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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 31, 2000
Page
7
Tonight remains clear with temperatures near 70s and a south wind of 10 to 20 mph. Thursday turns hot and breezy under mostly sunny skies with a 20 percent chance of late day thunderstorms and a high near 95. For more weather, see page 2.
Ottawa Middle School invites sixth to eighth graders to a one week summer course titled Experiencing Kansas led by social studies teacher Mark Catlon. Enrollment ends Friday with $30 per four trip package option. Trips include Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve and Chase County sights.
Franklin County Commissioner Tom Weigand announced he will not run again in November. The Second District member has served five years on a five member board since 1998. He cites time constraints and a desire to focus on his real estate business in Overland Park and farm work near Homewood. He plans to remain budget director for the Ottawa Area Chamber of Commerce and to back Sen. Robert Tyson. Filing for the open seats is due by noon June 12. He praises county progress, land-use planning needs, and the Highway Improvement Plan he helped launch.
Independance Missouri AP reports center director John Mark Lambertson explains how the National Frontier Trails Center lets visitors hear trail diaries and read wall messages from the Santa Fe California and Oregon trails. The center dates to 1990 and houses Merrill J. Mattes Library with over 2 000 diaries letters and maps for researchers by appointment.
Kansas Water Office monitors conditions across the state as drought criteria could trigger a drought team meeting. More than a dozen state agencies may join the drought response, with rains easing some junior water rights in the Republican River Valley for now.
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