Ottawa teachers reach verbal contract after long bargaining
School negotiators announced a tentative agreement for the current year with salaries rising to 16 000 for beginners and 28 197 for top teachers, while a paper summary and formal review set for Tuesday plan to finalize ratification by the Ottawa Board of Education and OFA.
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Ncting
Chuck Tilman
Teachers’ Ottawa Education Association
Nancy Hale
Ottawa Board of Education
OFA
Bud Gollier
Osawatomie Teacher Named Kansas Teacher of the Year
Glenda Sue Watkins of East Elementary Osawatomie wins Kansas Teacher of the Year from 52 nominees. Watkins has 13 years teaching students with learning disabilities and lives in Paola. She holds a BS in education and a master's in mental retardation from Pittsburg State University and serves in multiple PTA and professional groups.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
State Department of Education
Glenda Sue Watkins
East Elementary School
Osawatomie
Paola
Pittsburg State University
The
Osawatomie and
Paola Parent Teacher Associations
Association of Children With Learning Disabilities
Miami County Association For Retarded Citizens
Local Leave: Wheelmen Parade to Mark 100th Ottawa Anniversary
The Kansas Wheelmen celebrate the Ottawa Wheelmen centennial with a Maple Leaf Parade at Baldwin City at 11 a.m. Saturday and a 12 mile high-wheel tour Sunday. Attendees include riders from Nebraska and Oklahoma. Ottawa roots trace to early leagues and Darby’s Hotel.
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Kansas
Ottawa
James McKenzie
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Baldwin City
McKenzie
Baldwin wish honors 92 year old Roy Stecher parade king
Roy Stecher, a 92 year old retired Baldwin farmer who lived in Ottawa, is named honorary king for the Maple Leaf Festival parade. Bertha Weiler, 97, from Vinland, is honorary queen. Both reside in Orchard Lane Nursing Facility and are chosen annually. Kansas Junior Miss winner Kristi Guenther is Maple Leaf Queen and Baldwin High senior will enter the state contest.
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Baldwin
Roy Stecher
Baldwin Area
Ottawa
Bertha Weiler
Vinland
Orchard Lane
Kristi Guenther
Baldwin High School
Kansas
Jessica McClure Rescuers Reach Little Girl in Well
In Midland Texas rescuers bored a hole large enough for a head into the shaft where 18 month old Jessica McClure has been trapped for two days. An engineer glimpsed her and said she looks OK though frightened and crying for her mother. Rescuers said it will take hours to reach her with a 20 inch hole while workers use balloons to keep her from slipping deeper.
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Midland, Texas
Jessica McClure
Richard Czech
Jessica
First Lady Nancy Reagan to undergo breast cancer tests
The White House said Nancy Reagan will have breast cancer tests on Saturday and may undergo a modified radical mastectomy if malignancy is detected. Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said she accepts the procedure recommended for her circumstance.
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Washington
Nancy Reagan
White House
Marlin Fitzwater
Reagan
DeLaTorre petitions grievance over demotion to corporal
Tony DeLaTorre a Department of Public Safety employee filed a formal grievance Oct 13 after being demoted from lieutenant to corporal. A three-person grievance committee will be appointed by Oct 22, and must report findings within three days of the panel’s hearing. The City Manager’s decision is final with no further appeal.
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Melissa Bauman
Herald
Tony DeLaTorre
Department of Public Safety
Lyle Dresher
DeLaTorre
Dresher
Dan Fogle
Jim McCrea
Ottawa
Commission Chambers
DPS
Fred Espinosa
Espinosa
Kansas pushes eco development to boost state growth
Kansas seeks aggressive economic development through the Superconducting Super Collider proposal and the Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation. Harland Priddle, secretary of Commerce, urged OFCED members at Ottawa University to seize every opportunity to help the state, industries, and people compete and prosper.
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Diane Yeamans
Herald
Congress
Kansas
Department of Commerce
Japan
Kansas Technolgy Enterprises
Priddle
Pagea
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Jay Bemis
Gollier
Tilman
Gollier-Tilman
Franklin City
Steve Zuk
Ms. Watkins
Ottawa Wheelmen
League of American Wheelmen
Wheelmen
Darby
Main
R.T. Darby
Clifford Stipp
Ottawan
Sgt
Jeff Haile
Jim White
Ple
Mike Hayden
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