Lawrence Journal-World 07-05-12

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GO FOURTH AND CELEBRATE ‘God particle’ discovered Scientists working at the world’s biggest atom smasher near Geneva, pictured above, have announced the discovery of a new subatomic particle that looks remarkably like the longsought Higgs boson, sometimes called the “God particle” because its existence is fundamental to the creation of the universe. Page 7A HEALTH

Women join forces in cancer fight Two residents are starting a bowling fundraiser for two organizations that provide support to cancer patients and their families. Page 3A

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I think you better start winning on more of your local guys and not just concede ‘em to Missouri and Kansas State. You just can’t do that.” — Kansas University football coach Charlie Weis on his philosophy of recruiting more players from Kansas. Page 1B

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Heat doesn’t squelch Party in the Park

City mulls on-call T bus service

By Chad Lawhorn

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By Chansi Long

Carrie Daly and Mike Lawson didn’t let the oppressive heat keep them at home this Fourth of July. With temperatures reaching the triple digits, the couple decided to bring their daughter, Verona, to Watson Park, Seventh and Kentucky streets, for the Lawrence Originals Party in the Park. “It was an effort to get out of the house, for sure, but we wanted to stop by,” Lawson said. Daly is nine and a half months pregnant, but wanted to let Verona, 1, experience the live music and Fourth of July fun. Verona tottered about on the grass as the couple gazed at the thousands of people coursing through the park: there were people slurping snow cones, munching on local food and sitting on blankets as they tried to find refuge in the shade. Kami Wisdom found relief from the heat by plunging into a vat of water over and over again. Wisdom was one of several servers from Johnny’s

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LAWRENCE HIGH SCHOOL SOPHOMORES, FOREGROUND FROM LEFT, Jack Rischer, Morgan Ross and Miranda Pratt watch the Lawrence Jaycees fireworks show from on top of the Kansas River bridge Wednesday night, the closing event of Lawrence’s July 4th celebration. AT TOP LEFT, Marisco’s Restaurant employees work their food tent during the July Lawrence Originals Party in the Park Wednesday at Watson Park. Food was available from Lawrence Originals restaurants with music and children’s activities until the evening fireworks display. AT TOP RIGHT, Henry Adams, 6, is decked out in flags during a July Fourth neighborhood parade in Old West Lawrence on Please see FOURTH, page 5A Wednesday. The parade route ended in Watson Park.

Tim Utter can tell you that it takes about an hour to walk from the Santa Fe Industrial Park near the Kansas Turnpike to east Lawrence. He knows because he made the walk several times when he unexpectedly was moved to the third shift by his industrial employer. Utter relies on public transportation to get to and from work, and the city’s fixedroute bus system runs only from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. “You really are at the mercy of getting someone Corliss to give you a ride, or else you just walk,” Utter said. “I walked several times because that is what you do when you need the job.” Soon, though, you may pick up the phone and call for a city bus. City Manager David Corliss’ recommended budget calls for $250,000 to fund a pilot program that would extend the hours of the city’s public transit system to cover the time period from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. Monday through Saturday. City officials still are developing plans for the service, but they’ve said it would operate significantly different than the daytime routes. Robert Nugent, the city’s public transit administrator, said the plan is to operate only two 18-passenger buses to cover the entire city during the nighttime Please see TRANSIT, page 2A

Middle schooler incentivizes good deeds By Adam Strunk astrunk@ljworld.com

Last school year, a superhero walked the halls of West Middle School. True, she can’t leap buildings in a single bound, and feats of strength are out of the question — she’s 5 feet 2 inches tall and looks all of 90 pounds. But her goal of spreading kindness is worthy of any masked crusader. And she does have a secret identity — that is, until now. Her name is Mary Krieger, a soonto-be-freshman at Free State High School next year. When you see her, she looks like a normal teenager, with blue eyes and a shy smile. What makes Mary heroic is the program she created and funded

in her last semester at West, called Kindness Counts. The program provided awards and $10 gift certificates through Downtown Lawrence Inc. for teachers to hand out to students they saw doing acts of kindness. The idea was simple: give students incentive to do good and they will do it. “I was hoping, if I did this, then when I did see the change kids, would start doing nicer things,” Mary said. “I did get to see that a couple of times and see the smile on the kids’ faces when they got one of the awards.” To fund the program, Mary told her mother, Jackie Millin, she didn’t Richard Gwin/Journal-World Photo want presents on her birthday. She just wanted to put whatever money MARY KRIEGER has taken it upon herself to do good to her mother would have spent on her others. She started a program at West Middle School this spring to give $10 gift certificates to students who were Please see KINDNESS, page 2A caught doing acts of kindness.

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