Wellsville Bulletin Board Highlights Local Meetings and Events
The Wellsville school board schedules a special 7:30 p.m. meeting about plans for a new high school. Ottawa High School Class of 1939 reunion registration runs 2 to 5 p.m. Friday at Celebration Hall. A girls ages 9 to 12 communication program starts Oct. 6 at Elliott Hall. La Leche League meets Wednesday at Ransom Memorial Hospital to discuss breastfeeding. Miami County Quilters Guild hosts the 15th Annual Drag and Brag Quilt Show at Paola Middle School with auctions, awards, and prizes. Gospel singer Jim Sunderwirth performs at North Baptist Church Oct. 9–12. Ottawa Arts Council offers a free newsletter production workshop. The CROP Walk in Vinland begins at 1:30 p.m. with sponsors from area churches to raise funds for disaster relief and local food pantries.
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Wellsville Board of Education
Ottawa High School
Celebration Hall
Franklin County Fairgrounds
Elliott Hall
First Baptist Church
la Leche League
Ottawa la Leche League
Miami County Quilters Guild
Paola Middle School
North Baptist
Jim Sunderwirth
Osceola
North Baptist Church
Sunderwirth
Ottawa Community Arts Council
Arts Council
Association of Community Arts
Agencies of
Karisas
Baldwin
Trailside Parish
Vinland
Baldwin City
Anita Anderson
Wellsville United Methodist
Tom Church
Baldwin First United Methodist
Church World Service
Eudora
Gardner
Worden
OHS enrollment soars as police consider school officer
Ottawa High School faces rising enrollment with 690 students, the largest in district history, while budget limits delay a full time school resource officer. Police praise local department cooperation as calls to the high school diminish after arrests earlier this year.
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Yesteryear
Mavity
Ottawa Police
Jeff Herrman
Ottawa Middle School
Police Department
OMS
OHS
Record Kansas State Fair attendance tops 351000
Hutchinson Kansas officials report unaudited attendance of 351,690 at the 1994 Kansas State Fair, surpassing the 1984 record of 343,000 and beating the 1993 figure by over 15,000. Gate totals and weather helped drive the peak, with an audit pending final figures. Franklin County plans a new weed truck. commissioners cancel Wednesday meeting due to travel.
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Hutchinson
Gottschalk
Franklin County
Creason- Tawney Chevrolet
Ottawa
Truck top makers head Garnett startup Astro Cap Manufacturing West
Four executives from Guidon Truck Covers plan a new venture Astro Cap Manufacturing West Inc. in Garnett after Guidon moved from Richmond. Astro, leveraging connections to Michigan based Astro Cap Manufacturing, will employ about 25 full time by spring and begin production mid October in a former Day Window building leased from Ed Weltner. Local incentives totaling 20000 aid the settlement with ACED, Garnett IDC and the city.
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Arnett
Richmond
Paola
Guidon
Rigid Form
Astro Cap Manufacturing West Inc
Joe Sears
Overland Park
Mike Miller
Greeley
Ron Phillips
Olathe
Robert Combs
Astro
Garnett
Day Window Inc
Ed Weltner
Leawood
Astro Cap Manufacturing Inc
Combs
Dexter and Elkhart
Ind
Michigan
Ottawa planners weigh south and west growth options
Commissioners review development plans extending south to Rock Creek flood plain and west of Eisenhower, with half of the east Ottawa area likely split between residential and retail. Debates focus on Main Street reconfiguration to reduce driver confusion and accommodate Wal-Mart traffic, while three proposals consider bridge removal, lane widening, and stormwater solutions with costs ranging from 165,000 to 1.3 million dollars.
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Rock Creek
15Th Street
Eisenhower
Seventh
23Rd
Main Street
17Th
Us-59
Ottawa
Wal-Mart
City Planning Commission
Woods Mini-Mart
Princeton
15Th
Gminium Ybonow
Weather forecast fragment with cool spell and showers
A partial weather forecast notes a cool spell with a chance of rain. Temperatures fall Wednesday night into the upper range, with southeast winds and cooler Thursday conditions.
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Siouatie
Veterans memorial plan for courthouse site proposed
Nicholson seeks society approval before presenting to county commissioners for a Franklin County veterans memorial. Architect James Sullivan has drawn concepts featuring a central flagpole, a five to six foot wall with veterans’ names, a possible fountain, a circular bench around the pole, shrub screened rear, lights, and paths to Main and Fourth. Estimated cost up to 125000, with over 1250 raised including 730 from Shirley Ball memorial contributions.
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Nicholson
James Sullivan
Franklin County
Richter Fall Festival and Bazaar at U M Church
Richter Fall Festival and Bazaar set for Saturday September 24 from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Richter United Methodist Church located at K-88 and Idaho Road. community event featuring activities and local vendors.
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Richter U.M
K-88
Idaho Rd
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