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Hunt on for armed shooting suspects By Caitlin Doornbos Twitter: @CaitlinDoornbos
Three men suffered life-threatening injuries after an early Sunday evening shooting at a home on 19th Terrace, Lawrence police spokesman Sgt. Trent McKinley said, and police continued to search for the armed suspects Sunday night. Officers responded to a report of at least one person shot at 1671 19th Terrace about 4:40 p.m. Sunday. Upon arrival, Lawrence
3 victims suffer life-threatening injuries at home on 19th Terrace police discovered three men injured inside a home just south of the Kansas University campus. A LifeStar helicopter landed at Lawrence High School to take one victim with multiple gunshot wounds to the KU Medical Center around 5 p.m., according to dispatchers. Two other victims
EMERGENCY RESPONDERS TRANSPORT a shooting victim on a stretcher in the 1600 block of 19th Terrace, where the shooting took place, on Sunday evening.
were taken by ground ambulance to Kansas City-area hospitals, McKinley said. All three victims were heading into surgery around 6:30 p.m., McKinley said. As of midnight, there were no additional updates on
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FLOWERS & BEER: A LAWRENCE CLASSIC
Religious organizations joining to ‘go upstream’ By Caitlin Doornbos Twitter: @CaitlinDoornbos
The Rev. Verdell Taylor explains the difference between mercy and justice with a fable. In it, a man goes to the river every day and rescues a baby who has drifted downstream in a basket, said Taylor, of St. Luke African Methodist Episcopal Church. Taylor calls that an act of mercy. Justice would involve going up river to determine the cause and fix the problem. Taylor said Justice Matters, a group of Often we 22 faith organizations see something including Christian, Islamic and Jew- happening and ish communities, is we already see “going upstream” in what the soluLawrence, aiming to tion should be.” define the most significant injustices and looking for solutions —Rev. Mary Newberg Gale, First Presbyterian to their root causes. Rev. Mary New- Church berg Gale, of First Presbyterian Church, said that most congregations do well at providing mercy through food drives and soup kitchens, but if justice were achieved, there would be no need for those services. “We want to tackle those issues that leave people in a position that we are acting mercifully toward them,” Newberg Gale said. “We are addressing the systematic root causes.” Newberg Gale said though the group’s members often have starkly different standpoints on specific aspects of religion, it is easy to cut through the divisive factors to work together toward a common goal. In 2013, local faith leaders began talking with national organization, Direct Action and Resource Center, or DART, about
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DEBBIE SUE FEY, A MANAGER AT FREE STATE BREWING COMPANY, 636 Massachusetts St., arranges some flowers, part of her daily routine getting the brewery set to open.
Meet Debbie Sue Fey, ‘the flower lady’ By Conrad Swanson Twitter: @Conrad_Swanson
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or years, Debbie Sue Fey has sold her flowers at Lawrence’s farmer’s market. When
the market wraps up she takes any extra or unsold bouquets and walks downtown, distributing the flowers to some of her favorite stores and restaurants. “I run in there and I
Please see FLOWER, page 4A
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drop flowers off and say, ‘Hello, here’s a bouquet for you,’” she said. “I just love how it makes people smile. You even walk down the street carrying
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