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N. Lawrence detour likely to accompany Years of Lawrence Country Club 6th and Iowa construction The Lawrence Country Club in 1914
By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
Thousands of Lawrence motorists per day may soon be adding a trip through North Lawrence to their daily routines. At least city officials hope so. A plan to expand the busy intersection of Sixth and Iowa streets will be up for approval at today’s Lawrence City Commission meeting, and a large part of the plan involves asking motorists to use the Kansas Turnpike interchange in CITY North Lawrence rather than COMMISSION the West Lawrence interchange on McDonald Drive. Work on the intersection is expected to begin May 19 — the day after Kansas University’s commencement — and the detour Please see DETOUR, page 5A l Louisiana Street just north of 23rd
Street to be closed. Page 5A
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GOLFERS HEAD TO THEIR CARTS FOR MEN’S GUEST DAY on Wednesday at the Lawrence Country Club. The club, at 400 Country Club Terrace, is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.
Centennial events to recall venue’s history By Ben Unglesbee bunglesbee@ljworld.com
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hen the Lawrence Country Club came into being in 1914, its founding members included, among other Lawrence luminaries, coaching legend and inventor of basketball James Naismith. Golf and basketball are about as different as two sports can be, but both have brought visitors from around the country to Lawrence to watch and play. In the country club’s 100-year history, it has seen its share of pros and celebrities on the greens, including other legendary Kansas University basketball coaches.
This year the club is celebrating its centennial with events meant to take people back to its early days. The LCC’s original purpose James Naismith was the “maintewas a founding nance of a club member. for social enjoyment” and the “promotion of indoor and outdoor sports, and various other forms of amusement and recreation.” That is according to the club’s founding document, which was Please see CLUB, page 2A
l Lawrence Country Club Centennial Celebration Hickory Stick Tournament 1 p.m. May 8 For $50 per person, members can play nine holes with retro hickory golf clubs and mesh balls. l Centennial Celebration 6 p.m. July 18 An open house will feature food, drinks and prizes by the club’s pool. 7 p.m. July 19 A dinner of steak and seafood in the formal dining room will be followed by stories of the club’s past.
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Athol (ap) — The northcentral Kansas cabin where the iconic song “Home on the Range” was written more than 140 years ago is restored and open to visitors, after a grassroots effort raised thousands of dollars to save it. The cabin in Smith County near the Nebraska border, built in 1872, was Higley once home to Brewster Higley, a frontier doctor who wrote a poem that later was put to music and became “Home on the Range,” the state song of Kansas. It was in ruins until 2011, when a grass-roots effort began that eventually Please see CABIN, page 2A
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In the pipeline Pulitzer-winning writer Tony Horwitz to appear via Skype today at a Lawrence Public Library event regarding the Keystone XL Pipeline. Page 3A
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