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Bill would ban tax dollars for remedial classes

By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com

TOPEKA — Some legislators say they are ready to consider closing further the window on who can attend a regents university.

House Speaker Mike O’Neal,

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Measure would further limit who can attend a regents school R-Hutchinson, on Wednesday touted his bill that would prohibit the use of tax dollars for remedial courses at state universities and cut in half the number of students who are

admitted but don’t meet minimum admission standards.

O’Neal said the students who need remedial course work or fall below minimum standards would be better

served going to a community including Chairman Marc college than risk failing at a Rhoades, R-Newton. regents school.

“I like the idea” of O’Neal’s He got support from sev- bill, said Rhoades, who said eral members of the House Please see REMEDIAL, page 2A O’Neal Appropriations Committee,

‘The kids walked out of here with huge smiles’

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THESE FOSSILS show a female, left, and male flea that roamed the earth between 125 million and 165 million years ago. The fleas grew to be nearly an inch long and could have fed on the blood of dinosaurs.

KU women fall to OSU in close game Both KU and Oklahoma State hoping for a win late in the season made for a tight, hard-fought battle at Allen Fieldhouse on Wednesday night. But the Jayhawks ultimately couldn’t recover after a couple of late plays by OSU and lost, 66-63. Now the team is looking ahead to Sunday for its last regular-season game at Oklahoma.

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LOGAN ADAIR, 11, CENTER, gives instructions to eighth-grade teammates Bryce Torneden, left, and Lauren Johnson, right, during a basketball clinic Wednesday at West Middle School. Basketball players with the eighth-grade Warhawks team worked with younger special-education students in the clinic after school.

Young basketball players appreciate their special fans for having a large fan base. But over the course of the season, The season ended the special-education for the West Middle students followed their School eighth-grade fellow Warhawks with boys basketball team zeal. more than a week ago, The interest grew but that didn’t keep the out of the ties the players out of the gym team’s coach, Curtis Wednesday.

Field, would wear to For 45 minutes, the school on game days.

Warhawks shot basField is also a paraedukets, scrimmaged and cator in the special-edjoked with seven of the ucation classroom, and school’s special-educa- his students wanted to tion students. It was the know about the ties. team’s version of fan He told them he wore appreciation day. them for basketball “We wanted to show games and soon they them that they are began asking if Field’s Warhawks and deserve team had won. to be here, too,” center It wasn’t long before Garrett Swisher said. the students started Eighth-grade boys coming to games to basketball isn’t known cheer on the players.

By Christine Metz

cmetz@ljworld.com

“You would have thought they were watching the Jayhawks,” functional skills resource teacher Jane Scarffe said.

The players appreciated the students’ presence.

“Their support helped,” Garrett said.

In the end, the Warhawks finished the season 11-4 and capped the year with a championship title at the Atchison eighth-grade basketball tournament.

Field said he wanted to find a time for the students and basketball team to interact. So, he organized an end-ofseason practice where players and special-education students had a

chance to shoot, dribble and pass together.

The excitement was obvious Wednesday.

“It seemed like they enjoyed it, and we did, too,” point guard Bryce Torneden said.

As the players gathered around their coach one last time Wednesday, Field urged them to continue the friendships that started on the court.

“I know the kids all walked out of here with huge smiles,” he said.

“When you see the kids in the hallway, remember their names and say hi to them. You will make their day.”

— Reporter Christine Metz can be reached at 832-6352.

Traffic delays expected on game day

By Andy Hyland ahyland@ljworld.com

Fans headed to Allen Fieldhouse from Johnson County for Saturday night’s Kansas-Texas game may have to fight through some significant traffic delays on Interstate 435 as crews will demolish bridges over Quivira Road.

The Jayhawks’ final game of the regular season tips off at 8 p.m. Saturday at Allen Fieldhouse.

According to information from the Kansas Department of Transportation, the left lane

of eastbound and westbound I-435 will be closed at Quivira starting at 5:30 p.m.

Saturday.

More significant closures will begin at 7 p.m.

Then, crews will close four left lanes of eastbound I-435 before Interstate 35 and three left lanes of westbound I-435 at the ramp to U.S. Highway 69.

At the same time, the ramps from I-35 to I-435 eastbound will close, along with the ramps from U.S. 69 to I-435 westbound.

At 8 p.m. on Saturday, all lanes of eastbound I-435 will be closed starting at I-35, and westbound I-435 will be closed starting at the ramp to northbound U.S. 69.

The lane and ramp closures are expected to reopen by 2 p.m. Sunday.

Detours will be provided, but KDOT officials say they expect major delays in the area.

— Higher education reporter Andy Hyland can be reached at 832-6388.

Giant fleas bugged dinos

By Andy Hyland ahyland@ljworld.com

Large fleas up to an inch long roamed the earth more than 150 million years ago and had mouth parts strong enough to puncture the hides of some dinosaurs, a Kansas University researcher has found.

Michael Engel, a KU entomologist, is a co-author of the study published online Wednesday in the journal Nature.

“They were quite the beasts,” Engel said. “And certainly not anything you’d want crawling around on your pets.”

While the parasites KANSAS could have UNIVERSITY fed on the blood of smaller mammals or birds, dinosaurs could have easily been a target, too. The fleas’ mouth parts were equipped with a little siphon and were long and serrated, he said.

“They’re like little saw blades,” Engel said. “Whatever this thing was trying to get through, it was well-equipped to work its way through it.”

The fossils range from 165 million to 125 million years old and were found primarily in China.

Before these fossils were found, the oldest known fleas were about 40 million years old, Engel said.

The fossils are also scientifically important because they help show how fleas evolved over time. They show about half of the traits of modern fleas and half of the traits of their primitive ancestors, he said. For example, the fossilized fleas lack the large legs that modern-day fleas use for jumping.

“They’re halfway there,” Engel said.

1960s heartthrob Davy Jones of the Monkees dies at 66 Davy Jones, the diminutive teen idol His publicist, Helen Kensick, confirmed who rocketed to the top of the 1960s mu- that Jones died of a heart attack near his sic charts by beckoning millions of adorhome in Indiantown, Fla. ing fans singing the catchy refrains of The Jones’ moppish long hair, boyish good Monkees, died Wednesday. He was 66. looks and his British accent endeared him

to legions of screaming young fans after “The Monkees” premiered on NBC in 1966 as a made-for-TV band seeking to capitalize on Beatlemania sweeping the world.

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DEATHS ROBERT CORY STOFFERS Robert Cory Stoffers, 40, Tonganoxie, passed away Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Funeral service will be 11 a.m.

Saturday at the Quisenberry Funeral Home, Tonganoxie. The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.

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Senators want House to leave map alone

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GLORIA D. TUBBS Gloria D. Tubbs, 57, died Feb. 26, 2012, at an Overland Park nursing facility. Services for Gloria will be March 2 at 11:00 a.m. She will lie in state

one hour before service time. Both at the First Christian Church, 1000 Kentucky in Lawrence, KS. Burial at Oak Hill Cemetery.

BETTY J. DOBBINS Memorial services for Betty J. Dobbins, 92, Lawrence, KS, will be held at 11 a.m. on Monday, March 5, 2012, at Warren-McElwain Mortuary in Lawrence. Private inurnment will be at Memorial Park Cemetery in Lawrence.

Pastor David Rivers will be the officiant. She died on Dobbins Wednesday, February 29, 2012 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

She was born on March 9, 1919 in Wichita, KS, the daughter of John W. & Nettie Douglas Wolfe.

She grew up in Augusta, KS, Redondo Beach, California, and later Wellington, KS. Betty and her husband moved to Lawrence in 1947 and they founded the Chuck Wagon Restaurant on south Iowa Street and operated it until the sale of it in May 1970.

She was a member of the First Christian Church and formerly played bridge in several groups in Lawrence. She

was also a member of the Cosmo Pals of the Noon Cosmopolitan Club.

Betty married John W. Dobbins, Sr. on January 21, 1940 in Wellington, KS. He preceded her in death March 26, 1978.

Survivors include a daughter, Sherri Millsap, of the home; two sons, Dr. Kent E. and wife Liz Dobbins, of Lawrence, John W. and wife Carol Dobbins, of Lawrence; seven grandchildren, Lance Dobbins, Dr. Keri Halgren, Kris Millsap, Jay Dobbins, Lori Dobbins, Staci Dobbins, and Eric Dobbins; and five greatgrandchildren, Bailey, Taylor, Ashton, Parker, and Cassidy.

The family suggests memorials in her name to the Betty Dobbins Fine Arts Scholarship c/o the Lawrence High School Endowment Association, the Douglas County Visiting Nurses, Rehabilitation and Hospice Care, or to the First Christian Church in Lawrence.

Online condolences may be sent to www. warrenmcelwain.com.

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Edith B. Dick, 89, a longtime Parsons resident, died at 9:55 a.m.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at the Good Samaritan Society in Parsons.

She was born on November 22, 1921 at Centerville, Kansas, to John and Ethel (Campbell) Johnson. The family moved to Altamont where she grew up and attended Altamont schools, graduating Dick from Labette County Community High School.

She and Max Dick were married on August 6, 1939 at Oswego, KS at the home of a family friend. He preceded her in death on January 21, 2012.

She was a homemaker and later worked at the Broderick Manufacturing Co. as the corporate secretary/treasurer for 20 years.

She was a member of the Faith United Methodist Church in Parsons.

She enjoyed fishing, camping, and playing cards. She volunteered at Labette Health as a pink lady in the gift shop. She was also a member and treasurer of the TOPS

TOPEKA — Kansas senators asked the House leadership Wednesday to avoid the temptation of making adjustments in any map that redraws Senate districts.

Senate Reapportionment Committee Chairman Tim Owens said the House should honor what has been legislative tradition that each chamber accepts the map from the other without making changes.

“I will not do anything with the House map if they honor the mutual respect,” Owens said.

However, House Speaker Mike O’Neal has said that if the Senate map doesn’t have strong support when it comes to the House, he would consider making adjustments to get a map that more senators could accept.

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organization.

Her survivors include her son, Dan Dick, and his wife, Marlene, of Lawrence, KS; Janet Shears of Parsons, and Marsha Anderson, and her husband, Larry of Valrico, FL; nine grandchildren; 24 greatgrandchildren; five greatgreat-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

In addition to her husband she was preceded in death by a granddaughter, Roxanne Garland; a great-grandson, Max Pennington; her brothers, Darrell Johnson and Jack Johnson; a sister, Edla Willet; and a son-in-law, Larry Shears.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m., Saturday, March 3, 2012 at the Carson-Wall Funeral Home. Burial will follow in the Oakwood Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 7 to 8 Friday evening. Memorials are suggested to the Faith United Methodist Church and these may be left at or mailed to the funeral home, 112 N. 26th St., P.O. Box 942, Parsons, KS 67357. Online condolences may be left at www.wallfuneralservices. com.

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to be a woman,” acAuditions to be held means cording to a media release. for Genius of Women The performance will be at 7:30 p.m. April 13 in The annual Genius of the Burge Union on Kansas Women talent show is holding University’s campus. auditions from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. March 12 and 15 at the St. Couple plead Lawrence Catholic Campus Center, 1631 Crescent Road. to welfare fraud The group is looking for LEAVENWORTH (AP) — A pieces that “express artistic celebration of the dignity of northeast Kansas couple will be sentenced in March women,” organizer Patriafter pleading no contest cia Sprouse said. Previto defrauding the state’s ous presenters have done welfare system. dance, reading of drama, The Leavenworth Times poetry, songs and comedy. reports that 44-year-old The event aims to “inspire Gregory Riley and 47-yearand challenge our campus, old Diana Riley entered the community and society pleas this week to one count to consider what it really

tween the two Republicans reveal the ongoing battle for control between conservatives and moderates. Owens is a moderate from Overland Park while O’Neal is a conservative from Hutchinson. Owens also faces a primary challenge from a conservative House member in his reelection bid.

The House approved its new map 109-14 on Feb. 9 and sent it to the Senate to consider — though in past years that has been a mere formality. O’Neal said last week that he would hope that the Senate would pass a version that redraws its 40 districts with a similar, stronger margin of support as the House bill passed.

Senators approved introducing a bill that contained a proposal from Owens putting Republican Sens. Steve Abrams of Arkansas City and Jeff King of Independence in the same Senate district in southern Kansas. Owens said he drew

the lines to keep from collapsing a western Kansas district, which lost representation when the Wagle current districts were drawn in 2002.

Sen. Susan Wagle, a Wichita Republican, asked if there were alternatives to collapsing the southern districts, noting that the proposed lines for districts in Sedgwick County were close to the 5 percent deviation goal of the committee.

“We’re packed in there like sardines,” Wagle said.

Owens said his map was just a placeholder to start the discussion, which will continue March 7. He welcomed other proposals.

“People need to start bringing their maps out.

These are the kinds of questions that we need to be talking about,” he said.

House panel continues work on abortion bill TOPEKA — A Kansas House committee continues to debate and amend a bill aimed at preventing the state from indirectly subsidizing abortions through tax credits or deductions.

The Federal and State Affairs Committee spent most of Wednesday discussing technical amendments to the bill, which would make several changes in state tax

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the committee would probably work on the measure next week.

House Bill 2745, would prohibit state tax dollars spent on remedial college courses. It would also cut from 10 percent to 5 percent the number of freshman class or transfer admissions allowed under the “exception window,” meaning they don’t meet minimum admissions standards.

A fiscal note done by the state budget office said that in the 2010-11 academic year, state universities taught 16,234 remedial credit hours, at a cost of nearly $1.5 million in state funds. If the bill were enacted, and the universities stopped offering remedial courses, they would lose $3.3 million in tuition, the fiscal note said.

O’Neal said his legislation wouldn’t prevent the universities from offering the courses; it would just end taxpayer support of remedial instruction. “That just is a real aggravation to me,” he said. Last year, O’Neal proposed a bill that would have charged the cost of remedial college courses back to the student’s school district, but that proposal didn’t go anywhere.

Approximately 14.5 percent of the entering freshman class take a remedial class with the vast majority being in math.

O’Neal also said universities should reduce the number of students who

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each of felony welfare fraud and perjury.

The Rileys, who live in Bonner Springs, reached the COURTS plea agreement ahead of what was expected to be a lengthy preliminary hearing beginning today.

Prosecutors said that from 2005 to 2009, the couple wrongfully obtained more than $22,000 in food stamp assistance and more than $60,000 in medical assistance.

At one point, the county attorney says, the Rileys reported having a total of $75 in two bank accounts when

laws, all designed to cut off indirect support for abortions.

For exLEGISLATURE ample, people who deduct medical expenses from their income taxes couldn’t include abortion expenses in the calculation. A nonprofit organization that

House Bill 2745, would prohibit state tax dollars spent on remedial college courses. It would also cut from 10 percent to 5 percent the number of freshman class or transfer admissions allowed under the “exception window.” are admitted but don’t meet the minimum criteria. To gain entrance to a regents school, freshmen from Kansas must score at least a 21 on the ACT, or graduate in the top one-third of their high school class, or complete a pre-college curriculum with at least a 2.0 grade point average.

But schools are allowed to admit up to 10 percent of freshmen under the “exception window.”

O’Neal’s proposal would reduce that to 5 percent.

Freshman retention rates for students who met minimum admission standards are more than 20 percent higher when compared to those who were admitted as exceptions, officials said.

O’Neal said the exception window was first put into place when legislators enacted the minimum admission standards. He said it was a way to satisfy Kansans who said that their children had a right to attend a Kansas school.

In the 2010-11 academic year, 15,810 Kansas residents were admitted as freshmen in regents universities and 711, or 4.5 percent, of those were admitted through the

they actually had nearly $10,000 in cash in five accounts plus a second home.

K-State expands recruiting in Vietnam MANHATTAN (AP) — Kansas State University is expanding its recruiting efforts in Vietnam.

The university said in a statement Tuesday that its international programs office has reached a partnership agreement with Capstone Vietnam to represent Kansas State in recruiting students from Vietnam. The university says Capstone Vietnam is an academic development organization.

provides abortion services would have to pay the state sales tax on what it buys, unlike other nonprofits.

Also, the measure would prohibit public schools from using materials in human sexuality classes from groups that provide abortion services.

The committee could take a final vote later in the week.

exception window.

Of the six regents schools, three exceeded 5 percent in the number of freshman students admitted as exceptions — Emporia State, 8.1 percent; Pittsburg State, 7.1 percent; and Fort Hays State, 6.8 percent. Kansas State was a 3.7 percent; Wichita State at 1.6 percent; and Kansas University had the lowest rate of admitting students under the exception at 0.4 percent.

But several legislators weren’t supportive of O’Neal’s proposal.

State Rep. Lana Gordon, R-Topeka, said remedial courses were necessary because sometimes students who were high achievers in most subjects may need some help in one subject, such as math.

She also said she was concerned that if the exception window was reduced, then only athletes would will be allowed through. “I have a problem with that,” she said.

Kansas Board of Regents President and Chief Executive Officer Andy Tompkins said the board was neutral on the bill.

Fort Hays State University President Ed Hammond said he supported keeping the exception window as it is.

He said FHSU interviews students to determine if they would be good students admitted through the exception window. He said if these students graduate college “isn’t that in Kansas’ best interest?”

— Statehouse reporter Scott Rothschild can be reached at 785-423-0668.

Jim Lewis, Kansas State’s director of international admissions and recruiting, said the Capstone partnership will give the university full-time representation in Vietnam.

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BRIEFLY KU Med Center receives $500K gift A retired Scottsdale, Ariz., physician has donated $500,000 to Kansas University Medical Center to establish an obstetrics/gynecology visiting professorship at the KU School of Medicine.

Misha Curtis graduated from Belgrade University School of Medicine in 1968 before completing a residency in obstetrics and gynecology at KUMC in 1979.

In a written statement, Curtis said the training she received at KU helped prepare her for her professional career.

“In return, I wanted to leave a legacy for my residency training program, which will be instrumental in further elevating the qualifications of newly graduated residents,” she said.

By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com

TOPEKA — House Republicans on Wednesday reversed field and voted against a measure providing $90 million in property tax relief, alleging they were tricked into voting for it.

And one House Republican, state Rep. Owen Donohoe of Shawnee, said he would bring a motion of censure against state Rep. Jim Ward, D-Wichita, whose property tax relief amendment was approved last week.

But Democrats scoffed at the Davis Republican allegations. House Minority Leader Paul Davis, D-Lawrence, asked “Why do Republicans have to be ‘tricked’ into supporting property tax cuts?”

Just Food director to discuss food insecurity Jeremy Farmer, executive director of Just Food, will be available today to discuss food insecurity in Douglas County.

He will be participating in an online chat at 2 p.m. on WellCommons.com. You can submit questions at any time at WellCommons.com/chats.

Make sure to log back on to WellCommons.com during or after the chat to see if your question was answered.

Just Food is the food bank for the county. In 2011, it distributed $676,503 worth of food, or about 880,000 meals, for free to 84,699 people, a 21 percent increase from a year earlier.

Farmer has spent 10 years working for churches, nonprofits and being an advocate for the marginalized. Before returning to his hometown of Lawrence, Farmer was director of community awareness at Project Hope Food Bank in Arkansas.

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2 counterfeiters, drug dealers get lengthy sentences

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ABBY BIEKER, 4, DAUGHTER OF CHRIS AND KATIE BIEKER, of Lawrence, carefully maneuvers across some new playground equipment Wednesday near Parnell Park at 15th and Maryland streets.

A federal judge has sentenced two Lawrence men to serve lengthy prison sentences for their role in making counterfeit money and trafficking drugs.

Donald Milton Steele, 52, was sentenced to a 25-year prison sentence, and Randy J. Dyke, 52, received a sentence to serve 19 years and six months, said Jim Cross, a spokesman for U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom. U.S. District Judge John Lungstrum handled the case.

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Small town hit hard by tornado Tuesday Sentencing CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3A

By John Hanna Associated Press

HARVEYVILLE — Authorities prepared a makeshift landfill Wednesday in Harveyville to handle the debris a day after a tornado damaged about 40 percent of the tiny eastern Kansas town, reducing homes and the community’s United Methodist Church to rubble.

Sharon Watson, a spokeswoman for the state adjutant general, said the storm, which hit just after 9 p.m. Tuesday, injured 14 people in the town of about 250. Eight victims were treated at the scene

by EMS personnel, and six were transported to hospitals in Topeka. By midday Wednesday, five had been released, and one remained in critical condition.

The tornado was an EF-2 with winds of 120 mph to 130 mph, state emergency management officials said. It was part of a powerful system that produced multiple reported tornadoes across the Midwest late Tuesday and early Wednesday, killing at least nine people.

Much of the town, which is southwest of Topeka, appeared to be heavily damaged, and Gov. Sam Brownback declared a state of emergency. He planned to tour the community today.

Numerous homes were reduced to rubble, many trees and power lines were down and gas service was out across the city.

Judy Price considered herself and her husband relatively lucky because their home of nearly 38 years sustained heavy damage but still was standing. Family, neighbors and friends boarded up blown-out windows and cleared away the remains of a destroyed garage and awning for a small porch.

Price, 60, said she and her husband, Clayton, were going to bed early when the storm hit. They rushed into the adjacent bathroom, and she took shelter in a bathtub as “all hell broke loose” for just a few seconds.

“It just happened so fast and was over so fast,” she said. “We’re assessing the damage in the house, and we’re thinking, “OK, we’ve got some windows blown out,’ and then I open front door to look out, and I say, ‘Our porch is gone.’”

Authorities discouraged volunteers from coming to help with the cleanup until today so they could prepare a field east of Main Street to hold the debris.

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DAMAGE IS SEEN EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING in the town of Harveyville, in Wabaunsee County, after an apparent tornado passed through the town Tuesday night. Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback declared a state of emergency late Tuesday after the storm hit Harveyville, part of a powerful storm system that pounded the state’s midsection.

DOUGLAS COUNTY HELPS WITH RELIEF Douglas County Emergency Management officials were helping coordinate assistance for Harveyville after a tornado damaged the Wabaunsee County town Tuesday night, said Teri Smith, emergency management director.

The Douglas County office serves as a coordinator for a northeast Kansas incident management team, and Smith said Wednesday morning she had deployed 12 people from area counties to help in Harveyville. As part of that group, no one from Douglas County had been sent there, but Sgt. Steve Lewis, a Douglas County Sheriff’s spokesman, said the department sent two officers to Harveyville Wednesday night. The sheriff’s office will send additional officers over the weekend, Lewis said.

Smith said her office received no significant damage reports from the storm system, which moved through part of Douglas County on Tuesday night.

The Harveyville United Methodist Church, which has been at the same site since 1885, was little more than a mound of debris and rubble Wednesday morning. Its organ, heaved by the storm, lay in a shattered heap across the street.

Pastor Dennis Irwin described his church as vibrant and said it has 111 members.

“We’ll rebuild,” he said.

“It’s too much part of the community not to rebuild.”

Irwin said the church basement acts a community storm shelter, but no

TAMMY WOODYARD, OF HARVEYVILLE, surveys the wreckage of her father’s home Wednesday morning in Harveyville. Her father was unhurt. Fourteen people in the Wabaunsee County town were reported injured in Tuesday night’s storm. one had time to get there.

The basement had only a few broken light fixtures.

He said the church added stained glass windows — now gone — to its worship space about 10 years ago.

“It was a beautiful white country church,” he said.

“The church is gone, but the congregation’s not.”

Grant Hill, 42, said the storm blew out a couple windows and damaged his porch. He said his family huddled in a back bedroom because the tornado came too quickly for them to take shelter in their basement, which is only accessible from the outside.

“You basically heard a continuous low rumble of thunder, then all of a sudden stuff started shaking and windows breaking and it felt like the house was going to explode,” he said.

Lawrence High School senior Leah Towle and Free State High School senior Sisira Srisutiva have been selected as candidates for the U.S. Presidential Scholar Program.

Established in 1964, the program recognizes some

of the most distinguished graduating high school students. Kansas has 45 candidates this year. Nicholas Henriquez, a Lawrence resident who attends Topeka High School, was also selected as a candidate.

In April, the program will

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ly a “gut and go,” mean- Democrat proposes an ing that it eliminated amendment to a bill.

House Speaker Mike the underlying bill.

R-Hutchinson, On Wednesday, Repub- O’Neal, licans met in caucus and said the incident should vented their frustration serve as a warning to all over the turn of events. legislators to know what House Majority Leader the bills are about. “ThursArlen Siegfreid, R-Olathe, day, it was a Democrat. It and Rep. Steve Brunk, R- could just as easily be a Wichita, and others apol- Republican,” O’Neal said.

After the caucus meetogized to the caucus for ing, Republicans renot knowing what turned to the House Ward’s amendment and voted to recondid. But they also accused Ward of sider the bill and not being forthright then voted against during debate. the bill. Republicans “We obviously LEGISLATURE said that a similar bill that includes the put our trust where we should never have put underlying bill and Ward’s amendment will be reconour trust,” said Siegfreid.

Rep. Virgil Peck, R-Tyro, structed and considered in said he felt like a running the House tax committee.

Meanwhile, Ward deback who missed a blitzing linebacker. “I’ve been dis- nied he tried to deceive gusted ever since,” he said. Republicans. And, he said, Rep. Brenda Landwehr, the Republican vote on R-Wichita, said Ward lied Wednesday essentially about his amendment, “took away $90 million in and Rep. Jana Goodman, property tax cuts.”

