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Lawhorn’s Lawrence
Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
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Homicide numbers not turning heads T
here have been four homicides in the last seven months in Lawrence, for those of you who are counting. Most of you, by the way, aren’t counting. That became real obvious this week as I roamed the city trying to gauge how residents are reacting to our little bubble
of tranquility being burst. What’s that? You hadn’t heard about our little bubble of tranquility either. Well, until this most recent string of homicides, it had been about four years since the city’s last homicide. That all changed in July when a 20-year-old Topeka woman shot a 51-year-old Lawrence man in the head at
his home. The woman pleaded guilty to second-degree murder just a few hours before the city’s most recent homicide, a mysterious attack earlier this month that left area businessman Harold M. Sasko dead in his home. In between, there have been a domestic dispute that resulted in a Christmas Day stabbing death and a death
where a husband has been charged with shooting his chronically ill wife. Four homicides in seven months. In the majority of Kansas towns — most total a few hundred or a few thousand people — even one murder sets the town’s coffee houses, Please see LAWHORN, page 8A
‘Check in’ memo raises concerns
Culinary arts in the cafeteria
By Ben Unglesbee bunglesbee@ljworld.com
A memo from a Kansas University administrator asking faculty and staff to “check in” before speaking with lawmakers caught the eye of a national group and raised concerns among some faculty who worried it was an effort to control their speech. A December statement from the American AssoKANSAS ciation of University Profes- UNIVERSITY sors that rebuked the Kansas Board of Regents’ new social media policy also highlighted the memo and suggested Please see CABONI, page 7A Richard Gwin/Journal-World Photo
FROM LEFT, USD 497 FOOD SERVICE STAFF Ashley Vance, Regina Sanders, Nancy Starcher and Roxane Annia watch Chef Rick Martin demonstrate some knife skills in the kitchen at Wakarusa Valley school at 1104 East 1000 Road.
Brownback team Chef brings skills to school ‘test kitchen’ working to link Davis, Obama “A sharp knife prepares you to do every job By Peter Hancock
phancock@ljworld.com
The halls and classrooms of Wakarusa Valley School no longer echo with the chatter and bustle of students each day. The old grade school on the western fringe of the Lawrence school district closed in 2011, and most of its students were sent to other buildings on the west side. But in recent days there has been a burst of new activity in the school’s kitchen, where a local chef is giving after-school
every time.” — Chef Rick Martin
training to cafeteria workers from other buildings in the district about the finer arts of food preparation and kitchen management. Call it professional development for the district’s food service workers. “It’s to teach basic skills to these wonderful ladies who do so much good work in our schools each
day, that maybe they’ve never had the opportunity to learn before,” said Rick Martin, who is now working on contract with the Lawrence district, using the Wakarusa Valley facility as the district “test kitchen.” The first lessons last week focused on professional knife skills. Martin puts a high priority on having good, sharp knives
Likely Democratic Party candidate for governor Paul Davis will be running against incumbent Republican Sam Brownback in the November election, but it may seem like Davis is also running against President Barack Obama. So far, Brownback’s team has been more than happy to remind Kansans that Davis has been an Obama supporter in the last two presidential elections. “There are only so many Kansans willing to vote for a guy who doubled down on the Obama agenda as an Obama delegate in
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in the kitchen, and knowing how to use them. “It’s kind of like a mechanic working on a car,” he said. “If you don’t have a tool chest full of the right tools, you’re really not going to be happy with the job you’re doing because you’re going to be forcing something else to do the job. A sharp knife prepares you to do every job every time.” The lesson started off with a lecture and PowerPoint presentation, explaining the different parts of a chef knife, and
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