Lawrence Journal-World 04-09-13

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Part of savings to be invested in coffee bar in main lobby By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com

which causes the surfaces to deteriorate and makes them unusable during much of the regular tennis season. That project does not call for installing lights on the tennis courts. District officials said they had been asked by the Lawrence Tennis Association and others in the community to build lighted tennis courts, but that lights are not needed for high school competition.

Books on the shelf won’t be all that patrons find at the new Lawrence Public Library when it opens next year. A coffee shop in the lobby and a 25-foot piece of art hanging from the ceiling also are on tap. City commissioners on Tuesday are set to approve the last major batch of bids for the $19 million expansion of the Lawrence Public Library, which would put the project on track to be completed by late spring or early summer of 2014. “The bids look good,” said Brad Allen, director of the library. “We’re really Allen pleased.” The bids for construction of the library building total $9.09 million, which is about $622,000 — about 6.5 percent — lower than the budget for the project. At least part of the savings will be invested in coffee. The recommended bids now include a coffee bar for the main lobby of the library. Allen said the idea for an in-house coffee shop has been on the table for months, but it was pulled from the base set of plans to help keep the project under budget. Now that the bids have come in lower than estimated, the coffee shop idea and a

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ALEXIE LESHER, 5, LAWRENCE, STOPS TO SMELL a tulip tree Monday in Veterans Park at 19th and Louisiana streets.

School board OKs $4.1M in projects By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com

The Lawrence school board voted Monday to authorize $4.1 million in maintenance and renovation projects that are outside the scope of the recently passed $92.5 million bond issue. The projects include a number of routine maintenance items such as roof replacements and heating and air conditioning upgrades, as well as athletic equipment

and facilities, most of which will be funded out of the district’s annual capital outlay fund. The largest project on the list calls for replacing a boiler and other heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems at Liberty Memorial Central Middle School. Assistant Superintendent Kyle Hayden explained that was because the board made a conscious decision not to fund those kinds of projects with bond proceeds.

Thatcher had ties to Douglas County

FORMER BRITISH PRIME MINISTER Margaret Thatcher tours Baker University with its president at the time, Daniel Lambert, on Oct. 23, 1996, the day Osborne Chapel, which Thatcher attended as a child before it was relocated to Baldwin City, was dedicated. Thatcher died Monday at the age of 87.

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Childhood chapel of former prime minister now at Baker University By Giles Bruce gbruce@ljworld.com

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The obituaries for former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who died Monday at the age of 87, probably won’t mention her ties to eastern Kansas. But that doesn’t mean people in this region have forgotten them. The Methodist chapel Thatcher attended as a child, and where her father was a lay minister, now resides at Baker University. The Iron Lady visited Baldwin City on Oct. 23,

1996, to help dedicate the Osborne Chapel, which had been moved from its original home in England and rebuilt in Douglas County. It was an event many of those in attendance remember fondly. From the snowstorm the day before to the snipers set up on roofs to the Irish Republican Army protesters, the experience was, for many, surreal. And it might never have happened if not for the vision of then-Baker President Daniel Lambert. Lambert arrived at the uni-

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versity in the late 1980s surprised to discover that the school, which was founded by Methodist ministers, didn’t have a chapel, so he set out to find one of significance to the denomination. A Baker professor at the university’s studyabroad program in Grantham, England, came upon a chapel that fit the bill. It was located in the English village of Sproxton, in the region where Methodism came into existence. After lengthy negotiPlease see THATCHER, page 2A

Abortion law likely

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Supporters of abortion rights will deliver petitions to Gov. Sam Brownback, urging him to veto bills on abortion, but Brownback will most likely sign the measures into law. Page 3A

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