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Arts Center wins $500K ArtPlace grant By Sara Shepherd Twitter: @saramarieshep
The Lawrence Arts Center has succeeded in its quest for a major national grant to enliven Ninth Street east of downtown. The $500,000 grant
comes from ArtPlace America, which is expected to formally announce its 2014 awards today. “This is a big, big deal,” said City Commissioner Bob Schumm, who served on the Lawrence Cultural District Task Force. “We’ll
have what should be an unbelievable attraction.” The Arts Center’s winning proposal — “Free State Boulevard: From the Studio to the Streets” — calls for “re-imagining” Ninth Street between Massachusetts and Delaware streets, according
to a description from the Arts Center. Grant money will imbed public art in the streetscape, enhancing the corridor as “a platform for visual and performance art not yet imagined.” Arts Center executive director Susan Tate said the ar-
tistic part of the project would be designed in tandem with planned city-funded street and walkway improvements along the corridor, which connects downtown with the Warehouse Arts District. Please see GRANT, page 2A
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Commissioners approve new name for Rock Chalk Park: Sports Pavilion Lawrence By Scott Rothschild Twitter: @ ljwrothschild
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JADE HARVEY, 12, PLAYS DRUMS Tuesday at Lawrence High School during a middle school summer jazz program led by LHS band director Mike Jones, pictured below on horn.
Program jazzes up the summer By Stephen Montemayor Twitter: @smontemayor
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ithin the walls of Lawrence High’s air-conditioned band room, another layer of cool was laid down before lunchtime on Tuesday. In the twilight of its annual two-week iteration, the middle school summer jazz program played on as more than 30 students assembled for what amounted to a 90-minute jam — save for a few
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punctuations, like the time a student set off on a riff of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.” “Here’s a teaching moment,” LHS band director Mike Jones said, extending both arms to halt the music. “Jazz players do that all the time. That was cool!” The group took up instruments around midmorning as Jones took his place inside the circle the students formed. As
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The Lawrence City Commission on Tuesday refused to repeal an ordinance that prohibits carrying concealed knives and approved a name for the new recreation center at Rock Chalk Park: Sports Pavilion Lawrence. The city’s knife ordinance will be unenforceable starting next week when a new state law that specifically allows concealed carry of knives takes effect. Commissioners said they thought the law approved by the Kansas Legislature will make the public less safe and they didn’t want any part of facilitating it. Commissioner Terry Riordan, a physician, said he remembered operating on a CITY young man stabbed in the COMMISSION neck who later died from his wounds. “I don’t think we should acquiesce to bad laws,” Riordan said. Commissioner Bob Schumm agreed. “I will not vote to (repeal) an ordinance that I think puts people at risk. All this additional gun carry Please see KNIVES, page 2A l Tax rebate question for new development
will now go to commission after city committee ties in vote. Page 3A
Argument turns sour A late-night argument turned into a stabbing Monday and led to one woman’s arrest on suspicion of attempted murder. Page 3A
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