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Bringing a vision into view East Lawrence building projects could turn area into hub for artists

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By Christine Metz cmetz@ljworld.com

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From Leslie Soden’s future fourth-floor apartment in the former Poehler Grocery Warehouse building in east Lawrence, you can see quite a bit.

From a southern exposure, you can catch a glimpse of the red rooftops of Mount Oread. From an eastern window you can watch trains rumble through the valley.

And through the leaves you can see the winding path of the Kansas River.

“It is really beautiful up there,” said Soden, who hopes to move into her stillunder-construction apartment by July 1.

Others are excited about the view from the ground, too, especially as momentum builds to turn at least two other old industrial buildings near Eighth and Pennsylvania streets into projects to attract artists to the area.

“I’ve always had a vision of Lawrence becoming the Santa Fe of the Midwest,” said George Paley, a longtime

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Lawrence developer who was referring to the southwestern arts scene of Santa Fe, N.M. “It is a big dream, but I think this area is going to get us a lot closer to it.”

Tony Krsnich, the Kansas City-area developer who is leading the project to convert the 1904 Poehler warehouse building into 49 apartments, said the project is going exceedingly well.

Work started in January, and already the project is 70 percent complete.

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TONY KRSNICH, A KANSAS CITYAREA DEVELOPER, is leading a project to convert the 1904 Poehler warehouse building into 49 apartments. Work started on the project in January and already is 70 percent complete and plans to be open by this summer. Now Krsnich is envisioning other projects in the area near Eighth and Pennsylvania streets. LEFT: Plenty of big windows will provide unique views of east Lawrence and the distant red roofs on Mount Oread from inside the future apartments at the former Poehler Grocery Warehouse building.

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By the start of next school year, full-day kindergarten could be available at all elementary schools in the Lawrence school district.

On Monday night, the Lawrence school board will be asked to extend the fullday kindergarten program to the remaining four schools who don’t SCHOOLS have it: Sunset Hill, Deerfield, Quail Run and Langston Hughes.

The district’s chief academic officer, Kim Bodensteiner, said that for years full-day kindergarten has been a common request among parents and faculty.

“We’ve heard consistently from the community and elementary staff that (full-day kindergarten) is a very important thing and they would like to see it as part of the school programs offered throughout Lawrence,” Bodensteiner said.

To bring full-day kindergarten programs to the four schools would cost the district an extra $527,000, most of which would go toward teachers’ salaries.

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Outstanding students honored as 2012 Academic All-Stars Top scholar a model of creativity, work ethic

This year’s team a picture of well-rounded excellence

By Christine Metz cmetz@ljworld.com

A perfect grade-point average in high school didn’t do much good in setting apart the Journal-World’s 2012 Academic All-Stars.

Nearly all of this year’s nominees had a GPA of 4.0 or higher Ten seniors from nine high schools have been designated by the Journal-World as Academic AllStars. And what made this year’s honorees stand out were the many ways in which they excelled outside the classroom.

Three of them were band leaders, one was a disc jockey and another a concert violinist. Several were president of their classes and captains of sports teams. Two had advanced to the national debate tournament, and another was active in 4-H. All of them were involved in so many activities that the judges were left to wonder how they had time to make such good grades.

“The diversity of what they do, I don’t know how they have enough hours in the day,” said Rand Ziegler, who is vice president and dean of the

By Christine Metz cmetz@ljworld.com

advice from Neeli Bendapudi, dean of the Kansas University School of Business.

“They are incredibly impressive on many dimensions,” Bendapudi said of this year’s All-Stars. “Every one of them is going to represent our community and state really, really well.”

“Can I play?”

It was one of the few English phrases that Ruben Ghijsen knew when he moved from Zeist, Netherlands, to Lawrence in fifth grade. He put the phrase to use on his second day at Hillcrest School when he spotted his classmates playing baseball.

“I missed it like three times in a row. I had no idea Ruben Ghijsen plans how to do it,” Ghi- to pursue a career in jsen said of his first biomedical engineering. at-bat. “But they showed me how to do it, and later in the day I was finally able to hit the ball.”

Sports was just one way Ghijsen

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THE JOURNAL-WORLD’S 2012 ACADEMIC ALL-STARS are, back row from left, Philip Kaul, Matthew Kelso, Derek Moore, Ruben Ghijsen, Ally Bristol and Parker Riley. Front row from left are Anne Reed-Weston, Louis Joslyn, Charis Fisher and Adam Brien.

College of Arts and Sciences at Baker University in Baldwin City and one of this year’s three judges.

Since 1997, the Journal-World annually has honored one class of outstanding students. The students are chosen based on their academic records and extracurricular activities.

Last week, the students were honored at a luncheon that included sage

See profiles of the winners, read about the nominees and judges, and catch up with the All-Stars from 10 years ago on pages 6A-8A.

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Or, at least, the portion of the project he had planned.

Now the east Lawrence development is starting to delve into realms that he didn’t envision when he purchased the long-vacant building last year. Krsnich has begun work on the adjacent Cider Vinegar Building to convert it into a ground floor art gallery with an outdoor reception space, while small offices will occupy the second floor.

Next door, Paley is leading a group that includes several faculty members from Kansas University who hope to create a center for artists, scientists and technology innovators to collaborate on projects. Paley and his group have preliminarily secured an approximately 20,000-square-foot former T-shirt warehouse that is just south of Eighth and Pennsylvania streets.

Plans are in the works to fill the building with studio space for artists and innovators.

Paley is convinced the studio space, when coupled with the new Poehler apartments — most of which are rent-controlled because of the use of state tax credits — will attract artists and innovators from wide and far to locate in Lawrence.

Krsnich, who said he didn’t have any plans for an art theme when he purchased the building, said he is now all-in on the concept. He said he currently is working to secure about two acres of vacant property on the west side of Eighth and Pennsylvania streets to create an outdoor sculpture park and place for small outdoor concerts or arts events.

“It really has happened by accident, but now I’ll be surprised if this area doesn’t become known as Lawrence’s arts district,” Krsnich said. “We’ve seen how that has worked out in Kansas City and elsewhere, but I think we have more potential here.”

Loft living Krsnich said he plans to have all 49 apartments in the building ready for occupancy by July 1.

Already, the project is attracting attention from potential renters. Krsnich estimates he has given about 40 tours.

“Normally you don’t get that type of activity until a couple of weeks before you’re ready to open,” said Krsnich, who led the project to convert the long-vacant Chatham Hotel in Kansas City into apartments.

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through state funding for at-risk students, which among other things can be used toward full-day kindergarten. An increasing number of students who qualify for the free and reduced lunch program have boosted the amount of at-risk dollars the district receives.

The district also anticipates enrollment to go up once full-day kindergarten is added to the schools.

Now, in the school boundaries where full-day kindergarten isn’t offered, some parents enroll their child in full-day kindergarten at private schools, Bodensteiner said.

As of now, Bodensteiner expects eight more teachers will be needed to run the full-day kindergarten programs at the four schools.

In Kansas, 85 percent of school districts have fullday kindergarten for all students. And just seven districts, including Lawrence, have programs in only some of their schools.

The first full-day kindergarten program in the Lawrence district opened at New York School in

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A VIEW FROM A FUTURE APARTMENT BUILDING in the former Poehler Grocery Warehouse building in east Lawrence looks over the Cider Vinegar Building and toward Mount Oread in the distance. The Cider building is being converted into a ground-floor art gallery with an outdoor reception space, while small offices will occupy the second floor. The project, near Eighth and Pennsylvania streets, will convert the 1904 Poehler building into apartments. BELOW: Old brickwork, high ceilings, exposed beams and duct work create a contemporary look to many of the apartments in the Poehler project.

POEHLER PARTY Tony Krsnich will host a neighborhood party from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. May 5 at the corner of Eighth and Pennsylvania streets. The party will include music from live bands, refreshments and an opportunity to view progress on the Poehler project.

Krsnich said the apartments, 38 one-bedrooms and 16 two-bedrooms, will be done in a “classic loft style.” That means granite counter tops, stained and sealed concrete floors, and exposed ceilings that show off the brick building’s massive wooden beams.

Rents, though, won’t be typical of trendy loft developments. Krsnich’s group received state tax credits through the Kansas Housing Resources Corp., which obligates the development to offer 43 of the 49 apartments at below market rate rents for the next 30 years.

Rents are still being finalized, but Krsnich said one-bedroom units, which average in size about 750 square feet, will rent for around $550 per month.

Two-bedroom units, which average about 1,100 square feet, will rent for about $650 per month.

Residents, per regulations of the state program, will have to meet income guidelines to qualify for the rent-controlled apartments.

Krsnich said the development also will include a large courtyard area for residents, complete with a community barbecue area and a putting green. The roof of the building also is covered with solar panels that will produce up to 57 kilowatts of electricity.

Soden, who lived in a

1988 as a pilot program.

Over the next several years, six more schools were added. In 2001, budget cuts forced the district to eliminate the program.

In 2007, the program was renewed and provided in the eight schools with the highest at-risk populations. With part of the money saved from closing Wakarusa School, the district expanded its full-day kindergarten program into Broken Arrow and Sunflower at the start of the 2011-2012 school year.

If the board decides to expand the full-day kindergarten program, Bodensteiner said, the district would continue to provide the option for parents to send their child to just a half day of kindergarten. The policy is now in place, but Bodensteiner said half-day is opted by only one or two families per school a year and many times the students transition into full-day kindergarten. ! Also on Monday night, the Lawrence school board will look at increasing staffing so the district’s class-size ratio at elementary and middle schools can be reduced by one student. The change is expected to result in 21 new teachers, which

similar type of development in San Francisco, said she is counting the days until she moves in.

“I really do love old houses, but this is a chance to really live in an important piece of Lawrence’s historic infrastructure,” she said. “And what is great is that even though it is being redone, it is still very east Lawrence.”

Advancing arts Construction crews already are replacing the roof of the former Cider Vinegar Building, which is a stone factory building just west of the Poehler building. Krsnich estimates the art gallery space will be able to accommodate events of up to 300 people, and the outdoor plaza area can host about the same.

Krsnich, who received about $1.3 million in assistance from the city for infrastructure improvements, said he will ask the city to make improvements to Pennsylvania Street. He said he is still working to put together more detailed numbers before he makes his official request to the city.

Work has not yet begun on the adjacent Tshirt warehouse building.

But Paley said renovation work on that building will be less extensive.

“We’re going to open it up and let things go where they will,” Paley said. “I think once artists start locating there, people will want to come down and see what’s going on.”

Paley and other members of his group, which includes local arts organizer Eric Kirkendall and some members of various departments at KU, had applied for grant money to start a similar center in a building Paley owns along 23rd Street.

But Paley said the momentum of what is happening in east Lawrence caused the group to look here, and also to decide to move forward before receiving any grants.

“I just feel like there is so much going on here that we have to,” Paley said.

Krsnich said he’s also excited about the momentum under way, if not somewhat surprised that it has all come together so well.

“This entire area, you can just feel that is on the edge of popping,” Krsnich said. “When we found this area, I was just so surprised it even existed.

This is a half-mile from Mass. Street. For years people have been building miles away to the west and bypassing this area.

I’m just glad we found it.”

Sexual battery reported on campus Kansas University police are investigating a sexual battery report that allegedly occurred at 2:10 a.m. Saturday morning. A KU female student said she was walking home when a college-aged man accosted her, struck her in the face and grabbed her breast, according to the report. The student was able to break free and run home, said Maj. Chris Keary, assistant KU police chief.

The woman alleged that the incident occurred on Sunnyside Avenue at Haworth Hall. She said the suspect was wearing a green Ralph Lauren polo shirt and cargo shorts, was between 6-feet and 6-feet, 3-inches tall, and had dark hair and dark eyes.

Police ask that anyone with any information about the incident call the CrimeStoppers hotline at 785-864-8888 or KU Public Safety Office at 785-864-5900.

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Over 200 take on projects for Day of Caring

By Chansi Long clong@ljworld.com

Employees at the Willow Domestic Violence Center have wanted to transform the center’s look for a while now. But they’ve lacked the funds to pull it off.

That changed Saturday with United Way Roger Hill Volunteer Center’s annual Day of Caring, an event where dozens of volunteers spend the day helping local agencies and schools.

What volunteers do runs the gamut: cleaning, painting, planting, landscaping.

At the Willow center, 10 volunteers painted two rooms with supplies donated from Walmart.

They used colors aimed to be more welcoming than the abrasive yellow that’s been on the walls for the last couple of years. One of the rooms is a playroom for children of domestic violence victims. “(The room exists)

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MIKE CARON, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE SAVE THE WETLANDS ORGANIZATION, hands out tools to volunteers Saturday for a Day of Caring project in the Wakarusa Wetlands. The group walked into the wetlands north of 31st Street, toward Haskell Indian Nations University where paths are being created and widened. The volunteers were among more than 200 who helped out for United Way Roger Hill Volunteer Center’s Day of Caring. so their children can be temporarily distracted while Mom is sharing about the violence that is going on in their

home, or just an opportunity for kids to play and to learn and discover things,” said Becca Burns, director of volun-

teer services at the cen- coming place, but if it’s ter. “Having that (room) painted it shows that we painted is really ben- actually care about it.” eficial for the kids. Not Please see CARING, page 4A only is it a safe and wel-

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Nachos plate earns Lawrence a spot in Guinness Book

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EDDIE DIAZ, OF CENTERPLATE, holds one of the hundreds of plates of nachos that came from an 80-foot-long tray Saturday at Memorial Stadium.

The 4,689-pound nacho plate landed Lawrence a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records.

The term “loaded nachos” is an understatement.

A heaping 4,689-pound plate of chips, meat, cheese, beans and peppers earned Lawrence a slot in the Guinness Book of World Records on Saturday. The title for the world’s largest nacho plate did not come without a struggle.

For starters, a half-dozen volunteers worked on the project, galvanizing help, collecting resources and prepping food for two weeks. Then early Saturday morning, a crew of 80-plus volunteers began assembling the nachos at Memorial Stadium. At one point, a cooler went out, causing a big portion of the food to spoil.

“It was hectic. ... We lost a

couple thousand pounds of food. We had to overcome that and get food locally,” said Rick Brown, general manager of Kansas Athletics’ food vendor, Centerplate.

“We run all of the food and beverage for the facilities, so we have extra food. Really it was just about pulling the resources together.”

A local legislator said Saturday that the future direction of Kansas will be determined in the upcoming wrap-up session and Republican Party primary where moderate Republican senators face opposition from Gov. Sam Brownback’s conservative political allies.

Legislators reconvene the 2012 session Wednesday with a long list of issues before LEGISLATURE them, including the state budget, redistricting, school finance and Brownback’s proposal to overhaul the tax system.

State Sen. Tom Holland, D-Baldwin City, said many of the issues will set the stage for the August GOP primary where the Kansas Chamber of Commerce and Koch Industries are working to defeat eight moderate Republican state senators and put the Senate under the control of conservative Republicans

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Asked on Massachusetts Street

Chris Seibert, Coast Guard, Lawrence “Definitely, but I wouldn’t pay over $1,000.”

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Brown organized the event, working with Salty Iguana and Lawrence Interdenominational Nutrition Kitchen. Salty Iguana donated food and provided volunteers.

Volunteers aimed to create a tasty nacho, not just a big one. Meat was marinated, onions were chopped, and jalapeno juice was blended with black beans. There were also fresh pico de gallo and cilantro.

The 80-foot nacho plate was finished by noon and served to Kansas Relays ticket-holders with a $1 donation or a canned food item, which will benefit

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Before the paint job, the wall was riddled with crayon graffiti, scuff marks and scratches. Megan Waggy, 22, has volunteered at the center for four years now, representing her sorority Alpha Chi Omega. Waggy said the center needed a fresher look.

“I’ve worked in this building before, so I know how much it needs renovation sometimes,” Waggy said. “(Volunteering) is something we can easily help out with. It’s on Jake Oxnard, the weekend, and we’re student, not doing anything on SatLawrence urday afternoons, so we “We live close and for two might as well come help people, we’re willing to paint.” pay $700.”

To benefit from Day of Caring, staff at the Willow center had to fill out a one-page application outlining the sort of work they needed. Getting enough volunteers was easy enough. More than 200 people volunteered at 20 sites Saturday. More than half were first-timers. But Day of Caring is often a starting point for prolonged volunteer work, said Shannon Reid, Tori Hafner, student, Lawrence “Maybe. I’d probably go up to $700.”

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Kyle Zuber, reading teacher, Wichita “I probably wouldn’t live on Mass. Street, but close would be fun.”

LINK. Even after 1 p.m., when the dish had lost its warmth, people were filing through the stadium, clutching paper plates piled high with nachos.

Jan Williams sat on a bench about 1:30 p.m., nibbling at a freshly scooped plate.

“It’s kind of cold, but it’s wonderful,” Williams said. “I think (what they did) is great.”

At least 70 percent of the nachos were consumed. And Brown is confident the record is safe in Lawrence. The last record, which landed at 3,999 pounds, was set in October of 2011 by Ninety Nine Restaurant, in Massachusetts.

“We beat it by a big jump, so it should stay here for a while,” Brown said.

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We just don’t have the money in our budget to be able to hire professionals to do this, so having the 15 or so volunteers take time out of their Saturday to paint is unbelievably generous.”

