ECKAN to Accept Christmas Bureau Applications
The East Central Kansas Economic Opportunity Corp. begins taking Christmas Bureau applications Monday through December 9. In person only, 9 am to noon and 1 to 4 pm, with proof of income for all household members. Contact B J Chandler at the Franklin County ECKAN Center in Ottawa for details.
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East Central Kansas Economic Opportunity Corp
ECKAN
Christmas Bureau
B.J. Chandler
Franklin County
Eckan Center
W. 3Rd
Ottawa
Historic depot repair costs and funding shares outlined
Kansas Historical Society outlines potential uses for a 90000 dollar grant to repair the depot museum building designed by George P. Washburn. Planned work includes roof, cornice, exterior tuck-pointing, with larger grants funding windows heating ventilation and accessibility improvements. The building’s rotted sash bottoms and need to mill wood to match historic site add complexity.
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Kansas Historical Society
Ottawa
George P. Washburn
Barker
Depot
Norma Albright
Phyllis Foster
Albert Wiard
Foster
County official Wright expands role and cites rising workload
Wright, campaigning and steering spending, expects near fifty thousand dollars for local merchants on bad checks this year. He serves as county counselor and legal advisor, meeting Mondays and Wednesdays during commission sessions, and provides legal help to county officials and boards. He notes a 400 percent increase in state paperwork and shifts of duties to his staff, with his three full time secretaries earning about fifty thousand dollars.
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Wright
Pomona native James Still stars in one man play at KU
Pomona native James Still, a playwright and actor, performed Friday at the University of Kansas in a one man show written by him titled The Velocity of Gary Not His Real Name set in Times Square. Still, a KU theater graduate of 1982, has won multiple awards including the 1994 Charlotte B. Chorpenning Playwright Award and has works staged at the Kennedy Center and Washington DC. He is pursuing commissions from Metro Theatre Company Childsplay and Mark Taper Forum for 1994 95 seasons and his Velocity of Gary screenplay may be filmed this year with MGM and David Seltzer Productions.
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James Still
University of Kansas
Sul
Bonnie
Dean Olson
Pomona
Gary
New York City
Times Square
Still
Charlotte B. Chorpenning
John K. Kennedy Center For the Performing Arts
Washington, D.C
American Alliance For Theatre and Education
Kennedy Center
American Heartland Theatre
Crown Center
Metro Theatre Company
St. Louis
Childsplay
Tempe
Ariz
Mark Taper Forum
Reading tips to encourage teens to read more
Center for the Study of Reading offers ten tips for parents to foster adolescent reading. Create accessible reading material, set dedicated time and space, visit libraries, discuss books, connect reading to interests, avoid criticism, read aloud together, have teens read aloud, and address comprehension problems as solvable puzzles.
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Center For the Study of Reading At Urbana
Weather Outlook and Plant Log Ambiguities
Weather summary notes dry conditions across Kansas with mild northwest and warmer eastern zones. overnight lows range from the 20s to 30s and highs compile from the 40s to 50s. Local log from Ottawa Water Plant lists yesterday’s temperatures and precipitation, barometer at 30.30 inches and falling, sunset at 5 10, sunrise at 7 02.
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Kansas
Ottawa
Ottawa board to discuss building proposal and audits
The Ottawa board of education meets Monday at 7:30 pm at 420 S. Main to review the school district building proposal, audit report, health education curriculum, Quality Performance Accreditation outcomes, and activity eligibility policy. Actions include a resignation, appointing a delegate to the Kansas Association of School Boards Assembly, and an executive session on copier vendor fraud litigation.
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Ottawa
Te Board of Education
S. Main
Ottawa High School
Kansas Association of School Boards Assembly
Gingrich Calls for Ground-Up Replacement of Anti-Poverty Programs
Newt Gingrich urged replacing federal anti-poverty programs from the ground up in a speech after clinching House leadership. He singled out Medicaid Head Start and Job Corps for review, while stressing no compromise on core Contract With America goals though possible cooperation on smaller-government changes.
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Dy Hington
Newt Gingrich
Georgia Republican
Congress
Gingrich
Clinton
America
KDOT Plans Bid for Osage City Highway Overlays
The Kansas Department of Transportation will open bids next week on several highway projects including a local asphalt overlay of K-31 from Osage City to US-75 and an overlay of K-170 from the Osage Lyon county line to K-31. The two overlays span about 20 miles and work is set to begin next spring.
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Osage City
Kansas Department of Transportation
Osage-Lyon County
West Franklin considers air conditioning for Femona High School
The West Franklin Board of Education will decide Monday night on adding air conditioning to Femona High School as part of a long-range district plan. The 8 pm meeting at the Education Center will also address personnel matters, travel requests, a site council appointment, a rolling delegate to the Kansas Association of School Boards, and policy approvals.
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West Franklin
Weers
Williamsburg
Williamsburg Site
Kansas Association of School Boards
Kansas Education Coalition
Cain
Two vie for Miami sheriff in Republican meeting
Paola in Miami County sees a 7 p.m. Monday nomination session at the senior center to fill the vacancy left by Ken Davis’s death after five months. Candidates Vernon Ducote Jr. of Louisburg and Frank Kelly of Paola, the interim sheriff, vie to lead a two year term before possible reelection in 1996.
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Paola
Miami County
Ken Davis
Davis
Dan Morgan
Vernon Ducote Jr
Louisburg
Frank Kelly
Republican
Republcan
Morgan
Kelly
Sheriff’s Department
Philadelphia
Ducote
U.S. Marine Corps
Marine Corps
Subscription rates for Ottawa Herald in 1994
The Ottawa Herald lists delivery and mail rates effective October 1 1994 in Ottawa and surrounding regions. Prices cover carrier delivery in Ottawa and rural towns motor route and mail options across Franklin County and adjacent counties with annual renewals and state tax included.
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Ottawa
Franklin County
Miami
Douglas
Osage
Anderson
State of Kansas
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