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Easily walkable — or rollable — paths. Sculpture. Subtle lighting. Signage BARBARA HIGGINS-DOVER, OF RURAL LAWRENCE, has created a small museum at Abe & Jake’s Landing, 8 E. Sixth St., that tells the history of noting natural or historic commercial fishing on the Kansas River. Her grandfather, Richard Higgins, was one of the so-called RiverKings who made a living on the Kaw. neighborhood features. Maybe even a tiny stage for arbara Higgins-Dover impromptu performances swears there is a along the way. 200-pound flathead Residents and other stakefish out there somewhere. holders say they’re excited The rural Lawrence resiabout the possibilities a dent believes the tale that in newly announced $500,000 the late 1890s a group of men ArtPlace America grant drug to shore a 200-pound might bring to the Ninth fish out of the Kansas River Street corridor. At the same in Douglas County. The men, time, they say the planning according to the story, tried process must ensure imto get Kansas University to provements don’t end up document the catch, but with quashing the quirkiness that no luck. makes the neighborhood deSo, they buried the fish, sirable in the first place. clawhorn@ljworld.com supposedly with a grave “The affordability of the marker. neighborhood is something “I sure wish I knew where and he probably was the best that’s very important,” said that was at,” Higgins-Dover East Lawrence resident qualified man to do so. said. Mike Myers, an architect He was part of a group of But, alas, that’s the way it who’s also been involved men casually known as the is on the river. Much is lost with multi-modal planning RiverKings. They made their on the Kaw. in the city. “I would hate to living on the Kansas River by Richard Higgins, Barbara’s catching fish and occasionalsee us make it so great that grandfather, knew that well. ly running rescue operations the artists and the bricklayHe took to his grave a story ers can’t live there ... The for community leaders who about the one that got away. viewed the currents of the critical thing is having the It started with one slippery people be part of the converKaw as a dangerous mystery. step. In 1950, his 8-year-old sation. That’s the huge piece But there would be no son slipped and fell off the of it that has to happen.” rescue on this day. Bowersock Dam on the river. ArtPlace announced Please see RIVER, page 2A Richard went in after him, Wednesday that the Lawrence Arts Center’s proposal, “Free State Boulevard: From the Studio to the Streets,” was among this year’s 55 winning grants for creative placemaking. The proposal calls for By Scott Rothschild Most students who en- mends some targeted re-imagining Ninth Street People with the power to act either Twitter: @ljwrothschild roll in remedial courses funding increases and between Massachusetts and through policy or funding need to come do not graduate. program changes. Delaware streets, with the In the world of reme- together and work toward a common goal State officials say the The Developmental Please see NINTH, page 2A dial education, Shine Ad- and not just pass it off to someone else. statistics are cause for Education report was put ams, a Kansas University alarm as they try together over student, is the exception A piece of it belongs to everyone; K-12, the to increase the the past year by rather than the rule. regents staff and regents, the Legislature, we all have a part.” number of people Adams, 38, dropped out with degrees to leaders at comof high school, worked — Ingrid Peterson, director of the Kansas Algebra Program meet workforce munity colleges, for several years and at Kansas University demands. four-year collegLawrence Arts Center then decided he needed “We are spendes and technical representatives are to get his diploma and ing billions of colleges. SCHOOLS expected to talk about then a college degree. have gotten where he is Fish, state director of dollars in our Developmenthe ArtPlace grant at Adams got his GED, without remedial courses. adult education at the K-12 system and these tal education refers to the next East Lawrence then, using remedial But for most students, Kansas Board of Regents. kids ought to be able to coursework offered at a Neighborhood Associacourses, passed several the remedial courses, In Kansas, 42 percent of meet these standards. post-secondary institution meeting. The meetmath classes to satisfy sometimes referred to first-time students in two- We need to be more hon- tion that usually involves ing is scheduled for 7 to his math requirement as developmental educa- year colleges and 16 per- est with ourselves,” said intermediate algebra, 9 p.m. July 7 at Van Go and is now working on a tion, aren’t working. cent in public, four-year Kansas Board of Regents fundamentals of English Inc., 715 New Jersey St. degree in social work. “We need to do things colleges enroll in at least Chairman Kenny Wilk. He said he couldn’t differently,” said Susan one remedial course. A new report recom- Please see EDUCATION, page 2A Richard Gwin/Journal-World Photo
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