— Becca Burns, director of volunteer services at the Willow Domestic Violence Center volunteer coordinator for the United Way Roger Hill Volunteer Center.

“It’s a great introduction to volunteering in Douglas County,” Reid said. “Our hope is they get the volunteer bug.”

Day of Caring also helps agencies and schools knock out large-scale projects in one day.

Eighteen volunteers showed up at Prairie Park School, 2711 Kensington Road. They trimmed bushes, discarded debris, tended gardens and flower beds, and painted two rooms, including the kitchen.

“It helps if we can do a blitz and get it taken care of quickly,” said Dave Williams, principal of Prairie Park. “(The volunteers) really have done an excellent job. ... They’ve done a really great job with the detail.”

Day of Caring enabled many local agencies, the Willow center among them, to complete projects

that otherwise would have been unaccomplishable.

“There is just no way the Willow could afford to do something like this,” Burns said. “We just don’t have the money in our budget to be able to hire professionals to do this, so having the 15 or so volunteers take time out of their Saturday to paint is unbelievably generous.”

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The Journal-World’s 2012 Academic All-Star team Adam Brien

Charis Fisher

A lot more goes into being a disc jockey than pushing play on an iPod. Just ask Oskaloosa High School senior Adam Brien, who spends an hour or two every day practicing the art of flowing smoothly from one song to the next.

“You really have to have a knowledge of music before you get into it,” Brien said.

For Brien, whose parents met while in the marching band at Kansas University, music has been an important part of his life. Throughout his high school career, Brien has been involved in his bands, playing the bass and percussion.

His interest in music mixes nicely with his knack for working Brien with computers and has segued into a passion for being a DJ and creating electronic music.

Today, he performs as a DJ for KU fraternity parties and will be the DJ for an upcoming event at the KU residence halls. He offered to DJ his high school prom but was turned down.

“Just being up there and seeing people dance is the main thing,” Brien said about why he gets a rush every time he performs. “It’s a whole different world.

People are sort of paying attention to you, but not really.”

What started out as an expensive hobby for Brien has turned into a money maker and now a career path.

This fall, Brien will attend the highly selective music engineering technology program at the University of Miami.

To get into the school, Brien wrote three original songs and performed them at an audition in Miami. The pieces involved live looping, which requires the musician to record audio samples of the music and then play that music back, all while performing live.

A career in music engineering technology could lead to jobs in film scoring or record producing.

“There are a lot of options. It’s kind of exciting,” Brien said.

School: Oskaloosa High School Grade-point average: 4.0 Class rank: 1 of 31 Parents: Russell A. and Kimberly R. Brien College and career plans: Attend the University of Miami to major in music engineering technology. Hopes to work in sound design, music production or film scoring.

For Charis Fisher, learning a new way to peel a banana opened up her world.

The Perry-Lecompton High School student was an eighth-grader when her family hosted its first foreign exchange student. One day, Fisher spied the Russian student peeling her banana from the bottom up, as folks from her country are accustomed to do.

“It’s just cool to see how where you grow up influences everything about you,” Fisher said.

Fisher’s family went on to host students from Germany, Denmark, Kazakhstan and Ukraine, fostering in Fisher a love for other cultures.

She also credits her sixth-grade teacher, who saved money to take an annual trip to a far-away Fisher country, with instilling in her an appreciation for history, culture and literature.

“He had all these stories from different countries and would bring in things he had bought there,” she said. “It was so exciting.”

Next year, Fisher plans to attend Washburn University to earn an undergraduate degree in nursing. During her time there, she would like to participate in the study abroad program.

The youngest of eight children, Fisher said she knew early on that her parents would be hard-pressed to help her through college.

“So, I better try hard, better have outstanding talents, because that is the only way to pay for college if I don’t want to graduate with a lot of debt,” she said.

From there, Fisher said she learned the importance of hard work.

“Well, why not give it your all?” she said.

School: Perry-Lecompton High School Grade-point average: 4.0 Class rank: 1 of 60 Parents: John and Karalee Fisher College and career plans: Attend Washburn University, majoring in nursing, with a minor in French horn performance.

Allison Bristol

Louis Joslyn Whether he’s on the soccer field or in a classroom, Baldwin High School senior Louis Joslyn has an undeniable competitive streak.

“I would also say I like to just problem solve,” Joslyn said. “I like the feeling after solving a problem, whether it is math or any aspect of my life.”

Much of that competitive energy has been funneled to the soccer field, where he was a four-year varsity starter and captain. This year, Joslyn scored the game-winning penalty kick that captured the school’s first regional soccer title.

“It was an amazing experience,” he said.

Over time, Joslyn said his competitive nature Joslyn in sports spilled over into academics.

He’s gotten straight A’s throughout high school.

“I worked really hard for that,” he said.

And, he has placed highly in math competitions throughout the state.

“Most of the time, you go into a room with, say, 50 other students and all take the same test,” Joslyn said of the competition.

Next year when Joslyn heads to Iowa’s Simpson College, he plans to continue to compete in both soccer and math.

School: Baldwin High School Grade-point average: 4.0 Class rank: 1 of 110 Parents: Mark and Mary Lisa Joslyn College and career plans: Attend Simpson College, where he plans to major in math and play soccer. Hopes to work in the math or science fields.

Allison Bristol can easily pinpoint the moment she decided to give back to her community.

It was when two foster brothers entered her life. Until that time, the McLouth High School senior had been an only child.

“They’ve taught me to be grateful for the blessings I’ve been given, and I feel since I’ve been blessed I should give back to my community,” she said.

Those brothers have since been adopted and Bristol has taken part in a host of community service activities in the past few years.

She’s volunteered at Winchester Public Library.

“I’m such a big nerd.

I like helping younger Bristol children pick out books.

I got to read stories to them, and I just love seeing kids show an interest in reading,” she said.

She spent one summer playing games with the residents at Jefferson County Assisted Living Center. And she has volunteered at the Jefferson County Humane Society and Jefferson County Historical Society.

At school, she’s been a part of clubs that organize canned-food drives, community blood drives, Christmas dinners for seniors and creative ways to raise money for a children’s hospital.

“I feel like it has made me a better person,” Bristol said.

Her passion for community service has translated into a career path.

Next year she plans to attend WashDe Soto High School seniors Philip burn University to earn a degree in Kaul and Parker Riley have known each medical imaging and a minor in leaderother for longer than ship studies. both can remember.

“I believe the field is going to bring Their dads met in together my strength for caring for people elementary school and and interest in technology,” she said. were roommates in colSchool: McLouth High School lege. The families still Grade-point average: 4.0 vacation together.

Class rank: 1 of 51 So it makes sense that Parents: Shawn Bristol and Amie the duo would make a Tripp-Bristol good debate team. But, Kaul College and career plans: Attend no one anticipated how Washburn University, majoring in well they would work together. medical imaging, with a minor in leaderLast year, Riley’s partner graduated, ship studies. so he asked Kaul, who hadn’t debated

Philip Kaul and Parker Riley

for several years, to be his new one. And the partnership worked. This June, the two are headed to Indianapolis for the national debate tournament.

“Something clicked very early in the season,” Kaul said. “We did better than anyone thought we would do.”

The debate world isn’t the only place the two have found success. They are both members of De Soto’s scholars bowl team, which won the state championship for the past two years.

A self-described trivia buff, Kaul impressed his teammates during one of his very first competitions by knowing a pugilist was a boxer.

“The coaches had never seen me play and no one knew me,” Kaul said. “They said, ‘Why on earth did you know that?’”

The two also have been active in Boy Scouts. As part of the public service needed to earn his Eagle Scout rank, Riley organized a project that took old bicycles, repaired them and donated them to people in need. Kaul helped his friend with the project. In all, 15 Riley bikes were distributed.

“It was a big lesson in organization and time management,” Riley said.

Of course, the two have had quite a few accomplishments on their own.

As drum major, Kaul enjoyed leading his band this year. The saxophone player plans to attend KU to major in music education and hopes to be a high school band teacher someday.

His career path is inspired by the music teachers in his life.

“Being able to combine my passion for teaching, how much I enjoy the high school setting and how much I love music, all of that just clicked,” Kaul said.

As for Riley, an independent study he organized during his sophomore year to learn one of the more common computer programming languages sparked his love for programming. He went on to make a scientific calculator, an unbeatable tic-tac-toe game and a text-based adventure game.

“I really like the idea of being able to create stuff by using a computer,” Riley said.

Riley hasn’t decided where he’ll go to college yet, but is interested in computer security, software engineering and designing programs.

Philip Kaul

School: De Soto High School Grade-point average: 4.2 Class rank: 1 of 144 Parents: Frank and Nancy Kaul College and career plans: Attend Kansas University, major in music education. Hopes to be a high school band instructor.

school career involved in band, scholars bowl, soccer and student leadership positions.

Being the head drum major for the school’s marching band since 2010 has helped Kelso develop leadership skills.

“I’ve gotten a lot better at giving criticism,” Kelso said.

School: Eudora High School Grade-point average: 4.2 Class rank: 1 of 98 Parents: Michael and Robyn Kelso College and career plans: Attend Kansas State University and pursue a degree in animal science with an emphasis in preveterinary medicine. Hopes to work in veterinary medicine and conduct research in canine rabies.

Derek Moore Wellsville High School senior Derek Moore is glad he has been able to attend a school with a class size of just 57 students.

He is president of both the senior class and student council. He has been captain of the scholars bowl and president of the math team and chorus.

Moore’s not so sure he would have had the chance to be involved in so many activities had he attended a larger school.

“There have been a lot of leadership opportunities I might not have had the chance to experience,” Moore said.

Of all his leadership roles, Moore said the most valuable ones have been on his sports teams. Moore has participated in cross country, basketball and track.

That leadership will be put to use next year when Moore goes to the U.S. Naval Academy.

Moore Moore has a good idea of what’s in store at the academy since his older brother recently graduated from there.

“Initially, I didn’t want to go, I wanted to do something different. But after looking around, it feels like the right place for me,” Moore said.

His visits to Annapolis, Md., showed him the camaraderie and friendships the Naval Academy forged.

“It’s a tough experience, but it’s definitely worth it,” he said.

School: Wellsville High School Grade-point average: 4.0 Class rank: 1 of 57 Parents: Scott and Kim Moore College and career plans: Attend the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., followed by at least five years in the Navy or Marine Corps.

Anne Reed-Weston

Anne Reed-Weston has been a therapist, mediator and organizer.

Parker Riley And that’s just for the role she has School: De Soto High School played as the head drum major for LawGrade-point average: 4.2 rence High School’s marching band.

Class rank: 3 of 144 As a clarinet player in the band, ReedParents: Darius and Carol Riley Weston didn’t know much about the College and career plans: Attend position until she attended an informacollege and major in computer science. tional meeting about drum majors.

Hopes to work as a software engineer or “I was going through the auditioning computer security professional. process, and I thought ‘I might actually like this’ and I wound up getting the role. It was great,” Reed-Weston said.

In her junior year, she As a young boy, Matthew Kelso was named an assistant would spend his afternoon with his drum major and was grandfather riding in the cab of a tractor made head drum major her senior year. It’s a job or combine. Sometimes, he’d even take that requires organizahis afternoon naps there. tion and responsibility.

“I loved being on the farm,” Kelso “I like being a leader said. and I like making groups That love hasn’t faded for the Eudora function well,” ReedHigh School senior.

Reed-Weston Weston said. “And I When his parents moved to a small knew it would help me farm out in the country, they started their own herd with a single polled Her- get to know a group of people really well.” eford. Over the years, She oversaw a band with a 140 memthe herd grew to 15 and the farm welcomed new bers and has two assistant drum majors to help. And while she misses not being animals, including rabable to play the clarinet on the field and bits and a llama. being part of a section, she’s glad she It took awhile for took on the role.

Kelso to convince his “I’ve had a bunch of opportunities parents to keep a llama, that I couldn’t get otherwise,” Reedbut the animal was free Weston said. and could be used as a Kelso Reed-Weston plans to attend Dart4-H project. mouth College and study biology. She is “At first they were interested in either becoming a physiagainst it. They didn’t think we would get much out it,” he said. “Now, it’s one cian or doing genetic research.

When not in school, Reed-Weston of their favorite projects to help with.”

Growing up around animals has made likes to volunteer at the Lawrence Humane Society, from where her parents Kelso’s career choice an easy one. He have adopted a number of pets. Or, wants to be a veterinarian and plans to she goes horseback riding as a stress attend Kansas State University to earn reliever from school. an undergraduate degree in animal sciSchool: Lawrence High School ence.

Grade-point average: 4.1 And his experience with the llama Class rank: Not provided has taught him a valuable lesson: If you Parents: Timothy Weston and Marirespect the animal, it respects you. anne Reed “People don’t give (animals) enough College and career plans: Attend credit for how intelligent they are,” Dartmouth College and plans to study Kelso said. biology. Hopes to become a physician Along with being an active member in 4-H, Kelso has spent much of his high or do genetic research.

Matthew Kelso

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The Journal-World’s 2012 Academic All-Star nominees Peter Cooney III

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RAND ZIEGLER, VICE PRESIDENT AND DEAN of the College of Arts and Sciences at Baker University, left, and Austin Turney, former Lawrence school board member, right, were judges for the 2012 Academic All-Stars. Neeli Bendapudi, dean of the Kansas University School of Business, center, was the guest speaker at Tuesday’s All-Star luncheon. Robert Harrington, a professor of psychology and research at KU, not pictured, also served as a judge.

Judges exceedingly impressed with this year’s All-Stars

By Christine Metz cmetz@ljworld.com

Rand Ziegler knows it sounds cliché, but he thinks this year’s nominees for the JournalWorld’s Academic AllStar honors are the best he has come across.

“I thought it was a noticeably stronger group of applicants than I have seen in my 10-plus years,” Ziegler said.

Since 1997, the JournalWorld has honored the top area high school seniors for their academic success and extracurricular accomplishments.

This year, 10 seniors from nine high schools earned the designation as a 2012 Academic All-Star.

As a parent of two college students, Ziegler knows what it takes for students these days to achieve high grades and handle busy after-school schedules.

“I don’t know how they do it,” Ziegler said of this year’s scholars.

As for the academics, Ziegler said he doesn’t remember seeing a group of applicants where nearly every student had a 4.0 and many had ACT scores of 30 or higher.

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learned to connect with his new American classmates.

“For me it was difficult to kind of start fitting in, and I mainly did that through playing sports,” he said.

As a senior at Free State High School, Ghijsen believes his early years in Lawrence molded him into an adventurous and outgoing person who isn’t afraid of new experiences.

“It makes you a little bit more open,” Ghijsen said.

Judges for this year’s Journal-World Academic All-Stars selected Ghijsen as the top student among the more than 20 students who were nominated by their schools. As part of the award, Ghijsen will be given a $500 scholarship from the Journal-World.

From his first year in Lawrence, when he focused on learning English, Ghijsen has gone on to excel in soccer, playing the violin and engineering.

Free State Spanish teacher Stuart Strecker describes Ghijsen as a humble kid with a great work ethic and a flair for fun.

“I would just say he brings a sense of humor (to his work) when he gets

School: Bishop Seabury School: Oskaloosa High School Academy Grade-point average: Grade-point average: 4.0 4.2 Class rank: 1 of 136 Class rank: 1 of 20 Parents: Robert and Jill Parents: Pete Cooney Miller Jr. and Susan Curatolo College and career College and career plans: Attend Baker plans: Attend the Wharton School of Business at University to obtain a degree in secondary education in mathematics and English. the University of Pennsylvania.

Also plans on competing in track and field.

Alex Courtney School: McLouth High School Grade-point average: 4.0 Class rank: 1 of 57 Parents: Mike and Jenny Courtney College and career plans: Will attend Garden City Community College on football scholarship, then enter the military. Would like to pursue a career in medicine.

Clara Foster School: Perry-Lecompton High School Grade-point average: 4.0 Class rank: 1 of 60 Parents: Wayne and Tammy Foster College and career plans: Attend Kansas University and major in English.

The students were judged based on their academic records and extracurricular activities. Nominees also wrote an essay on how the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which gave 18-year-olds the right to vote, has changed the political climate among youth and how they plan to use that vote to empower the next generation of adults.

Guangwei Fu president and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Baker University in Baldwin City, was one of three judges who narrowed a group of more than 20 nominees down to 10 All-Stars.

Ziegler was joined by former Lawrence school board president Austin Turney and Robert Harrington, a professor of psychology and research in education at Kansas University.

The students were judged based on their academic records and extracurricular activities.

Nominees also wrote an essay on how the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which gave 18-year-olds the right to vote, has changed the political climate among youth and how they plan to use that vote to empower the next generation of adults.

how successful students will be, it is not how smart they are, which Ruben is, but how good of a worker they are. And Ruben definitely has that high work ethic that is vital for success and college.”

— AP physics teacher Oather Strawderman

a chance. With open-ended creative assignments, he puts a humorous twist on it,” Strecker said.

Strecker, who has had Ghijsen for two years in Spanish class, said Ghijsen has earned the respect of other students and is appreciated for the way he treats them.

“He leaves you with a really nice impression,” Strecker said.

