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Reading initiative comes at expense of early childhood programs By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com
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LARRY AND LINDA MAXEY, OF LAWRENCE, at left, got a firsthand look at the new digs of the Lawrence Public Library on Saturday from director Brad Allen. For the next year the library will have a temporary home at the former Borders bookstore at Seventh and New Hampshire streets.
New location will open to public Tuesday By Ian Cummings icummings@ljworld.com
Library fans who have been missing the smell of books and their children’s storytime events will have something new to check out Tuesday. The Lawrence Public Library, after closing for two weeks, will reopen at 9 a.m. Tuesday at its temporary lo-
cation in the former Borders building at Seventh and New Hampshire streets. Library staff will decorate the library with balloons and greet opening day visitors with cookies and punch. This will be the library’s home until April 2014, while work continues on the $18 million expansion project at its permanent site at Seventh and
Vermont streets. In the meantime, the library will keep its regular hours and offer the same services and most of the same events, according to library staff. But visitors will find some changes, too, as the library takes on the appearance of the former bookstore and uses the temporary space as a laboratory for new services.
Much will be familiar to library visitors and former bookstore shoppers alike. The library has adopted the old checkout counter — but not the practice of charging for books — and the circular information desk near the middle of the main room. The library even gave a nod to the old Please see LIBRARY, page 5A
TOPEKA — In his State of the State speech last week, Gov. Sam Brownback said he wants to spend $12 million to help young students who are having trouble learning to read so that they are Brownback reading proficiently by the fourth grade. “Passing children up the grade ladder when we know they can’t read is irresponsible and is cruel,” Brownback said. Brownback’s budget proposal provides $12 million for his Kansas Reads to Succeed initiative, but it cuts $9.2 million from early childhood block grants that fund programs that help children from birth to age 5. Shannon Cotsoradis, president and chief executive officer of Kansas Action for Children, said that “defies logic.” “We support investments in literacy, but it doesn’t Please see READING, page 2A
Singer Patti Page stayed true to her Kansas connections By Beccy Tanner The Wichita Eagle
WICHITA — The world knew her as Patti Page. But in Wichita, she was first known as Clara Ann Fowler, a girl with an affection for family, friends, and an occasional treat to a large Nu-Way burger with a bowl of chili. When visiting family, she never made any pretenses. She slept on living room couches, pitched in with
cooking and sometimes went without makeup. But even after becoming a legendary singer, Kansas roots kept Clara Ann Fowler grounded. “I was the youngest of the cousins and she would send her old gowns to me,” Dena Roeder of Haysville said. “I played in them. It was heaven. All my friends wanted to play dress-up with me.” Page, one of the most famous singers of the
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born Nov. 8, 1927, in Claremore, Okla. She was one of eight girls and three boys. Her father, Benjamin Fowler, worked for the Midland Valley Railroad and was stationed in Wichita at least twice. While in Wichita, she became friends with the Dinning Sisters, a famous singing act of the 1940s. Sisters Jean, Lucille and Virginia were born in Caldwell. Page would baby-sit their brother,
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1950s and 1960s, died New Year’s Day. Her funeral was earlier this month. Oklahoma can claim to be Page’s birth state. California can claim to be her home state because that was where she lived and retired. But the singer of “Tennessee Waltz “and “Doggie in the Window” has plenty of Kansas connections. It was, after all, a Kansas dairy farm that gave her the name. Clara Ann Fowler was
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Mark. Jean Dinning would eventually write the song “Teen Angel” and Mark would sing it.
Family ties Throughout her life, Page would maintain contact with family members in Kansas. Her sister Sarah Louise (Fowler) Thomas lived on West Maple. Another sister, Trudie Jane (Fowler) AP File Photo
Please see SINGER, page 2A Singer Patti Page in 1958.
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