Jazz To Shop By Jazz To Shop By By DON LAMBERT
The Ottawa University jazz band performed for shoppers at Pence's South as part of a Kansas Arts Commission pilot to promote arts funding in industry. The program, funded by Market Management Inc Pence's Anchor Savings and matched by the State, included a Copland Festival and future performances at business sites.
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Don Lambert
Pence’s
Ottawa University
Bill Kloster
Pence's
Kansas Arts Commission
Topeka
Bob Richards
KAC
Market Management, Inc
Aaron Copland
Josten's
Capitol
Wellsville Bicentennial Caper Stuns Small Town Crowd
Wellsville’s Bicentennial event blended a school carnival with a pageant wedding featuring 65 community members in disguise. A full gym watched as guests misidentified guests as Elizabeth Taylor, Betty Ford, and Cher while a farmer masqueraded as Cher. The womanless wedding, a spoof that drew a large crowd, raised funds for park facilities and showcased the town’s knack for collective humor and disguise.
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Elizabeth Taylor
Betty Ford
Cher
Who's
That
Flood Gates on Main Street Closed for Painting
Ottawa works chief Bob Moore says weather permitting the flood gates on Main Street will close all day Tuesday from morning until about 5 p.m. North and south gate exteriors will be painted as maintenance ahead of a five year Corps of Engineers inspection. Detours route traffic west via K-68 West and Seventh Street with access limited near the gates to prevent paint drift.
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Main Street
Ottawa Public Works
Bob Moore
Corps of Engineers
Seventh Street
Moore
First Street
Keokuk
Ottawan Seeks Judicial Post for Fourth District
Ottawa native Donald L. White 50 of 745 S. Cedar announced his Republican bid for associate district judge of the Fourth Judicial District. The post will oversee the restructured probate, county and juvenile courts now under the district court next January. White, former Franklin County Attorney and eight year probate judge, seeks to serve full time and impartial administration for the new court. He and his wife Flo have three children Tab Jacque and Michelle.
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Donald L. White
S. Cedar
Fourth Judicial District
White
Franklin County
Anderson
Osage
Coffey
Allen
Woodson
Lane
Ottawa University
University of Kansas
Iam
Flo
Tab
Jacque
Michelle
Study Condemns LEAA Program
An independent study says the federal Law Enforcement Assistance Administration failed to curb crime and should be abolished. It criticizes the $160 million high impact anti crime program and urges shifting funds to general revenues, citing heavy red tape and little crime reduction.
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Washington
Federal
Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
Congress
Spiro T. Agnew
Center For National Security Studies
LEAA
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Associated Press
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