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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1999
Page
7
Homecoming football coverage notes multiple games for men and women in Onawa with details to be continued on Page 7. The event highlights local teams, schedules, and festivities surrounding the homecoming celebration.
A fragment forecast indicates Friday will be cloudy with a 30 percent chance of thunderstorms. Highs near 70 to 75, northeast winds 5 to 15 mph. Friday night brings a rain chance and low temperatures around 50. Page 2 has more weather.
Franklin County United Way reports twenty seven thousand two hundred eighty dollars in the bank three weeks into the campaign. Executive Secretary Dorothy Anderson lists eight thousand eight hundred ten from advance business, fourteen thousand five hundred one from fair share, five hundred fifty five from small business, and three thousand two hundred fourteen from individual residential giving. The Wellsville Chamber seeks two more houses for the December 4 homes tour and Holidays celebration with craft show and drawing. Ottawa Recreation Commission meets to discuss audit bids and capital improvements.
A Wisconsin man who failed to pay 24.69 for gas shot and killed Lt Joseph, then died from a gunshot linked to the confrontation. The assailant’s name was withheld pending family notification. The Missouri patrol and local officials mourn Sgt. Robert Kimberling, killed in a related earlier incident.
Ottawa hosts the 9th annual Field of Dreams Fly-In at the municipal airport from 8 a.m. to dusk Saturday with about 30 experimental planes from Kansas Missouri California and Canada. Don Stewart funds and runs the event. The free public show includes displays engines parts and educational forums with a $24 dinner and awards banquet Saturday night.
Franklin County commissioners discussed opening the county telecommunications network to public bodies and private use. A task committee including Ottawa Area Chamber of Commerce and OFCED leaders was eyed, with input from city officials and school superintendents to follow. The KC C Commission must certify the county as a competitive local telephone provider before broader use. Also, Dr Bud Ransom was named Fourth Judicial District coroner, succeeding Dr David Edalati, with potential collaboration from Shawnee morgue coroner Dr Erick Mitchell. Waymire was nominated for KWORK board of trustees.
Police responding to reports of domestic dispute found the bodies of two boys ages 7 and 5 and a 2 year old girl inside a house. The children's father was arrested on three counts of first degree murder while hospitalized with a cut throat. Neighbors recalled a woman fleeing and a man wielding a knife during the incident on Wednesday night.
Ottawa resident Burrichter urged the city commission to fund new tennis courts after Forest Park courts became unusable. He cited smaller area cities with better facilities and said recreation is a priority for Ottawa. He noted tennis can be played by all ages and ages and said good courts reflect the community.
Charlene Jones leads Lincoln residents in reviving the Bud Finch Memorial Community Theater with $100,000 raised locally and 150 volunteers. The project converted the former Gambles hardware site with a tin ceiling wood floors and limestone wall into a multi use space featuring a stage screen kitchen dressing rooms and new seating as the community aims to ring in the millennium with pride and momentum.
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