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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 2005
Page
1
Daily Briefing ATLANTA reports scientists have for the first time created the Spanish flu virus from scratch to study how to prevent a future global epidemic. The work aims to understand transmission from birds to humans and its spread in Southeast Asia.
Franklin County Commissioners approved revisions to the county personnel rules to align with federal privacy protections. Editorials discuss Katrina Rita coastal development, TABOR scrutiny, and local readers’ forum items. Obituaries and a brief Reunion note appear among pages 3 through 9.
The Kansas City Chiefs expect offense to improve with Willie Roaf back in the lineup. Prep football district assignments for 2006-07 were released by the Kansas State High School Activities Association, outlining new districts for the season.
The notice lists a C W F Chicken Noodle Dinner with hours 11 am to 1 30 pm and ticket prices adults five fifty children two fifty at 411th Street Cedar First Christian Church. It also promotes bake sale white elephant craft sales on Friday October 7 2006 from nine am to two pm and mentions quilt classes starting October 12 and 14 with pre enroll at Chris’ Corner 3593 North Highway 59. Former MU basketball coach Norm Stewart and Jim Eisenreich will speak and host a silent auction to benefit NCCC men’s basketball Monday October 10 at 6 pm at Ottawa Country Club with coach Cali McIntyre and Becky Dixon for details.
A weekend farm tour across Franklin County highlights local farms, markets, and activities. Participating sites include Peckham's Pumpkin Patch, Sundstrom Farms, and Circle K Performance Horses, with antique tractor demonstrations, a farmers market, and a book signing by Jennifer Dick. Busines sponsors include Century 21 and the Franklin County Board of Commissioners.
Local notices list four meetings starting at 7 p.m. at Franklin County Mental Health Center basement 204 E 15th St Ottawa for Alcoholics Anonymous Keep It Simple, 7 p.m. Vietnam Veterans of America at Ransom Memorial Hospital Conference Rooms A and B 1301 S Main St Ottawa, 7 15 p.m. ACT Ottawa Carnegie Cultural Center 515 S Main St Ottawa and 8 p.m. Franklin County Conservation District Board 107 E 23rd St Ottawa. Friday 8 p.m. Alcoholics Anonymous Ottawa Group First Baptist Church basement 410 Hickory St Ottawa.
Saturday at 9 30 a m the Ottawa Art Guild gathers at Carnegie Cultural Center 515 S Main St for a session. At 7 p m the Alcoholics Anonymous Ottawa Living Sober Group meets at First Christian Church 1045 Hickory St for support and fellowship.
A roundup of events this weekend across Franklin, Anderson, and nearby counties. Highlights include Jerry's Girls at Lawrence Theatre, Hallelujah Cowboys in Princeton, bike trips with the Johnson County Bike Club, and a Women’s Retreat at Camp Wood YMCA with hiking and yoga. Times and locations vary. contact venues for tickets and details.
The Smithsonian travel exhibit Key Ingredients America by Food stays in Ottawa at Old Depot Museum through Oct 14 with hours varying by day. Admission is 3 for adults and 1 for students, with free preschoolers. The program includes a Food Quilt Show by Sunflower Piecemakers, a Franklin County self-guided food producers tour, and workshops at The Paper Haven with pre-registration required.
Halloween activities fill the area with pumpkin patches and haunted history exhibits. KC Pumpkin Patch in Gardner offers a petting zoo mine shaft corn maze and festive foods with set hours. Peckham's Pumpkin Patch eight miles east of Ottawa on K-68 hosts pumpkins hay maze and ornamental corn. Haunted History at the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka features Halloween decorations costumes and eerie objects with varying hours.
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