Miss Liberty's Real Date Celebrated In Class Parade
A first grade class at Central Heights marked the Statue of Liberty’s opening anniversary with a campus parade. Students wore Liberty crowns, carried country flags, and acted out scenes with torches and tablets. Caleb Ackmann played My Country Tis of Thee on harmonica.
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Central Heights
Angie Daugharthy
Caleb Ackmann
Germany
Poland
Mexico
China
Italy
Harold Heironimus
Greeley
Korea
America
From Insurance To Lives Drunken Driving Costly In Numerable Ways
Diane Yermans reports that half of all driver premiums fund drunk driving costs including insurance, hospital care, and litigation. A Douglas County meeting at Celebration Hall heard estimates place national drunken driving costs at 20 billion dollars, with alcohol relating to half of traffic fatalities. The discussion notes Kansas has lower drinking rates but the 15 to 25 age group shows declining life expectancy due to auto accidents involving drunken drivers.
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Diane Yermans
Celebration Hall
Counseling and Resource Center
Bruce Beale
Douglas County Citizen’s Committee On
Lawrence
Kansas
Beale
Oren Skiles
Ottawa Department of Public Safety
DPS
Skiles
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Wendall Barker
Franklin County
Barker
Haunted House fundraiser and drunk driving talk in Princeton
The Princeton Recreation Commission transformed the community building into a Halloween haunted house open 7 10 p m Wednesday and Thursday and 7 to midnight Friday with a 1 50 admission and a non spooky kids area. Proceeds fund Garst Field improvements. Ottawa DPS chief Oren Skiles outlined drunk driving arrests and testing rules while Franklin County Sheriff Rex Bowling and County Attorney Wendall Barker described penalties for multiple DUI offenses and changes to the law.
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Princeton
Princeton Recreation Commission
Us-59
Garst Field
Skiles
Franklin County
DPS
Rex Bowling
Marshalls
Baker University Fall Choral Concert Features Two OHS Choirs
Ottawa High School Concert Choir named Honor Choir for Baker University Fall Festival at Rice Auditorium Baldwin City. Cytones join for workshop and rehearsal with director John Buhler before evening concert and joint performance of God Be In My Head. Cytones present Let Me Dance and Big Spender, while Concert Choir sings Football and What Would I Do Without My Music among other pieces. Cast lists include Jennifer Bromert Gina Bundy Laura Devore John Fischer Jenny Heiniger Brian Johnson Sheila Lewis Julie Little Angee Lynch Tyler Marion Chris Pacholke Bryan Royse Jackie Rutter Denise Schultze Jason Sellers Amy Skoog Dan Tweet Brian Yates and others.
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Cytones
Gallina
Big Spender
Billingsley
Emerson
Dobbins
Farrant
Reynolds
Lojeski
Shepherd
Lord
Kingsley
Cytone
Jennifer Bromert
Gina Bundy
Laura Devore
John Fischer
Jenny Heiniger
Brian Johnson
Sheila Lewis
Julie Little
Angee Lynch
Tyler Marion
Chris Pacholke
Bryan Royse
Jackie Rutter
Denise Schultze
Jason Sellers
Amy Skoog
Brett Staneart
Dan Tweet
Brian Yates
Tracy Arnold
Bonnie Bonine
Scott Cunningham
Natania Dydell
Loren Kisele
Tammy Elder
Shannon Farrow
David Fehrenbach
Denny Ferguson
Tracy Hines
Erin Jordan
Angie Maddox
Jane McClaren
Kristen Mitchell
Stacy Mollett
Kim Moore
Tracy Dahlman
Hina Patel
Lori Pyle
Stacey Rodgers
Bryan Royze
Rachel Sandstrom
Shandi Schulz
Stacey Spradley
Christy Vogeler
Jody Wallace
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Miss Liberty
Kristie Herman
Rantoul
Carrie Graika
Kristie
Steve Guardreau
Phrate
Zuk
J.R. “Duke” Cheney
Ottawa
Cheney
Baker
Ottawa High School
Baker University
Rice Auditorium
Baldwin City
OHS
University
John Buhler
OHS Cytones
Buhler
Baker Choir
OHS Concert Choir
God Be In
John Rutter
N. Main
Jarden Center
First United Methodist Church
4Th and
Hickory
Ottawa, Ks
Coffee
Farm Bureau Insurance
Farm Bureau Mutual
Kansas Farm Life
KFB Insurance CO
Eudora Evans
Tecumseh
Nek
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