R-Leavenworth, said perhaps Republicans should — Statehouse reporter Scott Rothschild can be reached at 785-423-0668. vote ‘No’ whenever a

Ward said he didn’t trick anybody and described Donohoe as a “cranky, old man.”

The dispute centered on last Thursday’s vote when the House approved 122-2 a measure by Ward to cut property taxes by $90 million over two years.

Ward presented his proposal as an amendment during debate of House Bill 2212, which was supported by Republicans and would restrict property tax increases if overall property valuations increased.

During debate, Republican leaders, who control the House, told GOP members to vote for Ward’s amendment because it was the underlying bill they really wanted.

But later, Republicans discovered that Ward’s amendment was actual-

— Reporter George Diepenbrock can be reached at 832-7144. Follow him at Twitter.com/gdiepenbrock.

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a house east of Lawrence.

Both men were convicted last July of six counts total, including possession with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine.

During a trial, federal prosecutors accused Steele of developing a plan in 2009 to pay for a large shipment of marijuana with counterfeit money, and prosecutors said he and Dyke set up a house he owned in Topeka for the counterfeiting.

Steele provided stolen checkbooks, identification documents and credit cards. The checks were used to purchase equipment for the operations, and in February 2010 Dyke passed what he believed to be one of the counterfeit bills at Harper Corner Liquor, 2200 Harper St. Prosecutors said also that month Steele directed Dyke and another man to retrieve $10,000 in counterfeit money and more than 50 grams of methamphetamine that Steele and Dyke had conspired to have manufactured from the Topeka house.

On Feb. 17, 2010, authorities raided Steele’s residence, 1706 N. 1500 Road.

The property was also home to All Seasons Tree Service, a business Steele owned. After the raid, Steele’s family sold the property, which contained a house as well as dozens of old cars and trucks.

Robert D. Billinger, of Missouri, pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge last June, and Anthony Wayne Sims, also of Lawrence, pleaded guilty to the same conspiracy count last October. Kimberly M. Cline, of Lawrence, also pleaded guilty to fraud in June in connection with the case.

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Real estate up KU basketball player’s attorney suggests entrapment defense for grabs at county treasurer tax auction

By George Diepenbrock

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By Chad Lawhorn

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If we get enough to pay the taxes, great.

Bring your cash — and But if we don’t, we’ll maybe a map.

The Douglas County still sell it.” clawhorn@ljworld.com

Treasurer’s office will host a rare tax auction Tuesday, when nine pieces of real estate will be sold regardless of how low a bid may be.

“It may be an opportunity to pick up a bargain,” said Douglas County Treasurer Paula Gilchrist.

Or it may just be an opportunity to tell your spouse that for $1 you bought a wonderful piece of rural Douglas County property, which happens to be only 8 feet long and is in the middle of the Kansas River. (That actually happened once, Gilchrist said.)

Tuesday’s auction — set for 10 a.m. in the basement jury assembly room in the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center, 111 E. 11th St. — is a definite buyer beware event.

This year’s auction has nine pieces of property that will be sold regardless of price. The properties have been delinquent on their real estate taxes for more than three years, and Gilchrist’s office has contacted all banks and other known parties that may have a legal interest in the land to ensure they do not want to make any claim to the property.

“We’ll go out there and sell the property to the highest bidder,” Gilchrist said. “If we get enough to pay the taxes, great. But if we don’t, we’ll still sell it.”

Similar types of “sheriff sale” auctions are held each week at the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center. But those sales are different because they are usually foreclosure sales.

Normally the bank that is foreclosing on the property attends those auctions and will bid at least the amount that is still left on the mortgage. In a tax auction, any banks involved in the process normally have bowed out by this stage.

Typically, a tax auction attracts an ordinary group of residents who are looking to purchase the property for as cheap as they can.

“The price usually depends on how many people show up,” she said.

There are all types of property at a tax auction.

This year’s crop includes a thin stretch of ground between Heatherwood

— Douglas County Treasurer Paula Gilchrist Drive and a drainage ditch, likely too narrow of a lot to do anything with other than mow. Others, like a rural property south of North 600 Road and west of East 1550 Road, appear to be landlocked. And one Lecompton lot in the 200 block of Shannon Avenue is such an odd-shaped piece of property that it would make a geometry major blush. It also has the selling point of being right next to the railroad tracks and the Kansas River.

But beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and there are at least two properties that have houses on them, including a typical suburban ranch at 1212 E. 27th St. in Lawrence that is valued at $140,000.

The smart money is betting it will sell for far less than that.

“At the last auction, we sold a pretty nice home for a fairly small price,” Gilchrist said. “We definitely have had buyers who have walked away from here pretty happy.”

Gilchrist said her office holds a tax auction about every two years. The legal process for declaring a property eligible to be sold at a tax auction is significant, so Gilchrist waits until several properties are eligible before conducting a sale.

As far as details for this year’s sale go, many of the properties don’t have actual addresses but instead are listed by their legal descriptions. The list of properties can be found at the county’s website, douglas-county.com, under the Treasurer’s Department listing. The Web page includes a function that lets users pull up a satellite map showing the exact location of the property.

The sale is a cash affair.

Buyers must pay in cash or with a cashier’s check within two hours after the sale has ended.

How you tell your spouse is up to you.

— City reporter Chad Lawhorn can be reached at 832-6362. Follow him at Twitter.com/clawhorn_ljw.

Negotiations begin between Lawrence teachers, school board

By Christine Metz cmetz@ljworld.com

Jason Morris, works at Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence “Yeah, bugs creep me out.”

Diane Bricker, retired, Phoenix “They don’t scare me outright.”

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A boost in salaries, health insurance contributions and what teachers get paid to cover extracurricular duties are all on the line in the latest round of negotiations between teachers and Lawrence school district administrators.

On Wednesday, the first meeting was held between the two negotiating teams representing the school board and the Lawrence Education Association.

Specifically, the Lawrence Education Association is asking that the district increase the salaries that teachers start out with and the maximum salaries that experienced teachers can reach. The LEA also wants greater incentives for teachers who earn advanced degrees and attend in-service trainings.

“When we’re out and talking with teachers in the district, they always come back to money,” said David Reber, a biol-

ogy teacher at Free State High School and lead negotiator for the Lawrence Education Association.

Also on the table is a request for the board to bump up its contributions to health insurance, which Reber said is on the low end of what other surrounding districts contribute. And teachers want the board to re-examine which duties outside the school day, such as chaperoning school dances or taking tickets at events, are compensated and how teachers are notified of those jobs.

Wednesday’s meeting was just the start of what is expected to be months worth of negotiating.

Last year, the negotiations took five months and ended with a $1,250 raise for every licensed educator in the district. Of that amount, $1,000 was doled out in one lump sum in December, a holiday bonus of sorts. The remaining $250 was added to the annual base salary.

— Reporter Christine Metz can be reached at 832-6352.

An attorney for a Kansas University basketball player who is fighting a minor in possession of alcohol citation has mentioned an entrapment defense.

Ben McLemore, 19, faces a misdemeanor charge after he received a ticket Nov. 4 from a state Alc o h o l i c McLemore Beverage Control officer. The officer alleged McLemore was found with a Red Bull and vodka at Abe and Jake’s Landing, 8 E. Sixth St. Lawrence attorney Al Lopes filed the Feb. 17 motion asking District Judge Peggy Kittel to order prosecutors to disclose to the defense the identities of ABC officers and “decoys” and other information

about the alleged events or to dismiss the case.

“The identity of all ABC agents and decoys is material to his defense of entrapment,” Lopes wrote.

Lopes gave this version of events in the motion:

McLemore went to Abe and Jake’s that night but presented proper identification and wore a bracelet identifying him as underage and not eligible to purchase alcohol. He stayed away from the bar.

While he talked with friends, “an unknown” female approached and offered to buy a drink.

McLemore did not know her but accepted her offer.

She purchased it with her own money, and he never went to the bar with her.

When she returned she handed him the drink and left. He never saw her again.

McLemore then was about to dispose of the drink “because he wore the bracelet and knew he was not supposed to

drink,” but an ABC officer apprehended him.

“The only purpose of the ABC agents’ action was to catch a minor in possession just to institute a criminal prosecution,” Lopes wrote, adding the identity of the names of all ABC agents and their decoys will allow the defense to subpoena individuals as witnesses.

“We have responded to Mr. Lopes’ entire (earlier) discovery request from Jan. 13,” Douglas County District Attorney Charles Branson said. “We have no information in our records to suggest the facts of the event as recited by the motion are credible.”

McLemore, a freshman from St. Louis, is ineligible to play in games this season because the NCAA declared him a partial academic qualifier.

A hearing in the case is scheduled for Friday.

— Reporter George Diepenbrock can be reached at 832-7144. Follow him at Twitter.com/gdiepenbrock.

Ex-wife of former KU official seeks judgment WICHITA — The former wife of the highest-ranking official caught in a ticketscalping scandal at Kansas University has asked a federal judge to rule in her favor in the civil lawsuit filed by the government over assets.

A court filing Tuesday by Mary Jean Kirtland seeks a summary judgment, arguing she did not participate

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in the scheme or receive property deriving from it. Her ex-husband, Ben Kirtland Kirtland, was the associate athletic director in charge of development.

Her filing argues the gov-

ernment wants to enforce a criminal restitution judgment against an innocent spouse and to set aside the property settlement in her divorce.

The government’s lawsuit against the Kirtlands comes as prosecutors pursue assets from key athletics department officials who stole more than $2 million worth of football and basketball season tickets.

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LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORT • Kansas Highway Patrol troopers arrested six suspected drunken drivers Saturday night as part of a saturation patrol in the Lawrence and Douglas County area. Troopers also wrote 40 citations, 103 warnings and assisted 13 motorists, according to the KHP’s Facebook page. In total, troopers stopped 114 vehicles that night. The KHP uses Kansas Department of Transportation grant money to fund the extra patrols in the area and is trying to have a saturation patrol here once a month.

• Douglas County Sheriff’s officers apprehended a man with outstanding warrants who ran from them Wednesday afternoon near U.S. Highway 24-40 northeast of Lawrence.

Sgt. Steve Lewis, a sheriff’s spokesman, said managers around 3:30 p.m. at Paradise Saloon called officers about a suspicious person in the parking lot. The man ran from officers once they arrived, and they later apprehended him in a creek bed, Lewis said. Kansas Highway Patrol troopers also assisted.

• More than $1,000 worth of construction equipment was stolen from outside Spencer Research Library, according to a Kansas University police report. The theft occurred between 2 p.m. Saturday and 7:30 a.m.

Monday.

• A 26-year-old Lawrence man reported a laptop and iPad, valued at a total of $1,400, stolen in a burglary in the 800 block of Michigan

Street on Feb. 21, according to police reports.

• A 55-year-old Lawrence man reported $2,200 worth of weapons and other materials stolen in a burglary in the 2400 block of Arkansas Street on Feb. 23, according to police reports.

• A 25-year-old Lawrence man reported two cellphones and a coat, valued at a total of $1,049, stolen from the 1000 block of Massachusetts Street on Friday, according to police reports.

• A 21-year-old Lawrence man reported two Mac laptops, valued at a total of $2,200, stolen in a burglary in the 1000 block of Alabama Street on Saturday, according to police reports.

• A 22-year-old Lawrence woman reported $1,500 worth of jewelry stolen in a burglary in the 2100 block of Naismith Drive on Saturday, according to police reports.

• A 20-year-old Lawrence man reported a $1,700 moped stolen from the 2100 block of West 31st Street on Sunday, according to police reports.

INJURY ACCIDENT • A 30-year-old Lawrence woman was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital after she was struck on her bicycle by a pickup truck Wednesday afternoon at Fifth and Michigan streets, Lawrence police said.

Sgt. Trent McKinley, a patrol shift supervisor, said the injuries to the woman, Sara Germann, were not believed to be life threatening. At 4:14 p.m. while headed north on Michigan Street she had slowed down to allow a southbound vehicle to pass.

She then extended her arm to signal a left turn, but at the same time Randy Schimmel, 50, of Lawrence, the driver of a northbound 1983 Dodge Ram pickup truck attempted to pass her on the left.

As she turned, Germann then ran into the passengerside mirror and front fender of the truck. Germann was wearing a helmet and protective gloves.

McKinley said officers were expected to ticket Schimmel.

An LMH official said Germann had been treated and released as of Wednesday night.

HOSPITAL BIRTHS Bob and Megan Neu, Lawrence, a boy, Wednesday.

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By Foster Klug and Matthew Pennington Associated Press

WASHINGTON — North Korea raised hopes Wednesday for a major easing in nuclear tensions under its youthful new leader, agreeing to suspend uranium enrichment at a major facility and refrain from missile and nuclear tests in exchange for a mountain of critically needed U.S. food aid.

It was only a preliminary step but a necessary one to restart broader sixnation negotiations that would lay down terms for what the North could get in return for abandoning its nuclear weapons

program.

Pyongyang pulled out of those talks in 2009 and seemingly has viewed the nuclear Clinton program as key to the survival of its dynastic, communist regime, now entering its third generation.

The announcement, just more than two months after the death of longtime ruler Kim Jong Il, opened a door for the secretive government under his untested youngest son, Kim Jong Un, to improve ties with the United States and win critically needed aid and international acceptance.

It also opened the way for international inspections for the North’s nuclear program, which has gone unmonitored for years.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the agreement, announced at separate but simultaneous statements by the longtime adversaries, was a modest step but also “a reminder that the world is transforming around us.”

“We, of course, will be watching closely and judging North Korea’s new leaders by their actions,” Clinton told a congressional hearing.

The U.S. has accused North Korea of reneging on past nuclear commitments. An accord under the six-party talks collapsed in 2008 when Pyongyang refused to abide by verification that U.S. diplomats claimed had been agreed upon.

The North Korean Foreign Ministry’s statement, issued by the state-run news agency, said the North had agreed to the

nuclear moratoriums and U.N. inspectors “with a view to maintaining positive atmosphere” for the U.S.-North Korea talks.

North Korea faces tough U.N. sanctions that were tightened in 2009 when it conducted its second nuclear test and fired a longrange rocket. In late 2010, it unveiled a uranium enrichment facility that could give North Korea a second route to manufacture nuclear weapons in addition to its existing plutoniumbased program.

In the meantime, its people have continued to go hungry. The North suffered a famine in the 1990s that killed hundreds of thousands of people, and chronic food shortages persist. U.S. charities reported after a trip to North Korea late last year that children were suffering “slow starvation.”

Egypt lifts travel ban on U.S. workers

By Hamza Hendawi Associated Press

CAIRO — Egypt lifted a travel ban Wednesday on seven Americans charged with fomenting unrest by working for illegally funded pro-democracy groups, signaling an end to the worst crisis in Egypt-U.S. relations in 30 years.

The clash put $1.5 billion in annual American aid to Egypt at risk and sparked intense behind-the-scenes negotiations between the two countries to find a way out.

Defense lawyer Tharwat Abdel-Shaheed said the seven Americans, including the son of U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, could only leave the country if they post bail of 2 million Egyptian pounds (about $300,000). They have also signed pledges to attend their next hearing.

Study: Old flu drug speeds brain injury recovery

By Stephanie Nano Associated Press

NEW YORK — Researchers are reporting the first treatment to speed recovery from severe brain injuries caused by falls and car crashes: a cheap flu medicine whose side benefits were discovered by accident decades ago.

Severely injured patients who were given amantadine got better faster than those who received a dummy medicine. After four weeks, more people in the flu drug group could give reliable yes-and-no answers, follow commands or use a spoon or hairbrush — things that few of them could do at the start. Far fewer patients who got amantadine remained in a vegetative state, 17 percent versus 32 percent.

“This drug moved the needle in terms of speeding patient recovery, and that’s not been shown before,” said neuropsychologist Joseph Giacino of Boston’s Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, co-leader of the study. He added: “It really does provide hope for a population that is viewed in many places as hopeless.”

Many doctors began using amantadine for brain injuries years ago, but until now there’s never been a big study to show that it works. The results of the federally funded study appear in today’s New England Journal of Medicine.

Each year, an estimated 1.7 million Americans suffer a traumatic brain injury. Falls, car crashes, colliding with or getting hit by an object, and assaults are the leading causes.

“The ban was lifted on humanitarian grounds, but the bail is way too high,” Abdel-Shaheed, who represents some of the American defendants, told The Associated Press.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the United States was encouraged by reports the ban was lifted but added she had no confirmation.

Egyptian officials said the travel ban was lifted by the country’s top prosecutor at the recommendation of the case’s investigating judge. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case.

It was not immediately clear whether the charges against the Americans would be dropped.

But even before the ban was lifted, there were signs the case was dissolving under intense U.S. pressure.

The trial of more than 40 U.S. and foreign aid workers opened on Sunday and was adjourned until late April. The court’s three judges excused themselves from the case on Tuesday, citing “uneasiness.”

Only the Egyptian defendants attended Sunday’s hearing, and the judge gave no instructions to police to ensure the American and other foreign defendants attend the next hearing.

The workers were charged following a December raid by Egyptian security of offices of 10 nonprofit pro-democracy and human rights groups, confiscating documents and equipment.

The groups were accused of financing protests over the past year with illegally obtained funds and failing to register with the government as required.

The groups insist their financing is transparent, and all their efforts to register have been stalled by the Egyptian government.

The seven Americans who were banned from leaving are among 16 Americans on trial in the case. The other Americans had already left the country before charges were filed against them.

Twenty-seven others are on trial, including 16 Egyptians as well as German, Palestinian, Serbian and Jordanian citizens.

The travel ban on the non-American foreigners in the case has also been lifted if bail is posted.

The defendants faced charges of using illegally obtained funds to incite protests against the military rulers. They worked for a variety of democracypromoting organizations, including four U.S. groups.

BUSINESS AT A GLANCE

Notable Apple’s market capitalization topped $500 billion Wednesday, climbing to a mountain peak where few companies have ventured — and none have stayed for long.

Apple was already the world’s most valuable company. The gap between it and No. 2 Exxon Mobil Corp. has widened rapidly in the past month, as investors have digested Apple’s report of blow-out holiday-season sales of iPhones and iPads.

And, more recently, Apple has raised investors’ hopes that it might institute a dividend.

Wednesday’s markets Dow Industrials

—53.05, 12,952.07 Nasdaq

—19.87, 2,966.89 S&P 500

—6.50, 1,365.68

30-Year Treasury

+0.03, 3.09%

Corn (Chicago)

+0.75 cent, $6.58

Soybeans (Chicago)

+7.5 cents, $13.20

Wheat (Kansas City)

—0.5 cent, $7.99 Oil (New York)

—52 cents, $107.07 Gold

—$77, $1,711.30 Silver

—$2.56, $34.64 Platinum

—$30.90, $1,692.60 DILBERT

Will higher gas prices derail the economy?

By Christopher S. Rugaber and Matthew Craft Associated Press

NEW YORK — The price of gas has jumped 45 cents since Jan. 1 and is the highest on record for this time of year, an average of $3.73 a gallon.

On Wall Street, talk has turned from the European debt crisis to another worry: Will higher gas prices derail the economic recovery?

Not yet, economists say.

They argue that the United States is in much better shape than early last year, when a similar surge in fuel prices weighed on economic growth by squeezing household budgets. Americans spent less on clothes, food and everything else.

Rising gas prices hurt less when an economy is improving than when it’s slowing down. So economists expect other spending won’t be badly hurt, at least for now. If gas breaks its record of $4.11 a gallon, however, all bets are off.

“Can the economy withstand the increase we’ve seen so far? The answer is yes,” says David Kelly, chief market strategist at J.P. Morgan Funds.

The reasons:

Jobs. The country has added 2 million over the past year. Those 2 million people with paychecks

will spend them, which helps the economy. Lower unemployment also makes people feel better about the economy — and less likely to cut other spending way back.

Job security. Unemployment claims, the best measure of layoffs, are at a four-year low. Fewer Americans are worrying about losing their job, so they can take the punch of higher gas prices and move on.

A steadier housing market, the Dow Jones industrial average’s clearing 13,000 and other signs of an improving economy also help. Add them together and consumer confidence is the highest in a year. More confidence makes people more likely to keep spending on other things even if gas goes up.

“The public will howl as we approach $4 gas, but they will probably continue to increase spending,” says Carl Riccadonna, a senior economist at Deutsche Bank.

Gas wasn’t the only thing getting more expensive last year. Prices for milk, meat, bread and other foods were rising because of higher prices for grains and other farm goods. Natural gas prices were also on the rise, making it more expensive for Americans to heat their homes.

Davy Jones dies

By Matt Sedensky Associated Press

WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. — Davy Jones, the diminutive heartthrob who rocketed to the top of the 1960s music charts by beckoning millions of adoring fans with the catchy refrains of The Monkees, died Wednesday. He was 66.

His publicist, Helen Kensick, confirmed that Jones died of a heart attack near his home in Indiantown. Jones complained of breathing troubles early in the morning and was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead, said Rhonda Irons, spokeswoman of the Martin County Sheriff’s Office.

In a 911 call released Wednesday night, an unidentified woman anxiously pleads “Ambulance, please, hurry!” His home was about 27 miles from the hospital, and a fire rescue unit rushed him to the hospital.

Jones’ moppish long hair, boyish good looks and his British accent endeared him to legions of screaming young fans after “The Monkees” premiered on NBC in 1966 as a made-for-TV band seeking to capitalize on Beatlemania sweeping the world.

Aspirations of Beatleslike fame were never fully achieved, with the TV show lasting just two years. But The Monkees made rock ‘n’ roll history as the band garnered a wide American following with love-struck hits such as “Daydream Believer” and “I’m a Believer” that endure to this day.

Born in Manchester, England, on Dec. 30, 1945, Jones became a child star in his native England who appeared on television and stage, including a heralded role as “The Artful Dodger” in the play “Oliver.”

He earned a Tony nomination at 16 when he reprised that role in the show’s Broadway

AP File Photo

IN THIS JULY 6, 1967, file photo, Davy Jones of The Monkees singing group is shown at press conference at Warwick Hotel in New York City. Jones died Wednesday in Florida. He was 66. production, a success that brought him to the attention of Columbia Pictures/Screen Gems Television, which created The Monkees. Hundreds turned out for auditions, but the young men who became the Monkees had no idea what ultimately awaited them.

“They had an ad in the newspaper,” Jones recalled on NBC’s “Today Show” last year, “and then we all showed up.”

“The Monkees” was a band clearly patterned on the Beatles film “A Hard Day’s Night,” chronicling the comic trials and tribulations of a rock group whose four members lived together and traveled to gigs in a tricked-out car called the Monkeemobile.

Mike Nesmith, Peter Tork and Micky Dolenz starred with him. Each part was loosely created to resemble one of the Beatles.

At 5-feet-3 inches, Jones was by far the shortest member of the group — a fact often made light of on the show. But he also was its dreamboat, mirroring Paul McCartney’s role in the Beatles. And as the only Briton among the four, Jones was in some ways the Monkees’ direct connection to the Beatlemania still strong in the U.S. when the TV show made its debut.

BRIEFLY Lady Gaga launches youth foundation

Images on cigarette packs blocked

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — Lady Gaga has launched a youth foundation by urging young people to “challenge meanness and cruelty.”

The singer spoke Wednesday to a crowd of more than 1,100 students, faculty and invited guests at Harvard University.

Oprah Winfrey, U.S. Health and Human Service Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and others joined her in kicking off the Born This Way Foundation. It’s named after her 2011 hit song with lyrics that promote self empowerment.

The singer says the foundation’s goal is to empower youth and inspire bravery.

She urges students to do “simple acts of kindness” in their communities to help foster acceptance, tolerance and individuality.

RICHMOND, VA. — A judge on Wednesday blocked a federal requirement that would have begun forcing U.S. tobacco companies to put large graphic images on their cigarette packages later this year to show the dangers of smoking and encouraging smokers to quit lighting up.

U.S. District Judge Richard Leon in Washington ruled that the federal mandate to put the images, which include a sewn-up corpse of a smoker and a picture of diseased lungs, on cigarette packs violates the free speech amendment to the Constitution.

He had temporarily blocked the requirement in November, saying it was likely cigarette makers will succeed in a lawsuit, which could take years to resolve.

7th Annual Lawrence Area Partners in Aging

RESOURCE FAIR FOR SENIORS Thursday, March 8, 2012 from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Hy-Vee, 3504 Clinton Parkway

by Scott Adams · FREE! No cost to attend! · Freebies, handouts, brochures. Over 30 door prizes will be given away, including two $100 gift cards to Hy-Vee and $10 Hy-Vee gift cards for the first 50 people at the fair. · Screenings, blood pressure checks, oxygen level checks, chair massages · And much more!

Come by anytime between 10:00 and 1:00 to visit the booths and displays from local businesses and organizations that serve seniors in Douglas County.

This is the seventh annual event that seniors and their caregivers will be talking about all year. Don’t miss it!

For more information, call 785-838-8000 and ask for Kristen Metcalf-Osterhaus or email partnersinaging@yahoo.com

OPINION

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Tuition clock Four-year tuition compacts work fine for Kansas University students who complete degrees in four years but not so well for the 64 percent who do not.

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ome recently reported figures on student retention at Kansas University again raise questions about exactly who reaps the greatest benefit from KU’s four-year tuition compacts.

