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New power plant ready to produce electricity By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
Richard Gwin/Journal-World Photos
LAURA ELDER, 21, AND LOGAN, 10 MONTHS, dressed like a elephant and peanut, go trick-or-treating Wednesday in downtown Lawrence.
A new $25 million hydroelectric power plant on the north bank of the Kansas River is expected to start producing electricity as early as Friday, about a month ahead of schedule. The new skyline-altering project also is expected to produce something else: a rain dance or two. Leaders with the Bowersock Mills & Power Co. said the project just north of the Kansas River bridges in downtown Lawrence has progressed remarkably smoothly, in part because the summer’s drought allowed construction crews to work at a quick pace. But now as the plant is ready to produce electricity, water levels in the Kansas River are so low that the plant is able to produce electricity at only a fraction of its designed capacity. “I felt bad when I was the only one in the state this summer cheering on a drought,” Please see POWER, page 6A
DONNING BIG-EARED MASKS, Susan and Mark Osborn join the trick-ortreaters downtown on Wednesday. From 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., businesses opened their doors to hand out candy to trick-or-treaters. AT LEFT: Kensley Babcock, 5 months, shows off her jack-o’-lantern costume on Wednesday. See the photo gallery at LJWorld.com.
Kansans busy with relief efforts on East Coast By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com
Rick Farrier is no stranger to disaster relief efforts. Only weeks after returning from Louisiana where he had been sent to help out with storm relief, Farrier, a local Red Cross volunteer from Eudora, prepared Wednesday to leave again, this time for the East Coast to help out with recovery efforts in the
wake of Superstorm Sandy. “I just got home from seeing my granddaughter in Colorado, so at least I got that out of the way before I got called,” he said while waiting to be picked up for this next assignment. “It sounds like I’ll probably be on the ERV (emergency response vehicle) team this time, which is usually going out to sites and feeding people out of the ERV or dis-
He is just one of many people from Douglas County and northeast Kansas who are being dispatched to the East Coast to help the recovery effort. Richard Gwin/Journal-World Photo Jamie Dierking, regionFROM LEFT, SARAH HILL-NELSON, one of the owners al spokesman for the Red of Bowersock Mills & Power Co., and project perPlease see SANDY, page 6A sonnel Matt Rothermel and Nathan Walker watch as the water begins to flow Wednesday morning
New York slowly flickering back to life after at the new hydroelectric power plant on the north bank of the Kansas River. Sandy. Page 5A
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tributing supplies to people who don’t have any water or food,” he said. Farrier said he expects to be in New York and New Jersey for about three weeks as that area recovers from a historic storm that so far, according to The Associated Press, has claimed at least 62 lives and caused an estimated $20 billion worth of property damage. It’s one of the most expensive disasters in U.S. history.
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A Colorado sex offender who escaped from a prison transport van in Lawrence on Monday night has been charged with aggravated escape from custody. Page 3A
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