Bicycle Safety Day Brings 93 Bikes To Pomona Elementary
Pomona Elementary hosted a bike safety day with 93 bicycles on the lawn as students from all grades arrived with wheels. Jaycees and law enforcement inspected bikes, applied safety tape and stickers, and led riders through a marked course while cheering classmates.
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Joanistas
Franklin County
Rex Bowling
Fred Vogler
Kansas Highway Patrol
Pomona Jaycees
Norman
Peel Norman
Peel
Vogler
Fred
Don Mull
Pomona
Homebase welcomes Lauvers as first house parents
Greg and Karen Lauver prepare to staff Homebase at Fourth and Cedar a community care home for boys with past trouble. They will supervise up to six 12 to 17 year olds, host weekends, and work with families while KU training grants a master’s in human behavior.
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Don Lambert
Greg
Karen Lauver
Fourth and
Cedar
Karen
Lauvers
Mark
Rene
Department of Ladal and Rehabilitation Services
lLauvers
University of Kansas
Achievement House
Lawrence
Ottawa University
SRS
Briscoe's
Phnom Penh A Dead City Described by Evacuees
The last 550 foreigners freed from Phnom Penh crossed into Thailand. Evacuees describe a city littered with decomposing bodies and abandoned goods, inhabited mainly by stray animals and Khmer Rouge soldiers, with earlier accounts noting killings and kindness. Bangkok reports a US refugee freeze, denied by an embassy spokesman.
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Associated Press
Phnom
Penh
Thailand
Bangkok
U.S
United States
Washington
Wholesale Prices Rise as Farm Costs Jump in April
Wholesale prices reversed a four month decline and rose 1.5 percent in April as farm prices climbed. The Agriculture Department warned retail food prices may rise 6 to 8 percent this year if harvests are large, or 8 to 10 percent if weather cuts yields, versus 14.5 percent gains in the past two years. County forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy conditions through Friday with mild nights and highs in the 70s.
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Washington
Labor Department
Agriculture Department
NAH Plan Gets Good Response
Ottawa City Commission heard strong support for renovating the old North American Hotel into 25 elderly housing units funded by a $300,000 Community Development grant request. If approved, $160,000 more would be covered by revenue bonds, with rent subsidies under a federal program and a 15 year bond payoff from collected rents.
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Jewel Scott
Ottawa City Commission
Allen Loyd
Commission
Loyd
Ottawa
Ben Park
Central Business District
Fred Zook
Zook
John Douglass
Canterbury Court Apartments
Canterbury Court
Douglass
Robert M. Clogston
Margaret Shaughnessy
Terri MacNevin
Fred Searls
Clogston
Searls
MacNevin
ECEAN
Ottawa Recreation Commission
Orlis Cox Park
Planning Commission
A. C. Kirkwood & Associates
Humane Society
Humane Society Board
Earle Leatherberry
Max Bechtle
Bechtle
Princeton
Radio Road
A. C. Kirkwood
Havens Steel Company
Ottawa Steel
John Sheldon
Library Board
Board of Examiners
Ottawa Herald
Jerry Thompson
Duke Cheney
A. B. Martin
Board of
Examiners of Plumbers
Earl Sommer
Richard Lister
Jerry Servatius
Chamber of Commerce
Earl Richardson
Beech Street
County Commission
Wanda Durbin
Robert W. Mills
Mills
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Charlie
Lisa
Rick
Brian
Jimmy Mull
Homebase
Phnom Penh
Havens Steel
Ottawa Industrial Park
King Radio
Havens Tract
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