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SATURDAY • JUNE 28 • 2014
School Board to consider 13 applicants for open seat
Racing and pacing to win
By Stephen Montemayor Twitter: @smontemayor
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CYCLISTS BLUR PAST THE CROWD as they race down Vermont Street during the 2014 Tour of Lawrence Street Sprints between Seventh and Ninth streets Friday night. Tour of Lawrence continues this morning and concludes Sunday.
Tour of Lawrence sprints off Dozens of cyclists from around the nation began the first leg of Tour of Lawrence on Friday night, racing in street sprints. CYCLING FANS WATCH A SPRINTER make his way south on Vermont Street on Friday night.
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Former school board members and area educators are among the 13 applicants who will be considered Monday evening to fill a vacant Lawrence school board seat. At its 7 p.m. Monday meeting, the board will discuss the 13 applications before selecting a replacement for Keith Diaz Moore, who resigned last month to accept the position of dean at the University of Utah’s school of architecture. The position will run through June 30, 2015, and the next school board An update on all election is in the projects that April 2015. are part of the The follow$92.5 million ing have applied bond issue. for the open position. l Robert Byers: Previously served four years on the Lawrence school board and is a current member of Lawrence Public Schools’ financial advisory committee. Has also worked in child welfare for more than 30 years. l Scott Criqui: Human resources manager at Trinity In-Home Care. A member of the College and Career Center Building and Design Committee and Boundary Advisory Committee. l Christopher English: Vice president and trust officer at The Trust Company of Kansas. First worked as a paraprofessional with Lawrence Public Schools in 1995 and was a math teacher at South Junior High from 1997 to 2009. l Jill Plankinton Fincher: Lawrence
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Lawrencian on the mend after scare on Mt. Rainier By Sara Shepherd Twitter: @saramarieshep
A climbing accident and cold temperatures killed seven people at Washington’s Mount Rainier in the past month. In the same time frame another of the mountain’s wicked signatures became potentially life-threatening for Lawrence resident Courtney Sappington: altitude. Thanks to a movie-worthy helicopter rescue, Sappington
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Sappington, 27, and her husband, Daryl Sappington, started their ascent on Memorial Day with four guides and six other climbers. The couple had done a lot of mountain hiking while previously living in Arizona, but this was their first glacier climb. — Courtney Sappington, speaking of “That’s why we chose it,” her determination to climb again Courtney Sappington said. “It was a little bit different and is home safe after experienc- more challenging.” ing a rare altitude seizure They picked the more amid treacherous conditions Please see CLIMB, page 2A high on the mountain.
It’s a great goal to work toward. It gives me something to train for — and very much a sense of accomplishment.”
IN THIS CONTRIBUTED PHOTO, Daryl and Courtney Sappington, of Lawrence, pose for a snapshot on Mount Rainier in May.
Town Talk Report highlights challenges of city’s fireworks ban
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Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
et ready for Lawrence’s annual expression of independence, where on the Fourth of July, hundreds of you show that you are free to break the city’s law prohibiting fireworks. City commissioners this year have asked for a report on why
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on the July 4 holiday. In 2013, according to the report, the city had 189 fireworks complaints and issued four citations and confiscated fireworks in 12 instances. Since 2008, the most citations the city has ever issued for violating the fireworks ban has been four.
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enforcement of the fireworks ban has seemed to be a bit lax in past years. The new report from the police department provides the answer most of us would expect: It takes a lot of time and effort to find a fireworks violator, and there is a high volume of other police calls happening
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In the memo, police department officials note that it can be difficult for officers to determine who is actually shooting off fireworks. In 2013, 40 percent of all fireworks calls resulted in no action because
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A court has ruled the KU Hospital Authority must absorb the cost of treating a man supposed to be detained on federal immigration issues who was never taken into custody. Page 3A
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