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From son to father, a final assist
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LEFT: LATE LAWRENCE ARTIST ELDEN TEFFT smiles as he talks about his career during a 2014 interview at his studio. BELOW: Finishing his father’s work, Kim Tefft works on part of a statue of James Naismith that will be installed outside the DeBruce Center at Kansas University.
‘Technology is there’ for sources other than coal, moderate Republican Sloan says By Peter Hancock Twitter: @LJWpqhancock
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Work on Naismith piece completes sculptor’s legacy
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n his father’s studio near the southeast edge of Lawrence, Kim Tefft hunches over a bronze bust of Dr. James Naismith, chiseling away air bubbles and smoothing out other blemishes inherited from the casting process. The work won’t go down in any basketball box score as an assist, but make no mistake, it is an assist — and likely one that will be admired by Kansas University basketball fans for decades to come. Tefft’s work on the Naismith sculpture — it will be a little more than a life-
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sized homage to the inventor of basketball when completed — is more than just a job for Tefft. It is a chance to finish the work TWO SMALL-SCALE NAISMITH MODELS sit side-by-side on top of a shelf overlooking Tefft’s foundry. See the video Please see NAISMITH, page 9A at KUSports.com/Naismithstatue2015
On a bright summer afternoon, Rep. Tom Sloan sat down for lunch in a restaurant in a west Lawrence shopping center. Looking out the window at the surrounding stores and supermarkets, with the sun beating down on their rooftops, he talked about how Kansas is missing a big opportunity to transform all that sunlight into elec- LEGISLATURE tric energy, at least during the hottest part of the day, when the state’s coal- and nuclear-powered electric plants are churning at full capacity. “The technology is there,” Sloan said. What’s missing, he said, are state laws and regulations that would make it Republican feasible for large commer- Rep. Tom cial properties, such as a Sloan, unlike Dillons supermarket, or many GOP even a National Guard ar- leaders in the mory, to collect that power Statehouse, and either use it or sell it doesn’t dispute in a way that would justify the science that the expense. shows carbon Sloan, a moderate Re- emissions are publican who represents contributing to much of west Lawrence, is climate change. a quiet voice in the Kansas Statehouse these days, often out of step with the more conservative Republicans who control the House leadership. But when it comes to energy and utility policy, Sloan, a former vice chairman of the House Utilities Committee, is often heard loudly and clearly in places beyond the Statehouse, in rooms where national policymakers are engaged in long-range planning about the nation’s energy future. Please see ENERGY, page 12A
Police welcome new service dogs Inside: Fun facts about the service dogs. 5A
By Caitlin Doornbos Twitter: @CaitlinDoornbos
There are two new members of the Lawrence Police Department — and they’re a little fluffier than your average officer. Meet C.B. and Kai, the first Patrol Service Dogs in the department’s history. The German shepherds were purchased earlier this year, and after an intensive training program
from March to June, they’re on the ground in Lawrence helping officers track down drugs, evidence and bad guys. The pups didn’t come cheap. City commissioners in February unanimously passed a $36,000 proposal to create the PSD unit. Please see DOGS, page 5A
C.B. is one of the Lawrence Police Department’s two service dogs.
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