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DEATHS ROSE E. BALAO Funeral services for Rose E. Balao, 85, McLouth, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Quisenberry Funeral Home, Tonganoxie. Burial will follow in McLouth Cemetery. She died Tuesday, July 12,
2011, at Indian Creek Nursing Center in Overland Park. The family will receive friends one hour before the service at the funeral home.
R ICKEY ‘R ICK’ WATERS Funeral services for Rickey “Rick” Waters, 58, Eudora, will be at 1 p.m. Friday at Quisenberry Funeral Home, Tonganoxie. Burial will follow at Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Kansas City, Kan.
He died Tuesday, July 12, 2011, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. The family will receive friends from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
Patricia Ann ‘Patty’ Perdue URBANA, OHIO — Patricia Ann “Patty” Perdue, 79, of Urbana, formerly of Dayton, died at 2:30 P.M. Tuesday, July 12, 2011 in her residence surrounded by her family. She was born September 1, 1931 in Humboldt, KS a daughter of Osceola Powell and Edith Lucille Perdue (Lynch) Daniel. Pat was a graduate of University High School in Lawrence, KS, a member of Grace Lutheran Church in Lakeland, FL and a loving wife, mother, grandmother, sister and friend. Survivors include her daughter, Michelle Rockfield and her husband Rick of Urbana, sons, John Perdue and his wife Judi of Day-
ton and Richard Perdue and his wife Louise of Bothell, WA, seven grandchildren, seven great grandchildren, two brothers, Max Daniel of Urbana and William Daniel of Cleveland, numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, Bruce in September of 2007, her parents, sisters, Loretta Calvert, Barbara Brown and Judi Cox, and brothers, Richard Daniel and Osceola “Jack” Daniel. A memorial service will be held at 11:00 A.M. Friday, July 15, 2011 in the WALTER & SMITH FUNERAL HOME, 642 S. Main Street, Urbana with Rev. Ray Harper officiating. Visitation to follow the services. Memorial contributions may be made in Pat’s memory to Community Mercy Hospice, 444 W. Harding Road, Springfield, OH 45504-9964.
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this the place known for where the artists are at,” Krsnich said. “We have heard from so many people that Lawrence needs a nice, cool place for artists to work.” He said he started exploring the idea after several neighborhood residents suggested it. He said he would like to figure out a way to rent the spaces for about $300 a month. He’s also considering using the upper floor of the building as loft living space, so artists could live and work in the same building. As for the Poehler building, plans call for 33 one-bedroom units and 16 two-bedroom units. The apartments would have an urban design feel to them, with exposed trusses, polished floors and the type of finishes you would expect to see in downtown lofts. But the project is receiving almost $600,000 in affordable housing tax credits from the state. That means nearly all of the apartments — 46 of the 49 — will have an element of rent control to them. Krsnich said current plans call for one-bedroom apartments to rent for about $500 a month, while two-bedroom units would rent for about $600 per month. City commissioners ultimately will be asked to give some key approvals to the project. Krsnich said he is hoping the city will help pay for several public infrastructure costs in the area. Specifically, City Manager David Corliss has said the city will look at rebuilding Delaware
Street between Eighth and Ninth streets. The project likely would include new pavement, storm water upgrades, curbs and gutters, and sidewalks. Krsnich said he also would like the city to consider providing assistance for off-street parking lots to serve the development. Corliss has said the city should give the request strong consideration, and he has included debt financing for the project in his recommended 2012 budget. But city commissioners will have to specifically vote on the project at a later date before it could move ahead. The $750,000 in city money would be in addition to local property tax rebates the development can qualify for. The area surrounding the Poehler building already has been approved as a Neighborhood Revitalization Area, which makes it eligible for property tax rebates of up to 95 percent, with some conditions. The area received that special designation when Lawrence developer Bo Harris unsuccessfully tried to launch a major renovation of a multiblock area of east Lawrence. Krsnich said he’s optimistic his project can jump-start the redevelopment of several other vacant buildings in the area. “With what we’re doing, I’m pretty confident the rest will fall into place,” Krsnich said. “Somebody will redevelop the rest shortly after us. Hopefully, it will be us.” — City reporter Chad Lawhorn can be reached at 832-6362. Follow him at Twitter.com/clawhorn_ljw.
Chancellor to analyze KU’s first Campus Sustainability Plan By Christine Metz cmetz@ljworld.com
On Friday, Kansas University Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little will receive what has been described as a road map in the university’s quest to become a more sustainable campus. For the past year, a group of Gray-Little more than 150 administrators, faculty, staff and students has been working on the university’s first Campus Sustainability Plan. The plan comes with a host of action steps and recommendations that, if followed, will build a more sustainable community over the next 40 years. “It provides a guide for everyone from the single individual to do more to recycle to departments to adopt more sustainable purchasing practices,” said Jeff Severin, who spearheaded the plan as director of the Center for Sustainability. G ray- L i tt l e co m m i s sioned the sustainability plan and is eager to see it, said Jack Martin, the deputy director of university communications. “She’ll review it and make decisions going forward from there,” Martin said on the next step in the process. The 56-page plan focuses on nine major areas: administration, built environment, campus grounds, curriculum and research, energy, procurement, student life, transportation and waste reduction. Specific strategies have been developed for each area. The plan includes more than a dozen steps that should be tackled first. Some of them are: ● Use the campus as a living laboratory. The plan suggests course work and research should be geared so students have more opportunities to gather data about systems on campus and to do projects that have an impact on the campus. “It’s learning from the campus environment, but at the same time contributing more to sustainable operations,” Severin said.