Along with being a cocaptain on the Firebirds’ soccer team, Ghijsen is president of the school’s engineering club. His team has won several competitions at Kansas University’s Engineering Expo.

Motivated by his best friend, Lucas Mehl, who has muscular dystrophy and uses a wheelchair, Ghi-

Turney said selecting just 10 students from among 24 applicants was a difficult task.

“It was tough to pick the ones we did. It was a very diverse but very talented group. We just had to make some decisions,” Turney said.

From pursuing degrees in engineering, nursing and music education, this year’s Academic All-Stars have a clear vision for the careers they will someday hold. And there were a few who had already taken steps in that direction, Turney said.

The fact that the students who were recognized represented nine schools throughout the region shows there is “talent in every high school,” Turney said.

Jordan Miller

School: Bishop Seabury Academy Grade-point average: 4.1 Class rank: 2 of 20 Parents: Bin Fu and Kui Zhang College and career plans: Attend college.

Bradley Harris School: Free State High School Grade-point average: 4.0 Class rank: 1 of 390 Parents: Scott and Amy Harris College and career plans: Attend Kansas University and major in engineering. Perhaps go to law school and specialize in patent law.

Cadence Ishmael

Jamison Montes de Oca

minor in Spanish.

School: Lawrence High School Grade-point average: 4.0 Class rank: 1 of 403 Parents: Israel and Susan Montes de Oca College and career plans: Study cellular biology at Kansas University or Baker University, with a

Elijah Penny School: Veritas Christian School Grade-point average: 4.0 Class rank: 1 of 8 Parents: David and Carmiletta Penny College and career plans: Attend an in-state college and major in nursing.

Claire Peterson School: Baldwin High School Grade-point average: 4.0 Class rank: 1 of 106 Parents: Bruce and Diane Peterson College and career plans: Attend University of Missouri-Kansas City and major in nursing and obtain a minor in business.

Preston Randall School: Veritas Christian Academy Grade-point average: 3.5 Class rank: Not provided Parents: Jeffrey and Kelly Randall College and career plans: Attend Kansas University and study Arabic or Russian. Hopes to become a Navy SEAL.

School: Ottawa High Caleb Smith School School: Wellsville High Grade-point average: — Reporter Christine Metz can be School 4.0 reached at 832-6352.

Grade-point average: Class rank: 1 of 120 4.0 Parents: Stephen and Class rank: 1 of 57 Lori Ishmael Parents: Jason and Kim College and career jsen wants to become a bioSmith plans: Attend Ottawa medical engineer and make College and career University and major in medical devices that implans: Major in aerospace business and music. prove people’s lives. One engineering at Wichita of Ghijsen’s first friends in State University.

Lawrence, Mehl taught his Chelsea Jamison new friend about American School: Ottawa High Benjamin Williams culture and the English lanSchool guage. They’ve been best School: Tonganoxie Grade-point average: friends ever since.

4.0 High School “It would be a great exGrade-point average: Class rank: 1 of 120 perience to do something 4.0 Parents: Delbert and to make his life better,” Class rank: 1 of 156 Linda Jamison Ghijsen said.

Parents: Mark and College and career AP physics teacher plans: Attend Washburn Debra Williams Oather Strawderman has College and career University, become a physical therapy asno doubt Ghijsen will do sistant, earn a bachelor’s degree in biology, plans: Attend Kansas Uniwell in college, no matter attend physical therapy school. versity or Kansas State University and major where he goes. Strawderin chemical engineering. man describes Ghijsen as a passionate, thorough and engaged student.

“The thing that I always think about for how successful students will be, it ! Leavenworth Jefferson ! Three team members the obstetrics and gyneis not how smart they are, Electric Cooperative will host have joined Callahan Creek: cology department at the which Ruben is, but how its annual business meetStefan Mumaw, creative direcKansas University School good of a worker they are. ing at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the tor; Kerri MacWherter-Webb, of Medicine-Wichita. The And Ruben definitely has McLouth High School Theater position was vacated by Dr. account supervisor; and Laura that high work ethic that Douglas Horbelt, who retired Frizell, account coordinator.

Auditorium. In addition to is vital for success and ! Cindi Hickey, Lawin March after 37 years of hearing a review of procollege,” he said. grams, members can vote on service. Bradley, a KU School rence, director of library development for the State proposed changes to by-laws. of Medicine graduate, is School: Free State High Library of Kansas, recently And three board members an assistant professor and School will be elected. Nominees are: treats patients at Associates was recognized with the Grade-point average: 2012 Kansas Library AssoBill Pohl and John Donovan in Women’s Health, PA, in 4.0 ciation Presidential Award for District 1; Larry Meadows Newton.

Class rank: 1 of 357 !"Rosemary Stipe, part for Meritorious Service. for District 4; and Marty Parents: Rudy Ghijsen In addition, she received Shaw and Rick Reischman for owner of Travellers Inc. in and Margot Versteeg District 6. Members who can’t Lawrence, recently received the Duane Johnson Library College and career recognition in Dublin, Leadership Award given attend but would like to vote plans: Wants to study Ireland, for her work in by the Friends of Kansas can visit the LJEC website at engineering and become sending tourists to Ireland.

Libraries. Hickey joined the www.ljec.coop for a voting a biomedical engineer.

The recognition was given State Library staff in 2006 proxy form or call the LJEC Hopes to find a job abroad.

by Michael Ring, minister of after serving for several office, 888-796- 6111. ! Dr. Kent Bradley, a state for tourism and sport, years as an information — Reporter Christine Metz can be Lawrence native, has been and Shane McEntree, minis- technology librarian and as reached at 832-6352. named interim chairman of ter of state for agriculture. a consultant to libraries.

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10 YEARS LATER: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

All-Stars of 2002 talk about singular moment of senior year: the 9/11 attacks career in public service or public policy.

Today, he’s considering his options for the future, including graduate school.

A decade after being named Academ! Thoughts on 9/11: “I felt that was ic All-Stars, the winners in 2002 have a defining moment,” he said. “I had settled into a variety of careers, and the opportunity to go to Washington their paths have led them everywhere to meet the president in July 2001. He from Douglas County to Senegal. seemed very youthful and charismatic.

We caught up with eight of the 10 In the aftermath (of 9/11), I was struck All-Star alumni and asked them what by how much he had aged.” they were up to these days and for their Bengtson said it motivated him to folperspectives on the Sept. 11, 2001, terror- low his dream because one never knows ist attacks, which happened during their what’s going to happen. senior year of high school.

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Catherine Kelly

Micah Salkind

! Then: He planned to attend Brown University and participate on the cross she maintained a 4.0 GPA and got a 32 country team and pursue a career in on her ACT, performed on the violin in pre-medicine, anthropology or writing. the State Festival Orchestra and played He also had plans to keep singing in tennis. chamber groups and a capella groups.

She decided to go to He maintained a 4.0 GPA at Free Washington University State High School. in St. Louis and thought “Everything I’ve about pursuing an inexperienced really made terdisciplinary program it stand out as one of the built around a study of best places to get a pubEnglish. lic education in the state “There are so many of Kansas,” he said. areas that I find interest! Now: Living in ing,” she said.

Providence, R.I., he’s ! Now: In a telephone interview from obtaining a doctorate Dakar, Senegal, Kelly said she is a Ph.D. in American studies at candidate in political science at Harvard Brown University after having earned a University. master’s and a bachelor’s degree there.

She’s monitoring the political situWhile he eventually wants to teach ation in Senegal for her dissertation. in higher education, he said today he She earned a Fulbright Scholarship and works as a professional disc jockey and studied in Belgium. helps to organize arts events. ! Thoughts on 9/11: In high school, ! Thoughts on 9/11: “It certainly has she said, she didn’t follow politics and shaped the political climate in the U.S.,” didn’t understand what was going on. he said. “I think at the time I felt like it “Today, there’s a huge presence of al- was something that was going to define Qaida in places like Mali and Algeria,” my generation, but now I don’t think she said. it does. I don’t want that to define my And what comes to mind now is how generation in any way.” her research might be able to contribute to some solutions to the underlying isAmanda (Pearce) Lyman sues that contributed to the attacks. ! Then: Pearce was off to Emporia State University to train to be a psyPatrick Bengtson chologist or a teacher. ! Then: The Lawrence High School She had a 4.0 GPA at Wellsville High student earned a 4.0 and scored a 33 on School and scored a 27 on the ACT. the ACT, and was involved in American She enjoyed working with younger Legion Boys State, Youth in Local Gov- children and coached and officiated ernment Club, Model United Nations, several sports.

Scholars Bowl and Student Council.

“They’re just a joy,” she said of He also took an interest in presidents younger kids. “When they accomplish and presidential biogsomething they didn’t think they could raphy. do, it’s really exciting. And it makes you “My dream would be feel good about yourself.” to be a representative ! Now: Lyman is married with a in Congress,” he said.

4-year-old son and a 1-year-old daugh“Obviously, I’ll need a ter, and works at Gardner High School backup plan. I’d like to teaching chemistry and honors chemisgo to law school.” try. ! Now: After graduatShe coached softball there for the last ing in three years from five years, but gave it up this year to Kansas University with a bachelor’s spend more time with her family. degree in economics, he graduated She earned a master’s degree from from the University of Pennsylvania Baker University in 2010. law school in 2009. He went to work as “I was inspired by my teachers, and an associate at the law firm Jones Day now I get to pay that back,” she said. ! Thoughts on 9/11: She said she in Dallas, but left when he realized he wasn’t fulfilling his dream of pursuing a remembered exactly where she was in ! Then: At Free State High School,

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who are more aligned with Brownback.

Holland said if the current moderate GOP leadership in the Senate is defeated, “You are not going to recognize Kansas two or three years from now.”

Holland’s comments came during the Eggs and Issues legislative forum put on by the Lawr e n c e Chamber of Commerce on Saturday and held at the Eldridge Hotel.

Holland, who lost to Holland Brownback in the 2010 gubernatorial race, said Brownback’s plan to phase out the state income tax and limit Gregory budget growth would mean less money for public schools.

But state Rep. TerriLois Gregory, R-Baldwin City, said schools have stashed away funds in balances that they are not using.

“There are taxpayer funds that are out there and in accounts, but they are not being utilized,” she said.

Schools have argued many of these accounts are for dedicated purposes and don’t offset the cuts made to schools over the past couple of years.

Brownback has said his tax proposal would grow the economy and create jobs. His plan would phase out the state income tax and remove taxes on income for nearly 200,000 businesses, including sole proprietor, partner or Subchapter-S corporations. The proposal would keep in place the 6.3 percent state sales tax, which under current law is set to decrease to 5.7 percent in 2013, and remove numerous deductions and tax credits.

But state Rep. Ann Mah, D-Topeka, said Brownback’s proposal increases the tax liability for those making under $25,000 and gives that money to those making more than $250,000.

“It is going to be a struggle between the rich and the poor,” she said of the tax battle.

On the issue of redistricting, the Legislature is fighting over redrawing maps for congressional and legislative districts to accommodate population shifts over the past 10 years.

Republican leaders in the House recently floated a plan to put Lawrence, which is currently divided between the 2nd and 3rd U.S. House districts, in the

vast 1st District.

But state Rep. Tom Sloan, R-Lawrence, said that was unlikely to happen.

The 1st is currently represented by one of the most conservative Republicans in the House, U.S. Rep. Tim Huelskamp of Fowler.

“It’s not just that we don’t want him; he doesn’t want us,” Sloan said.

On another issue, Brownback is going forward on a plan to privatize Medicaid under a new system called KanCare, but a bipartisan group of legislators wants to maintain the current system of longterm care for those with developmental disabilities.

Gregory said that Brownback’s Secretary on Aging, Shawn Sullivan, told her that the administration has decided to delay until 2014 placing services for those with developmental disabilities into KanCare.

“I’m very happy that the secretary of aging has been listening and working with us,” Gregory said.

But Mah said the Legislature should keep the system for developmentally disabled as it is currently, which produced some applause from the audience.

State Sen. Marci Francisco and state Rep. Barbara Ballard, both Democrats from Lawrence, also spoke at the meeting.

— Statehouse reporter Scott Rothschild can be reached at 785-423-0668.

class when the attacks occurred. It was a very somber day, she remembered.

“There’s so many things out of your control,” she said. “You have to live each day to the fullest because you never know when it could be your last.”

actly where they were on 9/11,” he said.

Lynn Feng

! Then: A bilingual senior at Free State High School, Feng’s parents spoke Chinese around the house.

She planned on a career in diplomacy Bryan Gurss or politics, and credited her parents for ! Then: The Tonganoxie High School setting high academic standards. She earned a 1520 on the SAT and a 4.0 GPA senior planned to go to KU to study at Free State High School while playing engineering, because he enjoyed math. varsity tennis and volunteering in the “There’s just something about workcommunity. ing with numbers that I understand ! Now: Interviewed on the day she really well,” he said.

He scored a 30 on his ACT and main- was admitted to the New York bar, Feng is now working in New York City at tained a 4.0 GPA in high school while Paul Hastings, LLP, in real estate law, playing sports, participating in clubs after graduating from law school at New and performing community service. ! Now: After going to KU, he didn’t York University. She also attended Yale University and Peking University in feel comfortable in his chemical enChina for two years. gineering program, so he switched to !"Thoughts on 9/11: “I feel that it has math education.

Today, he teaches eighth-grade math more of an impact for me now that I live in New York,” she said. “Being in Lawrence, at Eudora Middle School and coaches volleyball, girls and boys basketball and you’re really so far removed from it.”

While no one she knew was directly track. affected by the attacks, today she knows “I really enjoy it, too,” he said. ! Thoughts on 9/11: He remembered people whose friends and family memfeeling sick on the day of the attacks, bers were. particularly when watching the second “You think about it” when workplane hit the World Trade Center. ing in Manhattan, Feng said. “What if “I kind of feel like it happened and the you have to get out? It’s definitely on way to move on from it is to live life the people’s minds still.” way you do and go from there,” he said.

Bryce Huschka ! Then: A senior at Ottawa High

School, Huschka was involved in numerous clubs and organizations, and planned to enter a career in politics or working with a service organization.

He learned to balance those activities with schoolwork, and earned a 4.0 GPA. “Sometimes I learned the hard way,” he said of his many activities.

“It just taught me that I need to prioritize and not do as much, but everything I do, I do it very well.” ! Now: He graduated from Kansas State University in a fiveyear program that gave him a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in industrial engineering. He then went to work fulltime at ExxonMobil instead of pursuing a Ph.D., he said. He became involved in sales and marketing for the company’s automotive lubricant products, which combined retail and technical knowledge.

Today, he lives in Washington, D.C., and works in Fairfax, Va., in the controller’s office of the company. He established scholarship funds at KSU after benefitting from similar scholarships himself. ! Thoughts on 9/11: He said it was a significant event, but taken with the rest of the events of his life, it has helped instill in him a sense of loyalty to the country and a desire to give back.

“I think everybody remembers ex-

Julia Gegenheimer ! Then: The straight-A student at

Lawrence High School wanted to learn more about the world and study abroad.

She expressed a desire to major in international relations at Yale.

“Some day, I hope to work overseas,” she said at the time. ! Now: She graduated from Yale in 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in history and political science before spending a year abroad on an Insight Collaborative fellowship that took her to Cyprus, Cambodia and the Netherlands.

She graduated from Harvard Law School in 2010 and clerked for a federal district judge.

Today, she works as a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice, a job she got after completing an internship at the department.

“I thought it was great work,” Gegenheimer said. “It was challenging but also very rewarding. I enjoyed working with the other attorneys in this section (of the department). I thought they were great attorneys and also great colleagues.” ! Thoughts on 9/11: Gegenheimer, working long hours on a trial at the Department of Justice, did not respond to a request for her thoughts on 9/11 by the time this article was being published.

Attempts to reach 2002 Academic All-Stars Katrina Cook and Leslie (Short) Wolfe for this article were not successful.

— Higher education reporter Andy Hyland can be reached at 832-6388.

WHEEL GENIUS

Road work planned this week Lawrence !"Northbound traffic will be restricted to one lane on North Third Street near the Kansas Turnpike entrance. ! Kasold Drive from Bob Billings Parkway to Eighth Street will have one lane closed. Crews will be working Tuesday through Friday only, and the project is expected to last one month. Completion: April 2012. ! One lane of westbound Sixth Street west of George Williams Way will be closed intermittently until the end of May as Sixth Street is extended in the area. Completion: May 2012. ! Kansas River levee closed for construction of Bowersock Mills & Power Co.’s new plant on the north bank. Users will be detoured to city streets crossing at the controlled intersection of North Second and Locust streets.

Completion: late 2012. ! Water lines will be replaced along 23rd Street from approximately Barker Avenue to just east of the Douglas County Maintenance yard, 711 E. 23rd St. Sanitary sewer piping will be reconstructed along the Burroughs Creek alignment north and south of

southbound left lanes are closed just north of 1100 Road for about 1,000 feet each direction for pavement work. Completion: April 2012. !" North 200 Road Baldwin City closed at U.S. Highway ! Route 1055 (also 59 for frontage road conknown as Sixth Street) be- struction work. Completween highway 56 (Ames tion: late 2012.

