Skunk Run Festival Highlights Arts Sale and Exhibits
Ottawa hosts Skunk Run with about 40 exhibitors as the arts council marks its 10th anniversary membership drive. Local artists Jo Flager Faye Cole Bill Howe Richard Jeffus Jane Taul Kathleen Shull Margaret Walker Neil Walker will display works. prizes totaling 300 dollars for top art plus a People’s Choice award funded by the Franklin County Convention and Tourism Bureau. The event features Kids Stuff crafts, food booths, quilter guild displays about 50 full quilts and 40 related items, a quilt drawing, demos, bus tours of city facilities, a summer reading sign up, author Valerie Miller aka Hillary Cole, and Skunk Run merchandise. Events run 10 00 a m to 5 00 p m Saturday and noon to 5 00 p m Sunday at Ottawa Middle School with posters on display across town.
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Arts Council
Ottawa
Jo Flager
Faye Cole
Bill Howe
Richard Jeffus
Jane Taul
Kathleen Shull
Margaret
Neil Walker
David Melby
Leavenworth
Franklin County Convention and Tourism Bureau
Ottawa Quilter’s Guild
Sunflower Piecemakers Guild
Chris Campbell
Campbell
Ottawa Middle School
Lyle Dresher
Park Street
City Park
Lawrence
Valerie Miller
Hillary Cole
Miller
Ransom Memorial Hospital
North American
Twilight Zone Director Cleared in Involuntary Manslaughter Trial
A Los Angeles Superior Court jury acquitted John Landis and four crew members of voluntary manslaughter in the Twilight Zone tragedy that killed actor Vic Morrow and two child actors Myca Le and Renee Chen. The nine day deliberations concluded the Hollywood safety case spanning nearly five years. The verdicts were welcomed by the film industry as a sign on safety standards and potential limits on explosive effects on set.
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Los Angeles
Twilight Zone
John Landis
Hollywood
Superior Court
Landis
George Folsey Jr
Dan Billingham
Paul Stewart
Dorcey Wingo
Vic Morrow
Morrow
Myca Dinh le
Renee Chen
Rod Serling
Open Arkansas site study sparks waste dump fears
Arkansas officials say any location in the state or other member states remains open for a radioactive waste dump if federal criteria are met. Phyllis Moore notes the compact will vote June 8 to remove parts of a Dames and Moore study, while protests grew over site maps.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
Phyllis Moore
State Pollution Control and Ecology Department
Moore
Spotted Fever Threat Builds In Wichita Area
Four cases of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever have been reported in Sedgwick County this year, near the total for all of 1986. Health officials warn tick populations are high after a mild winter and cool spring. State epidemiologist Bob French notes statewide cases range from 10 to 27 annually, with 10 cases so far this year. Physicians should be alerted for flu like symptoms two weeks after tick exposure, and precautions include repellents, boots, jeans, hats, and daily tick checks.
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Wichita, Kan
Sedgwick County
Pat McDonald
Wichita-Sedgwick County
Bob French
French
McDonald
Ottawa negotiators set to discuss impasse in school contract talks
State law bars teachers from striking as the Ottawa school board and teachers negotiate terms after a fact finder’s opinion on merit. Both sides dispute how extra duty pay should be calculated, with the board seeking to tie it to this year’s starting salary of 14,590 dollars and teachers arguing for next year’s starting pay.
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KCHR
Franklin County Mystery House Tales Persist
The Tony Jones House attracts legends from a Kansas history, including claims of Abraham Lincoln and Horace Greeley staying there, though most tales are debunked. The home remains a significant Franklin County landmark despite mythmaking about tunnels, ballrooms, and slaves.
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Tony Jones
Horace Greeley
New York Tribune
Greeley
Kansas
Jones Farm
Jones House
Abraham Lincoln
Springfield
Ill
Lincoln
Franklin County
Leavenworth
George Washington
Henry VIII
Moses
Abe
Weather Brings Slight Pause as Midwest Floods Ease
Rainfall eased in Oklahoma where 10 days of rain flooded homes for up to 1000 residents. Renewed Texas thunderstorms dumped heavy rain, cut power, and swamped streets. Oklahoma Red Cross warned about shelter needs while Iowa Missouri and Nebraska counted multi million dollar flood damages. Two Oklahoma drownings and six Texas injuries reported as storms battered the region.
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Associated Press
Oklahoma
Texas
Diana Fuller
Red Cross
Iowa
Missouri
Nebraska
City of Ottawa Notice to Destroy Weeds on Lots and Streets
City of Ottawa Kansas proclaims all weeds and obnoxious vegetation over twelve inches on land and adjacent streets a nuisance. Owners have ten days to abate by cutting or using soil sterilants and herbicides or city will abate and assess costs. Minimum $50 plus actual labor and equipment costs. Costs certified by city clerk against the respective lots.
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City
Ottawa
Kansas
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Audrey Silvey
Calvary Christian School
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Chris Sloop
Brook Martin
Natasha Jaworski
Sacred Heart
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Laura Mages
Eugene Field
Chad McCurdy
Sarah Jordan
Erin Myers
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Jones Store
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