Navy seaman Ledom earns medals at Pearl Harbor
Joshua Ledom son of Chuck and Mary Ledom of Lawrence and grandson of Hazel Ledom of Ottawa is stationed at Pearl Harbor Hawaii aboard the USS Crommelin FFG 37. He earned the Navy Marine Corps Achievement Medal plus Expert Rifle and Expert Pistol medals serving seven months in the Navy.
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Hazel Ledom
Ottawa
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U N inspectors face Iraqi expulsion amid U S flights
U N and U S officials continued a tense standoff over Iraq's cooperation with weapons inspections. Baghdad barred American inspectors again while U S pilot flights persist under the U N Special Commission. Security Council members backed a resolution condemning Iraq and demanding immediate reversal of the expulsion order.
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U.N. Special Commission
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Viva Flamenco at Ottawa Auditorium Nov. 21
Ottawa Municipal Auditorium presents Viva Flamenco a program of flamenco singing dancing and guitar with Ronald Radford and Tamara La Gar Bancito. Radford a Fulbright Flamenco guitarist and La Gar Bancito trained with Andalusian Gypsies in Barcelona teach a dynamic authentic performance as part of the Mid-America Arts Alliance. Tickets $11 to $12.50 with youth half price. information at (785) 242-8810.
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Spain
Ottawa Municipal Auditorium
Ronald Radford
Tamara la Garbancito
Dick Smith
Carlos Montoya
Radford
la Garbancito
Barcelona
Teachers seek 1997 98 contract via fact finding
The district moves toward a 1997 98 teacher contract with three fact finders Charles Krider Carol Krueger and Rex Wiant to hear board and OEA positions. If no agreement results the board can impose a unilateral contract with three choices for teachers resign or stay under identical terms.
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OEA
Charles Krider
University of Kansas
Carol Krueger
Emporia
Rex Wiant
Kansas City
Lopes
Weather outlook and temperatures for Ottawa
Light snow likely with possible light rain or sleet in the evening. Cloudy without heavy precipitation, low around 20s. Wind northwest 10 to 20 mph. Chance of precipitation about 60 percent. Saturday remains dry and cold with teens low and highs in the teens. Sunday stays dry but cold overnight, morning lows in teens, daytime highs near 40. Ottawa temperatures.
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Ottawa Herald
Otawa
Ottawa
Black & Veatch Alerts Workers After Karachi Killings
Kansas City based engineering firm Black & Veatch sent 14 employees to Pakistan and has assigned armed guards after the killings of four American businessmen and a driver in Karachi. Seven staff in Karachi remain locked down at their hotel, with guards, while seven others on northern projects receive armed escorts.
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Pakistan
Karachi
Kansas City
Black & Veatch
Union Texas Petroleum
Robinson
Kansas City Area
McVeigh says Nichols wavered before Oklahoma City bombing
Witness Michael Fortier testified that Timothy McVeigh said Terry Nichols tried to back out of the plot at the last minute. Fortier described explosives seen months earlier in Nichols’ pickup and a milk jug bomb component, with McVeigh insisting Nichols would have to participate.
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OKC
Denver
Timothy McVeigh
Terry
Oklahoma City
Tim
Michael Fortier
Oklahoma City Federal
McVeigh
Fortier
Kingman
Ariz
Ottawa plans to lift banner ban in downtown
Ottawa Planning Commission debated amending the city ordinance that bars non-commercial flag-type banners in the downtown street right-of-way from Main Street east to west. The plan would allow a monthly banner with nonadvertising month messages managed by the Ottawa Area Chamber of Commerce. The panel also moved to ease setback rules for street-adjacent fences and rejected excluding miniature horses from farm animal limits.
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Ottawa Planning Commission
Ottawa
Butts
Chamber
City Board of Zoning Appeals
Planning Commission
Overland Park
George Sell
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