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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 2000
Page
2
Ottawa braces for 10 000 visitors as Kansas Sampler Festival returns to Forest Park. More than 100 volunteers plus civic and church groups prepare banners and flowers while Four Seasons Garden Club renews downtown blooms. Tourism aims to boost local dollars and showcase Ottawa’s appeal.
The Ottawa Herald introduces American Profiles a new supplement appearing every other Saturday through Nov 11 then every Saturday. The magazine style section covers entertainment finances hometown heroes and spotlights across the Midwest. Channels TV listings move to Fridays during the trial.
The German government commits to prompt hearings in family courts with judges trained in international law to protect American parents’ rights amid abductions, a shift prompted by the Elian Gonzalez case and mirrored by U.N. gender equality concerns. Kostunica wins Serbia election amid Milosevic exit climate.
Ottawan fund drive to honor Etta Semple by placing a headstone 85 years after her death set to display at the Kansas Sampler Festival starting October 7 in Forest Park. John van Keppel and Murray McGee seek space for a table to publicize the effort. about $750 is raised so far in Franklin County Historical Society accounts. The piece notes Semple’s prominence as a Free Thinker, hospital founder, and controversial public figure who died in 1914 at age 59 and was given Ottawa’s largest funeral.
A Kansas controversy centers on lottery chief Greg Ziemak and a photo of four women with bras on their heads. The affair coincides with a separate $63,000 embezzlement case by Richard Knowlton, raising questions about workplace conduct and security in state gaming.
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