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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 2002
Page
7
Tonight is partly cloudy with lows in the mid 50s. Friday will be warm and breezy with partly sunny skies and highs in the lower 80s. Friday night brings more clouds and a chance of showers after midnight with lows in the mid 50s.
Franklin County will use a 75 percent state cleanup grant to remove two illegal roadside dumps east and west of Neosho Terrace. The sites hold tires appliances and household waste with estimated cleanup costs of 1500 and 3800 dollars. Officials plan gates on the road to deter future dumping as hearings and schedules remain pending. A second action grants a special-use permit to Mark Weigand of Ottawa to run a 900 acre controlled shooting and hunting area southwest of Ottawa with pheasant releases for in season hunts.
Harvey Nicholson, a Franklin County veterans activist, is seeking photos and information on area Korean War veterans killed or missing. He works with the Franklin County Veterans Memorial and the Vietnam Veterans group and asks for corrections if needed. Information is available via the Korean War Veterans Memorial registry on the National Mall near the Lincoln Memorial and through the American Battle Monuments Commission. Nicholson has photos and is gathering details on two local MIAs, including James W. Alexander Jr.
Pomona and other cities undertake routine code updates to repeal or modify outdated laws. The process began this summer in Pomona, removing schedules that restricted dances to Saturdays and other archaic rules. City Clerk Linda Servaes notes the work starts with oldest ordinances, with some repealed and others altered, while Ottawa and Wellsville also revise codes to stay current.
Kansas Gas Service and Aquila outline pricing plans ahead of winter. Kansas Gas Service faces lower bills of up to twenty percent for about 635,000 customers due to fixed price contracts on natural gas. Aquila anticipates October bills about twenty one percent higher than last October, as both firms manage gas purchases and hedging to stabilize costs amid uncertain weather.
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