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DEATHS LOIS M. KIBBEE MCCLEERY HAMRICK Funeral services for Lois M. Kibbee McCleery Hamrick, 82, Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., will be at 2 p.m. Monday at WarrenMcElwain Mortuary in Lawrence. Burial will follow in Oak Hill Cemetery. She died Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011, at her home. She was born Feb. 20, 1929, in Atchison, the daughter of Roy C. and Musie I. Christie Kibbee. She was a resident of Palm Beach Gardens since 1963, moving there from Indianapolis. Before retiring in 1994, she was a technician with Pratt & Whitney Aircraft in West Palm Beach, Fla., and previously worked at Solitron in Riviera Beach, Fla. She attended the Jupiter/ Tequesta United Methodist Church. She was a member of the Loyal Order of the Moose No. 2010.
Survivors include a son, Ricky D. McCleery, Jupiter, Fla.; a daughter, Guyline Rogers, Homer, Alaska; five grandchildren, Eric Roy Keller, Ricky Dean Keller, Kib Rogers, Guylynn Runey and Kyle Rogers; eight greatgrandchildren; one brother, Kenneth Kibbee, Lecompton; four sisters, Thelma Bellinger, Lawrence, Irene Dark, Lecompton, Mary Francis Soetaert, Tonganoxie, and Dorothy Hetzell, LeRoy. The family will greet friends from 1 p.m. until the service Monday at the mortuary. The family suggests memorials to Lecompton United Methodist Church, sent in care of the mortuary, 120 W. 13th St., Lawrence, KS 66044. Online condolences may be sent at warrenmcelwain.com.
R ICHARD E. B RITT MANHATTAN — Memorial services for Richard E. Britt, 71, Lawrence, will be at 3 p.m. Friday at the Church of
the Nazarene in Manhattan. Mr. Britt died Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
MARGARET R EDPATH PHELPS Memorial services for Margaret “Peg” Redpath Phelps, 89, Prairie Village, formerly of Lawrence, are pending and will be
announced by Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home & Crematory. Mrs. Phelps died Tuesday, March 1, 2011, at Brighton Gardens in Prairie Village.
WILMA CHARBONNEAU S NELL FAIRBURY, NEB. — Burial for Wilma Charbonneau Snell was Monday in Fairbury, Neb. She died Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011.
She was the mother of Alice Randel, Baldwin City, and Loretta Gantenbein, Eudora.
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“To get to the outcomes we have accomplished requires a highly qualified and exceptional staff,” Thornton said. Kansas State University President Kirk Schulz noted that salaries are a favorite target of the news media and urged the KBA to find “some way to defend” them. More than a year ago, the board hired a consultant to evaluate the agency’s salaries. “We wanted to make sure that we didn’t suddenly find out that we were so far out of line that we (lost) a couple of top talents because we weren’t appropriately appreciating their work,” KBA Board Chairman John Carlin said. Since there are so few organizations like the KBA, it was hard to find peer organizations to compare salaries, but consultants found that the salaries were in the 75th percentile, Carlin said. “You get what you pay for,” Carlin said. “And if we are in the middle of investing half a billion dollars, do we want to go cheap in terms of staff?” Board member Bill Sanford noted that compared to the private sector, employee salaries are well below average. And board member Ray Smilor defended the state’s fifth-placed ranking in bioscience. “I think it’s remarkable we have gotten the national recognition in being a leader in science in the 21st century. I’m not sure that there is any other ranking other than basketball that Kansas has gotten that has brought this national,” he said. On Friday, KBA staff and board members will return to the legislature to discuss the agency’s spending.
family planning services. KDHE gets $2.5 million in federal money each year and $97,000 in state funding to provide them. They do this through 55 contracts with health departments and clinics. ● 4,000 — Douglas County residents using the services. The Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department receives $198,000 from KDHE. Its family planning clinic operates on about $300,000, and the rest of the money comes from service fees and local taxes. Dan Partridge, director of
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TOPEKA — Environmentalists have called on the EPA to prevent construction of a proposed 895-megawatt coalburning power plant in southwest Kansas. In a letter to EPA Regional Administrator Karl Brooks, the Kansas chapter of the Sierra Club says state environmental officials at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment repeatedly failed to make the plant’s permit meet minimum requirements under the Clean Air Act. “EPA must either require KDHE to issue an amended permit, including new emission limitations following a
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new public comment period, or EPA must take action to prevent the construction of this unlawful facility,” Amanda Goodin, attorney for the Sierra Club said in the letter that was released Tuesday. The dispute is over a proposal by Sunflower Electric Power Corp. to build an 895megawatt coal-fired plant near Holcomb. Last month, the EPA’s Brooks had written KDHE Secretary Robert Moser, saying that EPA found the stateissued permit for the plant was too lax in limits on emissions of nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide. Officials from Sunflower Electric and KDHE have defended the permit, which
was approved in December. On Tuesday, KDHE General Counsel Caleb Stegall said, “KDHE stands behind its permit as issued. We look forward to defending it before the Kansas Supreme Court and are confident that the permit complies with all applicable state and federal air quality requirements.” The letter from Goodin repeats allegations that state executive and legislative officials interfered with the permitting process. The letter also maintains that KDHE repeatedly ignored EPA’s guidance on federal air quality standards during the permit process. — Statehouse reporter Scott Rothschild can be reached at 785-423-0668.