In his Heard on the Hill column on LJWorld.com, Journal-World reporter Andy Hyland notes that, according to U.S. News and World Reports, a number of other colleges have started offering tuition compacts similar to the one initiated at KU in 2007. KU’s program takes four years of tuition, including predicted increases, divides that number by four to determine the average and then pledges to charge incoming freshmen that average tuition each year for the next four years. The guarantee means that the students will be paying a higher tuition rate than other students in their freshman year, but probably less than standard tuition by their senior year.

It’s been a popular program with parents because they know what they’ll be paying.

Indeed, for freshmen who complete a degree in the allotted four years, the tuition pact probably is a good deal. Unfortunately, life often doesn’t work that way.

Hyland noted that by the end of 200708 school year, 21 percent of the freshmen had dropped out. Because they, like all freshmen, were required to participate in the tuition compact, they overpaid for their freshman year and won’t be eligible to re-enter the compact program if they return to KU. The same is true for any student who drops out during the four-year compact period. By paying the average compact tuition, they frontload the costs of their education.

There is no provision for any refunds if students drop out; the university just keeps that overpayment.

Only about 36 percent of the freshmen who entered KU in 2007 completed degrees in four years. Another 30 percent who returned for a fifth year also arguably got their money’s worth out of the compact although they faced a 20 percent tuition increase when they returned to school. KU officials had hoped the tuition compacts would be a strong incentive to finish a degree in four years, but for those 30 percent, it apparently didn’t provide enough motivation.

KU always has presented the tuition impact as a budgeting tool, not a cost-cutting measure. Maybe families of KU students are willing to pay more at the front end — and risk losing tuition money — for the security that the tuition compacts provide, but it seems unfair to require all freshmen to enter into the four-year compacts whether they want to or not.

In the continuing drive to control the costs of higher education, KU and other colleges and universities across the country are likely to try a variety of tuition schemes. Compact tuition has been a popular program at KU, but some of that enthusiasm may be wearing off as too many students fail to complete degrees before the four-year clock runs out.

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Super PAC hysteria not justified “Super PAC donors acting as kingmakers in presidential contest” — The Washington Post, Feb. 22, 2012 WASHINGTON — When Communists and sympathizers made excuses for Stalin’s terror, they said, “You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.” To which George Orwell responded, “Where’s the omelet?”

The Post, dismayed about super PACs, reports “a rarefied group of millionaires and billionaires acting as kingmakers in the GOP contest, often helping to decide, with a simple transfer of money, which candidate might survive another day.”

Kingmakers? Where’s the king?

If kingmaking refers to, say, Sheldon Adelson, the Las Vegas casino owner, keeping Newt Gingrich’s candidacy afloat with large infusions to the super PAC supporting Gingrich, then kingmaking isn’t what it used to be. Notice that the fellow with the most muscular super PAC, Mitt Romney, has failed to vanquish a singularly weak set of rivals. Might the power of political dollars be finite, and utility of the last dollar be less than that of the first?

Who knew?

Every melodrama requires a villain, and the people currently hysterical about super PAC money in politics blame the 2010 Citizens United decision, wherein the Supreme Court held that corporations and unions can spend unlimited amounts on political advocacy as long as they do not coordinate with candidates

George Will

georgewill@washpost.com

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Actually, Citizens United has nothing to do with Adelson and others who are spending their own money, not any corporation’s.” or campaigns. The court’s unremarkable logic was that individuals do not forfeit their First Amendment speech rights when they come together in corporate entities or unions to speak collectively. What is the constitutional basis for saying otherwise?

This decision’s practical effect is primarily in empowering unions and incorporated nonprofit advocacy groups such as the Sierra Club and the National Rifle Association. But The New York Times, which cannot have read it, says (Jan. 10) Adelson’s spending “underscores” how Citizens United “has made it possible for a wealthy individual to influence an election.” Many columnists and commentators embrace this solecism.

Actually, Citizens United has nothing to do with Adelson and others who are spending their own money, not any corporation’s. People

have done this throughout the nation’s life, and doing so was affirmed as a constitutional right in the court’s 1976 Buckley v. Valeo decision.

Critics of super PACs — critics who were remarkably reticent in 2004 when George Soros was lavishing his own money on liberal advocacy — often refer to them as “outside groups,” much as Southern sheriffs used to denounce civil rights workers as “outside agitators.” Pray tell: Super PACs are outside of what? Is the political process a private club with the parties and candidates controlling membership?

It might be more wholesome for the speech-financing money that is flowing to super PACs to go instead to the parties and candidates’ campaigns. But the very liberals who are horrified by super PACs (other than Barack Obama’s) have celebrated the laws that place unreasonable restrictions on such giving.

All this was predicted 11 years ago by Washington’s pre-eminent campaign lawyer, Cleta Mitchell, in a report (available online at www.conservative.org) with a section titled, “OK, Fine, Let George Soros Replace the DNC” (Democratic National Committee). Writing before the McCain-Feingold speech restrictions were passed, Mitchell presciently said: Pass them and money will still fund political advocacy. It will, however, flow into special committees that, forbidden to coordinate with candidates, will spend money for speech for which

candidates cannot be held accountable.

The threshold choice is this. Americans can keep the system they currently have — campaigns financed by voluntary contributions of after-tax dollars from individuals eager to participate in politics by funding the dissemination of political advocacy they favor. Or they can choose government funding of politics. The latter is what many critics of Citizens United want, although they are as sly about their real aim as they are confused about Citizens United.

The one certainty about campaign finance laws is that all of them are, and ever will be, written by incumbent legislators. Were Congress to write laws establishing government financing of campaigns, Congress would be uncharacteristically parsimonious, setting the government funding low enough to handicap challengers to well-known and entrenched incumbents.

Happily, such laws will never be written because voters, those puzzling nuisances, do not want a new entitlement program — welfare for politicians. We know this because every year Americans have a chance to check a box on their tax returns to give $3 — without increasing their tax liability — to fund presidential campaigns.

More than 90 percent refuse to do so.

Perhaps they object to funding candidates they oppose. Who knew?

— George Will is a columnist for Washington Post Writers Group.

OLD HOME TOWN

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From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for March 1, 1912: YEARS “February was AGO just an ordinary IN 1912 winter month. The regular monthly report [was] made today by F. W. Bruckmiller of the ‘weather department’ of the University.

The only record that February broke, if it may be called a record, is that there were no earthquakes recorded during the past twenty-nine days.

Since the seismograph has been installed on Oread it has been ‘quite the thing’ for every month to have its earthquake.”

— Compiled by Sarah St. John

Read more Old Home Town at LJWorld.com/news/lawrence/history/old_home_ town.

GOP worldview misdirects the fear Bob Morris is scared of Girl Scouts.

If you are waiting for the punch line, sorry, but there isn’t one. Morris, an Indiana state legislator, recently attacked the Scouts in a letter to his colleagues urging them to vote down a nonbinding resolution honoring the group on its centennial.

There has never been a safer, more plain vanilla measure in the history of American politics, but Morris felt the need to warn fellow legislators of the organization’s corrupting influence. The Girl Scouts, he wrote, is the “tactical arm” of Planned Parenthood. He called it a “radicalized” group with a homosexual agenda that promotes abortion while seeking “the destruction of traditional American values.”

That’s a lot to lay on little girls whose mission in life seems to be the selling of Thin Mints outside the supermarket. But Morris has what he considers sound reasons for believing them a threat. He says he did “a small amount” of online research that revealed to him the true nature of these terroristic cookie pimps.

And as everyone knows, if you read it on the web, it has to be true, right?

Sigh.

Leonard Pitts Jr.

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lpitts@miamiherald.com

You could look to almost any of the GOP’s recent presidential aspirants as proof, or you could just use Rick Santorum as onestop shopping. He is the state of the art.”

Thus does social conservatism skid through the last barriers of basic intellect, simple decency and common sense, hurtling breakneck off the deep end. Next stop: utter incoherence.

There is, in a sense, nothing new here. Fear has long been the sine qua non of social conservatism, the fundament of an “us against them” ethos that simultaneously binds social conservatives together in common cause and separates them from the rest of the world. Like the mental patient who is emperor of a self-created universe

invisible to sane people, they believe themselves the guardians and defenders of a moral North Star from which the rest of the world has deviated — and to which they are determined to return us.

It might be easy enough to write Morris off as a Podunk legislator of no concern to anyone outside his district.

But such sanguinity requires the belief that he is an anomaly. He is not. To the contrary, this brand of fraidy-cat politics where “they” are ever out to get you and the sky is forever falling, has become a staple of the Republican Party.

You could look to almost any of the GOP’s recent presidential aspirants as proof, or you could just use Rick Santorum as one-stop shopping.

He is the state of the art.

In years past, he called birth control “harmful” and questioned whether it works — something that has been regarded as settled science for decades. Just days ago, he bashed college education a scheme of “indoctrination” and attacked 49-years-dead John F. Kennedy for a 1960 speech generally regarded as a landmark statement against religious bigotry. Somehow, in Santorum’s fevered mind, it became a statement in support of what it opposed.

But then, social conser-

vatism is where logic fears to tread. It is a worldview driven by fear of the world beyond its racial, gender, religious, cultural and intellectual borders. Historically, it always has been.

Fear the Japs, they said.

They are collaborating with our enemies.

Fear the Commies, they said. They are hiding behind every bush.

Fear the gays, they say.

They want to recruit our children to their lifestyle.

And now? Fear the Girl Scouts. They are trying to conquer America one cookie at a time.

And you have to wonder: How narrow must a man’s worldview be, how paranoid his outlook, what a bunker his very life, when he is scared of Girl Scouts?

Some of us have argued that social conservatives use fear as a tactic. And there’s likely some truth to that. But one senses little of tactical planning in Morris’ missive.

No, the fact is, he believes what he says. Many of them do.

If you want to be scared of something, be scared of that.

— Leonard Pitts Jr. is a columnist for the Miami Herald. He chats with readers from noon to 1 p.m. CST each Wednesday on www.MiamiHerald.com.

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MONDAY

SUNDAY

1 TODAY

Mostly sunny, breezy and warmer

Cooler with a couple of showers

Sunny to partly cloudy and windy

Mostly sunny and breezy

Sunny, breezy and warmer

High 68° Low 35° POP: 5%

High 52° Low 26° POP: 60%

High 53° Low 28° POP: 0%

High 52° Low 28° POP: 0%

High 63° Low 42° POP: 5%

Wind SSE 10-20 mph

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McCook 54/24

Kearney 52/25

Oberlin 56/26

Clarinda 58/32

Lincoln 56/27

Grand Island 54/27

Beatrice 59/31

Concordia 60/31

Centerville 56/34

St. Joseph 67/37 Chillicothe 62/38

Sabetha 62/34

Kansas City Marshall Manhattan 68/41 67/43 Goodland Salina 67/32 Oakley Kansas City Topeka 56/23 66/31 56/27 69/35 Lawrence 66/40 Sedalia 68/35 Emporia Great Bend 67/45 68/33 64/29 Nevada Dodge City Chanute 72/46 66/27 Hutchinson 73/43 Garden City 68/31 64/27 Springfield Wichita Pratt Liberal Coffeyville Joplin 72/51 68/34 70/31 67/27 74/52 76/44 Hays Russell 60/26 64/29

Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.

Through 8 p.m. Wednesday.

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58°/43° 49°/26° 79° in 1992 -1° in 1962

Precipitation in inches 24 hours through 8 p.m. yest.

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Today Fri. 6:53 a.m. 6:52 a.m.

6:14 p.m. 6:15 p.m.

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NATIONAL FORECAST Seattle 43/34 Billings 38/17

San Francisco 56/42

Denver 44/17

Minneapolis 38/28 Chicago 47/34

Washington 70/43

Kansas City 66/40

Los Angeles 62/46

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INTERNATIONAL CITIES Cities Acapulco Amsterdam Athens Baghdad Bangkok Beijing Berlin Brussels Buenos Aires Cairo Calgary Dublin Geneva Hong Kong Jerusalem Kabul London Madrid Mexico City Montreal Moscow New Delhi Oslo Paris Rio de Janeiro Rome Seoul Singapore Stockholm Sydney Tokyo Toronto Vancouver Vienna Warsaw Winnipeg

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Fri. Lo W 70 s 38 c 44 s 39 sh 78 pc 28 pc 30 pc 44 r 64 s 47 c 19 c 43 pc 42 s 70 sh 34 r 31 sh 43 pc 43 pc 50 s 32 sf 9c 54 pc 24 s 41 c 74 s 46 s 36 c 77 t 28 s 66 r 41 r 32 pc 41 sh 38 pc 27 r 6 sn

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-10s -0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s National Summary: Snow will continue to fall over part of New England today with rain showers farther south. A new storm will spread areas of snow through the Rockies. Rain showers are in store for the West Coast.

Today Fri. Today Fri. Cities Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Cities Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Memphis 74 64 s 78 46 t Albuquerque 62 31 pc 47 24 s 84 71 s 82 73 s Anchorage 28 21 sn 32 17 sn Miami Milwaukee 42 32 pc 45 29 r Atlanta 74 60 pc 74 60 t 38 28 c 38 20 sn Austin 78 61 pc 78 46 pc Minneapolis 70 53 s 77 47 t Baltimore 66 36 pc 59 40 pc Nashville New Orleans 78 65 c 79 67 t Birmingham 76 64 pc 79 57 t New York 47 36 c 47 44 c Boise 42 23 sn 42 28 c 54 29 pc 44 23 sn Boston 36 24 sn 36 34 pc Omaha 85 62 pc 86 63 s Buffalo 42 33 sn 49 41 pc Orlando 59 39 pc 54 45 pc Cheyenne 42 17 pc 34 16 sf Philadelphia Phoenix 71 48 s 72 48 s Chicago 47 34 pc 51 28 r Pittsburgh 49 34 pc 61 47 pc Cincinnati 56 39 s 70 41 r Portland, ME 31 15 sn 34 31 pc Cleveland 46 34 pc 59 41 r Dallas 82 60 pc 76 46 pc Portland, OR 45 34 sn 48 39 sh 44 20 sf 42 24 s Denver 44 17 pc 42 17 pc Reno 76 42 pc 63 54 r Des Moines 50 32 pc 42 24 sn Richmond Sacramento 54 37 pc 58 33 s Detroit 45 31 pc 54 37 r St. Louis 64 49 s 65 32 sh El Paso 71 51 s 67 37 s Salt Lake City 38 23 sn 36 27 sf Fairbanks 0 -15 c 5 -14 c San Diego 60 51 pc 65 48 s Honolulu 81 69 c 82 69 c San Francisco 56 42 sh 58 40 s Houston 82 67 c 80 55 t Seattle 43 34 sn 49 40 sh Indianapolis 54 41 pc 69 36 r 37 22 sf 38 30 c Kansas City 66 40 s 50 27 sh Spokane Tucson 72 44 s 70 44 s Las Vegas 62 46 pc 62 43 s Tulsa 78 51 s 67 34 pc Little Rock 76 59 s 77 42 r Wash., DC 70 43 pc 57 50 pc Los Angeles 62 46 pc 70 49 s National extremes yesterday for the 48 contiguous states High: McAllen, TX 91° Low: Clayton Lake, ME -14°

WEATHER HISTORY On March 1, 1983, the temperature dropped to 59 in Honolulu while heavy rain hit California.

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If today’s weather roared, what will happen?

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LUTHER FULLER, LEFT, AND OMAR ROTH each earned second-place trophies in their respective sixth- and fifth-grade groups at the Kansas Music Teachers Association Honors Audition at Emporia State University held Nov. 5 and 6, 2011. Luther, a student at Liberty Memorial Central Middle School, is the son of Robert Fuller and Brendy Latare, and Omar, a student in Maize Virtual Preparatory School, is the son of Bill and Peggy Roth. Pictured with them is their piano teacher, Jean Drumm, of Lawrence. Bill and Peggy Roth submitted the photo.

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Red Dog’s Dog Days winter workout, 6 a.m., Allen Fieldhouse, enter through the south doors and meet on the southeast corner of the second floor.

Theology on Tap, discussion of a selected religion topic, 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., Henry’s, 11 E. Eighth St. Baker University Community Choir Rehearsal, 6-7:50 p.m., McKibben Recital Hall (Owens Musical Arts Building), 408 Eighth St., Baldwin City.

Free English as a Second Language class, 7-8 p.m., Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vt. Affordable community Spanish class, 7-8 p.m., Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vt. Junkyard Jazz Band, 7 p.m., American Legion, 3408 W. Sixth St. Trivia Night, 8 p.m. The Burger Stand, 803 Mass.

Poker Night, 8 p.m., Applebee’s, 2520 Iowa.

Team trivia, 9 p.m., Johnny’s West, 721 Wakarusa Drive.

TODAY’S BEST BETS KDOT open house for the U.S. Highway 40/West Sixth Street and K-10 interchange, 6-7:30 p.m., Langston Hughes School, 1101 George Williams Way. Rock Chalk Revue, 7 p.m., Lied Center, 1600 Stewart Drive.

“Becky’s New Car,” 7:30 p.m., Theatre Lawrence, 1501 N.H.

p.m., Johnny’s Tavern, 410 N. Second St. Smackdown! trivia, 8 p.m., The Bottleneck, 737 N.H. Acoustic Open Mic Night, free entry, sign-up at 9 p.m., The Casbah, 803 Mass.

5 MONDAY

“A Repertoire of Authenticity: Tourism, Gentrification and the Transformation of the French Quarter,” 7:30 p.m., Spooner Hall, The Commons, 1340 Jayhawk Blvd.

Tortoise and the Hare,” Lecompton City 11 a.m., Lawrence Arts Council meeting, 7 p.m., Center, 940 N.H. Lecompton City Hall, 327 Little Nations AcademElmore St. ic Center silent auction, Baldwin City Council and chili dog and bake meeting, 7:30 p.m., City sale, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., StidHall, 803 S. Eighth St. ham Union, Haskell Indian Fracking: An EnvironNations University Cammental Debate, 7:30 p.m., pus, 155 Indian Ave. Dole Institute of Politics, Music Clubhouse Bake 2350 Petefish Drive.

Sale, 1-4 p.m., in front of Dollar Bowling, 9:30 US Bank, Ninth and Masp.m., Royal Crest Lanes, sachusetts streets 933 Iowa.

Ragtime Piano Rehearsal / Jam Session, 2-4 p.m., Watkins Community Museum of History, 1047 Mass.

Great Books DiscusWatkins CommuLawrence St. Patrick’s sion: “The Social Connity Museum of History Day Parade Committee tract” by Rousseau, 2 exhibit: “It Happened on T-shirt Pub Crawl, 6-10 p.m., Lawrence Public Mass Street: 150 Years p.m., Conroy’s Pub, 3115 Library, 707 Vt. in Lawrence,” featurW. Sixth St. The First Saturday ing historic photographs Ecumenical Lenten Players Present: “The and objects illustrating Taize Service, 6 p.m., Tortoise and the Hare,” the growth of downtown First United Methodist 2 p.m., Lawrence Arts Lawrence, through end Church, 946 Vt. Center, 940 N.H. of April; “Knowledge Opening of Baldwin ElAmericana Music Grows: Student Exementary School student Academy Saturday Jam, periences in the Smart exhibit, 6-8 p.m., Lumber- 3 p.m., Americana Music Choices Garden,” yard Arts Center, 718 High Academy, 1419 Mass. through end of June, St., Baldwin City.

Rock Chalk Revue, 5 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday Rock Chalk Revue, 7 p.m., Lied Center, 1600 through Saturday, 1047 p.m., Lied Center, 1600 Stewart Drive.

Mass.

Stewart Drive.

Jazz Festival, 7:30 Freedom’s Frontier KU’s Dancing with p.m., Lawrence High exhibit, Wednesdaythe Stars, 7 p.m., Kansas School, 1901 La. Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Union, 1301 Jayhawk Bishop Seabury Sunday, 1-4 p.m., CarnBlvd.

Academy Upper School egie Building, 200 W. Word of Mouth, 7 p.m., Musical Production, Ninth St. The Oread, 1200 Oread “Godspell,” 7:30 p.m., Lawrence Arts Center Ave. St Margaret’s Episcopal exhibits: “Hay Wire”: Visiting Artist Series: Church, 5700 W. Sixth St. Hong Chun Zhang Solo Carole Terry, organ, 7:30 “Becky’s New Car,” Exhibition, through March p.m., Bales Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m., Theatre Law8; “The Articulate Body,” 1600 Stewart Drive. rence, 1501 N.H. Jennifer Crupi Solo ExhibiBishop Seabury Punch Brothers, 9 tion, through March 8; “DiAcademy Upper School p.m., Liberty Hall, 644 rected Visions: KU MFA Musical Production, Mass. student work,” through “Godspell,” 7:30 p.m., March 14; 9 a.m.-9 p.m.

St Margaret’s Episcopal Monday-Saturday, 9 a.m.Church, 5700 W. Sixth St. 5 p.m. Sunday, 940 N.H. Jazz Festival, 7:30 Kansas Union Gallery: Lawrence St. Patrick’s p.m., Lawrence High works by Alex Moore, Day Parade CommitSchool, 1901 La. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday tee Irish Road Bowling, “Becky’s New Car,” through Friday, through noon, Clinton Lake.

7:30 p.m., Theatre LawBishop Seabury Acad- March 8, 1301 Jayhawk rence, 1501 N.H. Blvd. emy Community Open Free Community Yoga Lawrence Public House/Campus Tours, Class, 7:30-8:45 p.m., Library storytimes for 2-4 p.m., 4120 Clinton Breathe Holistic Life CenMarch: Every Child Ready Parkway. ter, 1407 Mass. to Read Playtime, 10 “Becky’s New Car,” Music by Pat Nichols, a.m. Thursdays; Toddler 2:30 p.m., Theatre Law8 p.m., Dynamite Saloon, storytime, 9:30 a.m. and rence, 1501 N.H. 721 Mass.

10:30 a.m. Tuesdays and Unitarian Chamber Fridays; Library storySeries, Spencer Consort time, 7 p.m. Thursdays quartet with guest artand 10:30 a.m. Tuesdays ist John Stephens, bass Red Dog’s Dog Days, and Fridays; Storytime vocal soloist, 2:30 p.m., 7:30 a.m., parking lot Unitarian Fellowship, 1263 in Spanish and English, behind Kizer-Cummings 10:30 a.m. Saturdays; N. 1100 Road.

Family storytime, 3:30 p.m.

Jewelry, Ninth and VerFinalists Judging and Sundays; Books & Babies, mont streets.

Taste Testing for Cran10:30 a.m. Mondays and Eggs and Issues, berry Creations, 3 p.m., 9:30 a.m., 10:10 a.m. and 8-9:30 a.m., Eldridge HoLawrence Public Library, 10:40 a.m. Wednesdays; tel, 701 Mass.

707 Vt. Storytime in German, 4 Vinland Cemetery O.U.R.S. (Oldsters p.m. Tuesdays 707 Vt. Association annual United for Responsible meeting, 10 a.m., Vinland Service) dance, 6-9 p.m., United Methodist Church. Eagles Lodge, 1803 W. More information on these listThe First Saturday Sixth St. ings can be found at LJWorld.

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HIGH SCHOOL HOOPS: LHS, FSHS boys open sub-state tonight. 4B WE’RE NO. 2! WE’RE NO. 2!

Michael Dixon celebrates a basket in the Tigers’ 78-72 victory over Iowa State that clinched the No. 2 seed for MU in the Big 12 tournament.

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OKLAHOMA STATE WOMEN 66, KANSAS 63

Costly loss

Tom Keegan tkeegan@ljworld.com

Ballard has BU ballin’ BALDWIN CITY — Now director of basketball operations for Kansas University’s third-ranked basketball team, Barry Hinson knows how to evaluate college basketball coaches, having been a successful one himself.

In nine seasons at Missouri State, Hinson had three 20-victory seasons, made the postseason four times and became the poster child for NCAA Tournament selection committee injustice.

To say Hinson was impressed with the coaching job he witnessed Wednesday night from the top row of bleachers at the Collins Center on the campus of Baker University would be an understatement.

Hinson was on hand to support his friend and former co-worker, Brett Ballard, Baker’s second-year head coach.

“It’s a mini-Kansas,” Hinson said. “They’re running all of our stuff, and they’re running it great. Matter of fact, I’m sitting here thinking, ‘Gosh, some of the stuff they’re running better than we are.’ And, obviously, you can see he’s got a touch of coach (Bill) Self in him because here we are with two minutes to go in the ballgame and the other team has 38 points.”

Ballard’s third-seeded Wildcats advanced to the semifinals of the Heart of America Athletic Conference tournament with a 5541 victory against No. 6 seed Benedictine College. Baker plays Friday night at No. 2 seed Evangel.

It was Baker’s first victory in a conference tournament game since 2000.

“It’s never easy to leave a place like Kansas,” Ballard said. “But this place has been incredible. These guys have really bought in, and they compete at a high level.

They practice hard every day, and they’re good guys to be around.”

Three schools from the HAAC will advance to the 32-team NAIA national championships, played March 14-20 at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Mo. The only way Baker isn’t one of the three is if fifth-seeded Graceland pulls off consecutive road upsets to win the HAAC tourney.

Ballard’s players play extremely hard — without the benefit of TV timeouts to catch breathers — and are especially effective defensively. Going into Wednesday, the Wildcats ranked fifth in the nation in opponents’ field-goal percentage (.390). Benedictine made just 30 percent of its shots Wednesday.

