Community Bulletin Reed: Former Williamsburg Vo-Ag Teacher Celebrates 89th
Former Williams burg Vo-Ag instructor Andy Anderson, who taught 44 years in the district after two years in Wellsville, will mark his 89th birthday with a breakfast reception at Lucille's in Williamsburg from 7 to 10 a.m. Saturday. The note also lists PATHS melodrama, car seat safety checks, a Pampered Chef fundraiser for the American Cancer Society, a Monty Hackler square dance event in Burlington, and a Boy Scout garage sale at Trinity United Methodist Church.
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Lucille’s
Anderson
Vo- Ag
Wellsville
Garnett
Beckman Motors
Kansas Safety Belt Education Office
Kansas Safe Kids Program
General Motors
Cancer Society
Country Mart
American Cancer Society
Barbara Cooley
Bcooley
Ott
Monty Hackler
Oklahoma
Burlington
Kelley Park
Pat Logan
Emporia
Trinity United Methodist Church
N. Cedar
Ottawa
Call
Equus Beds water bill defeated in House vote
Hutchinson officials reacted with dismay as the House rejected a bill to raise the Equus Beds Aquifer water fee cap from 60 to 120 cents per acre foot. A separate measure raising the cap to 65 cents passed earlier, while the district sought 1.19 dollars. The aquifer serves about 500,000 people across multiple cities industries and farms.
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Harris
Hutchinson
Clay Outrager
House
Senate
Bill Graves
Equus Beds
Wichita
Nile Dillmore
Residents urge road stay open at county meeting
Seven opponents to closing 4300 to 4500 Riley Road spoke at a county commissioner's meeting. They argued the road serves farmers and travelers and could be upgraded with rock. No action was taken as the resolution remains unsigned. Also approved bids from Beckman Motors Inc. for two county vehicles: an extended cab pickup for Planning and Zoning and an SUV for the Ambulance Department.
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Herald
Ray DeJulio
Riley Road
Beckman Motors Inc
Garnett
Planning and Zoning Department
Man injured in tree cutting near railway crossing
Ross Bryzon, 59, of Gardner, was flown by LifeFlight to Overland Park Regional Medical Center with a broken leg after a tree he was cutting as part of scenic clearing for Midland Railway fell on him at the Jauy Creek crossing. Centropolis fire, Franklin County Ambulance, and Wellsville Fire aided.
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Ross Bryzon
Gardner
Overland Park Regional Medical Center
Bryzon
Midland Railway
Centropolis
Gene Gilliland
Gilliland
Jauy Creek
Franklin County Ambulance Service
Bryton
Wellsville Fire
Kansas school finance bill passes both houses in $2.26 billion plan
House and Senate negotiators reach a bipartisan agreement to distribute more than $2.26 billion to public schools for fiscal 2002. The measure raises base state aid per pupil by 50, to 3870, funds special education at 85.3 percent of excess costs, and expands at risk four-year-olds. Senate and House votes approved the bill amid disagreements over tax-sheltered annuity provisions and property tax renewal.
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Topeka
House
Bill Graves
Senate
Bill Reardon
Kansas City
Ralph Tanner
R-Baldwin
Graves
Anthony Hensley
Dtopeka
Dwayne Umbarger
Sai Umbarger
R-Thayer
Kansas State Department of Education
Ksbe
State
Ink
Ottawa High School band travels to Colorado festival and back
Ottawa High School band, aided by fundraisers and a Maynard Ferguson concert, spent a weekend in Colorado for a festival and sightseeing. The group earned an excellent rating second highest, performed at Cytones Review, and plans new uniforms as enrollment rises. Several students won state solo and ensemble awards, including Miranda Mitchell with a superior vocal solo.
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Maynard Ferguson
Rocky Mountain City
Chris Reynolds
OHS
Garden of the Gods
Abe
Rece
Flying W Ranch
Reynolds
Colorado
Ae . Reynolds
Ottawa
Haven
Cyrones
Cytones
City Park
John Phillip Sousa
Miranda Mitchell
OHS Cyrones
Teal Ludwick
Holly Shepard
Ottawa area hospital daily notes and arrests brief
Friday through Monday admissions include Melba Fowler Teri McEntire Wayne Stallings and others with births: a daughter to Wendy Blanton Pomona and a son to Scott and Dana White Ottawa notes. Arrests include Mindy Pooler Lea Hopkins a 17 year old male and 16 year old female plus Christina Wilson and a 42 year old at 10 02 a m. Thefts report storm doors stolen May 3 4 at 717 W 7th and non injury auto crash on Main Street with Betty Parker.
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Melba Fowler
Ottawa
Teri McEntire
Pomona
Wayne Stallings
Arthur Bell
Richmond
Lillian Jackson
Bernice Fields
Wendy Blanton
Fallon McCord
Betty Wittmeyer
Ronald Sexton
Olathe Medical Center
Scott and
Dana White
Mindy M. Pooler
Texas Road
Lea D. Hopkins
Oak
Douglas County
Red Jacket
The
Franklin
Christina J. Wilson
S. Locust
Laina D. McCoy
S. Ash
S. Main
Betty R. Parker
Indiana Terrace
McCoy
Conservative pushes for school funding tax hike in Topeka
In Topeka conservative Sen. Dwayne Umbarger defends a school funding tax hike plan. The Thayer Republican, chair of the education committee, argues for pay now or pay later while balancing fiscal constraints. He clashes with ideologues over taxes but remains committed to education despite political backlash.
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Carol Crapper
Harris
Topeka
Senate
Dwayne Umbarger
Thayer
Kansas
Umbarger
Tim Huelskamp
R-Fowler
Huelskamp
Lana Oleen
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