Lawrence Journal-World 08-17-2015

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For seniors, a safe ride and a voice on the phone By Rochelle Valverde Twitter: @RochelleVerde

Gini Shoulberg, 73, has lived in her Lawrence home for more than 40 years, and though she’s now living alone, it’s where she’d like to stay. “I love the neighborhood and walking around and talking to my neighbors,” Shoulberg said. “I don’t want to leave.” As a member of My children Community Village Lawrence, Shoulberg absolutely is getting some of the help she needs to make love the idea staying in her home that someone easier. The mission of is checking the recently initiated on me nonprofit organization involves helping people every day.” age in their homes, rather than having to leave — Gini Shoulberg, 73, to go to assisted living Community Village facilities. Lawrence participant CVL hosted a “town hall” event Saturday morning at the Lawrence Public Library to give an overview of its services and to launch its transportation program. The meeting offered people who need help with transportation an opportunity to apply for a pilot version of the ride program. CVL currently has around 40 volunteers, about 15 of whom will be drivers in the transportation program, said Ellen Paulsen, vice chairwoman of CVL. Paulsen said the pilot version will help test the new software that’s used to coordinate the program and work out any bugs in the process. “We want to make sure we have a seamless program, where we get feedback from both parties,” she said.

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KANSAS UNIVERSITY PARKING CONTROL OFFICER STEVE DEVILLIER photographs a license plate as he works to print out a citation for an illegally parked vehicle in the lot south of Robinson Gymnasium on July 15. Starting with the fall semester, KU Parking will use e-permits and eventually move from printed tickets to emailed ones. By Sara Shepherd Twitter: @saramarieshep

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ansas University is no longer selling parking permits in sticker form — and soon will be using cameras to scan license plates and emailing parking tickets instead of sticking them under the windshield wipers. This semester, KU is switching to e-permits for on-campus parking. Or as Danny Kaiser, KU’s associate direc-

New campus system includes ‘e-permits,’ license plate readers tor of parking and monitor lots more transit, prefers to quickly and with say, “We’re not fewer people. (No selling permits one is losing their anymore, we’re job, he said, though selling permisKU Parking is not sion.” replacing a number KANSAS UNIVERSITY of people who have Kaiser said it’s hoped that the new retired.) electronic system will “We’ll be able to patrol enable KU Parking to the lots more frequently

with this,” he said. “Our purpose is to protect the parking for the people who paid for it, and by increasing our enforcement times we’ll be able to protect it better and hopefully keep out the interlopers.” Please see PARKING, page 2A

Please see RIDE, page 2A

From Batmobile to motorized picnic table, Lawrence tinkerer finds a way By Conrad Swanson Twitter: @conrad_swanson

For some, a street-legal indy car, a Batmobile or a motorized picnic table might be considered luxury items. For Le Tuan, they’re necessary research and development. For years Tuan, 36, has revamped, renovated and decked out buses,

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Le Tuan poses with his motorized picnic table in North Lawrence. See the video at LJWorld.com/ tinkerer.

trucks, trailers, cars and more. Many of his projects can be seen outside his shop in North Lawrence. But for customers to trust his expertise and his “cool factor,” Tuan said, he has got to use his imagination and create from scratch. Tuan’s shop is littered with tools, parts and scraps, commissioned work

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School gardens Half of the Lawrence school district’s 14 elementary schools have gardens in the works for the upcoming year. Page 3A

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