Street) and Firetree Avenue will be closed be- U.S. Highway 69 ! Northbound left lane ginning Tuesday. It will likely stay closed through closed from 103rd Street July but there will be a to 91st Street in Overland Park for reconstruction marked detour. work. Completion: spring East 1900 Road 2012. ! Route 1057/East 1900 Road will be closed between U.S. Highway 24 ! Traffic will be rethe Kansas 10 interchange and Route 458/North 1000 duced to one lane in both Road. A marked detour will directions over the Bourbanis Creek bridge bebe provided. ginning early afternoon U.S. Highway 59 Friday. Completion: No! Northbound and vember 2012.

East 23rd Street. These projects will close North Perimeter Road and East 23rd Street Frontage Road throughout construction.

Completion: June 2012.

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Informed choice Douglas County officials should move ahead on a plan to give consumers the information they need to make a wise towing decision.

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here’s a scam going on in Douglas County, and local government officials need to do something to end it.

A recent article in the Journal-World detailed how a Eudora resident unexpectedly was hit with a $1,110 towing bill for simply towing a wrecked mini-van a total of six miles.

The woman’s mistake? She assumed all local towing companies essentially are equal. They are not. There are many fine, reputable towing companies in Lawrence, but there are some that make a living by presenting exorbitant, after-the-fact bills to individuals who made a quick, unresearched decision at the scene of an accident.

Thus far, local government officials have done far too little to educate the public about the finanical dangers posed by unscrupulous towing companies.

It is public servants — often police officers or sheriff’s deputies — who arrange for a tow truck to come to an accident scene. The normal procedure is for the officer to ask whether the motorist prefers a certain towing company. If the motorist doesn’t, a Douglas County dispatcher simply calls the next towing company on a rotating list regardless of what that company will charge.

How hard would it be for a law enforcement officer to give a laminated sheet to the distressed motorist listing the telephone numbers of area tow companies? The sheet could include some wording that suggests it would be a good idea for motorists to call several tow companies and ask what they would charge. The sheet could note that there is a wide range of charges, with some bills averaging more than $150 per mile.

Or, better yet, the county could require any towing company that wants to be dispatched by the county to provide a per-mile estimate of towing costs. A list of those estimates could then be given to motorists. This is similar to a policy instituted by the city of Wichita. (By the way, a Wichita police spokesman estimated a six mile tow in Wichita would have cost $164, not $1,110.)

County officials have been aware of this towing problem for some time. Now, it appears, the Douglas County Commission will have a discussion in the near future about possible solutions.

In the past, county officials have said their hands are tied, citing federal regulations that prohibit local governments from placing limits on tow companies or deciding which companies can be placed on the county dispatch tow list.

All that is accurate, but none of it prevents the county from combating this problem with information.

County commissioners should become the champions for creating a system that puts information into the hands of motorists who are vulnerable to being ripped off by opportunistic towing companies.

It is no longer acceptable to hear the county’s hands are tied on this matter.

It is time for our public servants to take some positive steps to solve the problem.

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Too young for a life sentence WASHINGTON — In the summer of 1787, just 94 years after the Salem witch trials, as paragons of the Enlightenment such as James Madison, George Washington and Benjamin Franklin deliberated in the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, a mob pelted and otherwise tormented to death a woman accused of being a witch. Prosecution of alleged witches, writes historian Edmund Morgan, had ceased in the colonies long before the English statute criminalizing witchcraft was repealed in 1736. Some popular sentiment, however, lagged.

Today, 221 years after the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution, the Supreme Court is again pondering the Eighth Amendment’s proscription of “cruel and unusual punishments.” The case illustrates the complexity of construing some constitutional language in changing contexts of social science and brain science.

Evan Miller, whose five suicide attempts surely had something to do with the serious domestic abuse he suffered, was complicit in a brutal murder and in 2006 was sentenced to life in an Alabama prison without the possibility of parole.

Kuntrell Jackson was involved in a video store robbery during which an accomplice fatally shot the store clerk. In 2003, Jackson was sentenced to life in an Arkansas prison without the possibility of parole. Miller

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Before its June 26 recess, the Supreme Court will decide whether sentencing children to die in prison is cruel. It certainly is unusual…” and Jackson were 14 when they committed their crimes. Both were tried as adults before judges who had no discretion to impose any other sentence. Such mandatory sentences preclude judges weighing a consideration of Eighth Amendment jurisprudence — proportionality.

Before its June 26 recess, the Supreme Court will decide whether sentencing children to die in prison is cruel. It certainly is unusual: Although 2,300 current prisoners have been sentenced to life without parole for crimes committed as juveniles (age 17 or younger), just 79 prisoners in 18 states are serving sentences of life without parole for crimes committed when they were 13 or 14.

The court must consider not

only what is society’s sense of cruelty, but also how that sense should be shaped by what some new technologies reveal about adolescent brain biology. Shakespeare’s shepherd in “The Winter’s Tale” did not need to see brain scans in order to wish that “there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.”

And with age-related laws restricting the right to drink, drive, marry, serve on juries, etc., all American states have long acknowledged adolescents’ developmental shortcomings.

Neuroscience, however, now helps explain why aspects of adolescents’ brains make young people susceptible to impulsive behavior, and to failing to anticipate and understand the consequences of it.

Without opening the floodgates to “excuse abuse,” the Supreme Court has accommodated what science teaches.

In 2005, the court proscribed imposing the death penalty on someone who committed a murder as a juvenile, arguing that “the susceptibility of juveniles to immature and irresponsible behavior” can diminish the reprehensible nature of their crimes. In 2010, the court proscribed sentences of life without parole for juveniles convicted of a crime other than homicide, arguing that such sentences improperly deny juvenile offend-

ers “a chance to demonstrate growth and maturity.”

In both cases, the sentences were judged cruel and unusual because they were disproportional to actual culpability.

In 1958, the court said: “The (Eighth) Amendment must draw its meaning from the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society.”

Justice Antonin Scalia has warned: “A society that adopts a bill of rights is skeptical that ‘evolving standards of decency’ always ‘mark progress,’ and that societies always ‘mature,’ as opposed to rot.” But even the “originalist” Scalia would today proscribe some late 18th-century punishments, such as public lashing and branding.

Denying juveniles even a chance for parole defeats the penal objective of rehabilitation. It deprives prisoners of the incentive to reform themselves. Some prisons withhold education, counseling and other rehabilitation programs from prisoners ineligible for parole. Denying these to adolescents in a period of life crucial to social and psychological growth stunts what the court in 2005 called the prisoner’s “potential to attain a mature understanding of his own humanity.” Which seems, in a word — actually, three words — “cruel and unusual.”

— George Will is a columnist for Washington Post Writers Group.

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Scared Kansans?

Snow White not a role model “Someday, my prince will come.” — Snow White, 1937 In a hotel in Canada hangs this picture, someone’s mischievous take on Snow White a few years after happily ever after. She is posed in an anonymous suburban den. Behind her, Prince Charming slouches in a chair, slowly going to seed.

Snow has a babe in arms and a few other rug rats scattered about the floor. She faces you with an expression that seems to ask, is this all there is?

It is less a comment on marriage than on the notion that marriage is the holy grail of a woman’s existence, the finish line of her life’s hopes, dreams and goals. That is a fable upon which the Disney company built an empire. But the fable is not confined to the multiplex. To the contrary, you can see it played out on a weekly basis in the headlines of any given publication in your local supermarket checkout line.

Consider one of the most recent big stories from the Land of the Beautiful People.

It seems that one William Bradley Pitt and one Angelina Jolie Voight recently became engaged to be married. Already the celebrity gossip mills are buzzing with the critical question this raises: How will it affect Jen? How does Jen feel about it? Will Jen be OK? That would be Jennifer Aniston, the wife Pitt famously dumped in 2005 when he and Jolie became a thing. If I were her, I think my response would be, please stop calling me “Jen,” as if we went to

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high school together.

But Aniston has become the poster child for this mediadriven narrative of woman as love victim, tragically incomplete until her wedding day, if even then. She is joined on that poster by the likes of Sandra Bullock, Oprah Winfrey, Halle Berry, Eva Longoria, and Khloe and Kim Kardashian.

Sometimes, it seems as if every cover of every tabloid and magazine has a headline about some actress or reality show personality and her crusade to find — or keep — a man. Either she has been dumped or he has cheated, or she is thinking of taking him back, or she is lonely without him, or she is struggling to conceive, or the wedding is off, or the wedding is back on, or she has found new love after the divorce, yadda yadda and yadda. It is life as soap opera story arc or country music lyric.

And here is the thing: you will almost never see a male celebrity as the object of one of those headlines: No breathless updates on Jon Hamm’s search for love.

No headline coverage of Ryan Gosling’s struggle to conceive.

No suggestion that they are incomplete until or unless those

milestones are achieved. You have to wonder what lessons this teaches little girls.

Maybe you don’t think it teaches any particular lesson.

Maybe you’re inclined to dismiss the narrative precisely because it is media created.

Maybe you believe it says nothing about the mindset of real women in the real world.

Maybe you’re right.

One the other hand, the fact that the narrative endures, that it continues to sell movies and magazines, suggests it has more resonance for more women than one would like to think.

There is nothing wrong with love or with wanting or seeking a life partner. But we should question the idea, implicit in the narrative, that finding said partner is the singular goal of a woman’s life, her only route to happiness, and that until she has achieved it she is incomplete, even if she is as accomplished as an Oprah or as celebrated as a “Jen.” Back when Snow White sang, “Someday my prince will come,” waiting on a prince — and raising his babies afterward — constituted pretty much a woman’s entire range of options. Seventy-five years later, women have options their grandmothers could scarcely have dreamt. So is it asking too much that we relegate this tired narrative to the junk heap where it belongs?

Snow White is a fairy tale, not a lifestyle.

— Leonard Pitts Jr. is a columnist for the Miami Herald.

To the editor: I was surprised to read the Brownback statement in the April 12 paper: “The public is scared now. They are scared for the future of their country.” How could Sam grow up in Kansas and not know that you can’t scare Kansans?

He must not have met my father or others of his generation who persevered through the Depression and the Dust Bowl. As for my generation, we’re nobody’s fool. Brownback’s tactic — if you scare people enough you can get them to do anything — is embarrassingly transparent.

Fortunately, we see legislators pushing back, including within the Republican Party, saying, “Not so fast!” Maybe we shouldn’t erode our tax base, or further cripple our schools or shortchange our public servants. Maybe we shouldn’t cut services for the elderly and the most vulnerable. Maybe it is in the interest of our state to encourage the arts and promote creativity in our young. At a minimum, our representatives are saying, if you’re going to make sweeping changes, don’t rush, let’s think it through.

In the next two years, Brownback may discover that Kansans are not such an easy mark. Kansans are wonderfully fearless, practical and stubborn. We tend to believe in a couple other adages. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” and “don’t throw the baby out with the bath water.”

Elizabeth Black, Lawrence

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From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for April 22, 1912: YEARS “The local poAGO lice department IN 1912 swooped down on the Cottage house at midnight Saturday night and secured a large quantity of confiscatable material and made four arrests of persons found in the place. … A number of men seemingly under the influence of liquor were seen to emerge from the place shortly before the raid was made and what was found there confirmed to a large extent the suspicions aroused by these men.”

— Compiled by Sarah St. John

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St. Joseph 67/38 Chillicothe 64/37

Sabetha 65/38

Kansas City Marshall Manhattan 66/44 63/40 Goodland Salina 67/42 Oakley Kansas City Topeka 70/42 68/41 72/44 66/40 Lawrence 65/42 Sedalia 66/38 Emporia Great Bend 61/40 67/41 67/41 Nevada Dodge City Chanute 68/42 70/44 Hutchinson 68/42 Garden City 69/39 72/44 Springfield Wichita Pratt Liberal Coffeyville Joplin 64/39 69/44 67/44 71/45 70/42 70/42 Hays Russell 67/40 66/41

Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.

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71°/30° 67°/45° 92° in 1953 28° in 1986

Precipitation in inches 24 hours through 7 p.m. yest.

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REGIONAL CITIES

Today Mon. Today Mon. Cities Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Cities Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Independence 71 42 s 71 48 s Atchison 68 38 s 67 47 s Fort Riley 69 42 s 70 48 s Belton 66 42 s 66 49 s Olathe 65 42 s 67 48 s Burlington 69 42 s 69 49 s Osage Beach 64 37 s 63 43 s Coffeyville 70 42 s 71 48 s Osage City 66 42 s 68 48 s Concordia 66 40 s 72 51 s Ottawa 67 42 s 67 46 s Dodge City 70 44 s 76 53 s Wichita 69 44 s 70 51 s Holton 68 40 s 69 49 s Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.

NATIONAL FORECAST Seattle 73/50

SUN & MOON

Today Mon. 6:34 a.m. 6:33 a.m.

8:05 p.m. 8:06 p.m.

7:07 a.m. 7:46 a.m.

9:43 p.m. 10:36 p.m.

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Billings 78/52

San Francisco 67/55

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Denver 76/46

Minneapolis 57/38 Chicago 54/36 Kansas City 65/42

Los Angeles 77/60

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As of 7 a.m. Saturday Lake

Clinton Perry Pomona

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Discharge (cfs)

52 75 50

INTERNATIONAL CITIES Cities Acapulco Amsterdam Athens Baghdad Bangkok Beijing Berlin Brussels Buenos Aires Cairo Calgary Dublin Geneva Hong Kong Jerusalem Kabul London Madrid Mexico City Montreal Moscow New Delhi Oslo Paris Rio de Janeiro Rome Seoul Singapore Stockholm Sydney Tokyo Toronto Vancouver Vienna Warsaw Winnipeg

Today Hi Lo W 88 71 s 54 44 sh 72 55 s 90 65 s 98 80 t 75 55 s 59 41 pc 52 39 sh 64 50 s 88 60 s 70 42 pc 54 40 sh 53 42 sh 82 75 s 72 51 s 67 43 pc 57 42 sh 68 45 c 74 42 s 48 36 c 65 49 sh 97 73 pc 46 39 sh 54 41 sh 77 69 r 66 52 pc 54 46 r 88 79 t 52 44 r 81 64 pc 61 54 sh 51 39 c 58 50 c 59 43 sh 64 48 pc 60 42 sh

Hi 89 54 75 91 97 82 59 50 59 82 72 51 56 81 66 70 52 68 75 50 64 99 46 51 78 64 70 88 52 79 64 45 60 61 56 58

Mon. Lo W 72 s 43 sh 57 pc 67 s 80 t 63 pc 45 sh 42 r 51 s 58 s 35 c 39 sh 45 sh 77 r 50 s 44 pc 41 r 42 pc 42 s 37 r 48 r 73 s 34 sh 43 r 68 r 50 s 50 pc 79 t 43 sh 63 c 59 r 37 sh 42 c 45 pc 41 c 44 c

Washington 55/44

Atlanta 68/43 El Paso 90/66

Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation.

Temperature bands are highs for today.

Houston 82/55 Miami 85/68

Fronts Cold

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New York 56/50

Detroit 54/34

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-10s -0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s National Summary: A nor’easter riding northward along the Eastern Seaboard today will spread heavy rain and high winds from the Carolinas northward. The western half of the country features temperatures well above normal.

Today Mon. Today Mon. Cities Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Cities Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Memphis 69 45 s 65 48 s Albuquerque 82 58 s 85 60 s Miami 85 68 t 81 57 pc Anchorage 53 37 s 53 37 s Milwaukee 53 36 pc 56 42 c Atlanta 68 43 pc 60 40 s Minneapolis 57 38 c 66 48 c Austin 81 52 s 75 51 s Nashville 62 39 pc 60 40 s Baltimore 54 43 r 51 38 c New Orleans 78 58 pc 72 52 s Birmingham 69 44 pc 64 41 s 56 50 r 59 43 sh Boise 83 60 s 85 58 pc New York Omaha 64 38 s 69 50 s Boston 54 44 r 60 45 r 83 60 t 77 51 s Buffalo 47 36 c 38 35 sn Orlando Philadelphia 57 46 r 53 40 sh Cheyenne 74 43 s 79 49 s 103 77 s 100 76 s Chicago 54 36 pc 57 40 pc Phoenix 54 36 c 38 33 sn Cincinnati 56 34 pc 55 36 pc Pittsburgh Cleveland 50 35 c 45 35 sh Portland, ME 52 40 r 58 43 r Portland, OR 82 56 pc 82 55 c Dallas 81 52 s 76 56 s Reno 87 55 pc 85 53 c Denver 76 46 s 83 51 s Richmond 58 45 r 58 38 c Des Moines 59 38 s 66 48 s 87 53 s 79 50 c Detroit 54 34 pc 54 38 pc Sacramento St. Louis 61 38 pc 63 46 s El Paso 90 66 s 93 65 s Salt Lake City 85 58 s 84 60 s Fairbanks 51 33 pc 55 33 s San Diego 66 61 pc 65 60 pc Honolulu 84 70 pc 84 71 s San Francisco 67 55 s 60 52 c Houston 82 55 s 79 54 s 73 50 c 75 51 c Indianapolis 57 35 pc 59 41 pc Seattle Spokane 74 53 pc 79 55 pc Kansas City 65 42 s 67 50 s Tucson 100 70 s 98 69 s Las Vegas 98 76 s 93 76 s Tulsa 72 42 s 72 52 s Little Rock 74 45 s 71 47 s 55 44 r 55 41 c Los Angeles 77 60 pc 70 57 pc Wash., DC National extremes yesterday for the 48 contiguous states High: Death Valley, CA 110° Low: Angel Fire, NM 21°

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WILL LUNN, OF CANS FOR THE COMMUNITY, PRESENTS A $1,000 CHECK to Kendall Simmons, director of the Recovery and Hope Network, or RAHN, a local nonprofit working with people with severe mental illnesses. Pictured, from left, are LaTanya Johnson, RAHN board president, Meredith Leary, Simmons, Barb Dreavis, Lunn, Ruby Domoe, Linda Klinke, director of Cans for the Community, and Wendell McGaugh. Simmons, of Lawrence, submitted the photo.

