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For the last couple of weeks, there has been By George Diepenbrock a lot of construction at gdiepenbrock@ljworld.com the west end of Bob Billings Parkway. Is the city putting The sale of land that Bob Billings Parkway through includes two baseball fields to the bypass? in southwestern Lawrence to Kansas Athletics Inc. has No. According to Pubresolved a Douglas County lic Works Assistant lawsuit over expansion of a Director Mark Thiel, dam for Lake Alvamar. the western end of Bob Parties involved with the Billings Parkway is being used suit involving Wakarusa as a staging area for the city’s Watershed Joint District No. microsurfacing project, 35 and owners of Sport 2 which is ongoing throughout Sport One LLC confirmed the summer. Tuesday the sale of land To see details of the city’s would help pave the way for 2011 street maintenance proexpansion of the dam and gram, go to http://www. would remove two fields just lawrenceks.org/publicworks west of Clinton Parkway and /docs/2011_comprehensive_ Wakarusa Drive. street_maintenance_11x17.pdf Kansas University’s athletic department was not involved in the lawsuit, but it owns the adjacent Jayhawk Tennis Center, 5200 Clinton Parkway, near the f ields, which are called This Field and That Field. CALL SOUND OFF Jim Marchiony, a KU associate athletic director, said If you have a question for the department and the Sound Off, call 832-7297. watershed district would each pay $75,000. The title of the land goes to KU while the district will improve drainage to the watershed area and rehabilitate the dam. “It’s in our best interest to ensure that that land is safe because, first of all, the Jayhawk Tennis Center is there now,” Marchiony said. “But By Joe Preiner also in the future if we want to expand the tennis facility, Read more responses and add we want to be sure that the your thoughts at LJWorld.com land is functional.” The watershed district in How often do you go to January filed a petition in the pool? Douglas County District Asked on Massachusetts Street Court arguing the district was not required to pay owners of Sport 2 Sport to remove the two fields. The watershed district was required to expand the dam because it was 2 feet short of state requirements for serving an area considered to be under a
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Mike Beckman, retail operations, Jordan, Minn. “A lot.”
A woman can not be mother and father any more than a man can be CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A mother and father. We do Known for his commen- not have to be the same tary on culture, race and pol- to be equal.” itics, Pitts also touched on the important role a father plays in the raising of children. “You’re either a reflection of your father or a rejection of your father,” he said. He discussed the benefits and importance of a balanced family, with influence from both mother and father. Pitts honed in on the inequality with which society views absent fathers as opposed to absent mothers. He suggested that neither situation was ideal for the kids involved. “A woman can not be mother and father any more than a man can be mother and father,” Pitts said. “We do not have to be the same to be equal.” Pitts followed his speaking by engaging the audience in a question-and-answer session. He answered inquiries about his books, his writing and his stance on cultural
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Lana Teegarden, nursing student, Liberty, Mo. “I work all day, so usually the sun’s gone by the time I’m off.” LAWRENCE
Sydney Beckman, seventh-grader, Chanhassen, Minn. “All the time.”
“high hazard” flood control classification. For more than three years, a coalition of local, state and federal officials worked with the watershed district and neighboring property owners, who live north of Clinton Parkway, to come up with about $2.2 million to expand the dam, also known as the Yankee Tank Dam, 6 feet at the top and at the foot of it. When the dam was initially constructed in 1973 agricultural land surrounded it, but now that Lawrence has expanded to the west. A major flood could cause damage to the developed area, including Clinton Parkway and the KANSAS Kansas HighUNIVERSITY way 10 bypass. The Youth Sports Complex facilities are also nearby. The district had drained the lake in the past, but state officials said a major flood could still damage infrastructure south of the lake, including streets and roads. Mark Emert, an attorney representing Sport 2 Sport, including managing partner Roger Morningstar, said his clients were satisfied with the outcome. “That was a piece of land that Sport 2 Sport was happy to operate for a number of years,” Emert said. “But with the changes in the structure of that dam, it was going to render the use of property meaningless for what we wanted to do with it.” John Hamilton, the attorney for the watershed district, said officials were still working on acquiring easements from neighboring property owners. He said the project won’t effect existing
— Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts Jr., who spoke about being a father at an event Tuesday issues, many focusing on parenting and family. He said he believed women needed to hold men to a higher standard before men will begin to “step up.” When he finished, Pitts exited the auditorium the same way he had entered it: to a standing ovation. Dad Days events will continue today with a film festival at 7 p.m. at the Lawrence Arts Center, 940 N.H., and Friday with workshops for human service professionals at Holiday Inn Lawrence, 200 McDonald Drive. — Reporter Joe Preiner can be reached at 832-6314.
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structures. The district was hoping to wrap that process up by mid-August because it has a September deadline to accept a federal allocation for $1 million to assist with the project. Dick Stuntz, a district board member and president of Alvamar Inc., said Tuesday that 30 adjoining landowners had voluntarily chosen to become part of a benefit district and that district officials were still working to acquire small sections of easement from about 40 landowners primarily on the northeast and northwest sides of the lake. He said because of the short timeline, the district would likely seek eminent domain soon if property owners don’t respond to requests. Many large, luxurious houses line the hilltops around much of the lake. The lake does not have public access. “That’s a discussion for another day,” Stuntz said. Douglas County officials said the public interest in improvement of the dam comes from the protection of the nearby highways and infrastructure from a major flood. The state estimated Clinton Parkway and K-10 could sustain $8 million each in damage in a major flood. “The public interest was primarily to protect infrastructure and provide flood control,” County Commissioner Jim Flory said. — Reporter George Diepenbrock can be reached at 832-7144. Follow him at Twitter.com/gdiepenbrock.
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