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State revokes parole after DUI arrest ——
Woman had killed 3 in drunken driving accident in western Kansas
Former pediatrician moving from city A crowd of friends and former patients gathered Sunday for a sendoff for Dr. Helen Gilles, who is moving to Minnesota. Gilles treated many of Lawrence’s children during her almost 40 years of practice in town. Page 3A BUSINESS
Don’t let gift cards lie around unused If you have received a gift card you don’t want, don’t let the money go to waste. You have options, such as trading it in for cash or airline miles. Page 5A
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Well, keep giving (tickets) away because it helps our conference. When you have 4,500 more in here than you normally do, it’s great for women’s basketball.” — Baylor coach Kim Mulkey, on the larger than normal crowd in Allen Fieldhouse on Sunday. Six hundred free tickets helped fill the stands, but the crowd didn’t get to see a Kansas win. The Bears prevailed 82-60. Page 1B
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be private. He admits he sometimes received strange looks from people. Lawrence has 392.2 centerline miles of roadway, according to
The Kansas Department of Corrections is revoking the parole of a former Kansas inmate — who killed three people in a drunken driving accident in 2005 — after she was arrested in Oklahoma on suspicion of driving under the influence. Jeremy Barclay, KDOC spokesman, said his agency issued an arrest warrant for Jennifer Lyn Adams, 36, following news that Adams was arrested in October in Bixby, Okla., on charges of DUI, drug possession, driving left of center and transporting an open container. A d a m s spent six years in a Adams Kansas prison after pleading guilty in Sherman County to three counts of involuntary manslaughter. Adams was drunk when she was involved in an accident on Interstate 70 that killed three Goodland women. Adams was paroled from prison in July 2011 but moved to Oklahoma, where her parole case was transferred. The Oklahoma misdemeanor DUI charge had been dropped, but only so prosecutors could refile felony DUI charges against Adams, said Adam Scharn, an assistant district attorney for Tulsa County. Scharn said his office learned of Adams’ past DUI history only after charging her. But Barclay said Adams was in violation of her parole terms, which prohibit her from drinking alcohol.
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THE REV. NATE ROVENSTINE spent virtually all of last year running every street in Lawrence. As he ran, he prayed for the people in the neighborhoods he was traversing.
Rain or shine, pastor’s daily devotion to running carries prayers though city By Rebekka Schlichting rschlichting@ljworld.com
Imagine running around the block. To many of us, it sounds tough, sweaty and generally unappealing. It’s hard for a lot of people, but not for the Rev. Nate Rovenstine, pastor at Lawrence Wesleyan Church. He ran around every block and on every street in Lawrence, all the while praying for the community he was running by. It took Rovenstine all of 2012 to run around Lawrence. He started on Jan. 1 and ended on Dec. 29. He ran 10 to 15 miles every Saturday and three to seven miles during the week. He kept record of his progress by tracing the streets he covered on a map that he pinned up in his church at 3705 Clinton Parkway. “I told my congregation I was going to do it, so I had this accountability,” Rovenstine said. “Everyone was
ROVENSTINE CHARTED HIS DAILY RUNS on a city map, displayed at his church so that his congregation could follow his progress. expecting me to run by their house. That was probably the biggest thing that kept me going.” The physically toughest part for him was running up the hills at Kansas Univer-
sity. He steered away from a small stretch of road that was protected by a dog. He didn’t miss any other named street on the official city map. He even ran around the cul-de-sacs and in other areas that appeared to
Van Go volunteer draws on artistic background By Micki Chestnut Special to the Journal-World
Editor’s note: This is one in a series of occasional stories about volunteers in our community. When painter and sculptor Marie McKenzie was the same age as the teenagers she mentors through Van Go Inc.’s JAMS program (Jobs in the Arts Make Sense), her high school offered only one art class. She took it over and over again, starving for a chance to explore different art forms and experiment
with new techniques. That’s one of the reasons McKenzie is so passionate about volunteering with Van Go, which provides art-based job training programs for atrisk youths ages 14 to 21. She knows firsthand how artistic expression can transform an adolescent’s life and wants to help make the magic happen for the teens involved at Van Go. “I can’t help but want to light that fire in others,” McKenzie said, explaining why she volunteers every Monday afternoon with JAMS artists, helping them
develop the skills, experience and confidence they will need to become professionals who will be able to work easily with clients, meet deadlines and produce high quality work. Before she even met the students served by Van Go, McKenzie fell hard for the social service agency’s mission. “I was really excited that Lawrence had such a gem,” Nick Krug/Journal-World Photo she said. “For it to be an orLAWRENCE RESIDENT AND ARTIST Marie ganization that was deeply McKenzie has been volunteering for two and rooted in the arts, as well a half years at Van Go Inc., helping with art projects and whatever is needed from her. Please see VOLUNTEER, page 2A
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