Ballard has made a smooth transition to calling the shots, even if it’s difficult for some to comprehend that winning two-thirds of your games is a good thing.

“I’ll talk to KU people who don’t know a lot about Baker, and I’ll say we’re 20-10, which is pretty good, and they’ll look at you like, ‘Aw, (I’m sorry.)’ Because in coach Self’s and KU’s insane standards, that would be the worst season in the history of time. I’m joking, but thanks to coach Self, he’s put unbelievable pressure on me to win every game and win conference championships every year because that’s what he does.”

Nick Krug/Journal-World Photo

KANSAS SENIOR JORDAN JUENEMANN (25) STRIKES for two of his seven points against Texas Tech in this photo from Feb. 18 in Allen Fieldhouse.

Juenemann ‘worked so hard’ for his shot

By Gary Bedore gbedore@ljworld.com

Richard Gwin/Journal-World Photo

KANSAS SENIOR AISHAH SUTHERLAND (11) FLIES PAST OKLAHOMA STATE’S KENDRA SUTTLES for two of her team-high 23 points in a 66-63 loss to OSU. Sutherland was the only Jayhawk honored Wednesday on Senior Night at Allen Fieldhouse.

Setback leaves KU ‘desperate’

By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

Judging by tone alone, it was obvious Kansas University’s women’s basketball players realized the damage they did to their postseason hopes by dropping Wednesday’s game to Oklahoma State, 66-63, in Allen Fieldhouse.

“This is a game we’re not gonna forget about,” said forward Aishah Sutherland, who had the unfortunate challenge of attempting to celebrate her Senior Night after one of the toughest losses of her career. “It’s a game we should’ve won, and now we have to win a game that people don’t think we should win.”

Kansas (18-11 overall, 7-10 Big 12) and Oklahoma State (15-11, 7-10) entered Wednesday’s game desperate teams searching for that one victory that could spark a late surge into the NCAA Tournament.

Both played like it.

“It’s very desperate,” KU junior point guard Angel Goodrich said. “Now we put ourselves in a little hole.”

Leading up to Wednesday’s colossal disappointment, the Jayhawks were still feeling confidence from a big road victory at Texas Tech last week that put them in a good position in terms of qualifying for the NCAA Tournament.

One recent projection of the

tournament field had the Jayhawks in as an at-large team.

The loss to OSU might have changed that, and that was just one of the things that made the loss to the Cowboys so difficult to swallow.

“It hurts a lot because everyone’s fighting to get into that middle part (of the league standings),” said Goodrich, who finished with 13 points and a game-high 11 rebounds.

“Right now, if you lose, you might not get knocked down one, you might get knocked down a couple of spots.”

Another aspect that left the Jayhawks scratching their Please see KU WOMEN, page 4B

A Fort Hays State University scholarship offer didn’t tempt hometown hero Jordan Juenemann, nor did overtures from various other NCAA Div. II teams and junior colleges in Kansas.

The 6-foot-3 guard, who averaged 17.3 points and 6.0 rebounds a game his senior year at Hays High, was determined to play major-college basketball at Kansas University and arrived in Lawrence in August of 2008 focused on making his dream a reality.

“My parents dropped me off the day before school started. I was not prepared for college at all. I took 12 hours so I could focus and train for walk-on tryouts,” Juenemann said.

“I’d play pickup with KU players and try to get in and watch practices. I woke up early morning for Boot Camp (in late September). I wasn’t able to do it, but I watched it to learn some things about how I could get in shape. Wayne (Simien, former KU All-American) worked out with me, all leading up to the tryouts.”

Tryouts, held a few days after the mid-October Late Night in the Phog, were not a mere formality for Juenemann, a first-team all-league and thirdteam all-Class 5A selection.

“We didn’t know him. We didn’t guarantee him anything,” KU coach Bill Self said. “He worked so hard, he made the team. After he made it, he kept working to contribute to the team.”

Four years later, Juenemann enters KU’s Senior Day contest against Texas (8 p.m. Saturday, Allen Fieldhouse) with a batch of Please see JUENEMANN, page 4B

Firebirds deliver 57-42 win

By Benton Smith basmith@ljworld.com

Away from the program the previous two days, Bryan Duncan returned Wednesday night not only a proud father but also a satisfied coach.

His Free State girls opened sub-state in complete control and disposed of Olathe North, 57-42, at FSHS. Duncan praised the remarkably locked-in Fire-

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birds, and the word he couldn’t stop using to describe them was: focused. He gave captains Lynn Robinson, Jackie Garcia and Kennedy Kirkpatrick, as well as assistant coaches Matt Frost and Lauren Kimball credit for having the team mentally and physically prepared.

“We were very focused from the opening tip, and you could just see it in our players’ eyes,” Duncan said.

LHS girls’ season ends at Olathe South, 58-32

We’ve got to get a lot betBy Jesse Newell ter, but jnewell@ljworld.com they have that ability OLATHE — Lawrence High in them.” girls basketball coach Nick — LHS coach NIck Wood

Free State’s determination showed in every aspect.

Garcia’s controlled penetration in the half court, Kirkpatrick’s scoring efficiency, Robinson’s defense and poise, Scout Wiebe’s energy and toughness, ChelJohn Young/Journal-World Photo sea Casady’s effort inside, A’Liyah Rogers’ spark off FREE STATE’S SCOUT WIEBE (22) holds the bench — it all added up still while A’Liyah Rogers, right, checks to earn the Firebirds a spot out a cut under her eye. Wiebe was wounded in the Firebirds’ 57-42 victory Please see FSHS, page 4B Wednesday over Olathe North.

lowing the Lions’ 58-32 substate loss to Olathe South on Wednesday night.

The Lions controlled the first quarter, taking a 15-9 Wood was able to leave his lead after eight minutes bereturning players with a fore the Falcons pulled away. good teaching moment fol“That was the message:

That’s one of the best teams in the state, and for that first quarter, you gave them everything they wanted and made it a ballgame,” Wood said. “We’ve got to get a lot better, but they have that ability in them. They’ve just got to believe it.”

LHS was able to build its lead by getting good shots and making them.

Kionna Coleman had six first-quarter points on 3-for3 shooting, while the Lions Please see LHS, page 4B

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NCAA calls schools recruiting Muhammad The NCAA has contacted each school recruiting the country’s top-ranked high school basketball prospect, Shabazz Muhammad, and made them aware of financial dealings that could compromise Muhammad’s amateur status, CBSSports.com reported Wednesday.

The NCAA is interested in connections between Muhammad’s family and financial advisers Benjamin Lincoln and Ken Kavanagh, CBS said. Lincoln is a North Carolina-based financial planner whose brother, Geoff Lincoln, is an assistant coach for Muhammad’s high school team in Las Vegas. Kavanagh is a New York-based financial planner. Muhammad, 6-foot-6 from Las Vegas’ Gorman High, is considering Kansas, Kentucky, Duke, UNLV, UCLA and USC. The NCAA has told the schools they are free to continue recruiting Muhammad, but the amateurism issues could affect eligibility.

The Associated Press

Magic 102, Wizards 95 WASHINGTON — Ryan Anderson had 23 points and 15 rebounds, and Orlando pulled away late in the fourth quarter Wednesday night.

Anderson scored 11 in the fourth quarter and led seven players in double figures for the Magic, who have won 11 of 15.

Even so, the Magic blew a 17-point first-quarter lead against the lowly Wizards and survived an off-night from Dwight Howard, who was 4-for9 from the field and 6-for-11 from the free-throw line. Orlando also made 15 of 36 threepoint attempts.

John Wall had 33 points to the lead the Wizards, who lost their sixth straight.

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How former Jayhawks fared Cole Aldrich, Oklahoma City Did not play (coach’s decision).

Darrell Arthur, Memphis Did not play (out for season).

Nick Collison, Oklahoma City Pts: 0. FGs: 0-2. FTs: 0-0.

Drew Gooden, Milwaukee Pts: 23. FGs: 7-15. FTs: 9-9.

Xavier Henry, New Orleans Pts: 0. FGs: 0-1. FTs: 0-0.

Kirk Hinrich, Atlanta Pts: 2. FGs: 1-2. FTs: 0-0.

Marcus Morris, Houston Pts: 0. FGs: 0-0. FTs: 0-0.

Big 12 Men No. 7 Missouri 78, Iowa State 72 COLUMBIA, MO. — Michael Dixon scored 21 points to lead five Missouri players in double figures, and the seventh-ranked Tigers beat Iowa State on Wednesday night, clinching the No. 2 seed in next week’s Big 12 tournament.

Dixon’s driving layup with 3:36 left gave Missouri (26-4, 13-4) a 66-64 lead it wouldn’t relinquish. Marcus Denmon followed with a three-pointer, and Phil Pressey had a steal and layup with 1:23 remaining to cap a 7-0 run for the Tigers.

It was Missouri’s 13th Big 12 win, the most in school history as it prepares to leave for the Southeastern Conference next season. Scott Christopherson scored eight points in the final minute, including a three-pointer with 25.5 seconds remaining to close the deficit to 76-72. Dixon added two free throws with 15 seconds left.

Royce White led Iowa State (21-9, 11-6) with 20 points.

IOWA STATE (21-9) Ejim 3-10 4-4 10, White 9-16 0-1 20, Babb 3-7 0-0 9, Allen 1-5 0-0 3, Christopherson 5-16 2-2 15, Palo 2-5 0-0 5, Booker 3-5 0-0 7, McGee 1-4 0-0 3.

Totals 27-68 6-7 72.

MISSOURI (26-4) Ratliffe 6-9 4-4 16, P. Pressey 5-14 0-0 11, M. Pressey 0-1 0-0 0, Denmon 5-10 2-4 14, English 4-8 4-6 13, Dixon 8-10 5-5 21, Sutton 0-0 0-0 0, Moore 1-1 1-4 3, Jones 0-0 0-0 0, Rosburg 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 29-53 16-23 78.

Halftime-Iowa St. 40-36. 3-Point Goals-Iowa St. 12-31 (Babb 3-6, Christopherson 3-9, White 2-4, Palo 1-1, Booker 1-2, Allen 1-3, McGee 1-4, Ejim 0-2), Missouri 4-12 (Denmon 2-4, P. Pressey 1-3, English 1-3, Dixon 0-2). Fouled OutNone. Rebounds-Iowa St. 39 (Ejim 13), Missouri 28 (English 8). Assists-Iowa St. 18 (White 9), Missouri 14 (Dixon, P. Pressey 4). Total FoulsIowa St. 18, Missouri 12. Technical-Booker.

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No. 10 Ohio State 75, Northwestern 73 EVANSTON, ILL. — Jared Sullinger banked in a turnaround shot with 3.1 seconds left, and OKLAHOMA (14-15) Ohio State recovered after Fitzgerald 5-9 2-2 12, Osby 5-12 3-4 14, Grooms 1-3 2-2 4, Pledger 5-13 0-0 13, Clark 6-14 0-0 12, squandering a 13-point secondWashington 2-5 1-1 5, Blair 2-3 0-2 4, Neal 0-1 0-0 half lead. Sullinger’s game-win0, Arent 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 26-60 8-11 64. ner completed a 22-point, 18-reTEXAS (19-11) Wangmene 2-4 0-2 4, Chapman 1-1 1-2 3, bound night for the Buckeyes’ McClellan 10-18 1-2 24, Kabongo 0-6 1-2 1, Brown sophomore.

7-16 6-7 22, Bond 2-3 0-0 4, Holmes 3-9 0-0 6, Northwestern’s Alex MarGibbs 2-4 3-3 8. Totals 27-61 12-18 72.

Halftime-Oklahoma 37-33. 3-Point Goals- cotullio tied the game on a Oklahoma 4-9 (Pledger 3-4, Osby 1-3, Grooms three-pointer with 7.7 seconds 0-1, Neal 0-1), Texas 6-24 (McClellan 3-9, Brown 2-7, Gibbs 1-3, Holmes 0-1, Kabongo 0-4). Fouled to go as the Wildcats went on a Out-None. Rebounds-Oklahoma 34 (Clark 11), late 8-0 run.

Texas 36 (Bond 8). Assists-Oklahoma 10 (Blair But after a timeout, Aaron 4), Texas 14 (Kabongo 9). Total Fouls-Oklahoma 15, Texas 16. A-12,142.

Craft got the ball to Sullinger and he hit the go-ahead shot from the right of the basket.

Top 25 Men Northwestern’s John Shurna No. 6 North Carolina 88, came down court and threw up Maryland 64 a desperation shot that hit the CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Tyler rim at the buzzer.

Zeller had 30 points in his final home game to help North Caro- Colorado State 66, lina beat Maryland.

No. 17 UNLV 59 John Henson added 19 points FORT COLLINS, COLO. — Dorian for the Tar Heels (26-4, 13-2 At- Green scored 14 of his 16 points lantic Coast Conference), who in the second half, leading Cololed all game to set up a match- rado State back from a 16-point up with No. 4 Duke this week- deficit. end to determine the league’s The Rams (18-10, 7-6 Mountain West) capped a perfect regular-season championship.

FREE STATE HIGH

TODAY • Boys basketball at Leavenworth, 7 p.m.

FRIDAY • Girls basketball vs. Olathe South at Leavenworth, 5:30 p.m.

LAWRENCE HIGH TODAY • Boys basketball vs. Olathe East, 7 p.m.

Jazz 104, Rockets 83 SEABURY ACADEMY SALT LAKE CITY — C.J. Miles TODAY scored a season-high 27 points, • Boys basketball at St. Paul, 7:30 and Utah beat Houston, halting p.m. a four-game losing streak and FRIDAY the Rockets’ four-game winning streak.

• Girls basketball at St. Paul, 7:30 Devin Harris added 19 points p.m. for Utah, which avenged a 10185 loss in Houston on Feb. 19.

SPORTS ON TV Luis Scola led Houston with 18 points, while Kyle Lowery TODAY was held to 13 on 4-of-9 shooting after scoring 32 in the first College Basketball Time Net Cable meeting.

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5 p.m. ESPNU 35, 235 Nuggets 104, Trail Blazers 95 DENVER — Ty Lawson had 18 points and nine assists in his return to the lineup, and Kenneth Faried scored 13 points and grabbed 10 rebounds for Denver.

Timofey Mozgov had 14 points and nine rebounds, and Al Harrington came off the bench to score 13 points and add nine rebounds for the Nuggets, who ended a two-game skid.

Bulls 96, Spurs 89 SAN ANTONIO — Derrick Rose scored 29 points, and Chicago defeated San Antonio. Rose shook off a scary-looking collision with Tony Parker early that kept the reigning MVP on the floor clutching his right knee for several minutes. But he never left the game and the Bulls became just the second team to win in San Antonio this season.

Lakers 104, Timberwolves 85 LOS ANGELES — Kobe Bryant had 31 points, seven rebounds and eight assists while playing with a clear mask over his broken nose, and Los Angeles returned from the All-Star break with its 17th consecutive win over Minnesota.

Bryant didn’t miss a game after Dwyane Wade broke his nose and gave him a concussion with a hard foul in the All-Star game Sunday.

Mich. v. Illinois Fla. St. v. Virginia Mo. Valley Tourn.

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Late run lifts Missouri past ISU, 78-72 Cincinnati 72, No. 8 Marquette 61 CINCINNATI — JaQuon Parker scored a career-high 28 points, leading Cincinnati. The Bearcats (21-9, 11-6 Big East) have won six of their last eight, including home victories over then-No. 17 Louisville and Marquette (24-6, 13-4). The Golden Eagles had won five straight, including a 95-78 drubbing of the Bearcats in Milwaukee on Feb. 11.

The rematch was a total reversal.

FRIDAY • Softball vs. UConn/Charleston Southern at Charleston, S.C., 10 a.m./2 p.m.

• Baseball at UTSA, 6 p.m.

• Track at Arkansas last chance, Alex Wilson last chance meets

Raptors 95, Hornets 84 NEW ORLEANS — Linas Kleiza and Demar DeRozan scored 21 points apiece, and Toronto rallied to beat New Orleans.

The Raptors, who trailed 6962 after tying a season low for points in a quarter with 11 in the third, broke loose for 33 in the fourth, matching a season best for any quarter. They hit their first eight shots and scored 22 points in the first 4:22 as Toronto took control, snapping a fivegame road losing streak.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL ROUNDUP

Texas 72, Oklahoma 64 AUSTIN, TEXAS — Freshman Sheldon McClellan scored a career-high 24 points, and Texas rallied past Oklahoma, avoiding what could have been a devastating blow to the Longhorns’ NCAA Tournament hopes.

McClellan’s three-pointer gave Texas (19-11, 9-8) its first lead, 59-58, with about six minutes left. He had a dunk in an 8-0 Texas burst in the final three minutes that opened a comfortable lead. The win guarantees Texas will finish at least .500 in the Big 12, a critical mark for a team hoping to make its 14th consecutive tournament appearance.

SPORTS CALENDAR

NBA

Thunder 92, 76ers 88 Paul Pierce, Boston PHILADELPHIA — Kevin DuPts: 10. FGs: 5-12. FTs: 0-0. rant scored eight of his 23 points down the stretch to lead OklaBrandon Rush, Golden State homa City past Philadelphia.

Pts: 2. FGs: 1-4. FTs: 0-0.

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Royals’ spring opener as the NBA-leading Thunder overcame a seven-point deficit SURPRISE, ARIZ. — Top prosin the fourth quarter and won pect Luis Mendoza will start for Knicks 120, Cavaliers 103 their sixth straight game. the Kansas City Royals in their NEW YORK — Jeremy Lin had spring-training opener Sunday Celtics 102, Bucks 96 19 points and 13 assists, and Caragainst the Texas Rangers.

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League with a 2.18 earned-run sists to record his third tripleSteve Novak had 17 points off average last year. He is scheduled double of the season. Rondo the bench as the Knicks turned a to work two innings, and righthad six rebounds and five as- 17-point deficit into an easy win, handers Sean O’Sullivan, Vin sists in the third quarter, when outscoring the Cavs 71-42 in the Mazzaro and Nate Adcock are the Celtics went on a 20-4 run second half. They capped a 10-5 also scheduled to pitch. to turn a five-point deficit into month, their first 10-win Februa double-digit lead. The Bucks ary since going 10-3 in 1996-97.

NFL cut it to two points in the final but Kevin Garnett made Pistons 109, Bobcats 94 Steelers to cut Ward minute, AUBURN HILLS, MICH. — Rodfour free throws in the last 15 PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh ney Stuckey scored 29 points, seconds to clinch it.

Steelers will release wide reand Greg Monroe added 19 ceiver Hines Ward, the team said Warriors 85, Hawks 82 points and a career-high 20 reATLANTA — David Lee scored bounds for Detroit.

Wednesday. A four-time Pro Bowl 22 points, including the goselection who holds franchise Brandon Knight scored 20 ahead basket with 30 seconds points, and Tayshaun Prince records for receptions, receiving yards and receiving touchdowns, remaining. added 14 points and 10 rebounds The Hawks’ last lead was for Detroit, which bounced back Ward, 35, has spent all of his 14 early in the second quarter, but from Tuesday’s 29-point home NFL seasons with Pittsburgh.

Zaza Pachulia tied it at 78 with loss to Philadelphia.

52 seconds remaining by scorSOCCER ing after a miss by Jeff Teague. Grizzlies 96, Mavericks 85 MEMPHIS, TENN. — Marc Gasol Lee drove past Pachulia to U.S. stops Italy, 1-0 score with 30 seconds remain- had 22 points and 11 rebounds, GENOA, ITALY — The United ing to give the lead back to and Mike Conley added 20 States beat Italy for the first time Golden State. points and 10 assists as Memin 11 games over 78 years, a 1-0 Donta Ellis had 24 points phis defeated Dallas. victory in an exhibition WednesRudy Gay added 18 points for and eight assists. Lee had 12 reday night on Clint Dempsey’s Memphis, despite hitting just bounds for a double-double. goal in the 55th minute. The Joe Johnson, returning from a eight of his 19 shots. Dante CunAmericans had been 0-7-3 against knee injury, led Atlanta with 18 ningham was 5-of-6 from the Italy, getting outscored 32-4. field and scored 10 points. points.

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home mark in league play with their 13th straight win at Moby Arena. They trailed 41-26 at halftime and by 16 points in the opening minutes of the second half before rallying to burnish their NCAA credentials with their third straight home win over a ranked team.

The Rebels (24-7, 8-5) fell a game behind New Mexico and San Diego State in the Mountain West standings. They got 17 points from Oscar Bellfield, but he had just one basket in the second half, a three-pointer that put UNLV ahead 47-31.

South Florida 58, No. 19 Louisville 51 LOUISVILLE, KY. — Jawanza Poland scored 16 points, and South Florida ruined Louisville’s senior night. South Florida (19-11, 12-5 Big East) has won six of seven since a 30-point loss at Georgetown and was considered on the bubble with a game remaining at home against West Virginia on Saturday.

The Cardinals (22-8, 10-7) had won their 10 previous home finales.

No. 23 Temple 90, Massachusetts 88, OT PHILADELPHIA — Khalif Wyatt scored 26 points, including the winning layup in the final seconds of overtime, to help Temple beat Massachusetts and clinch the top seed in next week’s Atlantic 10 tournament.

The Owls (23-6, 12-3) also clinched a tie for the regularseason conference title, though they hold the tiebreaker over Saint Louis. Micheal Eric scored 19 points, and Juan Fernandez had 18 for Temple.

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achievements that include a college degree in exercise science (minor in business), All-Big 12 academic mention and four Big 12 Conference championship rings.

Nothing tops the excitement he felt the day after walk-on tryouts.

“Coach Self called me in the office and said, ‘We’ll try you out to be a practice player,’” Juenemann recalled. “After the first practice, he said, ‘Good job, Jordan. We threw you right in the fire.’ Next thing I knew, I had a jersey and was able to play in the first exhibition game. From then on out, I tried to earn the respect of teammates and coaches at practice, try to be a guy who is seen, not heard, and do what they asked.”

Mission accomplished for Juenemann, who has earned his keep at practice, where he’s a member of the Red team — the scout team, the unit designed to make the starters better.

“Tyshawn (Taylor) and Elijah (Johnson) get mad at him all the time ... because he fouls them all the time,” Self said of Juenemann, who has scored 19 points in 12 games this season. “We tell him to foul. We tell him to make them frustrated. We tell him, ‘Foul, reach, grab, slap, get ’em tougher.’ And he does it.”

Juenemann, who scored a career-high seven points while playing four minutes in a Feb. 18 home win over Texas Tech, rattled off the highlights of a career that he says “has gone by so fast.”

“Just being at practice my first year with coach Self as a Kansas kid was unreal for me,” Juenemann said. “I remember my freshman year meeting Kirk Hinrich before the Missouri game when his jersey was retired. All the KU greats I’ve become friends with now. I had dinner with Nick Collison, talking man-to-man.

Our tourney run (to Elite Eight) last year was a blast.

This year has been great.

“It’s game after game, traveling to city after city. It makes the time go so fast. I remember my freshman year listening to (fellow walk-ons) Brennan (Bechard) and Matt (Kleinmann) speak like it was yesterday. Now it’s our Senior Day,” he added of himself, Tyshawn Taylor and Conner Teahan.

Juenemann, who is working as an intern for KU’s Williams Fund this semester, plans to attend grad school next year and/or play for Athletes in Action’s traveling team.

“I’ve been praying a lot about it. I feel I’m being led into coaching,” Juenemann said. “I’m kind of torn in-between of being in coaching and athletic administration.”

It’s a no-brainer where he’ll attend graduate school.

“This is the pinnacle of everything,” he said of KU. He’ll be lavishing praise on family members, coaches and teammates during his senior speech after Saturday’s game, a game in which he’ll make his first college start. On hand will be mom Dalene, dad Jerry, older sister Jessica, who graduated from KU in the spring of 2008, and younger brother Jaydan, who played basketball a year at Avila College and is working full time.

“I really want to thank coach Self for the opportunity,” Juenemann said.

“This has been everything I thought it’d be.”

Self, who placed Juenemann on scholarship this semester, said he’ll give the highest recommendation to business owners who inquire about his pupil.

“I totally admire Jordan,” Self said, “for how hard he tries, taking the hard path in making the team and turning himself into a player. I think he’d be an unbelievable addition to anybody’s company.”

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By Benton Smith basmith@ljworld.com

A coin-flip tie-breaker might have done Lawrence High’s boys basketball team a bit of a favor.

The Lions (13-7) earned the No. 4 seed in their Class 6A sub-state tournament, but there was a tie for the No. 5 seed between Gardner-Edgerton (12-8) and Olathe East (12-8).

Saturday morning, a flip of a coin decided Lawrence’s fate. LHS will face No. 5 O-East, a familiar Sunflower League foe, instead of GEHS, out of the Eastern Kansas League, which received the No. 6 seed.

Lawrence coach Mike Lewis said he likes the match-up awaiting his team at 7 tonight at LHS. “It’s nice that we know what we’re getting into,” Lewis said. “With Gardner, it would’ve been a little bit more of a guessing game to a certain extent.”

LHS won at Olathe East, 51-41, on Feb. 17. Lions senior guard Anthony Buffalomeat said familiarity with the Hawks will be just part of the equation.

“We’ve got confidence, beating them the first time, but we have a lot of things we need to work on for (tonight), so we can’t

take them lightly at all,” Buffalomeat said.