Rotary leading way to eradicating polio By Karrey Britt kbritt@ljworld.com
The world is close to eliminating polio, a disease that crippled thousands of children in the early 1900s. “It actually could happen any month,” said Robert Thompson, PolioPlus chair for the northeast Kansas district of Rotary International. He said there have been nine recent cases in the world, which has a population of 6 billion. “That tells you how close we are,” he said. PolioPlus is a humanitarian program launched in 1985 by Rotary International and was
the local health department, said the clinic couldn’t provide the same services if federal funding were eliminated. That’s more than half of its budget. They may have to go to a fee-for-service system, which he said would be unfortunate. “Those with low income or limited means will get disenfranchised from the system,” he said. There was a legislative amendment to the House bill that specifically targeted Planned Parenthood. Besides losing Title X funding, it would be ineligible for any federal funding, including Medicaid. Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri has 10 health centers that provide the same family planning and preventative services as
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cers used a Taser on a driver of a vehicle twice after the driver, who was suspected of reckless driving and had attempted to allude police, refused to exit his car. ● June 2, when officers use the Taser on an individual suspected of domestic violence. The individual ran from police and eventually went back into his trailer house where he grabbed his mother and used her as a shield between himself and the officers. An officer eventually got behind the individual and used a Taser to get him to release the woman. The other five cases that officers used Tasers were: ● Jan. 21, when officers used a Taser on a man who brandished a sword. Officers were checking on the welfare of the man when he emerged from his room with a sword and refused to put it down — Reporter Christine Metz can be reached after being ordered to do so at 832-6352. several times.
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● Jan. 23, when officers used a Taser on an individual who became suicidal while being transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital via ambulance. The individual pulled a knife and held it to his stomach and then began slashing his leg. ● March 7, when officers used a Taser on a suspect who brandished a gun and began chasing a car on foot. The suspect became cornered in a parking lot, and when told to show his hands reached inside his jacket pocket. ● May 8, when officers responded to a suicidal person at LMH’s emergency room who had been found in need of involuntary commitment to a state mental hospital. The patient had deep cuts on his arms and removed the bandages and begun bleeding on the floor. He announced
the catalyst for the World Health Assembly’s resolution to eradicate polio. Since then, HEALTH more than 2 billion children have received polio vaccine. On Monday, Thompson updated Lawrence Rotary Club members. He said polio is mainly a problem in four areas: India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria. Still, Americans need to be concerned. “Until it’s eradicated, it can come back because vaccines are very controversial
health departments. In 2009, they provided 18,000 STD tests, 3,000 pap tests, 3,000 breast exams and birth control for 9,000 clients. Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri has an $8 million budget, and $1 million comes from federal funding. “We don’t know of any way we could sustain that kind of reduction without reducing the services for women and families,” CEO Peter Brownlie said. At two centers — Overland Park and Columbia, Mo. — it provides abortion services. By law, no public funding is used for these services. Representatives for U.S. Reps. Lynn Jenkins and Kevin Yoder said by e-mail that they voted to eliminate Title X
that he had a highly contagious blood disease and made statements that he was willing to infect officers and others if they tried to take him to the state hospital. Officers used a Taser on the individual after he could not be convinced to allow medical personnel to reapply the bandages. ● Sept. 16, when an officer used a Taser twice after an individual suspected of driving while intoxicated struck an officer in the head and then continued to flee on foot. The first use of the Taser was ineffective. Officers used the Taser again when the suspect began to hit the officer again. The annual Taser report is required by City Manager David Corliss as part of the police department’s Taser policy. Corliss said he approved of the report’s findings and also said he was approving $14,000 in purchases that will add 16 new Tasers to the department’s supply. — City reporter Chad Lawhorn can be reached at 832-6362. Follow him at Twitter.com/clawhorn_ljw.
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these days and a lot of people don’t have their children vaccinated for polio,” Thompson said. In 2005, there was a small outbreak in an Amish community in Minnesota. Rotary International, which has 32,000 clubs, including three in Lawrence, has a goal of raising $200 million for the End Polio Now campaign. So far, it has raised $160 million, including $9,300 in Lawrence. For more information or to donate, visit rotary5710.org. — Health reporter Karrey Britt can be reached at 832-7190. Read her health blog at WellCommons.com, and follow her at Twitter.com.
funding because they don’t support abortion. No response was given when they were notified it doesn’t support such services. “This kind of action in Congress actually goes counter to the objectives of those who say they are opposed to abortion because by having less family planning, there will be more unintended pregnancies and there will be more abortions,” Brownlie said. Also, Title X saves the government money. Studies have shown that for every dollar spent, $3.74 is saved in medical costs. — Health reporter Karrey Britt can be reached at 832-7190. Read her health blog at WellCommons.com, and follow her at Twitter.com.
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