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New management group examining possible expansion By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
The Alvamar Country Club has struck a deal with a more locally oriented management group that says it won’t be working to sell the venerable West Lawrence golf and country club. “We’re going to operate it in a way that we may very well own it for the next 25 years,� said Bryan Minnis, a former Alvamar club executive who has returned to serve as the club’s director of operations. Alvamar Alvamar Inc., the is not for club’s owner, sale, but on March 1 it could be ended its little more than bought.� two-year management — Bryan Minnis, a g r e e m e n t Alvamar director with Billy of operations Casper Golf, a Virginiabased golf course management company that took over operations of the club while Alvamar executives were contemplating selling the 36-hole golf course and country club. Alvamar has now signed a new management agreement with Leawood-based golf course manager Orion Management Solutions. Minnis said that with the change Alvamar no longer is listing the club and its two golf courses for sale with brokers and is no longer actively marketing the property — although he doesn’t rule anything out.
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Critics say move would be disastrous for family farms By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com
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LAWRENCE RESIDENT SEAN MAWHIRTER walks with his 2-year-old daughter, Fiona, down New Hampshire Street on Friday as his 6-month-old son, Felix, is cozily secured in a harness inside his jacket.
TOPEKA — Backed by powerful agricultural interests, Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration on Friday pushed to repeal corporate farming restrictions, saying the repeal would grow the Kansas economy. But other groups, such as the Kansas Farmers Union and Kansas Rural Center, said the repeal would hurt family farmers and destroy One of the major provisions of the local control. Senate Natural measure would Resources Com- eliminate the mittee Chairman Larry Powell, R- requirement that Garden City, said corporations get he planned to have the approval of the committee work on the Senate Bill county commis191, but didn’t know sioners to set up when. operations. One of the major provisions of the measure would eliminate the requirement that corporations get the approval of county commissioners to set up operations. Tim Stroda, president and chief executive officer of the Kansas Pork Association, said that requirement is causing many corporate interests to locate elsewhere. “These are large companies. These are professionals. They are not used to having to beg to do business,� Stroda said. When large corporations are told they Please see FARMING, page 2A
LMH, KU Hospital prepared for ‘nightmare bacteria,’ officials say merickson@ljworld.com
Officials at area hospitals say they’ve seen very few infections from “nightmare bacteria� that prompted national warnings earlier this week, and they’re doing everything they can to keep it that way. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week issued a warning about a class
of superbug infecting patients kill about half of patients who in hospitals, long-term care fa- develop a severe infection. Becilities and nursing homes cause of that, the CDC is across the nation. Because warning hospitals to do these bacteria can witheverything they can to stand even the strongest keep the superbug from type of antibiotics, called becoming more comcarbapenems, they’ve mon. earned the name carbapeAt Lawrence MemoHEALTH nem-resistant Enterobacrial Hospital, no patients teriaceae, or CRE. have been infected with The germs are still rare, the CRE, said infection prevenCDC reported, but they can tionist Humbelina Harper.
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But bacteria resistant to antibiotics already present a constant struggle for the hospital, Harper said, and LMH is wellprepared. At Kansas University Hospital in Kansas City, Kan., officials have detected a handful of infections from carbapenem-resistant bacteria in the past year — fewer than 10, said Rebecca Horvat, a clinical microbiologist for the KU Medical Center who
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