Utilities aid and funding changes reach Kansas seniors
ECKAN and allied groups extend relief for elderly utility customers, detailing revised income limits, proof requirements, and new grants while noting venues where renters lose help. Weatherization and CIP funds expand, yet outages persist for some homes, and agencies warn of potential bill increases tied to fuel costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Koerner
Eckan
Franklin
Richard Jackson
ECEAN
Charles Bailey
Vassar
Bailey
Mable
CIP
Jackson
Congress
Terry Case
Mid-America Council On Aging
MACA
Mary Lee Harvey
Ottawa
LASA
Harvey
Case
Cities Service
Gas Service Co
Gas Service
Mrs. Pluma Mann 80 Dies. Services Planned in Ottawa
Mrs. Pluma Adelia Mann of Ottawa died Wednesday at Ransom Memorial Hospital aged 80. Funeral 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Lamb-Roberts with burial in Oakwood Cemetery. She held multiple local offices and church memberships, and gifts to the Kansas Heart Association are suggested. Also included are hospital admissions, dismissals, births, and local police reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pluma A
Mann
Pluma Adelia Mann
Willow
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Lamb-Roberts
Oakwood Cemetery
Baldwin
Frederick J. Ackman
Walnut
Ottawa High School
Ottawa Business College
Ottawa
Wellsville
Ottawa American Legion Auxiliary
OES
OFS
Crescent Club
Ottawa Kiwani Queens
First United Methodist Church
Kansas Heart Association
KUMC
Med Center
Sacred Heart School
S. Cedar
Cindy L. Blanco
S. Hickory
City Opens Street Bid Amid Single Bid From Topeka Firm
May-Ransom & Sheetz of Topeka submitted the sole bid for paving Maple Elm Cypress and Hemlock streets at 248 363.88 for all concrete or 227 191.67 for concrete and asphalt. City estimates stood at 275 000 and 250 000. A commission decision likely next week. Also notes water station plans and postponed ACLD meeting.
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May-Ransom & Sheetz
Topeka
City Commission
Willow Street
City Commission Room
City of Ottawa
City Planning Commission
RVIE
Flood Plain
Marais Des Cygnes
Melvern
Ottawa
Kansas
Corps of Engineers
U. S. Army
Kansas City District
Mabine
Local grocery and gift ads with Mother's Day specials
A crowded shopper page lists deals from Stinson's Processing Metzger Salvage and multiple local merchants. It highlights frozen food discounts dog food plants flowers baskets and gifts for Mother's Day plus a fire hydrant flush notice and dining specials at Jim's Hill House and L and M Buffet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stinson’s
Metzger Salvage
Man Charged In Theft From JB's Big Boy
Larry C. Williams, 28, of 515 S. Cedar, charged with grand theft in District Court over about 160 dollars worth of meat stolen from JB's Big Boy at 405 N. Main. Released on $1,000 PR bond. Preliminary hearing set for May 14 after stakeout and car stop near Hi Way Oil Co. Police recovered various meat items marked with invisible ink.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Larry C. Williams
S. Cedar
N. Main
Williams
Dorothy M. Brecelsen
Lyndon
Freight Train Derails Near Nortonville
Five cars of a Santa Fe freight train derailed near Nortonville before dawn. A soybeans car fell from an open-span bridge into a creek. another soybean car overturned on the bridge. No injuries or hazardous materials reported. Train had 44 cars traveling from Atchison to Emporia about 30 miles northeast of Topeka.
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Nortonville
Kan
Santa Fe
Richard Bradley
Atchison
Emporia
Topeka
Franklin County farmer Joe Nordyke dies at 79
Joe Nordyke longtime Franklin County resident farmer and stockman of Route 4 Ottawa died May 9 1979 Funeral services set for Friday May 11 at 2 00 pm Lamb Roberts Funeral Home with Rev C B Brown officiating Interment Evergreen Mound Cemetery northwest of Ottawa Friends may call at the funeral home from 6 00 pm Thursday until services hour
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KPL
the Daily Report
Freda Griffin
S. Poplar
Forrest Burgoon
Rantoul
Ray Lichtenberger
17Th St. Terr
Linda King
Pomona
Patrick O'Neil
Williamsburg Rfd
Public Safety News
Jacqueline M. Carter
University of Kansas Medical Center
Ottawa Boys’ Club
Washington
Three Mile Island
Senate Environment Committee
House Interior Committee
House
Thomas P. O'Neill Jr
Pennsylvania
The
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Senate
Barbara A. Leach
Fourth
Main Streets
Terry Dillard
Princeton Road
Deanna Sutton
Chestnut
Don Miller
S. Locust
Ottawa Co-Op
19Th Street
Franklin County
Tecumseh
Forest Park
ACLD
Elliott Hall
Rural Water District No. 4
Horewood Township Hall
Husky Strongheart
Bing-Go
Trinity Umw
Grace Baughman Auction
N. Mulberry
West Second
Wassmer’s
Jim's Hill House
Wassmer's
Butler
Country Floral
Jim’s Hill House
Raney Reynolds
Sara
Coach Club
Turner's
West 15Th
Town & Country Supply
Town & Country
Pomona City
Elsie Mae Landess
Cedar House Nursing Home
Robson-Towner Funeral Home
Funeral Home
Sea Rea
Treat Mok
Qelad
Pomona Dam
Velomes
Rage
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