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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1997
Page
6
Ottawa University coach Andy Cartier fields a mixed roster of veterans newcomers and transfers as the team heads to Las Vegas for a weekend test. The events mark the start of their season with a preliminary opponent slate and lineup evaluations.
Friday will be sunny and mild with a high in the middle 50s. A light southeast wind shifts to a southwest breeze at 5 to 15 mph by mid afternoon.
Ottawa City Manager Scott Lambers urged opposition to U S Rep Jim Ryuns rail trail land reversion bill. He argued ownership has been settled and federal need remains. He criticized shifting control to states, citing Prairie Spirit Trail as at risk.
Mayor Vicki Cummiskey and Commissioner Gene Ramsey asked staff to organize a community Tree City U.S.A. committee with Ramsey volunteering to serve. A public works member and Chamber of Commerce representative were also proposed. Tree City provides national standards and matching funds for urban forestry. The city would use public funds already spent on park maintenance as its share.
A 14 year old Ottawa High School student was attacked in the hallway when another girl cut off two locks of her blonde hair. Police recovered the locks as evidence as the case proceeds with the assault charge under review.
In Leesburg Florida a 28 year old woman dispatch for the local police ordered her two children aged 6 and 8 to shoot their father with BB guns during a quarrel. The children delivered five chest wounds one arm wound and one cheek wound. The incident highlights turmoil in a police family.
Ottawa City Commission votes to restore 15000 removed from the 1998 budget for the Summer Youth Employment program using contingency funds after state grant concerns. Commissioner Gene Ramsey says the reversal corrects prior cuts and state funds are being renegotiated with officials.
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright plans separate meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in London and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at a site to be determined during a Qatar economic conference. Israeli and Palestinian negotiators report progress and a good start, with no agreement yet, as talks shift to the Middle East next week.
State leaders completed a three day tour of 14 recycling sites across Kansas highlighting composting facilities plastic wood and tire dumps. The trip opened at Ottawa Regional Recycling Center and closed at Leavenworth County facility. Kansas has spent 3.8 million dollars to boost recycling as the state recycles about 10 percent of its trash. A 50 cent per ton landfill tax is proposed to fund ongoing recycling efforts with Missouri residents sharing about half the tax burden. Millennium Plastic Wood showcased plastic lumber made from 151 shampoo bottles and 51 soda bottles while Millennium Plastic Wood aims to recycle 10 million pounds of plastic annually creating decks picnic tables and signposts. Other stops included Mid Continent Resource Recovery and centers in Coffeyville Arkansas City Winfield Dodge City Hays Kanapolis Lindsburg Salina Washington and Seneca.
An elderly couple, Lawrence J. and Betty Lou Seifert, aged 76 and 71, were found dead in an overturned 1978 Chevy pickup in a creek near Road 2500 east of Oregon Road, about three miles west and two miles north of Greeley. The pair, residents of Greeley, died when the vehicle left Road 2500 Tuesday evening and overturned after striking a concrete culvert. They were taken to Ferris-Feuerborn Funeral Home in Garnett.
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