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LAWRENCE JOURNAL-WORLD !"LJWorld.com/sports !"Sunday, April 22, 2012

KANSAS RELAYS

Superhuman Richard Gwin/Journal-World Photo

FREE STATE’S ALEXA HARMONTHOMAS CLEARS the last hurdle in the 100 hurdles championship on Saturday at the Kansas Relays at Memorial Stadium.

HarmonThomas takes first in hurdles

By Jesse Newell jnewell@ljworld.com

Free State’s Alexa Harmon-Thomas switched her shoes, ran to the track, leapt over one hurdle, then took her spot at the starting line.

Because she also was competing in the long jump at Saturday’s Kansas Relays, the sophomore had only seconds to prepare herself for the race she was favored to win.

“I was pretty nervous going into it,” Harmon-Thomas said, “because I was over here at long jump, so I didn’t have that much time to warm up.”

Turned out she didn’t need it.

Harmon-Thomas wasn’t challenged after the first few steps, taking the 100 hurdles championship with a time of 14.45 seconds — a seasonbest and just two-tenths off her personal record.

“I just wanted to go out hard from the beginning, because sometimes I have issues with my start,” Harmon-Thomas said. “And I just kept going.”

Harmon-Thomas entered the event with the top qualifying time after posting a 14.61 Friday.

Richard Gwin/Journal-World Photo

BERSHAWN “BATMAN” JACKSON FLIES OFF THE BLOCKS in the 400 hurdles on final day of the Kansas Relays on Saturday at Memorial Stadium. Jackson won the event in a Relays-record time of 48.2 seconds.

‘Batman’ Jackson breaks own record in Relays finale

By Gary Bedore gbedore@ljworld.com

The song “Crank Dat Batman” blared over the Memorial Stadium sound system to the delight of 14,500 fans and at least one 400-meter hurdler Saturday at the Kansas Relays.

“That music definitely fired me up. It showed that the people have got a high-respect level,” Bershawn “Batman” Jackson said after winning his seventh Relays 400 hurdles title in a meet-record 48.2 seconds.

The 2008 Olympic bronze medalist out of Miami easily defeated Nike teammate Jus-

tin Gaymon and unattached Danny McFarlane, who finished in 49.53 and 50.39 respectively.

“It’s the best I’ve run in my whole career this early,” added the 5-foot-8, 158-pound Jackson. He bettered his old Relays record of 48.32, set in 2008.

“It’s a bit scary. You train hard ... good things will happen.”

Jackson, who turns 29 on May 8, believes this is the year he attains Olympic gold.

It’d be a natural progression after making his first Olympic team in 2008.

“The sky is the limit,” said

Jackson, whose time was best in the world this outdoor season. “I think it’s possible. It’s been my dream since I was a kid. Keep working hard, set a goal for myself, try to achieve it.”

His effort on Saturday earned him Kansas Relays most outstanding male athlete honors. Shawnee Mission West’s Alli Cash, who set a meet record in the 1,600 and won the 800, was outstanding female athlete.

“My career started here,” said Jackson, who waved to the fans and pumped his left fist as he returned to the backstretch at the conclusion of

his race. “When I was 19, it was the first meet I came to.

I got treated with respect. My career started when I won this meet. People didn’t know who Bershawn Jackson was. This kick-started my career. You never forget where you come from. The crowd is always phenomenal. They welcome me with open arms and I love coming here.”

Might Batman be considered one of the top performers in Kansas Relays history?

“I don’t want to go that far, but when my career is said and done, we’ll measure that then,” he said.

Please see RELAYS, page 5B

Please see PREPS, page 4B

CITY SOFTBALL SHOWDOWN

Firebirds roll over Lions, 8-1

By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

If you only watched the first inning of Saturday’s city Contributed photo showdown softball battle at LAWRENCE COUNTRY CLUB SUPERINTENDENT BILL IRVING Free State High, you might WILL HAVE HIS HANDS FULL readying the “longest short golf have walked away thinking course” for the upcoming Big 12 Women’s Golf tournaLawrence High was well on ment. its way to victory.

With a double from Marly Carmona and an RBI single from Lauren Byrn, the Lions jumped ahead in the top of the inning and then shut the Firebirds down, 1-2-3, in the bottom.

After that, everything changed and the Firebirds The greens are rolling rolled to an 8-1 victory to imfast and true. The bent-grass prove to 4-5 on the season. fairways are in tip-top shape “Today was a good day and the pleasing-to-the eye, for everything,” Free State immaculate tee boxes will coach Lee Ice said. “Pitchsatisfy the talented golfers ing, hitting and defense. And about to use them as launchwhen you put everything toing pads. gether, you see how easy the Lawrence Country Club is game is.” ready for the Big 12 women’s Despite struggling out of tkeegan@ljworld.com golf tournament, which runs the gate, the Firebirds were, from Friday through Sunday, well, on fire from there on after a Thursday practice curveball is the thing that’s out. Courtney Parker’s towgoing to make me lose the round. ering two-run home run in Bill Irving, LCC’s supermost sleep,” Irving said. the bottom of the second got intendent, is the man most Ideally, more rain would the FSHS offense going and responsible for the course have fallen on the course the rest of the bats followed. rounding into top shape, but this past week, but for the In all, Free State finished any greenskeeper is only as most part, it’s been a golf with 11 hits in five innings, good as his or her ultimate course-friendly winter and including three triples and boss, Mother Nature. spring.

Parker’s homer.

“I would say the weather Two of Free State’s triples Please see KEEGAN, page 3B came on back-to-back at-bats throwing us a really weird

LCC superintendent tends a rough course

Tom Keegan

John Young/JOurnal-World Photo

FREE STATE’S ALEX HILL (2) CONGRATULATES A’Liyah Rogers following Rogers’ run during the Firebirds’ game against Lawrence High on Saturday at FSHS. in the third inning, as A’Liyah Rogers (2-for-4, one run, one stolen base) and Remington Samuels (2-for-3, one RBI, two runs) both found a gap in right-center and scored to bump Free State’s lead to 4-1.

The Firebirds added two runs in both the fifth and sixth innings, with Whitney Rothwell smashing a twoRBI single down the firstbase line in the fifth and Alex Hill and Samantha O’Brien

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picking up RBIs in the sixth.

Today “They hit the ball well to- was a good day and had timely hitting, and we only got two runners day for to second base,” LHS coach everything.

Nick Wood said. “That was Pitching, the difference.” hitting and Although the score would indicate otherwise, Satur- defense.” day’s result was not a case of the Lions (3-12) playing poor- — Free State ly. Wood said he was pleased softball coach Lee Ice Please see SOFTBALL, page 3B

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Buescher finally takes Trucks title KANSAS CITY, KAN. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; James Buescher finally got a chance to drive his truck into Victory Lane.

Those second-place finishes were getting a little old.

The 22-year-old Buescher passed Brad Keselowski with 10 laps remaining Saturday at Kansas Speedway, and then pulled away to win for the first time in 76 tries in the Trucks series. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even count the number of times we finished second,â&#x20AC;? Buescher said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had a lot of second-place finishes, but we finally got the win.â&#x20AC;?

Buescher won his first NAS-

CAR race in the Nationwide series at Daytona earlier this season, but hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been able to break through in the Trucks series, despite four runner-up runs â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including last weekend at Rockingham, where his teammate Kasey Kahne won for Turner Motorsports. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Two weeks in a row is definitely something to be proud of,â&#x20AC;? Buescher said.

Buescher unloaded a new truck for practice on Friday and it was fast all weekend. He lost the lead on the final round of pit stops, electing to take four tires while Keselowski took only

By Ron Morris The State (Columbia, S.C.)

Just after news that Bobby Petrino was involved in a motorcycle mishap, lied to the media about it, withheld information from his bosses, was found to have at least one mistress and eventually was fired as the Arkansas head football coach, Steve Spurrier opined on the situation.

It did not used to be this way in college coaching, Spurrier said.

Although not his intention, Spurrier provided a rather succinct and worldly look at the dramatic and altering landscape of coaching at all levels over the past decade or so.

In fact, coaching generally is not what it used to be in just about every sport and at just about every level. There are no numbers to confirm this, but you have to believe there were fewer scandals involving coaches as late as the 1970s and 1980s. Most of the scandal then dealt primarily with violations of NCAA rules. If Bear Bryant was cheating anywhere other than in recruiting, it certainly was not reported.

Those were likely the last days of an era in which college football coaches were viewed as role models for athletes.

Going back further, it is easy to romanticize about the days when Knute Rockne and Bud Wilkinson served as father figures to their players. They were leaders, bent on developing young men as much as winning football games.

Coaches really are not coaches anymore, at least not at the major-college football level and at least not in the way we used to think of coaches. As salaries for coaches have skyrocketed, and university presidents and athletic directors have ceded power to men wearing whistles around their necks, the profession has changed drastically.

Anyone who believes college athletics is about sports and the games that are played has not been paying attention. Every major college now operates a multi-million dollar business called intercollegiate athletics.

Athletic directors are the CEOs of these businesses, and head football coaches â&#x20AC;&#x201D; menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball coaches at some schools â&#x20AC;&#x201D; are the chief fundraisers.

I would like to believe that athletics directors and university presidents are finally standing up to their coaches. North Carolina did so by recently firing football coach Butch Davis. Arkansas faced much heat from an adoring fan base in support of Petrino before dismissing him.

Both of those schools made bold statements by supporting the idea that winning football games and generating revenue for the athletics department is not as important as restoring the reputation of the academic institution.

We can only hope those firings signal another change in the college football coaching business, one in which coaches are held accountable for their actions.

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truck to win the race today,â&#x20AC;? Piquet said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but you have to bring it home as best you can if you want to be there at the end of the season.â&#x20AC;?

It was an eventful start to the weekend at Kansas Speedway, where AJ Allmendinger sits on the pole for the Sprint Cup race on Sunday.

Ron Hornaday Jr. and Paulie Harraka got together on Lap 42 and touched off a spectacular wreck that involved David Starr, Brennan Newberry and Russ Dugger. Newberry and Dugger were evaluated at the infield care center and released.

MONDAY â&#x20AC;˘ Girls soccer vs. Gardner-Edgerton, 6:30 p.m. â&#x20AC;˘ Boys tennis at Topeka Invitational, 9 a.m. â&#x20AC;˘ Boys golf at Topeka West Invitational, 1 p.m.

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two, but powered by the Sprint Cup regular on the fresh tires to wrap up his first series win. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We did a great job, my team did, of capitalizing on pit strategy,â&#x20AC;? Keselowski said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We needed a little more speed to run with James, who was just lightning quick.â&#x20AC;?

Buescher came into weekend fourth in points and leaves in second, just four behind Timothy Peters, who also got around Keselowski down the stretch to finish second at Kansas. Nelson Piquet Jr. finished fourth and Todd Bodine was fifth. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think we had the

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Allmendinger takes pole for Sprint Cup race KANSAS CITY, KAN. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; AJ Allmendinger rolled off the track and hopped out of his car, convinced that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d put together a decent qualifying run but expecting to start somewhere in the top 15 today.

Turns out heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be starting up front.

Allmendinger captured his second career Sprint Cup pole Saturday, turning a lap of 175.993 mph in his Penske Racing Dodge to knock Kevin Harvick off the top spot. Joey Logano had the third fastest time but will start at the rear after changing engines during practice Friday.

It was the first pole for Allmendinger since 2010 at Phoenix. He nearly had the pole last month at Bristol but was edged out by Greg Biffle by a thousandth of a second. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think the lap was amazing. I thought it was OK,â&#x20AC;? said Allmendinger, who learned his lap time from crew chief Todd Gordon moments later and couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help but smile. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was kind of shocked by it,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everybody has been working hard. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re getting closer â&#x20AC;&#x201D; weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not where we want to be at.â&#x20AC;?

Logano went off first in qualifying and posted a lap of 175.724 mph, then watched as car after car failed to touch his time. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t until Harvick turned a lap of 175.747 that Logano was finally bumped. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll shotgun the field,â&#x20AC;? Logano said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like the old short-track days. Didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t they pay you more if you started at the back and you passed them all? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have to talk to NASCAR about that.â&#x20AC;?

Denny Hamlin posted the fourth-fastest lap, followed by Mark Martin and Martin Truex Jr. Dale Earnhardt Jr. qualified seventh for Hendrick Motorsports, which is trying to an end a 13-race drought and reach milestone win No. 200. The team hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t reached Victory Lane since Jimmie Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s win at Kansas last October, the longest winless stretch since the 2002 and â&#x20AC;&#x2122;03 seasons.

Johnson qualified 15th after going sideways in Turns 1 and 2. He managed to recover down the back stretch and put together a solid second lap, but the bobble through the corner may have cost him a chance for his second consecutive top-10 qualifying run.

Local favorite Clint Bowyer â&#x20AC;&#x201D; who is from Emporia, and raced on the dirt track at nearby Lakeside Speedway â&#x20AC;&#x201D; qualified eighth. Kasey Kahne was ninth and Sam Hornish Jr. was 10th.

HOCKEY

Torres suspended 25 games NEW YORK â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The NHL has suspended Phoenix Coyotes winger Raffi Torres 25 games for a hit that injured Chicagoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Marian Hossa.

Torres left his feet to hit an unsuspecting Hossa during Game 3 on Tuesday night, sending the Blackhawks winger smashing to the ice.

Hossa was taken off on a stretcher and hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t appeared again in the series.

For Torres, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the third time heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been suspended by the NHL for a questionable hit in the last 13 months. He had a goal and an assist and averaged more than 19 minutes of ice time for Phoenix in the first three games of the series.

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AJ ALLMENDINGER TALKS WITH CREW members before qualifying for the Sprint Cup series race Saturday at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kan. Allmendinger won the pole position for todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s race. shooting a 1-over 73 on Saturday to take a threestroke lead into the final round.

Curtis, who climbed atop the leaderboard with two bogey-free rounds, had a 9-under 207 total on TPC San Antonioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Oaks Course.

Matt Every was second after a 73 in a bid for his first PGA Tour victory. Mayakoba winner John Huh (67), Seung-Yui Noh (68) and Charlie Wi (71) followed at 4 under.

Curtis preserved his lead despite two double bogeys, including one on No. 8 that had the 2003 British Open champion hitting from a neighboring fairway. He rallied with four birdies to hold off the pack.

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Gil Morgan and Tom Kite (61), Bobby Clampett and Andy North (62), Jay Haas and Fred Couples (63), and Jeff Sluman and Brad Faxon (64) were a stroke back.

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FREE STATE’S A’LIYAH ROGERS AVOIDS A TAG by Lawrence High’s Marly Carmona as she slides safely into second base on Saturday at FSHS.

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by the way his team battled throughout the game and even more pleased with his defense for making Free State earn everything it got. Carmona was particularly impressive at shortstop, gobbling up everything hit her way and quickly turning the threats into outs.

“I was really proud of the way we carried ourselves on the field and in the dugout,” Wood said.

“From the first pitch until the last pitch, we were locked in and we competed. That’s what we need.”

What the Lions did not need was the monster day from the Free State offense.

“We’ve been dying for a day like this,” Ice said.

The second-inning home run for Parker, who scored twice and picked up a stolen base, was her second of the season and was never in doubt. As soon as she made contact, everyone in the park knew it was gone.

“It was one of those where you don’t feel it,” Parker said. “But I knew it was gone.”

So which one felt better, her first round-tripper earlier this season or

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The extended forecast calls for a 30-percent chance of rain Thursday, 40 percent Friday and 60 percent Sunday. Irving hasn’t figured out a way to change Mother Nature’s mind, but he has thought of just about everything else in advance of the most prestigious event held at LCC since it reopened Sept. 30, 2006, after a facelift.

“My only other worry would be we’re so reliant on college students for labor — about half my crew or so is college students,” Irving said. “I’ve tried to impress upon them the importance of this tournament and that we need to be here on time and ready to go in the mornings and in the afternoons, as their college schedules allow.

My biggest fear is one or two of them oversleeping or just not having their heads on straight.”

It’s not a new concern.

“That’s a fear or a worry that I have from April 1st through the end of September every year, because without those guys, we can’t get everything done,” he said.

The Big 12 requested that the greens stimp at a slick 10-1/2-to-11 feet, a range that is just a foot more than normal LCC conditions.

“Because of the size of our greens and the quality of construction and just the layout, it’s very easy for us to have fast greens,” Irving said. “We don’t have to work hard to get them fast.”

