Lawrence Journal-World 04-18-2016

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City asked to make Indigenous Peoples Day annual

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THIS AERIAL PHOTO SHOWS ONGOING CONSTRUCTION WORK on Kansas University’s $350 million Central District redevelopment project. The development includes a new residence hall, student apartment building, student union to replace the Burge and an integrated science building in the area bounded by Naismith Drive, 19th Street, Daisy Hill and Irving Hill Road.

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After beating cancer, couple ‘going to keep partying’ By Matt Tait Twitter: @mctait

Before being diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer in 2012, Dawn Villarreal-Nutt, 50, found plenty of joy in lounging around the house, watching movies and spending time with family, week after week. But today, more than three years after an early morning trip to the hospital for what she thought was an overactive appendix frighteningly turned Earl Richardson/Special to the Journal-World into a cancer diagnosis and surgery the same day, Villar- GENE NUTT REMEMBERS NOT KNOWING whether his wife, Dawn Villarreal-Nutt, would live and beat cancer. But she did. And there’s real-Nutt can’t stand still. no stopping her now. “We’re just going to keep partying now,” she Please see HOPE, page 2A says.

Stories of Hope This profile provided by the Lawrence Memorial Hospital Endowment Association is one in a series of 12 about area cancer heroes. These survivors’ stories and photographs hang in the hallway leading to the LMH Oncology Center, offering hope to patients being cared for at LMH Oncology and their families. For more in the series, visit WellCommons.com.

On Oct. 6 last year, Haskell Indian Nations University students Barb Wolfin and Lori Hasselman helped lead 300 people on a march to City Hall, where Lawrence’s mayor proclaimed Oct. 12 — federally recognized as Columbus Day — as a citywide celebration of indigenous peoples. Wolfin reminisced on the moment Friday, about feeling the reverberations in City Hall from the drummers outside, where CITY the crowd spilled COMMISSION onto the lawn. “We packed the inside and outside grounds,” Wolfin said. “They read off the proclamation, and it was added that it was just being recognized for just that year. And so we took further action.” Now, pending City Commission approval Tuesday, Lawrence will be the latest in a growing number of cities annually recognizing the second Monday of October as Indigenous Peoples Day going forward. To make official the yearly celebration, commissioners will be asked to approve a city resolution. Lawrence does not currently recognize Columbus Day — a day that has been said by campaigns nationwide to overlook a painful history of colonialism and land grabs. Efforts to replace the holiday in the U.S. started in 1977, and Berkeley, Calif., in 1992 became one of the first cities to celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day. Please see CITY, page 5A

Developers discuss plans for K-10 shopping center in Eudora By Elvyn Jones Twitter: @ElvynJ

Lawrence isn’t the only place where talk of big retail developments is taking hold. A former elementary school site in Eudora may become the newest

suburban shopping option for travelers along busy Kansas Highway 10 between Lawrence and Kansas City. The recent announcement that the Eudora City Commission will begin negotiations with an experienced Kansas City-based

Nottingham school site, which is just north of the Church Street interchange on K-10. Ortiz is cautioning that a concept plan that shows more than 90,000 square feet of retail space, plus loft-style apartments for the property, is still subject

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development firm already has imaginations running in the town of a little more than 6,000 people. Eudora City Manager Gary Ortiz said “managing expectations” will be a big task as the community continues to work on redeveloping the former

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to a lot of changes. But still, Ortiz admits that he’s excited about the idea. Last week, the Eudora City Commission agreed to start negotiations with CBC Real Estate Group LLC on the redevelopment of the property. CBC was one of two firms

to respond to a request for proposals to redevelop the 15-acre site. CBC was chosen because of its experience, financial resources, and adherence to the city’s design guidelines, city officials said. Please see EUDORA, page 2A

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