While executing against O-East’s 3-2 zone, which LHS had trouble doing in the first quarter in the teams’ previous meeting before finishing the game with seven three-pointers, is one concern, there is also the question of KJ Pritchard’s availability.

The 6-foot-5 Lawrence senior guard severely sprained his right ankle a few hours before the Lions’ Friday victory over Free State at LHS. Lewis said the coaching staff planned for the sub-state opener anticipating a worst-case scenario

of Pritchard sitting out.

Whether he ends up playing will be a game-day decision, likely hours before tipoff.

While the Lions managed a 38-36 victory without Pritchard on Friday and now have some experience playing without their leading scorer, Buffalomeat said it would be a blow to try that again versus O-East.

“He’s our main player, basically, and he’s a leader,” Buffalomeat said. “All of us have to step up and take over his role.”

The winner tonight will play Saturday at Leavenworth against No. 1 seed Olathe Northwest (19-1) or No. 8 Olathe North (4-16).

Free State hopes for fast start

By Benton Smith basmith@ljworld.com

LEAVENWORTH — Free State High’s boys basketball team is fully aware of the first step it will need to take to have success in its sub-state opener.

A hot start will go a long way when the No. 7 seed Firebirds play at No. 2 Leavenworth at 7 tonight.

Said FSHS coach Chuck Law: “We have to avoid the notorious Free State slow start. You can’t dig a hole. They’re too good a team.”

Falling behind early has proven costly for Free

State (7-13) this season, including in the team’s 63-56 loss at Leavenworth (15-5) on Feb. 7. The Pioneers, ranked No. 7 in Class 6A, led 20-12 after the first quarter and held a 10-point halftime advantage over the visiting Firebirds. It wasn’t until the second half that FSHS started playing well and outscored Leavenworth, 35-32.

Law said his team did good things on offense in Free State’s first meeting with the Pioneers, but the Firebirds suffered too many defensive breakdowns, and those instances often led to 5-0 or 6-0

spurts for the Pioneers just when Free State had fought back within one or two possessions.

“When you’re playing a team of that caliber, those kind of mental mistakes, they’re gonna kill you,” Law said.

The coach thought FSHS might have had a chance to win if it could’ve avoided miscues, such as not communicating and allowing Leavenworth’s Preston Padgett to get open and knock down three-pointers.

Senior Firebirds guard Cameron Dabney said Free State must contain

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made five of nine field goals in the opening eight minutes (56 percent).

“We brought it to them.

We had it,” LHS senior Bri Anglin said. “We knew we could play with them. We just couldn’t pull it together for all four quarters.”

The Lions’ defense also stepped up early, holding the Falcons to 3-for-22 first-quarter shooting (14 percent).

“That’s a moment when I’m sitting down, I’m looking at those girls on the bench, and they’re starting to see that they can be successful if we play the game the right way,” Wood said.

Unfortunately for LHS, it all unraveled from there.

The Lions went just 1-for-9 from the floor in the second quarter with six turnovers, and the Falcons went on an 18-2 run to grab a 27-17 halftime lead.

“They just picked up the intensity,” LHS senior Christina Haswood said, “and we didn’t match it.”

LHS added just four points in the third quarter — an offensive stickback by Krista Costa and two free throws from Monica Howard — as South put the contest away with a 15-4 spurt that made it 42-21.

It was the final game for LHS seniors Haswood, Anglin and Mutiyat Hameed, who added a layup late in the fourth quarter.

“We stuck together this time and played like a team,” Hameed said. “It was good.”

Howard led LHS with 10 points to go with eight rebounds.

Coleman, Haswood and Anna Wright added six points apiece.

South (19-2) was led by Alex Hugo’s 19 points.

in their bracket’s title game Friday night.

All that stands in front of the Firebirds’ returning to the state tournament — they last went in 2010 — is Olathe South, which beat Lawrence High, 5832, Wednesday night. And don’t think for a second that a potential rematch with O-South, which beat Free State on a threepointer as time expired on Feb. 10, didn’t contribute to the Firebirds’ focus against O-North (8-13).

Said Robinson, who scored 11 points and had four rebounds: “We’ve been looking forward to Olathe South ever since they beat us with that buzzer-beater, and we had to stay focused tonight.”

The incentive did Free State well. The Firebirds (16-5) didn’t turn the ball over in the first quarter, and scores from Kirkpatrick, Robinson, Wiebe and Rogers gave the home team a 15-9 lead.

Then came the second quarter, when Kirkpat-

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LAWRENCE’S KIONNA COLEMAN (33) gets fouled during the Lions’ 58-32 loss Wednesday at Olathe South.

BOX SCORE LAWRENCE (32) Monica Howard 3-8 4-4 10, Bri Anderson 0-2 0-0 0, Marissa Pope 0-2 0-0 0, Anna Wright 2-10 0-0 6, Kionna Coleman 3-9 0-0 6, Christina Haswood 2-4 2-2 6, Krista Costa 1-1 0-0 2, Bri Anglin 0-2 0-0 0, Kylie Seaman 0-2 0-0 0, Jolana Shield 0-0 0-0 0, Mutiyat Hameed 1-1 0-0 2, Samantha Buffalomeat 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 12-41 6-6 32.

OLATHE SOUTH (58) Megan Balcom 4-14 0-0 9, Riley White 0-5 2-4 2, Alex Hugo 5-10 9-10 19, Kylee Kopatich 2-9 0-0 4, Bailey Rinehart 2-8 3-4 7, Victoria Dolan 2-5 0-0 4, Jordan Morton 1-1 1-2 3, Samantha Samskey 4-6 2-2 10, Brittany Luton 0-0 0-0 0, Bailey Wilkes 0- 0 0-0 0, Sarah Finks 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 20-58 17-22 58.

LHS 15 2 4 11 — 32 OS 9 18 15 16 — 58 Three-point goals: LHS 2-13 (Wright 2-9, Howard 0-1, Pope 0-1, Haswood 0-1, Seaman 0-1); Olathe South 1-11 (Balcom 1-6, Rinehart 0-1, Kopatich 0-2, Dolan 0-2). Turnovers LHS 23, OS 10.

LHS (6-15) was disrupted mid-season by a pair of injuries. Emma Kelly and Costa had knee ailments that forced the Lions to change up their rotation.

Costa returned for LHS and played a few minutes off the bench Wednesday, but Wood said she wasn’t at full strength.

“It was hard for (all) those girls to face that kind of adversity, but they didn’t complain about it.

They didn’t pout about it,” Wood said. “They showed up every day and worked hard, and that’s all we can really ask out of them.”

KU spring game April 28 J-W Staff Reports

Kansas University football coach Charlie Weis announced Wednesday that the program’s annual spring game, which marks the end of spring drills, will take place at 1 p.m., April 28.

The first of 15 spring practices will take place on March 27, and the Jayhawks will use helmets

only for the first two days, as mandated by the NCAA. Beginning March 31, KU will suit up in full pads, and Weis and his coaching staff will begin installation of the team’s new offensive and defensive philosophies.

The spring game will be open to the public and free. The rest of the sessions are closed.

both Padgett and the Pioneers’ leading scorer, Grant Greenberg.

“I think we matched up pretty well,” Dabney said, “we just didn’t communicate on screens and stuff.”

Free State might not be able to help off Greenberg, Dabney added. Law said his team also must keep Greenberg, who has averaged 28.5 points since he scored 20 against the Firebirds, off the glass and the foul line.

Tonight’s winner advances to a Saturday substate final at Leavenworth against either No. 3 seed Olathe South or No. 6 Gardner-Edgerton.

BOX SCORE ONHS (42) Jessica Sheble 7-12 1-2 15, Jabria Leggett 4-15 0-2 8, Hayley Christensen 2-8 1-1 5, Emily Haselwood 1-4 0-0 2, Taylor Scantlin 0-3 1-2 1, Lexa Stelting 2-4 2-2 6, Ashlee Larkin 1-5 0-0 2, Kierra Carter 0-2 3-4 3, Sabrina Prendes 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 17-54 8-13 42.

FSHS (57) Jackie Garcia 0-3 1-4 1, Kennedy Kirkpatrick 8-13 2-5 21, Lynn Robinson 3-9 4-4 11, Scout Wiebe 3-7 0-0 7, Chelsea Casady 1-7 6-7 8, A’Liyah Rogers 3-6 0-0 7, Courtney Parker 0-1 0-0 0, Ariana Frantz 0-0 0-0 0, Summer Frantz 0-0 2-2 2, Baha White 0-0 0-0 0, Lily Ross 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 18-46 15-22 57.

ONHS 9 8 8 17 — 42 FSHS 15 16 14 12 — 57 Three-point goals: ONHS 0-; FSHS 6-16 (Kirkpatrick 3, Robinson, Wiebe, Rogers). Turnovers: ONHS 14, FSHS 12.

rick helped the Firebirds establish a 14-point halftime lead with 11 second-quarter points on 4-for-6 shooting. Duncan remarked it was nice to be able to “sit and watch” as the junior guard, who finished with 21 points and four steals, helped Free State take control.

“That was as focused, to use that word again, as we’ve seen her all season,” the coach said of Kirkpatrick, “and she was really good on both ends of the floor.”

At 5:30 p.m. Friday at Leavenworth High, Free State will face O-South in a sub-state championship game.

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heads was that it was another in a long list of home losses. After cruising through nonconference play with a 10-0 mark in Allen Fieldhouse, the Jayhawks have won just three Big 12 games in nine tries at home.

“It’s been really rough,” Goodrich said. “Our record at home has been very disappointing. This is where we’re supposed to feel comfortable. This is where we’re supposed to do business.”

Perhaps the biggest bomb was that it rarely felt as if the Jayhawks were headed to frown town.

Kansas led for most of the first half and trailed by just three points at halftime. In the second half, a 10-0 KU run turned a 41-40 deficit into a 50-41 lead with 13:42 to play. Instead of adding to it and riding out a huge victory, the Jayhawks let Oklahoma State back into it, and the Cowboys answered KU’s run with a 12-0 spurt of their own to reclaim the lead.

From that point on, the teams traded leads and took the game to the final seconds. Kansas actually had two chances to tie or take the lead in the final 40 seconds, but one possession ended with a turnover and the other with an off-balance heave at the buzzer.

After the game, Sutherland (23 points, 10 rebounds) and her parents made the walk to midcourt to soak in the Senior Night experience. It was tough.

“I was just thinking about the game and the loss and what we need to do for the rest of the season, and I wasn’t really focused on my Senior Night, so no tears,” Sutherland said.

BOX SCORE OKLAHOMA STATE (66) MIN FG FT REB PF TP m-a m-a o-t Liz Donohoe 38 5-17 2-3 5-9 0 13 Lindsey Keller 22 2-3 3-3 1-4 2 7 Kendra Suttles 26 3-6 0-0 1-3 2 7 Tiffany Bias 40 9-15 8-8 0-3 4 26 Jordan Schultz 26 1-4 0-0 1-2 1 3 Jenni Bryan 2 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 0 Toni Young 13 2-5 0-0 0-0 1 4 C. Crutchfield 14 0-1 0-0 0-1 1 0 Vicky McIntyre 19 3-6 0-0 0-6 1 6 Team 1-3 Totals 25-57 13-14 9-32 12 66 Three-point goals: 3-8 (Donohoe 1-2, Schultz 1-2, Suttles 1-3, Bias 0-1). Assists: 14 (Bias 8, Crutchfield 3, Schultz 2, Donohoe). Turnovers: 10 (Bias 3, McIntyre 2, Donohoe, Keller, Suttles, Schultz, team).

Blocked shots: 5 (McIntyre 3, Suttles, Young). Steals: 7 (Donohoe 2, Keller, Bias, Schultz, Young, Crutchfield).

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MIN FG FT REB PF TP m-a m-a o-t A. Sutherland 39 11-24 0-0 3-10 1 23 C. Gardner 28 3-8 4-4 6-9 2 10 Angel Goodrich 40 4-13 4-5 2-11 3 13 CeCe Harper 32 3-8 3-4 3-4 2 10 Natalie Knight 37 2-7 0-0 1-1 1 5 M. Engelman 11 1-1 0-0 1-0 1 2 Tania Jackson 13 0-1 0-0 1-2 2 0 Team 0-1 Totals 24-62 12-14 17-40 12 63 Three-point goals: 3-11 (Goodrich 1-3, Knight 1-4, Harper 1-4). Assists: 11 (Knight 5, Goodrich 3, Harper 2, Jackson). Turnovers: 12 (Knight 4, Sutherland 3, Engelman 3, Gardner, Goodrich). Blocked shots: 4 (Sutherland, Gardner, Harper, Jackson).

Steals: 7 (Sutherland 4, Knight 2, Goodrich ).

Oklahoma State 35 31 — 66 Kansas 32 31 — 63 Attendance: 2,164. Officials: Cameron Inouye, Tina Napier, Billy Smith.

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ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE Sunflower Publishing, a division of The World Company, is hiring for an Account Executive to sell advertising in our magazines and niche publications. As an Account Executive you will be responsible for developing and maintaining strong relationships with our customers, and act as the liaison between the client and our creative team to ensure clients’ needs are met on every project.

If you have a proven track record of sales success then we would like to hear from you!

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Bishop Seabury Academy is seeking Experienced Teachers for these positions: Middle School Language Arts/English High School Math or Chemistry/Math Preferred candidates will have an advanced degree in the respective subject and/or a degree in education and at least four years of teaching experience.

Experience with gifted programs, 504 plans/IEPs, or ESL teaching is desired but not essential.

Applicants should send a resume & cover letter to Dr. Don Schawang, Head of School: donschawang@ seaburyacademy.org For more information visit www.seaburyacademy.org

Enjoy the outdoors? Kaw Valley Greenhouses is bringing a garden center to the area and looking for cashiers to work seasonally.

Day/Evening/ Weekend shifts needed.

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Starting pay $8.50/hr.

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Part Time Kennel Technician needed at veterinary office.

Applicant must have previous kennel experience. Some weekends and holidays req. Please apply in person at Lawrence Veterinary Hospital Seeking Professional, 3210 Clinton Parkway Ct. warm & dependable assistant teachers who can Receptionist, Full time with make a long term commitbenefits. Please Send rement to our high quality sume to infant, toddler, & prejobatdoctoroffice@gmail.com school programs. Please send resumes to ksmontessori@yahoo.com

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Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Haskell Health Center Full-time permanent position at the Haskell Health Center. MondayFriday, 8AM-6pm. Relocation allowances authorized.

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Please contact Ms. Manon Tillman, at 405-951-3819 if you have any question. EEO - The United States Government does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability and genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, or other non-merit factor.

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Management CLO is currently seeking qualified applicants for the following position: Are you a person that loves the outdoors and people? Then you may be just who we’re looking for! Sunflower Outdoor & Bike Shop is currently looking to fill full & part-time positions for the Spring/Summer & beyond. Prior retail experience is a plus but not mandatory. Outgoing attitude is essential.

Apply in person at 804 Massachusetts St., Downtown Lawrence.

Full Time Receptionist needed for busy veterinary office.

Applicant must have previous customer service skills, office and phone skills. Previous veterinary office experience preferred. Please apply in person at Lawrence Veterinary Hospital 3210 Clinton Parkway Ct.

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Intensive Individual Supports Teacher CLO’s Children’s Autism Network is looking for a qualified Intensive Individual Supports Teacher (IIS) in the Lawrence area.

Looking for someone who is already qualified with a Medicaid and National Provider Number and the appropriate training to provide IIS work for the Autism Waiver. People who do not have these qualifications may still be considered for the job if they have a college degree in a related field or at least 60 college credit hours along with 1000 hours experience working with a person with autism. Job duties consist of implementing teaching and behavior programs for children with autism. This is a part time position and looking for someone to fill 20-30 evening and weekend hours per week immediately. If interested in this position please contact: Sara Quick, Director of CLO’s Children’s Autism Network at 785-979-9251 EOE

Property Manager Downtown Loft Apts.

Experience with Microsoft Office preferred. Previous leasing, marketing, & sales experience very helpful.

We offer a competitive salary package with health, dental, 401K. Email Resumes to: jobs@firstmanagementinc.com

or fax to: 785-830-9011

Property Manager

Seeking an experienced Property Manager to run a large luxury apt. community in Lawrence, KS. Candidate must be upbeat, able to multi-task & computer savvy. Marketing experience is a plus & attention to detail a must.

Submit Resume to: First Management, Inc. PO Box 1797 Lawrence, KS 66044 or email to: jobs@firstmanagementinc.com

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WEB DESIGNER Looking for a new gig? Well, regardless of whether you are or are not “in search of” that next great place to work. We are looking for you!

Want to be our next web designer and be part of our rapidly expanding digital development team? The team designs/develops our digital products, provides maintenance/support of existing websites, and implements third-party digital initiatives.

Established in 2004 Sunflower Publishing is a leading publisher for city/regional magazines, trade publications and directories.

Premier publications include KANSAS! magazine, Lawrence Magazine, Topeka Magazine, Manhattan Magazine, Shawnee Magazine, Hutchinson Magazine, Sunflower Living, Douglas County Newcomers Guide and the Lawrence Magazine Restaurant Guide. For more information, visit www.sunflowerpub.com.

The World Company’s online operation is considered to be among the most innovative of news and media organizations in the country. Our websites include LJWorld.com, Lawrencemarketplace.com, KUsports.com, Lawrence.com and WellCommons.com.

Historical Lawrence, Kansas, is located 45 minutes from Kansas City, MO, has a nationally recognized arts scene, a vibrant downtown and is home to the University of Kansas with its longstanding basketball tradition.

What we want to see: • A few years of web design experience is ideal (preferably using open-source technologies). Obviously - proficient with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (Experience in designing for mobile platforms a plus).

• Knowledge and hands on experience with content management systems is extremely helpful (Django templates would be ideal).

• Strong preference will be given to candidates with relevant experience. However, we will train the right person who demonstrates passion for their work and a willingness to learn.

• Experience with a version control system (preferably Git).

Ideal candidates will have experience in outside sales, marketing, and/or advertising; media sales experience preferred; demonstrated success with prospecting and cold calling; remarkable verbal and written communication skills; effective time management and interpersonal skills; self-motivated; strong attention to detail; proficient in Microsoft Office applications; and a valid driver’s license, reliable transportation with proof of auto insurance, and a clean driving record.

Don’t settle for a job, explore our career opportunity! We offer a competitive salary and commissions with an excellent benefits package including health, dental and vision insurance, 401k, tuition reimbursement, paid time off and more! Background check, pre-employment drug screen and physical lift assessment required. To apply submit a cover letter and resume to hrapplications@ljworld.com. EOE

We are in search of a designer that is fairly technical and not afraid of the command line when dealing with front-end development and that can also provide creative concept and design solutions after ramping up.

Some of what you will do here: • Varied design work and maintenance in addition to design processing from concept to implementation.

• Respond to non-technical users on a variety of technical issues and status updates.

• Identify research and resolve technical problems.

• Document, monitor and follow-up on issues to ensure a timely resolution.

The World Company is a communications and media company based in Lawrence, Kansas. We offer a competitive salary and with an excellent benefits package including health, dental and vision insurance, 401k, tuition reimbursement, paid time off and more! Background check, preemployment drug screen and physical lift assessment required. To apply submit a cover letter and resume to hrapplications@ljworld.com. EOE

6B THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2012 Social Services Apartments Unfurnished Residential Child Care Worker positions available at Emergency Shelter/Youth Residential Center II. Full-time positions (Tuesday-Saturday) on the Second Shift (2pm-10pm).

Substitute positions for all shifts.

Candidate will be responsible for care & supervision of 14 adolescents.

Must have at least a high school diploma or GED, be at least 21 years of age, have a valid driver’s license, and able to pass background checks. Experience with adolescents preferred. Benefits available for full-time positions.

If interested, apply with resume to: V. Torrez Dawson, Assistant Director P.O. Box 647, Lawrence, KS 66044. Inquiries to (785) 843-2085. tdawson@theshelterinc.org Position will be open until filled.

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Cedarwood Apts 2411 Cedarwood Ave. Beautiful & Spacious

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Ask about 2-person Special!

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Move-in Special for 1BRs Only one of each left: 2BR Apt.& 2BR Townhome

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2+BR - 3054 W. 7th, 2nd floor, newly remodeled, 2 bath, 2 car, FP, CA, W/D hookup. $700. No pets. 785-841-5797 2BR — 1017 Illinois. 2 story, 1 bath, CA, DW. $500/mo.

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Available Now! 1, 2 & 3 Bedrooms 785-842-3280

Rentals Avail. Now!

1BR - $600, 2BR - $700, 3BR - $800 Small pets allowed.

On bus route, reserved parking, pool, playground, total electric, and washer, dryer & DW in every unit.

PERFECT for Serious Students and/or GREAT for Families.

Westgate

4641 W. 6th, Lawrence behind Blockbuster

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DOWNTOWN LOFT

Studio Apartments 600 sq. ft., $675/mo.

825 sq. ft., $855/mo.

No pets allowed Call Today 785-841-6565

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3BR, 2 bath, $820-$840 2BR, 1 bath, $760/mo.

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2859 Four Wheel Drive

Studio/office, Wi-Fi avail., private bathroom, 697 sq.ft.

785-842-5227 for more info Prime Commercial Property on Wanamaker Road, close to 29th Street in SW Topeka, KS. Approx. 3,000 sq. ft. Call 785-271-6060

ALL NEW OFFICE WAREHOUSE, 600 E 23rd Street, Lawrence, KS. 13,000 sq.ft. w/plenty parking space.

Very attractive lease rate.

Realty Executives of KS City, Al Sien 913-226-5717

Oval Roaster, 18” stainless steel with dome lid. NEW in box. Made by “The Main Ingredients” $25.

Salad Spinner, NEW in Box, Brand XOX, $18. Call 785-865-4215 X-Cess Self Storage, 13947 Gibbs Road, Bonner Springs, will have property for sale currently located in storage units 17, 23 & 66.

These items will be available after March 8, 2012.

Lawn, Garden & Nursery Cast iron & oak patio/yard bench & two (2) chairs, heavy durable construction in good condition. $50.

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3 - 6 acres, includes pond, On Hwy. 40 near Big Springs. Owner will trade and/or finance with no down payment. From $171 per month. 785-554-9663 20 Acres-Live On Land NOW!! Only $99/mo. $0 Down, Owner Financing, NO CREDIT CHECKS! Near El Paso, Texas, Beautiful Mountain Views!

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Antiques

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3BR avail. for sublease now Appliances at Hutton (C-1 model). $200 Electric stove-white off monthly rent thru July GE 31 with immediate posses- with coil burners. Self cleaning.

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Furniture Cherry, oak, mahogany, pecan, ebony, walnut… we have a piano that will match your décor!

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CALL FOR SPECIALS! • 3 Bedroom, 2 bath • 2 car garage w/opener • W/D hookups • Maintenance free 785-832-0555, 785-766-2722

LUXURY TOWNHOMES GREAT Move In Specials

Call for Details

625 Folks Rd • 785-832-8200

Houses 1st Class, Pet Friendly Houses & Apts.

www.vintagemgmt.com 785-842-1069 3BR, 1 bath, 1 car garage w/ opener, range, refrig., W/D hookups. $795/mo. Deposit & Refs. Call 785-749-3840

1628 W. 19th Terrace

Avail. NOW. 4BR + study, 2 car garage, fenced yard. finished bsmt. $1,600/mo.

785-841-4785

Apartments, Houses & Duplexes. 785-842-7644 www.GageMgmt.com

Roommates

1BR avail. now in single family home, quiet W. side area on bus route. Share bath. $375 unfurn., $475 furn. Utils. pd. 785-979-4406

Pianos, (3) 2 Baldwin Acrosonics and 1 Winter Co. Spinet, $475-575 Price includes tuning & delivery.

785-832-9906

Sports-Fitness Equipment Health Trainer 502. Like new with manual. $100.

785-331-3003

TV-Video DISH Network lowest nationwide price $19.99 a month. FREE HBO/Cinemax/Starz.

FREE Blockbuster. FREE HD-DVR and install. Next day install 1-800-357-4349

Saddlebrook & Overland Pointe

2BR - 2412 Alabama, 2nd Studios & 1BRs for Aug. 1. 1/2 floor in 4-plex. 1 bath, CA, block to KU. $400-$525. GAS/ DW, washer/dryer, no pets. WATER PAID. 785-842-7644 www.gagemgmt.com $470/mo. Call 785-841-5797 2BR — 725 W. 25th, In 4- 2BR — 2400 Alabama, 2nd plex, CA, W/D hookup, off- floor, 1 bath, AC, DW, launst. parking. $410-$420/mo. dry on-site. $490/mo. No No pets. Call 785-841-5797 pets. Call 785-841-5797

Retail & Commercial Space

RANCH WAY TOWNHOMES

Apartments, Houses & Duplexes. 785-842-7644 www.GageMgmt.com

www.firstmanagementinc.com

785-841-4785

LUXURY LIVING AT AFFORDABLE PRICES

3BR, 2 bath, 2 car, FP, NW No pets. Available Now. $900/mo. Call 785-865-6064

NOW LEASING for FALL & IMMEDIATE MOVE-IN 785-830-8800

785.856.7788

2859 Four Wheel Drive Amazing 2BR, tranquil intimate setting, free standing townhome w/ courtyard, cathedral ceilings, skylights, & W/D. Most residents professionals.

Pets ok. Water & trash pd. $685/mo.