Kansas University women’s golf coach Erin O’Neill has taken her team to LCC several days a week for several weeks in an attempt to gain local knowledge that could aid

MANHATTAN — Freshman Maria Belen Ludueña nabbed the team’s lone victory against Kansas State, as Kansas fell to the Wildcats, 6-1, Saturday at the Wamego Recreation Complex.

The Jayhawks (9-12, 0-9) were swept in doubles play. In No. 2 singles, sophomore Paulina Los took Karla Bonacic to a third set tie-break before falling, 6-1, 3-6, 1-0 (10-6).

Ludueña, a newcomer from Curico, Chile, battled to a 6-2, 6-3 win over the Wildcats’ Ana Gomez Aleman at No. 3 to secure KU’s only point of the day.

KU enters the Big 12 Championships on April 26-29 in College Station, Texas.

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10am - 2pm Douglas County Courthouse 1100 Mass St. LAWRENCE HIGH’S MORGAN BYRN CONNECTS on a pitch against Free State on Saturday at FSHS. the one that changed the game on Saturday? Easy question.

“Definitely this one,” she said. “It’s LHS, you know?”

While Parker’s bomb was highlight worthy, the impressive performance from FSHS pitcher Meredith Morris was more under the radar but just as crucial. After surrendering two hits and a run in the top of the first, Morris allowed just one hit (Kristen Gile) and three walks in the next six innings to improve her record to 3-2. She struck out six LHS batters and forced 10 ground-ball outs.

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“She did a great job,” Parker said.

Added Ice: “She threw no different today than she did (in a 2-1 loss against) Olathe East. That’s what she’s been doing all year long. I don’t think she’s had a bad outing.”

Up next for Free State is a trip to Olathe North on Tuesday. The Lions also will return to the diamond Tuesday for a home game against Leavenworth.

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Irving said. “The rough is very rough, especially in the spring. It’s gnarly.

It’ll grab your ball. It’s hard to find. It’s hard to advance.”

Irving did a nice job of articulating what makes — Lawrence Country Club superin- LCC a tougher track than the yardage might fool tendent Bill Irving golfers into believing.

“I’ve said it time and the underdog Jayhawks time again, this is the in closing the talent gap hardest par 70 that you’ll on the likes of Oklahoma ever play, at least in State, Texas A&M and our area, just because Texas. At the end of those the greens can get repractice sessions, O’Neill ally fast. They can get supplies feedback to really firm,” he said.

Irving on how the course “They don’t hold shots is playing in areas such as sometimes like people speed and firmness of the wish they would. A lot greens. of trees. You can get Mark Elliott, one of the stymied easily. Tough state’s better senior golfto advance it. You can ers and a Topeka radio take a big number out voice, refers to LCC as here without trying very “the longest short golf hard on a few holes. You course.” have to take your mediA few of the course’s cine. You have to keep longest par-4 holes usuyour doubles to singles ally are played into a and keep your triples to south wind. The hilly doubles. You can’t take terrain can make the eights. You’ve got to course play longer than make your eights sixes or its distance as well. The less.” women will play some Irving’s a good stick. holes from the black tees On the rare occasions he (the tips), some from the is able to get down off bronze (the tees favored the tractor and tee it up, by the majority of mem- he makes following his bers) and some from advice look easy. It’s not. the silver tees, which On No. 7, the roofs to the are favored by highleft of the green and the handicappers who are pond to the right have not too proud to play the wicked magnetic pulls. tees that make the most On No. 8, the invisible sense for their games. mega-magnets are lo(In other words, about cated on the street left of half the people who the fairway and the sand should be playing them. trap in front of the green.

Oops, I forgot. I live in The pond in front of No. a glass house and really 16 has an insatiable thirst shouldn’t hurl stones. I for golf balls and even break enough things with has been known to drink golf balls as it is). layup shots.

Scores in the spring Then again, golfers tend to be higher than talented enough to play the summer for reasons in the Big 12 might not that extend beyond hacks obsess on such things knocking off winter rust, as much as oh, say a one double-bogey at a 22-handicap. Maybe Big time.

12 golfers take dead aim “The one thing that on their targets and have people know and love the confidence they’ll hit about Lawrence Counthem consistently. What a try Club is the rough,” novel concept.

I’ve said it time and time again, this is the hardest par 70 that you’ll ever play, at least in our area . . .”

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FSHS overcomes errors, wins 6-3

By Benton Smith basmith@ljworld.com

It wasn’t the cleanest brand of baseball, but Free State High wasn’t complaining Saturday after defeating Branson (Mo.), 6-3, in an error-heavy game at Hoglund Ballpark.

Finishing 3-0 at the River City Baseball Festival and getting their winning percentage above .500 for the first time this season helped the normally stellar Firebirds forgive themselves for committing four of the nine errors between the two teams.

The top of the fifth was particularly disastrous for FSHS (7-6). The game was scoreless before starting pitcher JD Prochaska, shortstop Anthony Miele and first baseman Montana Samuels each committed an error, allowing Branson to take a 2-0 lead.

The weight of those mistakes lessened considerably for coach Mike Hill’s team when Free State came right back in the bottom of the fifth to take a 3-2 lead.

“Just like (Friday), we had an inning where defensively we fell apart,” Hill said, “but we didn’t allow that to set the tone

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FREE STATE CATCHER LEE MCMAHON, LEFT, CELEBRATES with pitcher Sam Hearnen following the Firebirds’ victory over Branson (Mo.) Saturday at Hoglund Ballpark. for the rest of the game.”

With one out in the fifth, sophomore Ryan Cantrell singled to get the Firebirds started. It was with two outs that back-

to-back Branson errors kept the inning alive.

The bases were loaded for Lee McMahon, who drew his second RBI walk of the festival, sending

Cantrell home for Free State’s first run.

That brought up senior Trent Johnson, who blooped an outside pitch down the right-field line.

The ball fell safely between three Branson players and Johnson put FSHS ahead for good with a double that plated Joel Spain and courtesy runner Zach Bickling.

“I was just trying to put the ball in play and make something happen,” Johnson said. “In that situation, with the bases loaded, you can’t strike out.”

Hill has said all season that defense was a strength for the team, and he liked the way the Firebirds handled their mistakes in the win.

“We were able to come right back and respond,” the coach said. “I think that says a little something about the kids’ character.”

Starting pitcher Prochaska earned the win in five innings with five hits, three strikeouts and no earned runs.

“We were mainly just trying to keep our heads up,” he said of not letting the errors turn into a loss.

“I think we did a decent job of that — staying with it, not giving up.”

Free State had four of its seven hits in the fifth and sixth innings. Hill was pleased his team was able to put three more runs on the board in the sixth, when Cameron Pope singled and later scored on an error, Spain scored Jacob Caldwell with a squeeze bunt and Samuels knocked in Cantrell with a groundout.

Reliever Sam Hearnen closed out the game for the third day in a row, allowing one hit and one run in two innings.

The festival proved to be a successful stage for Free State, which began the season 0-5. Now on a six-game winning streak, Johnson said the Firebirds are figuring out how to win.

“The game is about making adjustments,” Johnson said, “and the teams that make the adjustments the fastest are the ones who survive.”

At 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, FSHS resumes Sunflower League play at Olathe South.

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2B — Trent Johnson, FSHS. FSHS highlights — Joe Dineen, 2-3; Johnson, 1-2, 2 RBI, R; Joel Spain, 1-3, RBI, R; Ryan Cantrell, 1-3, 2 R; Cameron Pope, 1-3; Jacob Caldwell, 1-3, R.

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ABOVE: FREE STATE’S KAIN ANDERSON, LEFT, STAYS WITH THE PACK in the boys 1600 meter run Saturday at the Kansas Relays at Memorial Stadium. RIGHT: LAWRENCE HIGH’S PHILIP GABLER COMPETES in the long jump.

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She didn’t have much time to celebrate her victory Saturday. Right after winning the 100 hurdles, Harmon-Thomas made her way back to the long jump pit to compete in the finals.

For a while, it didn’t look like she’d get the extra jumps. Her first two leaps were short of the mark needed to make the top eight — the baseline needed to earn three additional attempts.

“I focused really hard on that one,” Harmon-Thomas said, “to make sure I could make it into finals.”

When she needed it most, Harmon-Thomas came through with a 17foot, 8-inch leap. That ended up being her best mark, which was good enough for fifth place.

Harmon-Thomas’ day contributed to a strong weekend for Free State, with coach Steve Heffernan calling it the best overall team performance at the Kansas Relays in the school’s 15-year history.

“It makes me excited about the weeks to come,” Heffernan said.

Free State’s 4X400 relay team broke its own school record, as the grouping of Khadijah Lane, Bailey Sullivan, Courtney Huffman and Lynn Robinson posted a time of 4:07.37 to finish third in the Sunflower Showdown.

Right after the race, the four girls huddled together in celebration, with Robinson shouting out, “We did it again!” The Firebirds set the school record the previous day when they ran a 4:09.89.

Lawrence High athletes set three personal records of their own, with two of those coming in throwing events.

Rebecca Finley finished sixth in the discus with a throw of 128 feet, 2 inches.

The freshman admitted to loosening up after posting a long first toss. Her first throw of 122 feet, 9 inches was seven inches farther than her previous best.

“I just felt the energy,” Finley said. “ ... Just spinning (on the second throw), I felt it was going to go big.”

Her second attempt was exactly six feet longer than her personal record heading into the day.

LHS coach Jack Hood said it was only the second time in his 12 years with the school that a girls thrower had placed in the top eight in discus at the Kansas Relays.

Blake Hocking added his own PR in the discus, throwing 153 feet, 11 inches to tie for 11th.

The LHS girls 4X880 relay team of Leah Gabler, Michala Ruder, Payton Covert and Riley Shook also set a new personal record with a 10:23.73.

After setting a school record in the 3,200 on Friday, Free State’s Kain Anderson finished 23rd in the boys 1,600 on Saturday with a time of 4:27.60.

The senior, who ran in the final heat, said the race’s sluggish start caught him by surprise.

Through two laps, all 12 runners were still bunched together in a pack.

“I could hear coach Heff on the other side,” Anderson said. “He’s like, ‘Hold on, Kain, hold on, it’s about to get fast.’ I was like, ‘I don’t feel it yet.’

Then all of a sudden, they took off.”

At the front stretch of the third lap, Anderson was in last place out of the 12 competitors in his heat. He recovered to finish ninth.

Free State senior Lynn Robinson added a 21st-place finish in the girls 1,600, posting a time of 5:21.64.

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FREE STATE’S KHADIJAH LANE YELLS to teammate Bailey Sullivan after passing the baton in the girls 4x400 relay Saturday at the Kansas Relays.

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LAWRENCE HIGH’S GARRETT CLEAVINGER REACTS after taking a third strike to end the game against RaymorePeculiar (Mo.) on Saturday at Hoglund Ballpark.

Lawrence baseball no-hit, 4-1

By Benton Smith basmith@ljworld.com

When Lawrence High baseball junior Shane Willoughby reached on an error in the bottom of the first inning and scored on a passed ball, it appeared Raymore-Peculiar (Mo.) pitcher Storm Rynard might be in for a long Saturday afternoon at Hoglund Ballpark.

Forget that.

Rynard retired 18 of the 25 batters he faced, struck out 10 and no-hit LHS in a 4-1 Panthers victory to wrap up the River City Baseball Festival.

Lawrence (8-5) reached base seven times in the loss, via three walks, three RPHS errors and one hit batter.

Still, the sophomore right-hander didn’t let that stop him from recording the first no-hitter of his varsity career.

Lions hitters continually fell victim to Rynard’s curve, change-up and fastball, which topped out at 88 miles per hour.

“I was just feeling it,” he said, matter-of-factly.

LHS junior CJ Steuver could attest to that statement.

“He was spinning that curveball up there,” Steuver said, “then the change of speed from an 88 (MPH) fastball to a 72 (MPH) curveball kept hitters off balance.”

Before long, Rynard knew his command was taking a toll.

“About halfway through the second time through the lineup,” the pitcher said, “I could tell they were kind of getting a little frustrated.”

By going after the Lions and throwing breaking balls for strikes at various times in a count, Rynard drew LHS coach Brad Stoll’s respect.

“He commanded the outer third of the plate and we refused, refused to make an adjustment,” said a disgruntled Stoll.

The Lions starting pitcher, Cameron Solko gave up 10 hits while throwing a complete game. It only took two Panthers hits and a walk in both the third and fifth innings for RPHS (9-8) to score its four runs — two apiece in the third and fifth.

Though Troy Willoughby was hit by a pitch and Drew Green walked in the fourth inning, with LHS trailing 2-1, Rynard struck out CJ Roush and Garrett Cleavinger to end the inning and maintain Raymore-Peculiar’s lead.

He faced just nine batters in the final three innings. Rynard retired the final eight consecutively after Trevor Champagne reached first on a error.

After the no-hitter gave LHS a 1-2 record at the River City Baseball Festival, Stoll had to compliment Rynard.

“He’s a stud. He’s just a sophomore,” the coach said. “I hope I never see him again in my life.”

At 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at LHS, the Lions resume their Sunflower League schedule against Olathe North.

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OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST DEEDEE TROTTER OUTDISTANCES her competition to win the 400-meter dash on the final day of the Kansas Relays, Saturday at Memorial Stadium.

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What a fantastic crowd. I’ve never been here before. The facilCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1B ity is phenomenal, and Manson still going I’m glad I was able to strong: Former KU pole vaulter Pat Manson, 44, come here.” who won gold at the Pan American Games in 1991, ‘95 and ‘99, and placed sixth at the 1997 World Championships, tied former KU vaulter Jordan Scott for third place in 17 feet, 3 1/2 inches. Nike’s Scott Roth won in 17-9 1/4.

“I stood on the pit that last time, looked around and thought this might be the last time I stand on an elite pole vault pit,” said Manson, who teaches at his own pole vault camp in Boulder, Colo., and trains with his pupils.

“I felt great today.

Scott Huffman (former KU Olympian) was here coaching me. Cedric Fullard was here, another 18-footer in KU history.

It’s so great to be back at the Kansas Relays.”

Manson in 2007 became the first vaulter to clear 18 feet for 22 consecutive years. His personal best mark is 19-2 1/4.

“I’m trying to jump as high as I can jump,” Manson said. “I’d like to have made that 18-foot jump today. That would have been fun. That’s a goal for me, to get over 18 one more time (at local meets in the West).” !

Trotter a standout sprinter: Olympic gold medalist DeeDee Trotter won the invitational 400 in a Relays record 50.94. KU sophomore Diamond Dixon, the 2012 NCAA Indoor champion, was second in 51.8. Previous Relays record holder Mary Wineberg was third in 52.1.

“What a fantastic crowd. I’ve never been here before. The facility is phenomenal, and I’m glad I was able to come here.

The weather was great,” exclaimed Trotter, 29, out of the University of Tennessee. Her time was best in the U.S. this year.

Trotter is the founder of “Test Me I’m Clean,” a non-profit organization dedicated to combating the abuse of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs.

“I think she is awesome,” KU’s Dixon said of Trotter. “I’m looking forward to racing her again.”

Dixon — her time was tops in the NCAA so far this season — chatted briefly with Trotter after the race.

“She said I was fantastic and keep running,” Dixon said. “She was impressed with my training and everything.”

Of Houston native Dixon, Trotter said: “She is a phenomenal athlete. She reminds me a lot of myself when I was her age. More power to her. Keep running well. She can be one of the best.”

— Olympic gold medalist DeeDee Trotter !

What’s up Doc?: Olympian Doc Patton of Nike won the 100 in 10.29. He bested Travis Padgett and Ivory Williams, who crossed in 10.31 and 10.42.

“I accomplished two things I wanted to do: stay healthy and get a win,” said the 34-year-old Patton, a good buddy of Williams.

“He beat me (at KU) two years in a row,” Patton said. “We were down there joking around, having fun (before race). I told him I was mad. He has a new Nike body suit and I haven’t gotten mine yet. I said if I win I get to have his. We’re probably going to trade body suits.” !

Strong finish to meet: KU’s men’s and women’s track teams won the meetending 1,600 meter relays. The women’s team of Denesha Morris, Paris Daniels, Shayla Wilson and Diamond Dixon ran both a KU- and Relaysrecord 3:31.87; the men’s team of Michael Stigler, Mike Hester, Kenneth McCuin and Kyle Clemons was timed in 3:08.67. !

Three in a row: KU senior Don Wasinger won the 1,500 in 3:47.76. It marked his third Relays victory.

“I knew what my time was going into the last lap, so I was just trying to stay under 60,” the Winona, Minn., native said. “I did hear a lot of cheering, which was great. It definitely helps out.

“It’s been a solid run. Its been great being at KU. I’ve always looked forward to the Relays and always loved the Relays. I was happy to compete this year, and hopefully I can come back and run unattached for a few more years.” !

More KU winners: 200: Alisha Keys, 24.36; discus: Jessica Maroszek, 174-1; 400 relay: Paris Daniels, Francine Simpson, Denesha Morris, Diamond Dixon, 44.32 (KU record); 1,500: long jump: Andrea Geubelle, 21-4 (personal best); 400: Taylor Washington, 54.37. Rebeka Stowe was second in the 1,500 (career best 4:22.50). !

