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Citywide curbside recycling approved By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
A citywide curbside recycling program is on the way for delivery in Lawrence by October 2014. “There is not going to be another city in the country that allows their residents to recycle so many materials so easily,” City Commissioner Aron Cromwell said. “This is a chance for us to become the progressive community we all talk about.” City commissioners on Tuesday agreed to start a new every-other-week curbside recycling service on Oct. 15, 2014. Every household in the city will pay $2.81 per month for the service. The fee will be added onto Please see RECYCLING, page 2A John English/Special to the Journal-World
EXCAVATION WORK HAS BEGUN on the Kansas University portion of the Rock Chalk Park project near Sixth Street and the South Lawrence Trafficway. City commissioners on Tuesday agreed to set a bid date of May 14 for the 181,000-squarefoot city recreation center that will be part of the project. The partially paved road leading to the site is the portion of George Williams Way north of Sixth Street. The city’s recreation center is slated to be built in the upper left corner of the site.
Spring 2014 opening possible By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
If all goes as planned, Lawrence will be playing basketball — and much more — in a new mega recreation center by spring 2014. “I’m anxious to see it come out of the ground,” Mayor Bob Schumm said. Commissioners on Tuesday set the project on the path to construction. Commissioners on a 4-1 vote set a bid date of May 14 for the proposed $25 million recreation center, which is slated to be part of the larger Rock Chalk Park sports village just north of the northeast intersection of Sixth Street and the South Lawrence Trafficway. Architects are estimating the city could move into the new facility
by June 2014. About 20 members of the public showed up at an open house Tuesday afternoon to see the plans for the recreation center. Residents attending the event were mixed Schumm on the project. “We’re glad that they are having more bids on the project than what they were planning on previously,” Joanne Dahlberg said. “I don’t know exactly what I think about it, but I understand it a lot better now.” Commissioners on Tuesday agreed to the city’s standard bid process that will award the construction of the building to the lowest bidder.
Questions on school bond aired at forum By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com
Previously, the city had considered a process that would have allowed Lawrence developer Thomas Fritzel — a private partner in the larger Rock Chalk Park sports village — to match any low bid for the recreation center. On Tuesday, much of the attention focused on what will be inside the 181,000-square-foot building. The project includes:
Eight full-court gyms that also can be used as 16 cross-court gyms or 16 volleyball courts;
A 200-foot by 85-foot indoor turf area that can accommodate one fulllength soccer field or three crosscourt fields;
An eighth-mile, four lane indoor
Supporters of the Lawrence school district’s proposed $92.5 million bond issue said Tuesday that it would equip local teachers and schools for 21st century education while providing a boost to the local economy. But a spokesman for Americans for Prosperity, a conservative, free-marketoriented political action group, said the bond proposal is poorly thought out and suggested district officials to go back to the drawing SCHOOLS board and come up with a different plan. “If you look at the Chamber of Commerce, and lot of people that I talk to in the coffee shops across town can’t understand why we
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Author credits KU with inspiring focus on hope Hope is not simply sitting and wishing for better things to happen, Lopez says. He defines hope as It can give you the equiv- a belief that things will get better in the future, alent of an extra day’s combined with a belief that one has the ability to worth of productivity each make that happen.
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week, Shane Lopez says, or a boost of a full letter grade for a student in a class. It’s a concept that’s been the focus of Lopez’s work for years: hope. Since a KU professor planted the idea of its importance in his head during a lecture 20 years ago, Lopez has worked to research its power.
As a senior scientist for polling and research company Gallup Inc. since 2008, he’s had the power to poll hundreds of thousands of children and teens from around the world on the subject. And now he says that, for everyone from fast-
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sage around the country in a book released earlier this month, “Making Hope Happen: Create the Future You Want for Yourself and Others,” that earned a writeup in Time magazine. And he’ll spread it locally in two events this week, one aimed at KU faculty, staff and students and one for the city of Lawrence. Lopez earned his doctorate in counseling psychology from KU, and he was Please see HOPE, page 7A
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KU PROFESSOR Shane Lopez, author of “Making Hope Happen,” will be leading events on the topic of hope at KU and in Lawrence this week. He will have a reading and signing at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St.
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City candidate forum Lawrence’s homeless shelter is no longer downtown, but questions about how to deal with panhandlers and the homeless in the central business district remain. Page 3A
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