785-842-5227 www.villa26lawrence.com

LUXURIOUS TOWNHOMES

Mass Street Lofts

YOUR PLACE, YOUR SPACE

Four Wheel Drive Townhomes

LEASING FOR FALL! Luxury 1, 2 & 3 BR 700 Comet Ln. 785-832-8805

2001 W. 6th. 785-841-8468 www.firstmanagementinc.com

901 New Hampshire Studios, 1 & 2 Bedrooms 785-830-8800 www.firstmanagementinc.com

2 Bedrooms $550-$800/mo. www.lawrencepm.com 785-832-8728 / 785-331-5360

Canyon Court Apts

HIGHPOINTE APTS

New Downtown Lofts

• 2BRs available now • 2 Bath, W/D hookups • 2 Car garage w/opener • New kitchen appliances • Maintenance free 785-749-2555/785-766-2722

www.tuckawaymgmt.com

Fall & Immediate Avail.

Office Space Available

at 5040 Bob Billings Pkwy.

Household Misc.

Miscellaneous

Use Tax Refund to Invest in a Co-op

Near K-10, W/D hookups & fenced courtyard.

2BRs Avail., 1 with garage

Office Space

Warehouse Space

RENT SPECIAL!

ASHBURY TOWNHOMES

Temporary, full time position available welding small steel frames.

Apply in person at: Westheffer Company 921 North 1st Lawrence, KS 66044

Apartments Unfurnished

Listen to your favorite artists perform in your home with a player piano.

Ask about adding one to your current piano.

785-537-3774

Health & Beauty Attention Joint & Muscle Pain Sufferers: Clinically proven all-natural supplement helps reduce pain and enhance mobility. Call 888-474-8936 to try Hydraflexin RISK-FREE for 90 days.

Diabetes/Cholesterol/ Weight Loss Bergamonte, a Natural Product for Cholesterol, Blood Sugar and weight. Physician recommended, backed

by Human Clinical Studies with amazing results.

Call today and save 15% off your first bottle!

888-470-5390 WANTED YOUR DIABETES TEST STRIPS. Unexpired.

We buy Any Kind/Brand.

Pay up to $24.00 per box.

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DISH Network. Starting at $19.99/month PLUS 30 Premium Movie Channels FREE for 3 Months! SAVE! & Ask About SAME DAY Installation! 877-992-1237 Earn $1000 a week Mailing Brochures from Home. Free Supplies!

Guaranteed Income! No experience required.

Start Today. www.theworkhub.net

Cars-Domestic

Lawrence Come and check out our 2-day sale!

Friday and Saturday.

TV, 51 in. Hitachi projection TV, HD compatible. Works great, you haul. $100.00 785-690-7479 Eudora TV/VCR/Radio, 17 inch Panasonic TV/VCR/Radio combo $20.

Call 785-843-1425

Bike: 16” girl’s Rawley bike, like new, pink, includes training wheels, helmet, and handle bar purse. $50.

Please call 785-550-6829

Community Garage Sale at Morning Star Church Friday, March 2nd 4pm-7pm and Saturday, March 3rd 8am-2pm MorningStar Church 998 N. 1771 Rd. (off Farmer’s TurnpikeDouglas County Rd. 438) All proceeds go to help Called to Greatness college and youth ministries as they raise funds for their Spring Break mission trip!

Lots of variety: baby, kids, and adult clothes, shoes, toys, books, equipment, household decor and furniture, sports equipment and much more!!

ESTATE SALE

2421 Cedarwood Ave Lawrence, KS March 1-3 Friday 1-5PM Saturday 8am - 4pm Sunday Noon-4PM Furniture: 5 piece Queen BR set, 5pc. sofa group w/bed (never used), 2 recliners, DR set for 6, dinette for 4, 2 chairs, 2 drawer locking wooden file cabinet, coffee table, dresser/end table set, end table, solid oak touch light china cabinet, 2 solid oak cabinets w/ lights, TV w/stand, 5 shelf bookcase w/glass doors, wrought iron table w/2 chairs.

Household: tablecloths, sheets, twin bedspreads w/curtains, shower curtain w/ matching window curtain, queen spread/ curtain, lots of brass, Christmas, nice stationary bike, women’s SML clothes, men’s XL, lots of misc.

Dishes: Wexford tumblers, goblets, sherbet, pitcher, bell, compote. Zeh Scherzer setting for 6 (only 5 cups), Sandusky stoneware 80+ pieces, knives, utensils, Tupperware, few depression (Iris, EAP, Fostoria American), glasses, pots, pans, baking, Occupied Japan, Bakelite, freezer boxes, German punch set, Amber liqueur set, decorative plates.

Misc: Saws, screwdrivers, hammers, Stanley 4 piece wood chisel set, nails, wrenches, screws, fishing reels, lumber, spray paint, staple guns, cleaning supplies, jars, brooms, rakes, hoes, ladders, grill, car visor tissue boxes, painting of wood scene, BOOKS!! including cookbooks. Lots of things not mentioned!

CASH ONLY!!!

GARAGE SALE March 2, Friday 8-3 March 3, Saturday 8-noon All items priced to sell!

Many 25 cents or less!

Everything must go! No worries about weather.

All items inside house or garage.

Large desk, dressers with mirrors, lamps, drafting table/desk, round table, loveseat, barstools, TVs and stands, file cabinets, antique sewing machine, antique trunks, school desk, tools, chain saws, table saw, electronics, canning jars, microwaves, dishes, utensils, glassware, kitchen wares, much household decor, many linens, many holiday items (Christmas, Easter, and Halloween), sports and recreation equipment, lawn garden, collectibles, and much, much more! Come shop in the cul-de-sac!

Moving Sale

Chevrolet 2011 Cruze LTZ RS, GM certified, loaded up! Save thousands over new and get the next two years of maintenance paid for!

Stk#19390 only $19,844 and only 9k miles!

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Cars-Domestic Academy Cars Kermit Says “It ain’t easy being Green” Lonnie Says “Recylce your old car Today!”

Chevrolet 2007 HHR 63K, Dark Blue Call Now! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

$4,397

for your old car Today PLUS

$500

Bonus for driving it in!

CREDIT?

Normal lending criteria requirements reduced for this Special Event!

BEST! BLEMISHED BRUSIED OR

Chevrolet 2010 Malibu’s 32 mpg hwy, nicely equip’d.

Like new throughout with remainder of 5yr/100,000 mile factory warranty. 2 available price as low as $13,841. 1.9% apr financing available.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

requiring a tax-refund style down payment- we will have you approved and driving away your Nicer, Newer car-Today!

$0 Down our banks have

authorized us to offer Zero down this week! (with approved credit)

See the “Dealer For the People”

Chevrolet 2006 Monte Carlo LT, local trade, alloy wheels, spoiler, sunroof, ABS, traction control, cd changer and much more! Stk#500993 only $9,444 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

www.academycars.com 785-841-0102 Chrysler 2010 300 Touring Inferno Red, 36K Enjoy a “Fear Free” Car Buying Experience at www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Buick 2005 Century V6, 20-30MPG, Auto, FWD, Cloth, CD, Cruise, Wow 65K, $7500 View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

Buick 2006 Lucerne CX alloy wheels, ABS, traction control, V6, great gas mileage, all the luxury without the cost!

Stk#487181 only $12,477.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

1745 W. 19th Terrace (west off Ousdahl and 19th St.)

Buick 2003 Regal LS, leather, power equip, 3.8 V6, very dependable, alloy wheels, nice car!

Stk#142161 only $7,750.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com Cadillac 1999 DeVille, very LOW miles and local two owner clean car! Loaded with optins, excellent condition, Silver with grey interior, and only $5199. See website for photos.

Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/7

Friday & Saturday March 2nd and 3rd 8 a.m.

4924 Colonial Way, Lawrence Kansas

Dodge 2010 Caliber SXT 44K, Inferno Red Are You Drowning In Choices? No More! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Dodge 2007 Magnum Stone White, 57K. Love Your Car! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Don’t see what you want? Give us a call and we can help you find it!

Dale Willey Automotive, just ask for Doug at 785-843-5200 2840 Iowa St. Lawrence.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Ford 2010 Focus SE 33K, Sterling Grey Lawrence’s Favorite On-line Dealership! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102 Ford 2007 Fusion SE. Silver, Clean, and GREAT gas mileage from the 4 cylinder automatic. One of the best cars going, look at this Ford Fusion and compare MY price. See website for photos.

Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/7

Ford 2008 Mustang GT this is one hot ride!

Leather heated seats, Shaker sound system, local trade, very nice!

Stk#58041A2 only $16,654.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

LOOK FOR THE ORANGE SIGNS Name brand women’s clothing, Gap, Old Navy, Macy’s Women’s shoes Old Navy Men’s clothing Men’s shoes Full size bed frame Lawn and garden items patio table, garden pots Household items Kitchen items Some baby & maternity items Petunia pickle bottom diaper bag Holiday décor Popular books & magazines Lots of craft items fabric TV, Speakers and Receiver, TV stand

Farm Equipment

Satellite Receiver, 6’ King Kutter Box Blade, FortecStar Free-to-air Dig- For 3pt. hitch. Used very ital satellite receiver with little, Was $700 New, Will remote control, $100. Call sell for $475 Cash /or best offer. Ken 785-542-5024 785-843-1425 SAVE on Cable TV-Internet-Digital Phone.

Packages start at $89.99/mo (for 12 months.)

Options from ALL major service providers. Call Acceller today to learn more!

CALL 1-877-736-7087

Bicycles-Mopeds

Farm Products Hay for sale, Horse quality, small square bales, brome hay. $7.50 per bale. East Topeka area. 785-221-7396

Cadillac 2005 STS Luxury Performance, heated and cooled seats, remote start, Bose sound, get all the luxury that you deserve!

Stk#414382 only $16,850.

Chevrolet 2007 Cobalt Victory Red, 84K Clean, Local Trade-In Apply On-Line At www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Ford 2008 Taurus Limited AWD one owner, only 14k miles, leather heated seats, alloy wheels, steering wheel controls, home link, very nice!

Stk#343681 only $18,855.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Thicker line?

Bolder heading?

Color background or Logo?

Ask how to get these features in your ad TODAY!!

We buy all Domestic cars, trucks and suvs.

Call Jeremy 785-843-3500

Your

ONLINE AD

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plus a free photo.

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comes with up to 4,000 characters

THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2012 7B

BUSINESS Adult Care Provided

Carpets & Rugs

Computer Running Slow?

Viruses/Malware?

Troubleshooting? Lessons?

Computer Questions, Advise?

We Can Help — 785-979-0838

Loving Caregiver For Your Loved One. 24/7 or live-in. 20yrs. exp.

Prof. references. CALL Yvonne 785-393-3066

Auctioneers BILL FAIR AND COMPANY AUCTIONEERS SINCE 1970 800-887-6929

Automotive Services

IT’S BACK!

FREE CARPET INSTALLATION

One room or your whole house.

IT’S FREE!

Concrete CONCRETE INC. Your local concrete repair specialists Sidewalks, Patios, Driveways

Quality work at a fair price!

Many IN STOCK for Fastest Service!

Decorative & Regular Drives, Walks & Patios Custom Jayhawk Engraving Jayhawk Concrete 785-979-5261

0% Easy Payments*.

Jennings’ Floor Trader

3000 Iowa - 785-841-3838 www.FloorTraderLawrence.com Pre-Shop online at “local store” tab

*Details in Store. Facebook too!

Events/ Entertainment

Guttering Services

Steve’s Place

“where simple ideas become inspiring realities”

• Color & Design • Space Planning • Furniture Layouts • Trade Discounts • Project Management 785-766-9281 originsinteriordesign.com

1388 N 1293 Rd, Lawrence

Financial

Bryant Collision Repair Mon-Fri. 8AM-6PM We specialize in Auto Body Repair, Paintless Dent Repair, Glass Repair, & Auto Accessories.

785-843-5803 bryantcollisionrepair@msn.com. lawrencemarketplace.com/ bryant-collision-repair Buying Junk & Repairable Vehicles.

Cash Paid. Free Tow. U-Call, We-Haul!

Call 785-633-7556

Dale and Ron’s Auto Service

Family Owned & Operated for 37 Years Domestic & Foreign Expert Service 630 Connecticut St

785-842-2108

- Corporate Events, Private Parties, Weddings-

On-Site Cooking Available

Driveways, Parking Lots, Paving Repair, Sidewalks, Garage Floors, Foundation Repair 785-843-2700 Owen 24/7

Cell Phone Service & Repair WIRELESS RESTORE

CELL PHONE REPAIR Buy * Sell * Repair * Smart Phones Tablets Gaming Systems 2201 W 25th St.

785-424-5960

lawrencemarketplace.com/ wirelessrestore

Child Care Provided

Insurance All Your Banking Needs Your Local Lawrence Bank

For All Your Battery Needs Across The Bridge In North Lawrence 903 N 2nd St | 785-842-2922 lawrencemarketplace.com/ battery

Harris Auto Repair

785-838-4488

Hite Collision Repair

“If you want it done right, take it to Hite.”

Auto Body Repair Windshield & Auto Glass Repair 3401 W 6th St (785) 843-8991 http://lawrencemarket place.com/hite

Decks & Fences

CONCRETE INC Your local foundation repair specialist!

Waterproofing, Basement, & Crack Repair

DECK BUILDER

Over 25 yrs. exp.

Licensed & Insured Decks, deck covers, pergolas, screened porches, & all types of repairs Call 913-209-4055 for Free estimates or go to prodeckanddesign.com Looking for Something Creative?

Call Billy Construction Decks, Fences, Etc. Insured. (785) 838-9791 www.billyconstruction.com

Quality work at a fair price!

1-888-326-2799 Toll Free

Concrete, Block & Limestone Wall Repair, Waterproofing Drainage Solutions Sump Pumps, Driveways.

785-843-2700 Owen 24/7

FOUNDATION REPAIR

Mudjacking, Waterproofing. We specialize in Basement Repair & Pressure Grouting.

Level & Straighten Walls & Bracing on wall. BBB .

Free Estimates Since 1962

Wagner’s 785-749-1696 www.foundationrepair.com

Auto-Home- BusinessLife- Health Dennis J. Donnelly Insurance Inc. 913-268-5000 11211 Johnson Dr. insuranceinckc.com

Sales and Service Tires for anything Batteries Brakes Oil Changes Fair and Friendly Customer Service is our trademark 2720 Oregon St. 785-843-3222 Find great offers at

Lawrencemarketplace.com/ kstire

Tires, Alignment, Brakes, A/C, Suspension Repair Financing Available 785-841-6050 1828 Mass. St lawrencemarketplace.com/ performancetire

Westside 66 & Car Wash

Full Service Gas Station 100% Ethanol-Free Gasoline Auto Repair Shop - Automatic Car Washes Starting At Just $3 2815 W 6th St | 785-843-1878 http://lawrencemarketplace. com/westside66

Your locally owned and operated carpet and upholstery cleaning company since 1993!

• 24 Hour Emergency Water Damage Services Available

By Appointment Only

785-842-3311

For Promotions & More Info: http://lawrencemarketplac e.com/kansas_carpet_care

“Your Comfort Is Our Business.”

Installation & Service Residential & Commercial (785) 841-2665

785-550-5610

http://lawrencemarketplace. com/rivercityhvac

Air Conditioning/ & Heating/Sales & Srvs.

• Garage Doors • Openers • Service • Installation Call 785-842-5203 or visit us at Lawrencemarketplace.com /freestategaragedoors

Professional Painters Home, Interior, Exterior Painting, Lead Paint Removal Serving Northeast Kansas 785-691-6050 http://lawrencemarket place.com/primecoat

Water, Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration • Odor Removal • Carpet Cleaning • Air Duct Cleaning •

One Company Is All You Need and One Phone Call Is All You Need To Make (785) 842-0351

Riffel Painting Co. 913-585-1846

Specializing in new homes & Residential interior and exterior repaints Power Washing Deck staining Sheet Rock Repair Quality work and products since 1985

Retirement Community

Plan Now For Next Year • Custom Pools, Spas & Water Features • Design & Installation • Pool Maintenance (785) 843-9119

Drury Place

Live More Pay Less Worry-free life at an affordable price

1510 St. Andrews

785-841-6845

Supplying all your Painting needs.

Serving Lawrence and surrounding areas for over 25 years.

Lawrencemarketplace.com/ druryplace

Thicker line?

Bolder heading?

Color background or Logo?

Locally owned & operated.

Free estimates/Insured.

Pet Services

Ask how to get these features in your ad TODAY!!

midwestcustompools.com

Free Estimates on replacement equipment! Ask us about Energy Star equipment & how to save on your utility bills.

Lawn, Garden & Nursery

Roofing

Roger, Kevin or Sarajane

785-843-2244

www.scott-temperature.com www.lawrencemarketplace. com/scotttemperature

Green Grass Lawn Care

15 yrs exp, Mowing, Yard Clean-up, Tree Trimming, Snow Removal All jobs considered. 785-312-0813 785-893-1509

785-865-0600

Complete Roofing Services Professional Staff Quality Workmanship http://lawrencemarketplace. com/lawrenceroofing

I COME TO YOU!

ROCK-SOD-SOIL-MULCH

Dependable & Reliable pet sitting, feeding, walks, overnights, and more!

References! Insured!

785-550-9289

1783 E 1500 Rd, Lawrence

Professional Service with a Tender Touch

Tearoffs, Reroofs, Redecks * Storm Damage * Leaks * Roof Inspections

Call Calli 785-766-8420

We’re There for You!

For all your Heating, Air Conditioning and Plumbing needs

Complete Roofing

Serving the Douglas & Franklin county areas

PineLandscapeCenter.com Find us on Facebook Pine Landscape Center 785-843-6949

Stress Free for you and your pet.

785-749-4391

www.cnnmobilepetsalons.com

Hilltop Child Development Center, 1605 Irving Hill Road Lawrence, Kansas 785-864-4940 hilltop@ku.edu twitter.com/HilltopCDC Serving Lawrence since 1972.

Licensed Day Care 2 Openings 18 months - 5 years First aid, CPR, SRS

Every ad you place runs

in print and online.

Electrical

www.ah-air.com

Electric & Industrial Supply Pump & Well Drilling Service

Motors - Pumps Complete Water Systems 602 E 9th St | 785-843-4522

• Garage Doors • Openers • Service • Installation

General Services

http://lawrencemarket place.com/patchen

For Everything Electrical Committed to Excellence Since 1972 Full Service Electrical Contractor www.quality-electric.net

785-856-GOLD(4653) Jewelry, coins, silver, watches. Earn money with broken & Unwanted jewelry Accessible and General Public Transportation We provide door-to-door transportation as well as many additional services to residents of Douglas County living with disabilities.

Cleaning Get Lynn on the line!

785-843-LYNN www.lynnelectric.com

Bird Janitorial & Hawk Wash Window Cleaning.

• House Cleaning • Chandeliers • Post Construction • Gutters • Power Washing • Prof Window Cleaning • Sustainable Options Find Coupons & more info: lawrencemarketplace.com/ birdjanitorial Free Est. 785-749-0244

Medical-HealthTherapy

785-594-3357

785-841-3088

WorldClassNEK.com

http://lawrencemarketplce.com/ lynncommunications

Employment Services

Call to schedule a ride: 843-5576 or 888-824-7277 Monday - Friday 7:30 am - 3:30 pm We ask for $2.00 each way.

Even if you don’t have a disability and you live outside the Lawrence City limits, we can help.

Funded in part by KDOT Public Transit Program

Home Improvements Home Repair Services Interior/Exterior Carpentry, Vinyl siding, Roofing, Tearoff/reroof.

35 yrs. exp. Free est.

913-636-1881 JASON TANKING CONSTRUCTION New Construction Framing, Remodels, Additions, Decks Fully Ins. & Lic. 785.760.4066 http://lawrencemarket place.com/jtconstruction

No Job Too Big or Small

Int. & Ext. Remodeling All Home Repairs Mark Koontz

Breathe Holistic Life Center

Yoga is more than getting on the mat.

Live Passionately Yoga Nutrition Classes Relaxation Retreats 1407 Massachusetts 785-218-0174 lawrencemarketplace.com/ breathe

Moving-Hauling

Apply at eapp.adecco.com Or Call (785) 842-1515 BETTER WORK BETTER LIFE lawrencemarketplace.com/ adecco

REMODELING & HANDYMAN SERVICES

• Baths • Kitchens • Rec Rooms • Tile • Windows •Doors •Trim •Wood Rot Since 1974 GARY 785-856-2440 785-925-0803 gwbrown52@sunflower.com www.winston-brown.com Licensed & Insured

(785) 550-1565

www.independenceinc.org

Eco-Friendly Cleaning

Temporary or Contract Staffing Evaluation Hire, Direct Hire Professional Search Onsite Services (785) 749-7550 1000 S Iowa, Lawrence KS lawrencemarketplace.com/ express

Gift Certificates Avail.

Family owned and operated since 1992

Thicker line?

Bolder heading?

Color background or Logo?

Sue Bee’s Cleaning 785-841-2268

Ask how to get these features in your ad TODAY!!

Honest & Dependable Free estimate, References Call Linda 785-691-7999

Housecleaner

Eagles Lodge

Banquet Room Available for Corporate Parties, Wedding Receptions, Fundraisers Bingo Every Friday Night 1803 W 6th St. (785) 843-9690 http://lawrencemarket place.com/Eagles_Lodge

JAYHAWK GUTTERING

Snow Removal Driveways & Sidewalks Full Remodels & Odd Jobs, Interior/Exterior Painting, Installation & Repair of:

Music Lessons

Learn to play 30-50 songs in the first year with Simply Music!

Keys of Joy 785-331-8369 Karla’s Konservatory 785-865-4151

Plumbing

Re-Roofs: All Types Roofing Repairs Siding & Windows FREE Estimates (785) 749-0462 www.meslerroofing.com

Salon & Spa

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MAGILL PLUMBING • Water Line Services • Septic Tanks / Laterals 913-721-3917 Free Estimates Licensed Insured.

RETIRED MASTER PLUMBER & Handyman needs small work.

Bill Morgan 816-523-5703

A. B. Painting & Repair

Taking Care of Lawrence’s Plumbing Needs for over 35 Years (785) 841-2112 lawrencemarketplace.com /kastl

Al 785-331-6994

Recycling Services

Painting

I Will Paint Your Home, Apt. or Place of Business Free Estimates Senior Citizen Discount Exp. professional painter

Call 785-215-4251

jayhawkguttering.com

913-488-7320

Inside - Out Painting Service Complete interior & exterior painting Siding replacement

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785-766-2785

inside-out-paint@yahoo.com Free Estimates Fully Insured Lawrencemarketplace.com/ inside-out-paint

• Hair styling /Coloring • Soft Curl Perms • Nails & Eye Lashes 785-856-9020 2400 Franklin Rd., Suite E LawrenceMarketplace. com/ruffends

Travel Services Lawrence First Class Transportation Limos Corporate Cars Drivers available 24/7

785-841-5466

Lawrencemarkeptlace. com/firstclass

Lawrencemarketplace.com/ keysofjoy

Decks Drywall Siding Gutters Privacy Fencing Doors Trim Insured 20 yrs. experience

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785-764-9582

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Seamless aluminum guttering. Many colors to choose from. Install, repair, screen, clean-out. Locally owned.

Insured. Free estimates.

785-842-0094

Free Estimates

Insurance Work Welcome

WorldClassNEK.com

15yr. locally owned and operated company.

Professionally trained staff. We move everything from fossils to office and household goods.

Call for a free estimate.

785-749-5073 http://lawrencemarketplace. com/starvingartist

NOT Your ordinary bicycle store!

Events/ Entertainment

Prompt Superior Service Residential * Commercial Tear Off * Reroofs

MULTIPLE PHOTOS, MAPS, EVEN VIDEO!

STARVING ARTISTS MOVING

Int/ext. Drywall, Tile, Siding, Wood rot, & Decks 30 plus yrs. Refs. Free Est.

Guttering Services Give your sweetie the gift of cleaning.

mmdownstic@hotmail.com Lawrencemarketplace.com/tic Retired Carpenter, Deck Repairs, Home Repairs, Interior Wall Repair & Painting, Doors, Wood Rot, Powerwash 785-766-5285

785-842-6264

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ENHANCE your listing with

Haul Free: Salvageable items. Minimum charge: other moving/hauling jobs.

Also Maintenance/Cleaning for home/business, inside/out plumbing / electrical & more. www.a2zenterprises.info 785-841-6254

PIANO LESSONS

Janitorial Services Business-Commercial-Industrial Housecleaning Carpet Cleaning Tile & Grout Cleaning The “Greener Cleaner” Locallly Owned Since 1983 Free Estimates

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Office* Clerical* Accounting Light Industrial* Technical Finance* Legal

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Specializing in Carpet, Tile & Upholstery cleaning. Carpet repairs & stretching, Odor Decontamination, Spot Dying & 24 hr Water extraction. www.doctor-clean.com 785-840-4266

Call Lyndsey 913-422-7002

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Commercial &Residential 24 hour Service

Serving KC over 40 years 913-962-0798 Fast Service

Carpet Cleaning Kansas Carpet Care, Inc.

Low Maintenance Landscape, Inc.