Another record: KU Athletics set a record of its own by serving the world’s biggest-ever plate of nachos, as certified by the Guinness Book of World Records.

The plate of nachos was over 80 feet long, two feet wide and 10 inches deep, weighing in at a worldrecord 4,689 pounds.

KANSAS UNIVERSITY RUNNER KYLE CLEMONS YELLS as he crosses the line in the men’s 4x400 relay on Saturday.

Clemons’ team won the meet-ending relay.

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Elijah Johnson undergoes offseason knee surgery

KANSAS FOOTBALL

By Gary Bedore gbedore@ljworld.com

Kansas University senior-to-be Elijah Johnson had arthroscopic surgery on his left knee last week, coach Bill Self said in a phone interview from the recruiting trail on Saturday night.

Johnson, a 6-4, 195-pound c o m b o g u a r d from Las Vegas, will Johnson return to the court in six to eight weeks, Self indicated.

“The reason we’re not going to bring him back sooner is there’s no reason to rush it,” Self said, explaining, “it was a scope.

There was some swelling.

When you have floating particles, they need to get in there and clean it up.

By the middle of June he should be close to 100 percent. He should be good to go in June. This will not set him back at all.”

Johnson in the interim will “rehab it, get it stronger,” Self said of the knee.

Johnson — he averaged 10.2 points, 3.5 assists and 3.2 rebounds a game last season — had some swelling during the NCAA tournament.

“He played on it. It was something that didn’t bother him,” Self said of Johnson’s play. “But he couldn’t last another year without getting it cleaned up. We did an MRI after the season that told us it needed to be cleaned up.” !

Hinson’s staff taking shape: Former KU director

of basketball operations Barry Hinson has announced the hiring of two members to his Southern Illinois University coaching staff.

They are: Tom Hankins, who spent the past 15 seasons as an assistant at Oral Roberts, and Terrance McGee, assistant the past two years at Grand Valley State in Michigan. Hankins worked for Hinson at Oral Roberts in 1997-99. !

New recruiting name: Przemek Karnowski, a 7-foot-1, 280-pound center from Poland, is reportedly considering Gonzaga, Marquette, Duke, Kansas and Pac-12 schools, dukehoopblog.com reports.

Karnowski helped lead Poland to the silver medal at the U-17 World Championships in Germany. He will be a freshman next season.

KU softball gives up lead, falls 10-9 J-W Staff Reports

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KANSAS UNIVERSITY RUNNING BACK TONY PIERSON BREAKS UP THE FIELD during a morning practice on Thursday at Memorial Stadium.

Speedy RB Pierson stands out in spring

By Jesse Newell jnewell@ljworld.com

Kansas receiver Daymond Patterson had always been the kind of guy who was unafraid to challenge his teammates.

That all changed last year when Tony Pierson arrived on campus.

“I wanted to race anybody,” Patterson said, “but now, I don’t want to race Tony any more.”

The 5-foot-10 running back Pierson has continued to stand out to teammates this spring because of his trademark speed.

“I take pride in it, because I don’t have Pierson very much weight on me,” Pierson said, “so that’s basically my best skill.”

Patterson wouldn’t argue.

The senior is used to being the fastest guy around. In high school, he was only routinely beaten in races by one teammate — and that was Lanear Sampson, who is now a receiver at Baylor and has been clocked at a 4.3 in the 40-yard dash.

So would Patterson say that Pierson is the fastest player on the team?

“By far,” Patterson said, “if not in the league.”

Pierson believes he can top his freshman campaign, when he played in 11 games and averaged 5.6 yards on 71 carries.

During the back’s first individual meeting with

Charlie Weis, the new KU coach talked about all the ways he hoped to get Pierson out in space so he could showcase his quickness.

The challenge for the sophomore is now to become more durable.

Though he’s only at 165 pounds, his goal is to get into the 175- to 180-pound range.

He’s on a protein diet and also does extra lifting, but when asked if it had helped so far, Pierson looked down at both his arms and laughed.

“Not really,” he said with a smile. “Still getting there, though.”

Weis has already started thinking about how to best utilize his home-run back.

“Tony has to touch the ball, but how many times he touches the ball is going to be important,” Weis said. “If you’re talking about a 12-game regular season — and you always aspire to have a 13th game — then you have to figure how many times he can touch the ball at his size and be able to be at a high level the next week. Now you’re at a Catch-22.

“On the one hand, every time he touches the ball he has a chance of scoring a touchdown, but on the other hand, if you give the ball to him too much, then you could get him beat up, and then he’s not productive the next week.”

Last year, Pierson said he learned the basics of reading defenses. It’s a skill he didn’t need in high school, when he was told to just take the football and run.

He also feels more comfortable with learning a college playbook.

KU running backs James Sims and Rell Lewis helped Pierson last season with the new sets and also with freshman anxiety.

“During my first game, I came out kind of nervous,” Pierson said. “They just told me to play with confidence. Use my skill level. Play hard and play fast.”

Pierson is showing more confidence in other ways as well.

Because of his shy nature, Pierson requested that he not be made available for media interviews last year.

In his first meeting with reporters at the beginning of April, Pierson, decked out in a blue polo shirt, calmly answered questions for about 15 minutes.

“We always joke around and mess around with him, but he’s just cool, laid-back,” Patterson said.

Fans also will notice a change in Pierson’s number. After wearing No. 23 his freshman year, he has switched to No. 3 — the same number previously worn by recent KU standouts Charles Gordon and Aqib Talib.

Ever since he arrived at KU, Pierson said he wanted to have a number in the single digits.

“I hear it all the time: Kansas is known for No. 3,” Pierson said. “I’ve got to show up with it.”

Patterson believes that Pierson will do just fine if he performs as well in games as he does in 50-meter races.

“I’ll take (on) anybody else but Tony,” Patterson said, smiling. “He hurt my feelings a couple of times out there.”

Texas blanks Kansas baseball, 3-0 J-W Staff Reports

AUSTIN, TEXAS — Texas freshman Parker French threw seven shutout innings and allowed just four hits, as No. 23 Texas blanked Kansas, 3-0, Saturday night in front of 7,308 fans at UFCU DischFalk Field.

KU freshman pitcher

Wes Benjamin scattered 10 hits over 6 2/3 innings, allowing three runs, but the Jayhawks had just four hits at the plate.

KU managed just six base runners in French’s seven-inning outing. The Jayhawks twice put two men in scoring position against French, but both times the Texas pitcher

worked his way out of trouble.

The Jayhawks (16-24, 4-10) and Longhorns will play the third and final game of the series today at 1 p.m.

Kansas Texas

000 000 000 — 0 4 0 100 100 10x — 3 11 1

W — Parker French, 5-1. L — Wes Benjamin, 2-5. SV — none.

2B — Dakota Smith, Kansas; Jonathan Walsh, Kevin Lusson, Jordan Etier, Texas.

Kansas lost to Iowa State, 10-9, Saturday afternoon at Arrocha Ballpark, despite Jayhawk freshman Maddie Stein’s career day.

Stein hit the first two home runs of her college career to help KU to an 8-3 lead by the fourth inning, but Iowa State scored seven runs in the last two innings to win by one.

A single, an error and a walk loaded the bases in the top of the fifth inning for Iowa State’s Erica Miller, who hit a two-run double to cut the Jayhawk lead to three, 8-5.

Freshman pitcher Alicia Pille entered the game and gave up back-to-back singles, cutting the lead to one, 8-7.

ISU (14-29, 2-12) led off the sixth inning with backto-back singles, and a sac-

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KANSAS UNIVERSITY SOFTBALL PLAYERS MARIAH MONTGOMERY (23) and Maggie Hull come up short on a fly ball against Iowa State on Saturday at Arrocha Ballpark.

Kansas (27-16, 4-13) and rifice fly tied the game, 8-8. In the seventh, Dalyn Iowa State decide the seVarela hit a two-run home ries today at noon. run for the Cyclones to go Iowa State 003 043 0 — 10 10 1 up 10-8.

Kansas 420 200 1 — 9 14 2 W — Tori Torrescano (8-20). L — Pille took the loss after Pille (14-9). SV — none. entering the game in a Alicia 2B — Erica Miller, Iowa State; Maggie save situation with Kan- Hull, Liz Kocon, Maddie Stein, Kansas.

— Tori Torrescano, Dalyn Varela, sas ahead 8-5 in the fifth HR Iowa State; Maddie Stein 2, Kansas. inning.

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NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division y-Boston x-New York Philadelphia Toronto New Jersey

W 37 33 33 22 22

L 27 30 30 41 42

Pct .578 .524 .524 .349 .344

GB — 31⁄2 31⁄2 141⁄2 15

L10 7-3 6-4 4-6 4-6 3-7

Str L-1 L-1 W-2 L-2 L-4

Home 22-9 21-11 19-14 12-20 9-23

Away 15-18 12-19 14-16 10-21 13-19

Conf 30-16 26-20 26-19 14-31 16-30

Pct .714 .603 .581 .270 .113

GB — 7 81⁄2 28 371⁄2

L10 6-4 7-3 4-6 5-5 0-10

Str L-1 W-3 L-1 W-3 L-19

Home 27-5 21-9 20-12 9-22 4-27

Away 18-13 17-16 16-14 8-24 3-28

Conf 35-11 31-16 29-18 13-32 5-40

Pct .750 .641 .476 .365 .339

GB — 7 171⁄2 241⁄2 26

L10 6-4 8-2 5-5 3-7 4-6

Str W-1 L-1 W-1 L-2 W-1

Home 25-7 22-9 16-15 16-15 11-21

Away 23-9 19-14 14-18 7-25 10-20

Conf 36-10 28-18 23-22 18-27 13-33

L10 8-2 8-2 5-5 4-6 7-3

Str W-6 W-4 L-1 W-1 W-1

Home 26-5 24-7 23-10 21-11 11-22

Away 20-11 15-18 13-19 12-20 9-21

Conf 32-13 26-22 26-22 22-25 13-32

Southeast Division y-Miami x-Atlanta x-Orlando Washington Charlotte

W 45 38 36 17 7

L 18 25 26 46 55

Central Division y-Chicago x-Indiana Milwaukee Detroit Cleveland

W 48 41 30 23 21

L 16 23 33 40 41

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division y-San Antonio x-Memphis x-Dallas Houston New Orleans

W 46 39 36 33 20

L 16 25 29 31 43

Pct .742 .609 .554 .516 .317

GB — 8 111⁄2 14 261⁄2

Matt York/AP Photo

Northwest Division L10 6-4 6-4 6-4 3-7 1-9

Str W-2 W-1 W-2 L-5 W-1

Home 25-6 19-13 22-8 20-13 13-18

Away 21-11 16-15 11-22 8-23 13-20

Conf 33-12 20-26 23-23 20-26 19-27

W L Pct GB L10 x-L.A. Lakers 40 24 .625 — 6-4 x-L.A. Clippers 39 24 .619 1⁄2 7-3 Phoenix 33 31 .516 7 5-5 Golden State 22 41 .349 171⁄2 2-8 Sacramento 20 43 .317 191⁄2 1-9 x-clinched playoff spot. y-clinched division.

Str L-1 L-1 L-1 L-8 L-2

Home 25-7 23-9 19-13 12-19 15-17

Away 15-17 16-15 14-18 10-22 5-26

Conf 31-15 28-19 23-23 15-30 15-31

y-Okla. City x-Denver Utah Portland Minnesota

W 46 35 33 28 26

L 17 28 30 36 38

Pct .730 .556 .524 .438 .406

GB — 11 13 181⁄2 201⁄2

Pacific Division

How former Jayhawks fared Darrell Arthur, Memphis Inactive (out for season).

Mario Chalmers, Miami Pts: 16. FGs: 5-17. FTs: 5-5.

Drew Gooden, Milwaukee Pts: 16. FGs: 6-13. FTs: 4-5.

Marcus Morris, Houston Pts: 6. FGs: 3-4. FTs: 0-0.

Markieff Morris, Phoenix Pts: 3. FGs: 1-6. FTs: 0-0.

Brandon Rush, Golden State Pts: 19. FGs: 8-11. FTs: 0-1.

Josh Selby, Memphis Pts: 2. FGs: 0-2. FTs: 2-2.

Denver 118, Phoenix 107 Philadelphia 109, Indiana 106, OT Washington 86, Miami 84 Chicago 93, Dallas 83 Houston 99, Golden State 96 Memphis 93, Portland 89 Milwaukee 106, New Jersey 95 Orlando at Utah, (n)

Today’s games New York at Atlanta, noon Oklahoma City at L.A. Lakers, 2:30 p.m.

Sacramento at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Detroit, 5 p.m.

Houston at Miami, 5 p.m.

Golden State at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Cleveland at San Antonio, 6 p.m.

Orlando at Denver, 7 p.m.

New Orleans at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Monday’s games Detroit at Indiana, 6 p.m.

Charlotte at Washington, 6 p.m.

Philadelphia at New Jersey, 6:30 p.m.

Cleveland at Memphis, 7 p.m.

Toronto at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.

Portland at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m.

Roundup The Associated Press

Leaders Scoring

G Bryant, LAL 57 Durant, OKC 63 James, MIA 61 Love, MIN 55 Westbrook, OKC 63 Wade, MIA 48 Anthony, NYK 53 Nowitzki, DAL 60 Aldridge, POR 55 D. Williams, NJN 55 Howard, ORL 54 Ellis, MIL 56 Griffin, LAC 63 Lee, GOL 57 Pierce, BOS 59

FG 565 613 610 474 561 416 420 460 483 391 416 441 526 464 385

FT 375 404 378 379 318 235 284 307 223 257 281 209 228 219 293

PTS AVG 1590 27.9 1751 27.8 1651 27.1 1432 26.0 1501 23.8 1082 22.5 1189 22.4 1303 21.7 1191 21.7 1154 21.0 1113 20.6 1152 20.6 1282 20.3 1147 20.1 1161 19.7

Rebounds G Howard, ORL 54 Love, MIN 55 Bynum, LAL 59 Humphries, NJN 60 Cousins, SAC 61 Griffin, LAC 63 Gasol, LAL 64 Chandler, NYK 61 Gortat, PHX 63 Noah, CHI 61

OFF 200 226 190 226 252 204 177 210 171 231

DEF 585 508 511 436 415 480 487 397 455 358

TOT 785 734 701 662 667 684 664 607 626 589

AVG 14.5 13.3 11.9 11.0 10.9 10.9 10.4 10.0 9.9 9.7

Team stats Team Offense

Saturday’s games

DENVER’S JORDAN HAMILTON, CENTER, REACHES FOR THE BALL as Phoenix’s Markieff Morris, left, and Michael Redd pursue. The Nuggets defeated the Suns, 118-107, on Saturday in Phoenix.

Denver San Antonio Oklahoma City Miami Milwaukee Utah Houston Phoenix Sacramento Golden State Minnesota Indiana Portland New York L.A. Clippers L.A. Lakers Chicago Dallas Atlanta Memphis Orlando New Jersey Washington Philadelphia Cleveland Boston Toronto Detroit New Orleans Charlotte Team Defense Chicago Philadelphia Boston Miami Atlanta Orlando Memphis New Orleans Indiana New York L.A. Clippers Dallas Toronto L.A. Lakers Detroit Oklahoma City San Antonio Portland Phoenix Houston New Jersey Utah Milwaukee Washington Minnesota Cleveland Charlotte Denver Golden State Sacramento

G 62 62 63 62 62 63 63 63 63 62 64 63 63 63 63 64 63 64 63 63 62 63 62 62 62 64 63 63 63 62

Pts Avg 6416 103.5 6386 103.0 6477 102.8 6183 99.7 6178 99.6 6264 99.4 6203 98.5 6191 98.3 6181 98.1 6082 98.1 6274 98.0 6153 97.7 6143 97.5 6142 97.5 6136 97.4 6212 97.1 6067 96.3 6150 96.1 6048 96.0 5979 94.9 5856 94.5 5895 93.6 5793 93.4 5790 93.4 5781 93.2 5897 92.1 5729 90.9 5716 90.7 5658 89.8 5399 87.1

G 63 62 64 62 63 62 63 63 63 63 63 64 63 64 63 63 62 63 63 63 63 63 62 62 64 62 62 62 62 63

Pts 5574 5514 5756 5749 5844 5762 5870 5892 5933 5958 5963 6060 5969 6109 6051 6068 5974 6143 6180 6189 6230 6247 6159 6185 6385 6189 6236 6298 6301 6591

Avg 88.5 88.9 89.9 92.7 92.8 92.9 93.2 93.5 94.2 94.6 94.7 94.7 94.7 95.5 96.0 96.3 96.4 97.5 98.1 98.2 98.9 99.2 99.3 99.8 99.8 99.8 100.6 101.6 101.6 104.6

Nuggets 118, Suns 107 PHOENIX — Ty Lawson went 5 of 5 on three-pointers and had 29 points and 10 assists to lead Denver to a victory over Phoenix that clinched a playoff berth for the Nuggets.

The Suns fell a halfgame behind Utah for the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference. The Jazz played at home against Orlando on Saturday night. Phoenix plays at Utah on Tuesday and holds the tiebreaker over the Jazz.

Steve Nash of the Suns had 13 assists, nine in the first quarter, and passed Oscar Robertson into fifth place on the NBA’s career list. The Suns lost Channing Frye to a shoulder injury in the second quarter.

