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City considers increase to address taste and odor issues By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
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TWO SISTERS, LUCY HARDY, 9, LEFT, AND CYRENITY “TANK” HARDY-BILLY, 8, jump rope during a warmup session at boxing practice on April 1 at the Haskell Boxing Club. Their mother, Melissa Hardy, a single parent, began bringing them to boxing practice to keep them active. The two girls, both weighing in under 60 pounds, have trained alongside adults for two years. Top photo: Lucy, left, and Tank spar during practice on March 28. “They really don’t fight that much at home,” says their mother. “They get all of their aggression out here.”
Young sisters have a passion for the Sweet Science By Bobby Nightengale
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n a Wednesday night in the Haskell Boxing Club, two men pound tall and heavy punching bags. In a back corner, a boxer spars with trainer Erik Riley. A few other boxers stand around the ring waiting their turn.
In the middle of the gym, Lucy Hardy and Cyrenity Hardy-Billy work with trainer Darren Jacobs, who is holding punch mitts. Lucy is 9 years old. Cyrenity is 8. The gym regulars are no longer fazed by the two little boxing girls. They’ve been working in the gym for the past two years, Please see LITTLE, page 4A
They’ve been working in the gym for the past two years, and everybody marvels at their athleticism.
Lawrence, pick your flavor: an occasional funky taste and odor in the city’s drinking water or a water rate increase that will be 10 percent or more in some cases. City commissioners at their meeting this evening will be asked to decide whether to raise water rates in order to address a sporadic taste and We have odor issue to sell the that occurs best prodwhen algae levels spike uct we can.” in Clinton Lake. The first — Lawrence phase of Mayor Mike Amyx the project is expected to cost about $5.8 million. A potential second phase could add another $11 million or more. “It is a lot of money to correct a problem that you
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New KU Foundation Professor will help launch vaccine center By Ben Unglesbee bunglesbee@ljworld.com
Back when William Picking started college, his initial plan was to go on to medical school. “When you grow up in small-town Kansas and you
like science, you start seeing yourself as a physician,” said Picking, who’s originally from Abilene. But in college Picking found other branches of science that interested him and other ways of helping people besides through practic-
He earned his Ph.D. from Kansas University in 1989 and would come back come back within a decade to teach at KU, before leaving to chair the microbiology department at Oklahoma State University. Now Picking is returning
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to KU yet again, this time as a Foundation Professor, a new type of distinguished faculty meant to spur multidisciplinary research at KU. As a Foundation Professor, Picking will help Please see KU, page 5A Picking
New coach at LHS
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Jeff Dickson, most recently of Shawnee Mission Northwest, has been hired to lead the Lawrence High School girls’ basketball team. Page 1C
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