Fast Quality Service

785-764-6660

K’s Tire

Landscaping Heating & Cooling

Garage Doors

Dirt-Manure-Mulch

Rich Black Top Soil No Chemicals Machine Pulverized Pickup or Delivery

Domestics and Imports Brake repair Engine repair AC repair / service Custom exhaust systems Shock & Struts Transmissions Tire sales / repairs lawrencemarketplace.com/ harrisauto

ADVANCED SYSTEMS Basement & foundation repair Your hometown company Over three decades 785-841-0145 mybasementiscracked.com

• Decks • Gazebos • Framing • Siding • Fences • Additions • Remodel • Weatherproofing & Staining Insured, 20 yrs. experience.

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Interior/Exterior Painting

Quality Work Over 20 yrs. exp.

Free Quote

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Stacked Deck

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• Unsightly black streaks of mold & dirt on your roof?

• Mold or Mildew on your house?

• Is winter salt intrusion causing your concrete to flake?

785-842-3030

Foundation Repair

Family Owned & Operated

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Int/Ext/Specialty Painting Siding, Wood Rot & Decks Kate, 785-423-4464 www.kbpaintingllc.com

Mobile Enviro-Wash LTD

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- Full Service Caterer Specializing in smoked meats & barbeque

Repairs and Services

Origins Interior Design

Banquet Hall available for wedding receptions, birthday parties, corporate meetings & seminars.

For more info. visit http://lawrencemarket place.com/stevesplace

www.lawrenceautodiag.com

Oakley Creek Catering

Painting

1-888-326-2799 Toll Free

Catering 785-842-8665

Instruction and Tutoring

785-843-2174

All the latest styles and most popular colors!

Limited Time Only!

Auto Maintenance and Repair

Computer/Internet

Call 866-823-8220 to advertise.

Tree/Stump Removal Chris Tree Service

20yrs. exp. Trees trimmed, cut down, hauled off.

Free Est. Ins. & Lic. 913-631-7722, 913-301-3659

Fredy’s Tree Service

12th & Haskell Recycle Center, Inc. No Monthly Fee Always been FREE! Cash for all Metals 1146 Haskell Ave, Lawrence 785-865-3730 http://lawrencemarketplace. com/recyclecenter Lonnie’s Recycling Inc. Buyers of aluminum cans, all type metals & junk vehicles. Mon.-Fri. 8-5, Sat. 8-4, 501 Maple, Lawrence.

785-841-4855 lawrencemarketplace.com/ lonnies

cutdown• trimmed• topped Licensed & Insured.

14 yrs experience.

913-441-8641 913-244-7718

Vacuum Service & Repair DAVE BALES Vacuum Cleaner, Sewing Machine, Lamp Sales & Repair. All makes & models All Panasonic, Royal, Sanitaire vacuums on sale “now!” 935 Iowa St. Suite#9, Lawrence Ks 785-550-7315

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8B THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2012 Cars-Domestic Cars-Imports

Jaguar 2007 X-Type All Wheel Drive. Local car, extremely clean and well equipped. Cream leather interior with heated seats.

Traded in on newer Jaguar.

Beautiful Dark Chili Red, like new condition. Great price! See website for photos.

Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/7 7

Ford 2002 Thunderbird local trade, very sharp, only 25k miles, alloy wheels, cd changer, power equipment, stk#56689B1 only $20,850.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com Lincoln 1994 Towncar, Auto, V8, RWD, Four brand new tires w/65,000 mile warranty & brand new spare tire. Just replaced serpentine belt. Cruise, PS, PW, PL, AC, Alloy wheels, dual power (leather) seats, AM/ FM stereo/cassette, approx.

174K mi. Fair cond. Only serious inquries please.

Bluebook value is $1,672.

Call with an offer at 785760-3501.

Pontiac 2007 Grand Prix GXP, V8, local trade, leather, sunroof, remote start, Monsoon sound, XM, On Star, very nice!

Stk#537472 only $16,755.

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Pontiac 2008 G6 sedan, 4cyl, great gas mileage and room for the family, stk#16670 only $10,854.

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Pontiac 2009 Torrent AWD, V6, alloy wheels, roof rack, ABS, very sporty, stk#194281 only $16,823.

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Saturn 2008 Outlook XR leather heated memory seats, remote start, alloy wheels, 22 mpg with room for 7, GM certified and more.

Stk#10044 only $22,850.

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Volkswagen 2011 CC 2.0T, leather heated seats, alloy wheels, local one owner trade in, power equipment, only 14k miles, save huge over new!

Stk#421061 only $25,884.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

WE BUY CARS Top dollar for top late model vehicles.

Drive in, see Danny or Jeff and get your big bucks today!

2840 Iowa St. Lawrence.

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Cars-Imports Toyota 2006 Camry LE 65k, Dark Grey Metallic From Lawrence’s Favorite On-line Dealership! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Kia 2008 Spectra EX. ONE owner, NO accident, very clean four door automatic.

Still has factory warranty!

32 MPG highway and side airbags. Lot of car for under $10k. See website for photos.

Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/7 .

Buick 2010 Lucerne CXL, GM Certified, leather, alloy wheels, On Star, XM radio, very nice!

Stk#14297 only $21,500 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Ford 2010 Fusion SE, Auto, 4cyl, 22-29MPG, 1owner, CD/SYNC, 17” Alloy, PW, PL, Cruise, 114K, $11,900.

View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

GMC 2009 Acadia SLT, sunroof, abs, remote start, alloy wheels, On Star, Bose sound, very nice!

Stk#490711 only $27,884.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Honda 2009 Accord EX 52K, Alabaster Silver Love Your Car! Apply On-Line At www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Honda 2010 Accord EXL, one owner local trade, sunroof, leather heated seats, alloy wheels, very nice!

Stk#306421 only $21,988.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Honda 2008 Accord LX sedan, 4cyl, great gas mileage, ABS, power equipment, front wheel drive, stk#197361 only $14,755.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Honda 2009 Civic LX Alabaster Silver, 34K Perfect! And Just for YOU! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Mazda 2005 Tribute, One owner vehicle in excellent condition and low mileage!

Completely loaded with V6, leather, moonroof, power/heated seats, rear spoiler and 6 CD changer.

Very well maintained with 90,000 miles. $8,500. Please email tia@sunflower.com or call 785-766-5108 if interested.

Nissan 2003 Maxima GLE in gleaming navy blue. Last year for this super popular body style. Add in gray leather, moonroof, famous Nissan V6, and you have another Rueschhoff rre find! See website for photos.

Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/7

Nissan 2010 Versa 1.8 S 30K, Brilliant Silver etallic, Swear By Your Car, Not At It! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

2829 Iowa St.

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Scion 2009 XD, 35K Silver, 4 Door Hatch-back,

Nissan 2007 Versa S, power equip, like new, choose from two starting at only $12,762. stk# 14043.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/7

Saturn 2008 Astra XR 45K, Arctic White Get a “For The People Credit Approval” From The “Dealer For The People”

Toyota 2009 Camry SE, FWD, 4cyl, Auto, 1owner, Rear Spolier, 17” Alloy, Tint, PW,PL, Cruise, 100K, $14,900 .

View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

Chevrolet 2009 Cobalt LT, FWD, 4cyl, great commuter car! Alloy wheels, power equipment, great gas mileage! Stk#397901 only $10,774 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

The Selection

Subaru 2006 Forester 2.5 XT, Leather, Moon, Cruise, HomeLink, Heated Seats, 6Disc, 88K, $15,900 View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

Truck-Pickups

GM CERTIFIED is not like any other dealer backed warranty. Don’t let the other dealers tell you any different. Dale Willey Automotive is the only dealer in Lawrence that GM Certifies their cars and trucks.

Come see the difference!

Call for details.

785-843-5200 ask for Allen

Toyota 2004 4Runner SR5 60K, Natural White Don’t Miss This One! Apply On-Line At www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Truck-Pickups

Subaru 2008 Outback AWD 2.5I, V6, power equipment, cruise control, alloy wheels, very sharp!

Stk#18412 only $19,877.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

GMC 2008 Sierra SLE, 4WD Crew cab, diesel, one owner, local trade, GM certified, very nice!

Stk#516891 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

GMC 2006 Sierra SLT crew cab, diesel, one owner, loaded.

This won’t last long!!

Stk#383811 only $26,841.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Sport Utility-4x4 Toyota 2010 Corolla, CE Barcelona Red, 48K Can you believe It?! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

LOW! LOW! LOW! INTEREST RATES ON ALL USED VEHICLES AVAILABLE ONLY AT DALE WILLEY AUTOMOTIVE!

Chevrolet 2008 Equinox AWD V6 LT, very hard to find, alloy wheels, On Star, GM Certified! Two years of maintenance included! Stk#18192 only $19,415.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Toyota 2009 Corolla XLE, 4cyl, 27-35MPG, 1owner, CD, PW, PL, Cruise, Only 9448 miles, $14,900.

View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

Toyota 2009 Yaris HB 32K, Black Sand We Have Several 2 Door AND 4 Door Hatchbacks To Choose From.

See Us Today!

Apply On-Line At www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Chevrolet 2009 Traverse LS AWD, GM certified, great room for the family with room for seven, stk#17729. Only $23,777, hurry this won’t last long at this price!

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

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Chevrolet 2008 Silverado LT1, Crew cab, Z71, remote start, alloy wheels, tow package, On Star, running boards, GM Certified with 12 month or 12k bumper to bumper warranty!

Stk#14272 only $26,500 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

$4,397

for your old car Today PLUS

Volkswagen 2008 Rabbit 48K, 4 Door, Silver Apply On-Line www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Volvo 2003 S80 T6, FWD, Twin Turbo V6, 1owner, Leather, Moon, 17” Alloy, 101K, $9500 View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

$500

Chevy 2007 Equinox AWD LS, V6, alloy wheels, steering wheel controls, On Star, cruise control, power equipment and affordable. Only $14,855. stk#10266 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Bonus for driving it in!

CREDIT?

Normal lending criteria requirements reduced for this Special Event!

BEST! BLEMISHED BRUSIED OR requiring a tax-refund style down payment- we will have you approved and driving away your Nicer, Newer car-Today!

Chevy 2008 Equinox AWD LT, GM Certified, 12 month or 12k bumper to bumper warranty, sunroof, remote start, alloy wheels, On Star, stk#12515 only $18,254.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

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Volvo 2007 S-60 2.5T, leather, sunroof, alloy wheels, power equipment, stk#12542 only $17,441.

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Academy Cars EZ Trade

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Ford 2009 Escape XLT 52K, Dark Blue Grey See Us Today!

Apply On-Line At www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Jeep 2008 Commander 70K, Black Lifetime Engine Warranty! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Crossovers

GMC 2009 Acadia SLT, sunroof, abs, remote start, alloy wheels, On Star, Bose sound, very nice!

Stk#490711 only $27,884.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Chevrolet 2008 Uplander LS, GM Certified, 12 month or 12k bumper to bumper warranty at no extra charge, plenty of room for the family and your budget!

Only $13,577.00 stk#14690 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

We are now your Chevrolet dealer, call us for your service or sales needs!

Dale Willey Automotive 785-843-5200

Vans-Buses

Dodge 2009 Dakota Quad Cab With Topper!!!

72K, Big Horn Edition Apply On-Line www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Dodge 2010 Ram 2500 Bright White, 50K Lifetime Engine Warranty?Yes!!! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Buick 2007 Terraza CXL these have got to be one of the nicest mini-vans that you will ever look at.

Stk#645461 only $12,877.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

(with approved credit)

www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Ford 2008 Escape XLT 4cyl, fwd, ABS, traction control, cd changer, alloy wheels, power equipment, great gas mileage, stk#564292 only $15,776.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Mercury 2009 Milan Premier, V6, leather heated seats, alloy wheels, steering wheel controls, CD changer, SYNC, a lot of luxury at a low price! Only $14,226. stk#16157 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Toyota 2006 Tundra, 68K, Access Cab. You Have the Right to a Fair and Easy Credit Approval Process! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

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Academy Cars Kermit Says “It ain’t easy being Green” Lonnie Says “Recylce your old car Today!”

Jeep 2004 Grand Cherokee Special Edition.

Local trade-in, great condition, leather, heated seats, moonroof, and much more.

Super SUV at a great price!

See website for photos.

Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/7

Kia 2010 Sportage LX Black Cherry, 49K Lifetime Engine Warranty? Yes!!!

Dodge 2011 Ram SLT 4WD, 5.7 V8 Crew cab, with only 5k miles! Why buy new when you can save thousands!

Stk#359911 only $27,988.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Ford 2009 Escape Limited 4cyl, FWD, hard to find!

Sunroof, leather heated seats, power equipment, alloy wheels, low miles! Stk#10933A only $19,767.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Ford 2004 F250 FX4 Lariat, 4wd, diesel, crew cab, leather heated seats, power rear window, soft tonneau cover, and more! Stk#507901 only $19,444.00 hurry it won’t last long!

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Ford 1998 F150 Nascar Edition, alloy wheels, soft tonneau cover, very nice! You gotta see this one!

Stk#520443 only $7,800.

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www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Chrysler 2008 Town & Country Limited, one owner, power lift gate, ABS, traction control, leather heated memory seats, DVD, navigation, loaded up! Stk#537501 only $19,877.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Dodge 2008 Caravan CV 31K, Bright White Does Your Business Need A Clean Cargo Van? Apply On-Line At www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Dodge 2010 Caravan’s starting at $17,741.00, stk#13599, 3 to choose from, hurry for best selection on these like new, low miled, vans.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Saturn 2009 Vue 38K, Hybrid, Black Don’t Miss This One! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Jeep 2009 Wrangler Sahara, 4WD, hard top one owner, only 4K miles, running boards, alloy wheels, and more!

You’ve gotta see this one!

Stk#533482 only $26,455 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

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Premium selected automobiles Specializing in Imports www.theselectionautos.com 785-856-0280 “We can locate any vehicle you are looking for.”

Sport Utility-4x4

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Chevrolet 2006 Trailblazer 74K, White 4X4, Call Today! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Infiniti 2003 I35.

Pearl white with tan leather and Nissan 2008 350Z Nismo, 6sp, one owner, very moonroof, very popular sharp! You have got to combination.

Essentially see this one, come on in same car as a Maxima, but for a test drive! fancier. Very nice sedan Stk#564932 . w/famous Nissan V6, and Dale Willey 785-843-5200 automatic. A great buy! www.dalewilleyauto.com See website for photos.

Rueschhoff Automobiles Porsche 1987 944. Local rueschhoffautos.com trade-in priced for quick 2441 W. 6th St. sale. red, tan interior, 132K 785-856-6100 24/ /7 miles. Only $2700. See website for photos.

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We buy cars, trucks and suvs for all Import Brands.

Call David 785-838-2327

Mazda 2003 Tribute alloy wheels, front wheel drive, 4 cylinder, great gas mileage, power equipment, low miles, only $9,833. stk#366681 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Scion 2008 xD 41K, Barcelona Red Apply On-Line At www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Cadillac 2007 STS AWD, very nice! Heated and cooled seats, On Star, alloy wheels, leather, sunroof, and much more, only $16421. stk#164602 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Volkswagen 2009 New Beetle 42K, Candy White, Now More Than Ever, Apply On-Line At www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Nissan 2011 Versa Don’t buy new!

Save thousands with these great commuter cars! 2 to choose from starting at $13,400 stk#12767 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Crossovers

Are You Listening?

Mitsubishi 2008 Ecplise GS 48K, Sunset Pearl Metallic You Have the Right to a Fear-Free Car-Buying Experience! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102 Nissan 2001 Altima Limited Edition. Super clean car in silver with gray clean cloth. Automatic, four door with great gas mileage, all for under $5000.

See website for photos.

Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/7

Cadillac 2005 SRX AWD luxury package, ultra sunroof, leather heated seats, loaded!

Stk#627842 only $16,441.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Toyota 2009 Camry LE, very dependable, power equipment and much more, stk#681121 only $16,436.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Lexus 1999 ES300. Shiny black, tan leather heated seats, and moonroof.

GREAT combination! Lexus is always tops in ratings.

Automatic and moonroof.

See website for photos.

Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/7

Mazda 2007 Mazda 5 Sport 46K, Brilliant Black 6 Passenger Comfort, Can You Imagine?

And Fuel Economy Too! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Crossovers

Cadillac 2005 SRX 76K, White Diamond See Us Today!

Apply On-Line At www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Kia 2006 Amanti Silver, 56K Lifetime Engine Warranty! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

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Pontiac 2009 G6 GT one owner, GM Certified, sunroof, V6, remote start, On Star, alloy wheels, stk#162281 only $13,843.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Cars-Imports

Buick 2008 Enclave CXL, fwd, room for seven, premium wheels, remote start, sunroof, leather heated seats, navigation, Bose sound and much more, stk#494541 only $24,995.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Lincoln 2008 MKX Ultimate Elite Package, power liftgate, 20” wheels, Sync sound, ultra sunroof, leather heated and cooled seats, DVD, navigation, and more! Stk#627841 only $25,302.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyautos.com

Mazda 2004 Tribute LX. Another very nice Tribute, this one in a nice blue and grey color combination.

Automatic, V6, FWD. Very clean and a super economical small SUV. See website for photos Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/7

Ford 2010 F150 XLT 4wd, crew cab, one owner, SYNC radio, alloy wheels, steering wheel controls, tow package, bed mat, stk#191211 only $26,888 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Subaru 2006 Outback 2.5L Wagon, AWD, Leather, Moon, Htd. Seats, Alloy, CD, 75k, $15,900.

View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

Gay son should contact mom, despite hostile family Annie’s Mailbox

Marcy Sugar and Kathy Mitchell anniesmailbox@comcast.net

Should I take the higher road and contact my mother, or hold to the firm ideal that my spouse is more important and I must put him first? — Gay and Proud Son Dear Proud Son: There is no reason this must be a zero-sum game. You already have put your husband first. It doesn’t mean you cannot stay in contact with people you love (and who, presumably, still love you) within limited, controlled boundaries. If visiting Mom with your husband is not possible and visiting without

‘Awake’ is quite good; will it last?

Is “Awake” (9 p.m., NBC) a new cop drama? A psychological thriller? A fantasy? The only thing we know for certain is that it asks us to wonder where real life ends and dreams begin. And that’s just for starters. ‘‘Awake” begins with a horrible accident that sends a car containing Detective Michael Britten (Jason Isaacs), his son (Dylan Minnette) and wife (Laura Allen) hurtling down a ravine. In the following scenes we attend a funeral and then see Britten’s wife trying to cope with the loss of their son by redecorating their home. Britten buries himself in work with a new partner (Wilmer Valderrama). The force also assigns Britten to a therapist, Dr. John Lee (BD Wong), to work out his issues.

But when Britten goes to sleep, he enters a dream state where his wife has been killed and his son has survived. His partner is Detective Isaiah “Bird” Freeman (Steve Harris), and the policeassigned therapist is Dr. Judith Evans (Cherry Jones).

Both dream states appear to be real, or as real as each other. He confides in each therapist about the existence of the other. Clues from each world’s crimes seem eerily similar. His wife doesn’t want to hear about his parallel life with a still-living son. And Britten is in no hurry to be cured of a “madness” that allows him to cling to both loved ones. ‘‘Awake” is a smart and compelling drama with good performances all around. The photography’s super-saturated colors bring an elevated sense of reality to these dueling dream states. As good as “Awake” is, it would probably work best as a limited-run miniseries and not as a traditional TV drama airing week after week, presumably for years on end. ‘‘Lost” was mysterious and dark and it had a long run. But it had a huge cast that grew exponentially every time it found a new set of “others.” Living in Britten’s personal waking nightmare is simply too much to ask of a large television audience.

Tonight’s other highlights

Rob’s dad puts on a charm offensive on the season finale of “Rob” (7:30 p.m., CBS).

Finalists emerge on “American Idol” (7 p.m., Fox).

Frank fools his mother on “30 Rock” (7 p.m., NBC).

Retail calls on “The Office” (8 p.m., NBC).

The 2010 documentary “Family Affair” (7 p.m., OWN) looks at a family’s history of violence and dysfunction.

BIRTHDAYS

Singer Harry Belafonte is 85.

Former U.S. Solicitor General Robert H. Bork is 85. Actor Robert Conrad is 77. Rock singer Mike D’Abo (Manfred Mann) is 68. Rock singer Roger Daltrey is 68. Actor Dirk Benedict is 67. Actor Alan Thicke is 65. Actor-director Ron Howard is 58. Actress Catherine Bach is 58. Actor Russell Wong is 49. Actor Javier Bardem is 43. TV host Donovan Patton is 34. Pop singer Justin Bieber is 18.

him is not acceptable, you do not have to see her.

But please call. You may not get another chance, and you shouldn’t have any regrets.

Dear Annie: I’ve been married to “Ralph” for 30 years. His hearing has gotten worse, and the TV is so loud that I end up with a headache every night. I have told him this, but he says I’m exaggerating. Yet, when the windows are open, we have had complaints from the neighbors.

Every mention of his hearing ends in a fight.

He gets defensive, says he’s being picked on and generally acts like a 5-year-old. Our 23-yearold daughter is in the process of relocating, and instead of staying with us, she prefers to sleep on a friend’s sofa.

Ralph is up late every night watching TV. I use earplugs, but our daughter can’t use them or she won’t hear her alarm.

We even bought him a

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cordless headphone set for the TV, but he tried it twice and stopped.

Even the suggestion of hearing aids sends him into a frenzy of denial. He reads your column. Maybe he’ll see himself. — Stressed Out from Loud TV Dear Stressed: Many people are in denial about their hearing loss.

But it is a common problem and refusing to address it won’t make it go away. If you would provoke an argument by suggesting he check out the American SpeechLanguage-Hearing Association (asha.org) or the Hearing Loss Association of America (hearingloss.org), leave the information on a piece of paper taped to the TV.

Universal Crossword Edited by Timothy E. Parker March 1, 2012

— Send questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or Annie’s Mailbox, P.O. Box 118190 Chicago, IL 60611.

JACQUELINE BIGAR’S STARS

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For Thursday, March 1: This year you open up because of a willingness to go within. Your ability to communicate also is heightened.

Be careful when handling what you might consider to be difficult feelings, but do not run away from them. Try to express hurt before it evolves into anger. If you are single, developing a stable relationship this year could be challenging. If you are attached, you and your significant other often find yourselves at odds.

The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult.

Aries (March 21-April 19) You might know a little too much. Be discreet, and keep your observations to yourself. Tonight: Hang out with your buddies.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) Deal with finances directly.

An emotional risk or monetary gamble could easily backfire and be the source of an argument. Tonight: Your treat!

Gemini (May 21-June 20) There is an underlying sense of dissatisfaction that keeps bubbling up from out of nowhere.

You know what is going on, and you know where you are heading.

Tonight: Discuss this issue with the other party involved.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) You might be taken aback by the harshness of your words, even in a simple conversation. Stop and root out some rather strong feelings, even if you are uncomfortable.

Tonight: Soul-searching.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Zero in on your priorities in meetings and discussions. You could overspend without intending to cause yourself a problem.

Tonight: Let your hair down.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Without intending to, you could be sarcastic and cop an attitude out of the blue. Your smile draws many people, and you do not want to push them away. Tonight: Burning the midnight oil.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Your ability to detach from a situation could earmark your ability to get to the root of a problem. Use intellect rather than emotion, and you will succeed. Tonight: Put on music and relax.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You are driven to succeed, but you need to work or brainstorm with a key associate or partner. Together, you are more likely to pull off the impossible. Tonight: An intense conversation.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Others continue to run the show. Someone could be irate or angry with you. Tonight: So many choices.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You might not be very stable right now. Detach rather than get angry. Tonight: Go for an escape.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) You can do nothing with a partner or associate who decides to go on the warpath. Let your imagination and intellect merge when dealing with issues. Tonight: Be a wild thing.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) You are focused on a personal matter and become even more distracted because of your interactions with others. You do not know what to do. Tonight: Be unavailable.

ACROSS 1 Amp input label 4 It calls the kettle black 7 Write-___ (some nominees) 10 Possesses 13 Vowconfirming phrase 14 Disconnect a trailer 16 Marching creature 17 Type of bookkeeping system 19 1,501, Roman-style 20 “Mon Oncle” director 21 “No, that’s not a typo” 22 “What a Piece of Work ___” (“Hair” song) 24 Chorus from the pews 26 Climbing a rope, in a way 29 Blood relatives 30 “Manner” attachment 32 Small official seals 33 Ultimate purpose 35 Church vestment 36 Valuable deposit 37 Hotel option 40 “Spy vs.

Spy” mag 42 Running a fever 43 Glasgow girls 47 Longtime

“60 Minutes” correspondent Mike 49 Musket attachment?

50 Finish a fast 51 According to popular suspicion 53 Blackboard material 55 Tuscan marble city 56 “... ___ the land of the free” 58 A ruler before the revolution 59 Barbecue site 60 Horse-racing hat trick 64 Dos Passos trilogy 65 Resident of Indiana 66 “In your dreams!” in Dundee 67 “La ___” (Debussy piece) 68 Beard of barley 69 Banned bug bane 70 Damascus’ land (Abbr.)

