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THURSDAY • JULY 17 • 2014
Testimony: OUT WITH A BANG (BUT NO CANNON) Romance, money led to shooting LAWRENCE CITY BAND
By Caitlin Doornbos Twitter: @CaitlinDoornbos
A preliminary hearing Wednesday revealed messy romantic relationships and money owed among those allegedly involved in a Memorial Day shooting on Highway 59 that left a Lawrence man seriously injured and two charged with attempted Parker first-degree murder. Brittany Nicole Smith, 22, of Lawrence, looked on Wednesday as her ex-boyfriend and the shooting victim, Skylar Workman, 24, of Lawrence, testified against her and her co-defendant, 25-year-old Edward Joseph John Young/Journal-World Photos
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FIREWORKS EXPLODE BEHIND THE GAZEBO IN SOUTH PARK as the Lawrence City Band closes out its final summer concert of the year Wednesday. Lawrence resident Bruce Remke, below, has been playing tuba with the band for about 25 years.
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Sequestration sidelines tradition for second year By Stephen Montemayor Twitter: @smontemayor
For a second year, the Lawrence City Band’s summer concert series concluded without the boom of a cannon. Still, bombs burst in the sky above. Until last year, the City Band’s
final summer concert included a cannon fired during its performance of the “1812 Overture.” Citing sequestration cuts imposed by Congress in 2013, the Kansas Robert Foster, the City Band’s National Guard, which supplied conductor and musical director, the cannons, again told the band said the Kansas National Guard it could not provide cannons for Please see CANNON, page 2A Wednesday’s concert.
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South Lawrence retail project takes next step
LUNCH WITH THE FIRST LADY
Lawrence chef, 8, heads to White House By Elliot Hughes ehughes@ljworld.com
Anyone whose cooking has won them an audience with the first lady may feel like declaring they’re the best cook in their home. But 8-year-old Jasmy Mavilla, of Lawrence, is more humble than that. “I don’t know,” she said, smiling shyly at the question. Jasmy is one of more
than 1,500 children from across the country who submitted an original recipe to the “Healthy Lunchtime Challenge,” a contest that’s part of Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” initiative, which promotes healthy eating for kids. Jasmy’s “Tangy Veggy Springetty” — a dish of noodles, shrimp, lemon juice and vegetables — was chosen as one of the contest’s 54 win-
f you are a fan of Old Navy, feel free to blow your fog horn and do your best Popeye impersonation. A development that is proposing to bring Old Navy, Academy Sports, Designer Shoe Warehouse and a host of other retailers to south Iowa Street has cleared its first hurdle to approval. The city’s planning staff is recommending approval of the necessary rezoning requests and other such items needed to build the project at the southeast corner of Iowa Street and the South Lawrence Trafficway. But hold on there, sailor. Before you order a gross of
ners. Today, she’ll fly to Washington, D.C., with her mother, Sowjanya Seetala, for a Friday Please see CHEF, page 2A
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JASMY MAVILLA, 8, right, of Lawrence, submitted a winning recipe for Michelle Obama’s “Healthy Lunchtime Challenge.” Try her winning recipe on page 2A.
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Citizenship vacuum
Vol.156/No.198 34 pages
Almost 75,000 Douglas County voters are registered as advance primary ballots are cast. But 576 others are still struggling to provide full documentation. Page 3A
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