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IN THE MID-1960S, MARTHA PARKER’S FAMILY FARM along with thousands of acres of other farmland in the Wakarusa Valley were purchased by the federal government and flooded to create what is now Clinton Lake. Parker, now 85, is the director of the Wakarusa River Valley Heritage Museum. She is pictured Wednesday at Clinton Lake near the museum.
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Grand Opening Leaders of the Wakarusa River Valley Heritage Museum will unveil a new $78,000 addition at 1 p.m. Saturday. The expansion project, which largely was funded through a heritage grant from Douglas County, added about 1,300 square feet of new exhibit and meeting space to the museum, which is located at the entrance to the Bloomington Park campground at Clinton Lake. Dianne Miller, director of the National Park Service’s Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, will deliver an address at 2 p.m. When the museum opens, it will feature exhibits on the Underground Railroad, an exhibit called the Gun and the Gospel, and an exhibit on amateur baseball teams that existed in the river valley. The museum plans to have a formal dedication ceremony for the new facility on June 14.
Heather Ousley had blisters on her feet by the time she arrived at the Kansas Statehouse on March 31. So did a lot of other people who walked with her on various parts of her 60-mile trek that started a few days earlier in Johnson County, wound its way through Lawrence and finished in Topeka just as the Kansas Legislature was beginning its final, hectic week of the 2014 regular session. We have The pur- a lot of pose, she said, was to work to raise pub- do maklic aware- ing sure ness about people are the school finance de- informed.” bates taking place in — Judith Deedy, the Legisla- one of the origiture. nal organizers of A n d Game On while the session did not end the way she had hoped — she opposes the school finance bill, which eliminates teacher tenure, lowers licensing standards in some subjects and provides corporate tax breaks to fund private school vouchers — Ousley said the people in her group, and many more like it around the state, are not discouraged. “This has just energized us and made us realize how really important this is that we
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SANDY DAVALOS WAINWRIGHT, an early childhood special education teacher, makes crafts with Isabella Estrada, 4, left, and Laine Durler, 5, on a recent day at Educare Preschool, 1000 Sunnyside Ave. Laine, who has autism, uses an iPad to communicate as part of a KU research project.
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