Blessing of the Animals at Peck Shelter Sunday
The annual Blessing of the Animals will be 2 p.m. Sunday at the Ben Martin Peck Animal Shelter in Ottawa with Rev. Denis Ford and John Heckert conducting. The event is free, open to any animal, and donations are welcomed for hurricane relief. if weather is bad, it moves to the stock area at the fairgrounds.
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Ben Martin Peck Animal Shelter
Denis Ford
John Heckert
Grace Episcopal Church
St. Francis of Assisi
SPCA
Gulf Coast
Fairgrounds
Ottawa Officials Set Oct 13 Talk on ORC Future
Ottawa City Commission moved toward a Oct 13 meeting with the Ottawa School Board to discuss the future of the Ottawa Recreation Commission. Pending school board approval, time and location are to be determined with Oct 17 or Nov 5 as possible alternate dates.
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Ottawa City Commission
Ottawa School Board
Ottawa Recreation Commission
Gene Ramsey
Jane Morton
Recreation Commission
Topeka Police Department
ORC
Ambulance Move Gains City Approval in Ottawa Plan
Ottawa approves moving a county ambulance and crew to the Ottawa Fire Department main station at Second and Beech. The change would put two ambulances at the main station, with one currently operated from 13th and Hickory next to Ran som Memorial Hospital. City leaders call it a win win and a stronger city county partnership.
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Franklin County
Ottawa Fire Department
Second and
Beech Streets
Ottawa
Jeff Carner
13Th
Hickory Streets
Ransom Memorial Hospital
S. Main St
Carner
Ottawa Fire
Franklin County Ambulance
Richard Jackson
Impact: SRS worker recalls Gulf Coast experiences
Norton and volunteers helped Gulf Coast evacuees while listening to tales of loss and survival. They aided many daily at various sites amid devastation, noting one man trapped on a flooded roof and another who later died by suicide. Evacuees welcomed help, with neighbors offering shelter as spray painted messages such as I am OK appeared on damaged homes.Louisianians showed hospitality despite trauma, Norton observed.
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Norton
Houston
Ottawa area joins Katrina relief with Franklinton drive
Local business and school groups raise funds and collect supplies for Katrina victims. An Ottawa Area Chamber member will match contributions to Franklinton up to 5000 dollars, with a relief fund at Commercial Federal Bank and a Friday Applebee’s benefit that raised 1665 dollars. Donations to Franklinton, baby and senior care items, paper goods, cleaning supplies and hygiene items are sought, with distribution points at the Franklin County Recycling Center. Hawthorne Elementary students donated over 750 in change, matched to reach 1000 dollars for Gulf Coast kids, while Eisenhower Elementary second graders sent at least 300 to the Red Cross. Ferrellgas supervisors’ $400 goal yielded over 700, and some Ottawans delivered supplies from churches to relief groups, including kits and flood buckets. Central Heights FFA collected 1200 pounds of food, water and clothing for Katrina victims, shipped to Mississippi via Ottawa.
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Ottawa Area Chamber of Commerce
Franklinton
Tom Weigand
Chamber
Commercial Federal Bank
S. Main St
Applebee's
Weigand
Franklin County
S. Elm St
Ottawa
Hawthorne Elementary
Becky Nevergold
Hawthorne
Gulf Coast
Eisenhower Elementary School
American Red Cross
Ferrellgas
Donna Rayson
Mary Thomas
Texas
Louisiana Gulf Coast
Kansas
Parsons
United Methodist Committee On Relief Lager-Brown
Baldwin, la
Rayson
Thomas
Tulsa
Central Heights
FFA
Mississippi
Brandon Barr
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