Ottawa's right attitude fuels growth and shared vision
An Ottawa community piece credits city leaders and citizens for a positive attitude driving growth. The piece highlights developments like Stark Truss, American Eagle Distribution Center, Rogers Manufacturing, Wal-Mart Distribution Center, tourism gains, and events such as the Kansas Sampler Festival and Skunk Run Days. It notes a Main Street designation, a new Franklin County Foundation, housing infrastructure expansion, and a push to attract downtown retailers and restaurants. Collaboration among city, county, and local groups is seen as key to progress.
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Topeka Capital Journal
Ottawa
Scott Lambers
Richard Jackson
Stark Truss
American Eagle Distribution Center
Rogers Manufacturing
Wal-Mart
Kansas
Fifth
Main Streets
Franklin County Community Foundation
Franklin County
Ottawa Main Street
Chamber of Commerce
Topeka
Editorial: seat belts and responsibility in Kansas
The death of a 44 year old girl in a 1998 car crash prompted a call to make seat belt use a primary offense. The mother argues for stronger law to prevent future tragedies, but the editorial advocates better driver judgment over more laws, urging restraint from government overreach.
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Kansas
Special Committee of the Judiciary
The
Manhattan Mercury
Readers Forum guidance for Letters to the Ottawa Herald
The Ottawa Herald outlines submission rules for Readers Forum letters. Letters must be 500 words or less and include name, address, and daytime phone number. Letters may be edited for length and clarity, and readers are limited to one letter per month.
Veterans Day Reflections Honor Those Who Served
A columnist urges readers to honor veterans on Veterans Day by imagining life without freedoms won in wartime. He recalls experiences in Russia and WWIII, stresses personal sacrifice, and lists Ottawa events including a parade at Main Street, a balloon liftoff for a WWII memorial fund, and a USO Show at Ottawa High School.
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Pearl Harbor
Russia
The
Ohio University
United States
U.S. Navy
Irry
Main Street
Ottawa
4Th and Main
Fighter pilot leader Bush praised by former instructor
Retired Col. Thomas G. Lockhart, in a letter on a veterans for Bush site, says George W. Bush showed outstanding drive and skill at Moody AFB in 1968, earning admiration for leadership, stamina, sincerity and integrity. He argues Bush would make a good president and contrasts draft-era guards with Clinton.
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George W. Bush
U.S. Air Force
Thomas G. Lockhart
Bush
Moody Afb
Georgia
Texas Air National Guard
Vietnam
Whoopi Goldberg
Alec Baldwin
Baldwin
George W
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Rmillar
Ken Kistner
Kkistner
Tim Millburn
Quawa
Awa
Ferson
Otters
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Washington Times
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Charley Reese
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