not exceed 500 words and may be edited for space.
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Ottawa Herald
Ottawa
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Ottawaherald.com
Semple headstone to be placed on Memorial Day
After 87 years Ottawa's Etta Semple will receive a rough limestone headstone funded by a memorial drive led by admirer John Van Keppel. A bronze plaque with her self written epitaph will be cast, to be unveiled at a Memorial Day ceremony organized with the Franklin County Historical Society.
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Etta Semple
John van Keppel
Semple
Deb Barker
Franklin County Historical Society
van Keppel
Coves
van’ Keppel
Ottawa
Ron Heise
Lamb-Roberts- Heise Funeral Home
Minnesota
Heise
N. Locust
Kansas
Wendell Phillips Semple
Wellsville
The
Herald
Ugly budget fight in Kansas nears final passage
Lawmakers struggle over the last 2002 budget bill with a $206 million gap. Senators and House members debate accounting tricks, delayed payments, and tax increases while Gov. Graves pushes to finance already approved spending. Leaders concede the result is ugly and unlikely to be recalled favorably.
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Associated Press
Topeka
Kansas
House
Senate
Dave Kerr
R-Hutchinson
Bill Graves
Graves
Department of Revenue
National Tobacco
Kansas Sports Hall of Fame
Abilene
Hall of Fame
E House
Kenny Wilk
R-Lansing
House Appropriations Committee
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