DOWN 1 Gaffe 2 The “king” in “The Last King of Scotland” 3 Allege or vie 4 Old Afghan coin 5 Unidentified people 6 Belief in one God 7 Addams Family

member 8 Big name in cash machines 9 ___ away from (timidly avoiding) 10 More theatrical 11 A little slower than moderato 12 Injuries near beehives 15 Snowfall measure 18 Juniper berry concoction 23 Ecclesiastical assemblies 25 Tower beside a barn 27 Minute land mass 28 Tiny bit of food 31 Artificial channel 34 Befuddles 35 Monopolist’s portion 38 Drained

liquid from 39 All ___ (attentive) 40 A feeling of discomfort 41 Very skilled athlete 44 Annual foursome 45 Corrode 46 Tougher, as a parent 47 Beaded cash 48 Christie of mysteries 49 It may be closed for the night 52 Cuts (off), as a branch 54 8 1/2” x 11” paper size (Abbr.)

57 Thatch material 61 Propel a boat 62 Lithium-___ battery 63 Old-style computer monitor, for short

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Dear Annie: My spouse and I are in a 40-year same-sex relationship.

Seven years ago, we had a legal marriage, but my family refused to recognize it. My brother’s wife went so far as to write letters to the local newspaper urging repeal of the law. My youngest sister said, “We were ordered not to deal with you any longer.” Needless to say, I ended all relationships that did not accept my new husband.

Following retirement, my husband and I moved to another state. I recently heard that my mother is in very poor health.

Since I was always the one who helped and organized things in my family, I feel the need to assist.

But, Annie, I struggled for 30 years to be able to say “I do.” Their lack of recognition makes it hard to have anything to do with them until they first apologize to me and, in particular, to my husband.

43 Glasgow girls 47 Longtime

Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by the above cartoon.

A: Yesterday’s

(Answers tomorrow) VENOM FLINCH BETRAY Jumbles: GRILL Answer: In a leap year, which months have 29 days? — ALL OF THEM

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OUR TOWN SPORTS Lawrence swim team and lessons: Ad Astra Area Aquatics is a competitive year-round swim team that offers practices for ages 6-18 throughout the week. AAAA is always accepting new members.

For information, visit adastraareaaquatics.org or call Patrick at 3316940.

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Aquahawks openings: The Lawrence Aquahawks swimming team is always accepting new members. The Aquahawks are a year-round USA Swimming-sponsored competitive swim team.

The Aquahawks offer a swim lesson program and competitive swim team for all ages. The Aquahawks are coached by professional coaches with weekly practices geared toward a variety of skill levels.

For information contact Zach at 785-393-7966 or zach@aquahawks.org.

LET US KNOW Do you have a camp or a tournament or a sign-up session on tap?

How about someone who turned in a noteworthy performance? We’d like you to tell us about it. Mail it to Our Town Sports, Journal-World, Box 888, Lawrence 66044, fax it to 785 8434512, e-mail to sportsdesk@ljworld.com or call 832-7147.

premier teams in Lawrence.

We are currently recruiting for U9 (2nd and 3rd grades) and U10 (4th grade) girls teams. Teams are being formed now with practices in Lawrence and league play in the Spring Heartland Soccer League. For additional information, please contact Dan Stevens, Director of Coaching, 913-952-5264 or dstevens@kccoresoccer. com, or coach Riny DeBoer at rinydeboer@hotmail. com.

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Softball registration: O Lawrence Girls Fast Pitch ‘Pi Day’ half-marathon Softball Registration runs slated: The Lawrence Trail Feb. 1-April 2 for all age Hawks will host the “Pi Day groups — 8U, 10U, 12U, 14U and 16U. The 8U River Rotation Half-Marathon (13.1 miles) Trail Race” Division-Machine Pitch teams will be formed by on March 4 on the Kansas individual registrations River trail system. The from schools and grades.

Pi-Day River Rotation Half Marathon Trail Race begins 8U players must be 8 years of age or younger and ends by the Kansas on Jan. 1, 2012. Cost is River Trails trailhead, just $65 per child. The 10U, off Eighth and Oak streets in North Lawrence. Informa- 12U, 14U and 16U diviO sions will be Team Regtion is available online at Sidekicks seeking: istrations. Fee: $900 per www.Lawrencetrailhawks.

The 12U Lawrence Sideteam. Player’s eligibility is com. kicks are looking for one determined by age as of O pitcher and possibly one Jan.1, 2012. No more than Youth soccer camps: position player for the 8 teams in each division.

Several “You are fantasupcoming year. Contact For information, call 832tic” youth soccer camps Michael Monroe at 7940, email dpeterson@ are slated on the Kansas (785)423-1532 or e-mail lawrenceks.org or go to hornet@sunflower.com to University campus, all www.lprd.org and click on in room 215 at Robinson schedule a tryout.

Youth Sports.

Gym. Coed third through O O eighth grades: 5:30-7 p.m.

10-U Phenix: The 10U Rebels fundraiser: Mondays; coed preschoolLawrence Phenix is looking third grades: 6-7:15 p.m.

A silent auction/poker for a couple of players to tournament fundraiser for Tuesdays; girls K-4: 5:30-7 round out the roster. Please p.m. Wednesdays; girls the Kansas Rebels 10U will contact Rick Ross at 620- fourth-eighth grades: 5:30- be 6:30-10:30 p.m. Friday 491-3260 or email soon7 p.m. Thursdays. Walk-ons at Alvamar Country Club. ers_fan23@yahoo.com for welcome through March For information, email Pat more information and to 15. For information, contact Karlin at kufireman@sbcschedule a tryout. coach Riny at rinydeboer@ global.net. hotmail.com.

O O Cycling team: Join Facility available: An O Team GP VeloTek (www.

FUNdamental Softball: indoor baseball practice fagpvelotek.com) to improve cility is available for team/ Learn the proper mechanyour road cycling. Open to individual rental. Free or ics and techniques to youth and adults from beplaying softball. Emphasis low-cost baseball lessons ginners to advance cyclists. placed on fundamental available to children of low We even have free loaner income families. Visit www. instruction teaching the bikes for kids, too. Contact aspects of pitching, catch- thefacilitylawrence.com for coach Jim Whittaker at information, or call 785ing, fielding, base-running 913.269.VELO or velotek@ and hitting. Coach and 230-9624 aol.com. team consulting available, O too. Sessions held at Big O LPRD registrations: Springs Sports Facility. For Lawrence Parks and RecreIndoor facility: An information contact Luindoor baseball/softball ation Department is taking Ann Metsker at 785-331- team registration for spring practice facility is avail9438 or dmgshowpig@aol. adult softball, kickball, able in Big Springs, with com. five full-size batting cages, volleyball and basketball. three pitching tunnels and Deadline is March 9. For O an 70-by-70-foot open area information, call 832-7920 Douglas County Amathat can be expanded to or visit www.lprd.org. teur Baseball: Lawrence 140-by-70. For information, Parks & Recreation still O visit www.BigSpringsShas a few team openings Ump orientation: An ports.com or call 785-887- in both the U8 and U12 orientation meeting for 6700. divisions of its more comindividuals interested in O petitive baseball leagues. becoming an umpire for Deadline for team entries KVSA registration: adult softball or kickball is the first eight teams per Registration is open for for the upcoming season division.

For information the Kaw Valley Soccer Aswill be held at 10:00 sociation’s spring soccer, contact Lee Ice at ice@ a.m. Saturday, at the lawrenceks.org with age groups from 3 to Lawrence Indoor Aquatic O U19. Deadline is March 15.

Center, 4706 Overland For information, call 749Drive. For information, Premier soccer open5872 or email kirsten@ call 832-7920 visit ings: KC Core Soccer of Lawrence is forming new kawvalleysoccer.com. www.lprd.org.

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MILLSAP & SINGER, LLC By: (First published in the Law- Jeremy M. Hart, #20886 rence Daily Journal-World jhart@msfirm.com February 23, 2012) Jennifer L. Michaels, #24256 jmichaels@msfirm.com IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF Chad R. Doornink, #23536 DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS cdoornink@msfirm.com CIVIL DEPARTMENT Lindsey L. Craft, #23315 lcraft@msfirm.com The Bank of New York Mel- 11460 Tomahawk Creek lon, as Trustee for CIT Parkway, Ste 300 Mortgage Loan Trust 2007-1 Leawood, KS 66211 Plaintiff, (913) 339-9132 vs.

(913) 339-9045 (fax) Rebecca Fonseca, et al.

ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF Defendants.

MILLSAP & SINGER, LLC AS Case No. 10CV769 ATTORNEYS FOR THE BANK Court No. 8 OF NEW YORK MELLON, AS TRUSTEE FOR CIT MORTTitle to Real Estate Involved GAGE LOAN TRUST 2007-1 IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A Pursuant to K.S.A. §60 DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE NOTICE OF SALE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. ________ NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that under and by virtue of (First published in the Lawan Order of Sale issued to rence Daily Journal-World me by the Clerk of the DisFebruary 16, 2012) trict Court of Douglas County, Kansas, the underIN THE DISTRICT COURT OF signed Sheriff of Douglas DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS County, Kansas, will offer for sale at public auction and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand at The Jury Assembly Room located in the lower level of the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center building of the Douglas County Courthouse, Kansas, on

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March 15, 2012 at the time The State of Kansas to Jefof 10:00 AM, the following frey Lee Carlson: real estate: You are notified that a Petition for Divorce was filed in LOT TWENTY-TWO (22), IN the District Court of DougBLOCK FOUR (4), IN PRAIRIE las County, Kansas, asking PARK ADDITION NO. 2, SUB- that the person filing the DIVISION IN THE CITY OF divorce be granted a diLAWRENCE, IN DOUGLAS vorce and asking that the COUNTY, KANSAS. Tax ID court make other orders in No. U18524-32, Commonly that divorce matter. You known as 2941 Whitmore must file an answer to the Drive, Lawrence, KS 66046 Petition for Divorce with (“the Property”) the court and provide a MS#121831 copy to the filing spouse on or before March 28, 2012, to satisfy the judgment in which shall not be less than the above entitled case. 41 days after first publicaThe sale is to be made tion of this Notice of Suit, or without appraisement and the court will enter judgsubject to the redemption ment against you on that period as provided by law, Petition. and further subject to the approval of the Court. /s/ Kathlene Lynn Carlson Petitioner Douglas County Sheriff ________

In the Matter of the Marriage of Kathlene Lynn Carlson and Jeffrey Lee Carlson Case No. 2012 DM 117 NOTICE OF SUIT

(First published in the Lawrence Daily Journal-World March 1, 2012) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS CIVIL DEPARTMENT Federal National Mortgage Association Plaintiff, vs.

Lynette Lottinville aka Lynette L Lottinville, et al.

Defendants.

Case No. 11CV685 Court No. 5 Title to Real Estate Involved Pursuant to K.S.A. §60 NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that under and by virtue of an Order of Sale issued to me by the Clerk of the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas, the undersigned Sheriff of Douglas County, Kansas, will offer for sale at public auction and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand at The Jury Assembly Room located in the lower level of the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center building of Douglas County, Kansas, on March 22, 2012 at the time of 10:00 AM, the fol-

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Knight at benefit: ForHigh School mer Indiana and Texas Tech Class 6A Sub-State Leavenworth men’s basketball coach Bob Big 12 Men Boys Conf. Overall Knight will serve as guest 7 p.m. today W L W L No. 8 Olathe North (4-16) at No. 1 of honor at a private dinner Kansas 15 2 25 5 Olathe Northwest (19-1) 13 4 26 4 charity event from 6-9 p.m. Missouri No. 5 Olathe East (12-8) at No. 4 Baylor 12 5 25 5 Lawrence (13-7) Friday at Alvamar Country Iowa State 11 6 21 9 Saturday at Leavenworth Kansas State 9 8 20 9 Club. The dinner — $650 5:30 p.m. — Olathe North-Olathe Texas 9 8 19 11 Northwest winner vs. Olathe Eastper person, $1,000 per Oklahoma State 7 10 14 16 Lawrence winner Oklahoma 4 13 14 15 couple — is a benefit for Boys Texas A&M 4 13 13 16 7 p.m. today Vernon Wells’ Perfect 10 Texas Tech 1 16 8 21 No. 7 Free State (7-13) at No. 2 Charity, which supports and Wednesday’s Games Leavenworth (15-5) Missouri 78, Iowa State 72 protects homeless children No. 6 Gardner-Edgerton (12-8) at No. Texas 72, Oklahoma 64 3 Olathe South (15-5) Saturday, March 3 and single mothers. For Saturday at Leavenworth Texas at Kansas, 8 p.m. information, contact Shelly 7:45 p.m. — Free State-Leavenworth Oklahoma State at Kansas State, winner vs. Gardner-Edgerton-Olathe 12:30 p.m. or Stacy at 620.225.2737 South winner Missouri at Texas Tech, 3 p.m. or shelly_holle@buylewis.

Girls Texas A&M at Oklahoma, 3 p.m.

Wednesday Baylor at Iowa State, 6 p.m. com. For information on Olathe South 58, Lawrence 32 the Perfect 10 Charity, visit Free State 57, Olathe North 42 Big 12 Women Friday at Leavenworth vwp10.org.

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KU soccer camps: Kansas University will hold several youth soccer camps this summer.

A Weekicks Camp for boys and girls in grades K-5 will run 9-11:30 a.m.

June 11-15. A Day Camp for boys and girls grades 5-8 will run 9 a.m.-4 p.m. June 11-15. Girls Residential and Team Camps run July 13-16 and July 17-20 for girls in grades 4-12. And a Boys Elite Residential Camp runs Joly 17-20 for boys in grades 6-12. For information, visit http://www. kuathletics.com/camps/ kan-camps-soccer.html.

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Eudora T-ball/baseball/softball: Sign-up is open for Eudora Amateur Baseball and Softball Association summer ball program (T-ball, baseball, softball). Registration deadline is March 4, or March 16 with late fees.

This program is a rec program focusing on youth development and good sportsmanship. For information, visit www.eudorabaseball. com or email eudorabaseball@gmail.com O

KU baseball camps: There will be two Jayhawk Baseball Camp offerings this spring. The four-week Hitting Academies, for ages 8-14, will run 6-8 p.m. in four-week sessions in March and April. And Spring Training will run 9 a.m.-noon on March 19-20 for grades K-8. Family discount now available. For information call 785-8647907.

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Vipers looking: Lawrence Vipers are looking for girls with 97/98 birthdays for a 14U C tournament softball team. Vipers are looking for a catcher, pitcher and outfielder, but all positions are welcome.

For information, call coach Melvin at 331-6735 or email Lawrencevipers4U2NV@ yahoo.com

Lawrence lowing real estate:

W L W L Baylor 17 0 30 0 Texas A&M 11 6 20 8 Oklahoma 11 6 19 10 Iowa State 9 8 18 10 Kansas State 9 8 18 11 Kansas 7 10 18 11 Texas 7 10 17 12 Oklahoma State 7 10 15 11 Texas Tech 5 12 17 12 Missouri 2 15 12 16 Wednesday’s Games Oklahoma State 66, Kansas 63 Oklahoma 71, Texas Tech 62 Iowa State 57, Kansas State 33 Saturday, March 3 Iowa State at Baylor, 11 a.m.

Texas Tech at Kansas State, 6 p.m.

Missouri at Oklahoma State, 7 p.m.

Sunday, March 4 Kansas at Oklahoma, 2 p.m.

Texas A&M at Texas, noon

College Men

EAST Boston College 56, Georgia Tech 52 La Salle 60, George Washington 56 Pittsburgh 89, St. John’s 69 Rhode Island 78, Fordham 58 St. Bonaventure 98, Saint Joseph’s 93, 2OT Temple 90, UMass 88, OT SOUTH Alabama 55, Auburn 49 Mississippi St. 69, South Carolina 67, OT NC State 77, Miami 73 North Carolina 88, Maryland 64 Northwestern St. 92, Nicholls St. 61 Richmond 82, Dayton 71 SE Louisiana 64, McNeese St. 57 South Florida 58, Louisville 51 Southern Miss. 67, SMU 60 Tennessee 74, LSU 69, OT UAB 68, Tulsa 64 MIDWEST Ball St. 71, Cent. Michigan 52 Bowling Green 56, Miami (Ohio) 51 Cincinnati 72, Marquette 61 Iowa 62, Nebraska 53 Kent St. 68, Ohio 61 Missouri 78, Iowa St. 72 Ohio St. 75, Northwestern 73 Purdue 80, Penn St. 56 SOUTHWEST Houston 82, Tulane 53 Texas 72, Oklahoma 64 FAR WEST Long Beach St. 77, UC Irvine 50 New Mexico 86, Air Force 56 TOURNAMENTS Atlantic Sun Conference First Round Belmont 76, Jacksonville 62 Mercer 61, Lipscomb 53 Big South Conference Quarterfinals Charleston Southern 88, Liberty 74 UNC Asheville 86, High Point 61 VMI 85, Coastal Carolina 68 Winthrop 71, Campbell 55 Ohio Valley Conference First Round Jacksonville St. 75, Austin Peay 70 SE Missouri 75, E. Kentucky 65 Patriot League First Round American U. 57, Army 40 Bucknell 87, Navy 63 Lafayette 84, Holy Cross 76 Lehigh 70, Colgate 57 West Coast Conference First Round Portland 74, Santa Clara 70

College Women

EAST Drexel 73, VCU 63 Northeastern 80, Hofstra 62 SOUTH Old Dominion 65, Towson 50 UNC Wilmington 64, Georgia St. 54 MIDWEST Iowa St. 57, Kansas St. 33 Oklahoma St. 66, Kansas 63 SOUTHWEST Cent. Arkansas 62, UTSA 50 Lamar 56, Texas St. 50 Oklahoma 71, Texas Tech 62

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Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as LOT TWO (2), BLOCK ONE nominee for First Magnus (1), IN SCHWARZ ACRES, A Financial Corporation, SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY Defendants.

OF LAWRENCE, DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS. Tax ID Case No. 12CV75 No. U09458, Commonly known as 906 Schwarz Rd, Court Number: 5 Lawrence, KS 66049 (“the Property”) MS#134693 Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 60 to satisfy the judgment in NOTICE OF SUIT the above entitled case.

The sale is to be made without appraisement and THE STATE OF KANSAS, to subject to the redemption the above-named defendperiod as provided by law, ants and the unknown and further subject to the heirs, executors, adminisapproval of the Court. trators, devisees, trustees, creditors and assigns of Douglas County Sheriff any deceased defendants; the unknown spouses of MILLSAP & SINGER, LLC any defendants; the unBy: known officers, successors, Jeremy M. Hart, #20886 trustees, creditors and asjhart@msfirm.com signs of any defendants Jennifer L. Michaels, #24256 that are existing, dissolved jmichaels@msfirm.com or dormant corporations; Chad R. Doornink, #23536 the unknown executors, adcdoornink@msfirm.com ministrators, devisees, Lindsey L. Craft, #23315 trustees, creditors, succeslcraft@msfirm.com sors and assigns of any de11460 Tomahawk Creek fendants that are or were Parkway, Ste 300 partners or in partnership; Leawood, KS 66211 the unknown guardians, (913) 339-9132 conservators and trustees (913) 339-9045 (fax) of any defendants that are minors or are under any leATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF gal disability; and the unknown heirs, executors, adMILLSAP & SINGER, LLC AS ministrators, devisees, ATTORNEYS FOR FEDERAL trustees, creditors and asNATIONAL MORTGAGE AS- signs of any person alleged SOCIATION IS ATTEMPTING to be deceased, and all TO COLLECT A DEBT AND other persons who are or ANY INFORMATION OB- may be concerned.

TAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. You are notified that a Peti________ tion has been filed in the District Court of Douglas (First published in the Law- County, Kansas, praying to rence Daily Journal-World foreclose a real estate mortgage on the following February 23, 2012) described real estate: IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS Lot 7, Block Four, in Whispering Meadows Addition, CIVIL DEPARTMENT in the City of Eudora, as Bank of America, N.A., suc- shown by the recorded plat cessor by merger to BAC thereof, in Douglas County, Home Loans Servicing, LP Kansas, commonly known fka Countrywide Home as 625 East 14th Terrace, Eudora, KS 66025 (the Loans Servicing, LP “Property”) Plaintiff, vs.

Marcus A Wheat; Amy R and all those defendants Wheat ; John Doe who have not otherwise (Tenant/Occupant); Mary been served are required to Doe (Tenant/Occupant); plead to the Petition on or

5:30 p.m. — Olathe South vs. Free State

High School Boys

Class 6A Sub-State Tournament Wichita Heights 87, Junction City 51 Class 5A Sub-State Tournament Andover 53, Wichita West 45 Andover Central 26, Goddard 7 Bishop Carroll 51, Winfield 37 Blue Valley Stilwell 47, Bishop Miege 37 Emporia 69, Shawnee Heights 55 Highland Park 48, Topeka Seaman 36 KC Harmon 77, KC Turner 62 KC Washington 80, KC Schlagle 62 Lansing 74, Topeka West 55 Mill Valley 78, KC Wyandotte 60 Salina Central 57, Great Bend 53, 2OT Salina South 41, Hays 39

High School Girls

Class 6A Sub-State Tournament BV North 70, BV West 42 Garden City 47, Wichita Northwest 34 Gardner-Edgerton 39, Olathe East 23 Lawrence Free State 57, Olathe North 42 Olathe Northwest 58, Leavenworth 27 Olathe South 58, Lawrence 32 SM Northwest 43, SM North 40 SM South 39, SM East 30 SM West 49, BV Northwest 46 Washburn Rural 68, Derby 30 Wichita East 52, Topeka 49 Wichita Heights 90, Junction City 30 Wichita South 42, Wichita North 26

NBA

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Philadelphia Boston New York Toronto New Jersey Southeast Division Miami Orlando Atlanta Washington Charlotte Central Division

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W L Pct GB Chicago 29 8 .784 — Indiana 22 12 .647 5½ Milwaukee 14 21 .400 14 Cleveland 13 20 .394 14 Detroit 12 25 .324 17 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB San Antonio 24 11 .686 — Dallas 21 15 .583 3½ Houston 21 15 .583 3½ Memphis 20 15 .571 4 New Orleans 8 27 .229 16 Northwest Division W L Pct GB Oklahoma City 28 7 .800 — Denver 19 17 .528 9½ Portland 18 17 .514 10 Minnesota 18 18 .500 10½ Utah 16 18 .471 11½ Pacific Division W L Pct GB L.A. Clippers 20 12 .625 — L.A. Lakers 21 14 .600 ½ Golden State 14 18 .438 6 Phoenix 14 20 .412 7 Sacramento 12 22 .353 9 Wednesday’s Games Orlando 102, Washington 95 Oklahoma City 92, Philadelphia 88 Golden State 85, Atlanta 82 Boston 102, Milwaukee 96 Detroit 109, Charlotte 94 New York 120, Cleveland 103 Toronto 95, New Orleans 84 Memphis 96, Dallas 85 Denver 104, Portland 95 Utah 104, Houston 83 Chicago 96, San Antonio 89 L.A. Lakers 104, Minnesota 85 Today’s Games Oklahoma City at Orlando, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Sacramento, 9 p.m.

Miami at Portland, 9:30 p.m.

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before the 4th day of April, 2012, in the District Court of Douglas County,Kansas. If you fail to plead, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition.

9-110 shall be and is hereby added to Chapter IX, Article 1 of City Code, as follows: 9-110 FAIL TO PAY It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully fail to pay any lawfully imposed fine for a violation of any law of the city within the time authorized by the court and without lawful excuse having been presented to the court on or before the fine is due. Such conduct constitutes a violation of the article, regardless of the full payment of the fine after such time.

NOTICE Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §1692c(b), no information concerning the collection of this debt may be given without the prior consent of the consumer given directly to the debt collector or the express permission of a court of competent jurisdiction. The debt collector is attempting to collect a debt and any in- SECTION II. A new Section formation obtained will be 9-110.1 shall be and is here used for that purpose. added to Chapter IX, Article 1, of the City Code, as folPrepared By: lows: South & Associates, P.C. 9-110.1 SAME; PENALTY Kristen G. Stroehmann PROVISONS (KS # 10551) 6363 College Blvd., Suite 100 Overland Park, KS 66211 Violation of this Section (913)663-7600 shall be punishable by a (913)663-7899 (Fax) fine not less than $30 nor Attorneys For Plaintiff more than $1500; or, impris(140728) onment in the Douglas ________ County Jail for not more than 180 days; or, both (Published in the Lawrence such fine and imprisonDaily Journal-World March ment not to exceed the maximums set in either.

1, 2012) Each and every day the violation continues is considORDINANCE 989 ered a separate offense.

AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHThis ordiING SECTIONS 9-110 AND SECTION III. 9-110.1 TO CHAPTER IX nance shall be in full force (MUNICIPAL COURT), ARTI- and effect from and after CLE 1 (GENERAL PROVI- its adoption and publicaSIONS) OF THE CODE OF tion as provided by law, THE CITY OF EUDORA, KAN- and the above new Code SAS, REGARDING A Section 9-110 and 9-110.1 MUNCIPAL COURT FAIL TO shall be added to the offiPAY AND ESTABLISHING cial Code of City of Eudora, Kansas.

PENALTIES THERFORE. WHEREAS, the governing Body of the City of Eudora, Kansas, has determined that the act of “Fail to Pay” should be prohibited and regulated as a municipal offense under the City Code;

PASSED AND APPROVED by a majority vote of all members of the Governing Body of the City of Eudora, Kansas, this 27th day of February, 2012.

APPROVED: /s/ Scott Hopson Scott Hopson, Mayor

NOW, THERFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF EU- ATTEST: /s/ Pam Schmeck DORA, KANSAS: Pam Schmeck, City Clerk ________ SECTION I. A new Section