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NONPROFITS TRY TO REGAIN FOOTING Resignation shook board members, reset financial controls Apple co-founder coming to KU

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pple co-founder Steve Wozniak will speak at Kansas University’s Lied Center in November, the KU School of Business announced Thursday. Wozniak, who is best known for founding Apple alongside Steve Jobs in 1976, will deliver the business school’s Anderson Chandler Lecture at 11 a.m. Nov. 20 at the Lied Center. The event will be a partnership with KU’s Self Engineering Leadership Fellows Program as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week. Since leaving Apple in 1985, Wozniak has stayed involved in the computing industry and is currently the chief scientist at Primary Data. He received the National Medal of Technology in 1985 and was inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame in 2000. His wife, Janet Wozniak, is a Baldwin City native and Baker University alumna who earned a master’s degree in education at KU. Previous Chandler lectures featured Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, FBI agent and KU School of Business alumnus Robert Herndon, and former Kansas Gov. Bill Graves. Ticket information is not yet available.

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JUST FOOD VOLUNTEERS Rita Moses, left, and Alicia Reno work to stock donated food items needing to be refrigerated on Thursday at Just Food, 1000 E. 11th Street. The nonprofit’s last executive director, former Mayor Jeremy Farmer, recently resigned.

‘Folks are asking very good questions’ By Karen Dillon Twitter: @karensdillon

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awrence’s nonprofit charity community is continuing to adjust two weeks after the executive director of the

city’s largest food bank resigned amid revelations that he had not paid $61,000 in federal and state payroll taxes — and allegations that he misled the board of directors on accounting practices.

The executive director of Just Food, Jeremy Farmer, 32, also resigned as Lawrence’s mayor two days after he stepped down at the food bank by “mutual agreement” with the board of directors.

Following a review of the agency’s financial records, the Just Food board released a statement Aug. 21 claiming that Farmer had intentionally misled board members about a variety of financial matters, including dismissing the agency’s outside accountant without the board’s knowledge.

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KU, student, business teacher settle over records By Sara Shepherd Twitter: @saramarieshep

Instead of going to trial, the case of Kansas University School of Business teacher Hall Art Hall v. KU is being settled out of court. As part of the agreement — between three parties: KU, Hall and student Schuyler Kraus — KU released a limited number of the documents it had been withholding to Kraus, president of a student group

that filed a Kansas Open Records Act Request last year and paid $1,800 for KU to Kraus fulfill it. KU publicly shared those newly released documents with a news release announcing the settlement Thursday. They include a KU Endowment funding agreement for the creation of KU’s Center for Applied Economics, plus correspondence between Hall and representatives Please see RECORDS, page 8A

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Dave Loewenstein poses with his mural at Hobbs Park in East Lawrence in 2007.

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Rewriting history, the Kansas way

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in 1492. Much of the country received the same history lesson, he says. But now the history books tell a different story, he added. History, as it was written, is

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not without prejudices, judgements or omissions, Loewenstein said, and his Kansas People’s History Project aims to shed a bit of light on misinterpreted, underrepresented or completely ignored portions of the area’s history. “We mean to surface, raise and amplify those stories,” Loewenstein said. “Not necessarily to replace those that we know, but to look at them side by side so we can think about them, judge them and understand them in context.” As a part of the year-long project, Loewenstein met with several dozen participants Thursday evening in the Watkins Museum of History, 1047 Massachusetts St., to workshop ideas and help decide what stories to tell. The ongoing project is a Please see HISTORY, page 2A

Problem for DCF? New rules will require Kansas to make changes in its welfare laws if it wants to continue receiving federal child care funding. Page 3A

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