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I think it is a really important step for our office to have this kind of guidance and as a campus to have some unified measurable goals to strive towards. I think it will be a very useful plan moving forward and something we can really learn from.” — Jeff Severin, director of KU’s Center for Sustainability ● Increase the amount of data being collected on sustainability indicators. The university should identify what needs to be measured and then establish a matrix that can help monitor progress on sustainability projects. ● Develop a comprehensive energy management plan that helps the university determine what investments translate into the biggest energy reductions. The plans should include strategies for increasing efficiency, conservation and renewable energy sources. ● All new construction or major renovations should meet or exceed Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Silver criteria, which is part of set of sustainable building standards established by the U.S. Green Building Council. ● The plan also urges the university to establish standards for environmentally and socially preferred purchasing practices, expand its recycling program and develop a more efficient fleet of vehicles. Severin sees the plan as a tool his office can use to spur others to do more. “I think it is a really important step for our office to have this kind of guidance and as a campus to have some unified measurable goals to strive towards,” Severin said. “I think it will be a very useful plan moving forward and something we can really learn from.” The final draft of the plan can be downloaded at sustainability.ku.edu/Plan/ feedback.shtml.
But we do get the cold and the hot — the CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A extremes — when it’s no the kids make hand-print good to be a landscaper. wreaths, create paper It’s just tough. snowflakes, watch winterthemed movies such as “Happy Feet” and “Ice Age” and read “Frosty the Snowman.” “We had a ‘polar plunge’ (at the pool), where we had everyone in a line and they all jumped in and got back out and started shivering, ‘Brrrrrrr!’ … “I think they’re having a lot of fun. They’re young enough for the imagination to take over.”
Street suffering Who: City of Lawrence’s Department of Public Works, which has 40 maintenance workers out patching potholes, repairing concrete, resurfacing streets and handling other hot tasks. Challenge: Sling as much as 200 tons of asphalt heated
BRIEFLY Rally to save local SRS office set for Saturday A rally to try to save the Lawrence office of the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services has been scheduled for Saturday. The event will be at 9:30 a.m. at the South Park gazebo, 1141 Mass. Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration has called for the closure of the office as a cost-cutting move. Advocates for the poor and people with disabilities say many will lose assistance and be endangered if the office is shut down. More than 600 people attended a meeting on the issue Monday night at Plymouth Congregational Church, and more than 150 attended another meeting last Saturday at Lawrence Public Library. Lawrence officials are hoping to persuade Brownback and SRS Secretary Robert Siedlecki Jr. to change their decision. “Nearly 10,000 people in Lawrence depend upon SRS for critical services,” said Jacob Beaumont, an organizer of the event. “These are among our most vulnerable citizens — children, seniors, and the disabled — who are at risk of slipping through the cracks, should they not receive needed and often life-saving services from SRS,” he said. Supporters of the SRS office also are asking people to sign a petition opposing the closure. The petition is available online at Facebook.com/SaveOurSRS. Another public forum on the issue will be at 10 a.m. July 23 at the library, 707 Vt. This one is sponsored by the League of Women Voters, United Way of Douglas County and numerous other groups.
Expert to discuss Vermont health care law
Jonathan Kissam, the leader of a grassroots effort to get a publicly financed health care system in Vermont, will give a presentation at 7 p.m. today at the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt. A new law, signed by Gov. Peter Shumlin in May, states that Vermont will create a publicly financed health care system called Green Mountain Care. The system will provide coverage for all Vermont residents regardless of income, health status or employment. The law calls for something close to a single-payer system, with doctors and hospitals billing one entity — the state government — for their services. A board appointed by the governor will determine payment rates for doctors, benefits and other details. The presentation is open to the public and is being sponsored by a variety of groups, including Kansas Health Care — Reporter Christine Metz can be reached for All and the Lawrence Coaliat 832-6352. tion for Peace and Justice.
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— Frank Male, owner-production manager at Lawrence Landscape to 320 degrees, while wearing steel-toed boots, jeans, gloves, safety vests and Tshirts with sleeves. Solution: Watch the clock. “We time our work so that they’re doing the hottest part of the work in the early-morning hours,” said Mark Thiel, assistant director of public works, who sees crews arrive as early as 6 a.m. “When the temperatures are in the 90s and over 100, the crews come in early. They basically get a 45-minute to an hour head start on the heat.” Even so, he says, “it’s just miserable. The only way to describe it is, it’s just not fun.”
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Going green Who: Lawrence Landscape, with 40 field crew members working out of a shop at 600 Lincoln. Challenge: Mow lawns, maintain irrigation systems, install landscaping and otherwise handle work that, by definition, must be conducted outdoors. Solution: Look at the bright side. “In the landscape business, you go into a bank and they say, ‘Oh, it’s a beautif u l d ay o u t s i d e,’ ” s ays Frank Male, an owner-prod u c t i o n m a n a g e r, w h o k n ows s u c h o b s e r va n t off ice workers often are c o r r e c t . “ We h ave t h e upper hand 120, 150 days a year, working outside. “But we do get the cold and the hot — the extremes — when it’s no good to be a landscaper. It’s just tough.”
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