Shannon Brown scored 28 points for Phoenix, including a career-best six threes on 12 attempts.

The Nuggets beat the Suns for the sixth straight time, three this season.

Denver pulled within a half-game of Dallas for the No. 6 spot in the West.

The Mavericks, who hold the tiebreaker over Denver, played at Chicago on Saturday night.

Arron Afflalo scored 19 points and Kenneth Faried had 16 for the Nuggets, who had six players finish in double figures, shot 55 percent from the field and had a 26-2 advantage on fastbreak points.

Marcin Gortat had 18 points and 11 rebounds for Phoenix.

Denver used a thirdperiod outburst to build a 21-point lead. The Suns cut it to 10 in the fourth quarter but could get no closer.

Nash passed Robertson with his fourth assist, on a three-pointer by Frye just 4:22 into the game. The two-time MVP had assists on five of Phoenix’s first six field goals and finished the first quarter with nine.

DENVER (118) Gallinari 5-13 2-2 13, Faried 9-13 0-0 18, Koufos 1-2 0-0 2, Lawson 10-16 4-4 29, Afflalo 6-10 7-7 19, Harrington 4-7 0-0 8, Miller 3-8 2-2 8, McGee 5-10 1-2 11, Brewer 5-8 0-0 10. Totals 48-87 16-17 118.

PHOENIX (107) Dudley 4-12 1-1 9, Frye 2-5 0-0 5, Gortat 8-14 2-3 18, Nash 4-9 0-0 8, Brown 10-24 2-2 28, Morris 1-6 0-0 3, Redd 2-4 0-0 4, Telfair 6-7 0-0 15, Lopez 3-4 2-3 8, Childress 1-2 0-0 2, Warrick 3-8 1-2 7.

Totals 44-95 8-11 107.

Denver 30 30 33 25—118 Phoenix 34 24 22 27—107 3-Point Goals-Denver 6-13 (Lawson 5-5, Gallinari 1-3, Afflalo 0-1, Miller 0-1, Brewer 0-1, Harrington 0-2), Phoenix 11-26 (Brown 6-12, Telfair 3-4, Frye 1-1, Morris 1-2, Nash 0-3, Dudley 0-4).

Rebounds-Denver 43 (Faried 14), Phoenix 51 (Gortat 11). Assists-Denver 25 (Lawson 10), Phoenix 24 (Nash 13).

Total Fouls-Denver 17, Phoenix 14.

Technicals-Lopez, Phoenix defensive three second. A-15,877 (18,422).

76ers 109, Pacers 106, OT INDIANAPOLIS — Elton Brand scored 20 points and Lou Williams added 19 to help Philadelphia beat the Pacers in overtime, stopping Indiana’s winning streak at seven games.

Jrue Holiday scored 17 points and Andre Iguodala added 16 for the 76ers, who inched closer to clinching a playoff berth. The 76ers left the game needing just a win or a loss by Milwaukee to clinch a spot.

David West had a season-high 32 points and grabbed 12 rebounds for Indiana.

Tyler Hansbrough scored 17 points and Paul George added 16 for the Pacers.

Rockets 99, Warriors 96 HOUSTON — Courtney Lee scored 20 points, Goran Dragic added 18 points and seven assists and Houston snapped a sixgame losing streak with a win over Golden State.

Luis Scola had 13 points and Chase Budinger added 11 for the Rockets, who came into the game in the 10th spot in the Western Conference, one game behind Utah and Phoenix.

Houston went 10 for 26 from three-point range to snap a four-game home losing streak and beat the Warriors for the 14th time in the last 16 meetings.

Klay Thompson scored 24 points and Brandon Rush added 19 for the Warriors.

PHILADELPHIA (109) Iguodala 6-12 1-5 16, Brand 9-15 2-3 20, Vucevic 2-8 0-0 4, Holiday 7-14 2-3 17, Meeks 2-7 3-3 7, Hawes 2-7 1-4 5, Williams 6-13 5-5 19, T.Young 4-7 7-8 15, Turner 2-4 2-2 6, Allen 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 40-89 23-33 109.

INDIANA (106) Granger 2-12 0-0 4, West 13-22 6-6 32, Hibbert 2-10 7-10 11, Hill 4-11 2-4 10, George 6-13 1-2 16, Barbosa 2-9 0-0 4, Hansbrough 8-14 1-1 17, Collison 3-3 2-2 8, Amundson 2-3 0-0 4. Totals 42-97 19-25 106.

Philadelphia 34 19 28 17 11—109 Indiana 23 31 20 24 8—106 3-Point Goals-Philadelphia 6-18 (Iguodala 3-7, Williams 2-5, Holiday 1-4, Meeks 0-2), Indiana 3-12 (George 3-3, Barbosa 0-2, Granger 0-3, Hill 0-4). Fouled Out-None. ReboundsPhiladelphia 57 (Brand 9), Indiana 63 (West 12). Assists-Philadelphia 24 (Holiday 7), Indiana 22 (Hill 5). Total Fouls-Philadelphia 25, Indiana 25.

Technicals-Indiana defensive three second 2. A-17,701 (18,165).

GOLDEN STATE (96) Jefferson 4-12 1-1 9, Tyler 4-7 0-0 8, Gladness 1-2 2-4 4, Jenkins 5-13 6-6 16, Thompson 9-19 4-4 24, Moore 2-2 4-4 8, Rush 8-11 0-1 19, McGuire 3-7 2-2 8.

Totals 36-73 19-22 96.

HOUSTON (99) Parsons 3-7 0-0 8, Scola 6-13 1-2 13, Camby 2-6 0-0 4, Dragic 8-17 0-0 18, C.Lee 7-17 2-2 20, Patterson 5-8 0-0 10, Budinger 4-7 1-2 11, Lowry 0-3 0-1 0, Dalembert 2-2 5-8 9, Morris 3-4 0-0 6.

Totals 40-84 9-15 99.

Golden State 21 34 16 25—96 Houston 31 27 19 22—99 3-Point Goals-Golden State 5-16 (Rush 3-4, Thompson 2-5, Jenkins 0-1, Jefferson 0-6), Houston 10-26 (C.Lee 4-10, Budinger 2-4, Parsons 2-4, Dragic 2-5, Morris 0-1, Lowry 0-2). Fouled OutNone. Rebounds-Golden State 43 (Rush 7), Houston 47 (Camby 9). AssistsGolden State 17 (Jenkins 8), Houston 22 (Dragic 7). Total Fouls-Golden State 16, Houston 20. Technicals-Golden State defensive three second 2, Dragic, Houston defensive three second.

A-15,436 (18,043).

Wizards 86, Heat 84 MIAMI — LeBron James and Chris Bosh sat out the game, resting for the postseason. Dwyane Wade played and got hurt.

Wade lasted less than three minutes before dislocating his left index finger, and without its three stars, Miami lost to Washington.

Wade appeared to get his finger caught in another player’s jersey and immediately went to the locker room grimacing in pain. He never returned, even though fans chanted “We want Dwyane!” a couple of times.

WASHINGTON (86) C.Singleton 0-1 0-0 0, Vesely 3-9 0-0 6, Seraphin 8-15 1-2 17, Wall 6-11 1-1 13, Crawford 2-14 2-2 7, Martin 8-15 2-2 22, Nene 5-9 1-2 11, J.Singleton 1-5 0-0 2, Mack 0-1 0-0 0, Evans 3-7 0-0 8. Totals 36-87 7-9 86.

MIAMI (84) Jones 3-9 0-0 9, Haslem 3-8 0-0 6, Pittman 4-6 4-4 12, Chalmers 5-17 5-5 16, Wade 0-0 0-0 0, Harris 1-4 1-2 3, Howard 2-3 0-0 4, Miller 6-12 0-0 16, Anthony 2-4 1-2 5, Battier 0-3 2-2 2, Cole 5-11 0-1 11.

Totals 31-77 13-16 84.

Washington 23 22 18 23—86 Miami 15 22 25 22—84 3-Point Goals-Washington 7-18 (Martin 4-8, Evans 2-3, Crawford 1-4, Nene 0-1, Wall 0-1, C.Singleton 0-1), Miami 9-25 (Miller 4-8, Jones 3-6, Cole 1-2, Chalmers 1-4, Harris 0-2, Battier 0-3). Fouled Out-None. ReboundsWashington 49 (Crawford, Seraphin, Wall 6), Miami 53 (Haslem 15). AssistsWashington 22 (Wall 13), Miami 16 (Chalmers 6). Total Fouls-Washington 25, Miami 18. Technicals-Seraphin, Haslem, Pittman. A-19,722 (19,600).

Bulls 93, Mavericks 83 CHICAGO — Luol Deng scored 22 points, Richard Hamilton added 19 and Chicago held off a fourthquarter rally to beat Dallas.

The victory by the Bulls (48-16) gave them a 2 1/2 game lead over Miami for the top seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs.

Chicago has two regularseason games left, against Indiana and Cleveland.

Bulls guard Derrick Rose returned to the lineup after sitting out three games with a right foot/ ankle injury and he had 11 points with eight assists in 32 minutes.

DALLAS (83) Marion 2-5 2-2 6, Nowitzki 6-15 4-5 17, Haywood 0-2 0-0 0, Beaubois 7-15 0-0 16, West 6-13 1-1 13, Carter 4-11 6-7 15, Mahinmi 0-4 2-2 2, Azubuike 0-1 0-0 0, Jones 3-7 2-2 8, Wright 3-6 0-0 6, Cardinal 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 31-79 17-19 83.

CHICAGO (93) Deng 8-15 2-2 22, Boozer 6-11 0-0 12, Noah 2-7 4-8 8, Rose 5-9 0-0 11, Hamilton 9-16 0-0 19, Watson 2-8 0-0 4, Gibson 1-6 0-0 2, Asik 0-0 0-0 0, Brewer 1-2 2-2 4, Korver 4-10 0-0 11. Totals 38-84 8-12 93.

Dallas 8 30 18 27—83 Chicago 21 23 22 27—93 3-Point Goals-Dallas 4-15 (Beaubois 2-5, Carter 1-4, Nowitzki 1-4, West 0-1, Marion 0-1), Chicago 9-20 (Deng 4-7, Korver 3-5, Hamilton 1-2, Rose 1-3, Watson 0-3). Fouled Out-None.

Rebounds-Dallas 45 (Nowitzki, Wright 7), Chicago 55 (Noah 14). Assists-Dallas 12 (Beaubois 5), Chicago 29 (Noah, Rose 8). Total Fouls-Dallas 15, Chicago 13.

Technicals-Hamilton. A-22,945 (20,917).

Grizzlies 93, Trail Blazers 89 MEMPHIS, TENN. — Rudy Gay scored 21 points and had a key block in the final seconds as Memphis won its fourth straight.

Gay, who was 9 of 16 from the field, blocked Wesley Matthews’ threepoint attempt with about 5 seconds left to seal the win and send the shorthanded Trail Blazers to their fifth straight loss.

O.J. Mayo scored 14 points for Memphis and Marreese Speights had 13 with Marc Gasol and Dante Cunningham both adding 12.

J.J. Hickson scored 23 points to lead Portland, while Jamal Crawford had 21 despite going 5 of 13 from the field, part of the Trail Blazers’ 37 percent shooting for the game.

Matthews had 16 points.

PORTLAND (89) Babbitt 3-10 2-2 10, Hickson 9-16 5-7 23, Thabeet 1-5 1-4 3, N.Smith 2-8 4-4 8, Matthews 7-17 0-0 16, Thomas 2-4 2-2 6, Flynn 0-5 2-2 2, Crawford 5-13 9-10 21, C.Smith 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 29-78 25-31 89.

MEMPHIS (93) Gay 9-16 2-2 21, Speights 5-12 3-4 13, Gasol 6-9 0-0 12, Conley 2-10 0-0 5, Allen 3-7 0-0 6, Mayo 5-14 2-2 14, Haddadi 2-2 0-0 4, Selby 0-2 2-2 2, Pondexter 2-3 0-0 4, Cunningham 6-9 0-0 12, Arenas 0-3 0-0 0, Hudson 0-3 0-0 0. Totals 40-90 9-10 93.

Portland 27 18 22 22—89 Memphis 24 30 25 14—93 3-Point Goals-Portland 6-24 (Crawford 2-6, Babbitt 2-6, Matthews 2-8, Flynn 0-2, N.Smith 0-2), Memphis 4-17 (Mayo 2-6, Conley 1-3, Gay 1-4, Allen 0-1, Selby 0-1, Arenas 0-2). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Portland 56 (Hickson 13), Memphis 50 (Speights 11). Assists-Portland 16 (N.Smith 6), Memphis 19 (Gasol 4). Total FoulsPortland 15, Memphis 25. A-17,904 (18,119).

Bucks 106, Nets 95 MILWAUKEE — Brandon Jennings scored 30 points to lead Milwaukee past New Jersey.

Jennings, who hit three straight three-pointers late in the game, was 9 of 18 from the field and finished with six rebounds, six assists and four steals.

Ersan Ilyasova added 17 points and 17 rebounds for the Bucks, who snapped a three-game losing streak and beat New Jersey for the 11th straight time.

NEW JERSEY (95) Wallace 7-12 3-4 18, Humphries 6-11 0-1 12, J.Williams 2-4 0-0 4, Gaines 5-8 0-1 11, Brooks 7-18 2-3 17, Stevenson 1-2 0-0 3, Petro 3-7 2-2 8, Green 6-12 4-4 16, Johnson 1-5 0-0 2, Morrow 2-7 0-0 4.

Totals 40-86 11-15 95.

MILWAUKEE (106) Mbah a Moute 4-9 0-2 8, Ilyasova 7-13 2-4 17, Gooden 6-13 4-5 16, Jennings 9-18 9-11 30, Ellis 5-14 2-3 12, Udrih 0-2 0-0 0, Udoh 1-2 2-2 4, Dunleavy 2-8 3-4 7, Livingston 4-5 4-6 12. Totals 38-84 26-37 106.

New Jersey 23 19 27 26— 95 Milwaukee 24 29 2033—106 3-Point Goals-New Jersey 4-12 (Stevenson 1-2, Wallace 1-2, Brooks 1-2, Gaines 1-3, Green 0-1, Morrow 0-2), Milwaukee 4-13 (Jennings 3-5, Ilyasova 1-3, Gooden 0-1, Udrih 0-1, Dunleavy 0-3). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-New Jersey 47 (Wallace 11), Milwaukee 60 (Ilyasova 17). Assists-New Jersey 19 (Wallace 4), Milwaukee 22 (Jennings 6).

Total Fouls-New Jersey 23, Milwaukee 16. A-15,939 (18,717).

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LEAGUE STANDINGS AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division W 9 8 8 8 4

New York Toronto Baltimore Tampa Bay Boston

L 6 6 7 7 10

Pct .600 .571 .533 .533 .286

GB — 1⁄2 1 1 41⁄2

WCGB L10 — 7-3 1⁄2 6-4 1 5-5 1 4-6 41⁄2 3-7

Str W-3 W-2 L-2 W-1 L-5

Home Away 4-3 5-3 4-5 4-1 3-3 5-4 4-1 4-6 3-5 1-5

W 10 8 8 5 3

L 5 5 6 10 11

Pct .667 .615 .571 .333 .214

GB — 1 11⁄2 5 61⁄2

WCGB L10 — 6-4 — 7-3 1⁄2 6-4 4 4-6 51⁄2 1-9

Str W-1 W-3 W-2 L-1 L-9

Home Away 6-3 4-2 1-4 7-1 3-4 5-2 2-4 3-6 0-8 3-3

W 12 7 7 6

L 3 9 9 9

Pct .800 .438 .438 .400

Central Division Detroit Cleveland Chicago Minnesota Kansas City

West Division Texas Oakland Seattle Los Angeles

NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division W 12 10 8 7 7

Washington Atlanta New York Miami Philadelphia

L 4 5 6 8 8

Pct .750 .667 .571 .467 .467

W 10 7 6 6 5 4

L 5 8 8 9 10 11

Pct .667 .467 .429 .400 .333 .267

W 12 7 7 7 4

L 3 7 7 8 12

Pct .800 .500 .500 .467 .250

Central Division St. Louis Milwaukee Pittsburgh Cincinnati Houston Chicago

West Division Los Angeles Colorado San Francisco Arizona San Diego

NATIONAL LEAGUE ROUNDUP

Nats stay hot, trip Miami ————

Desmond provides punch for Washington The Associated Press

Nationals 3, Marlins 2, 10 innings WASHINGTON — Ian Desmond hit a home run and had the game-winning sacrifice fly in the 10th inning to lift Washington past Florida on Saturday.

GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away Wilson Ramos singled — — 8-2 L-1 5-2 7-1 to lead off the 10th inning, took third on a throw51⁄2 21⁄2 5-5 L-2 3-6 4-3 ing error and scored on 1 1 5 ⁄2 2 ⁄2 4-6 L-3 3-5 4-4 Desmond’s fly as the Na6 3 4-6 W-2 4-5 2-4 tionals improved to 12-4, continuing their best start since moving to Washington from Montreal in 2005.

GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away Florida’s Logan Morri— — 8-2 W-2 8-2 4-2 son hit a two-run homer off Brad Lidge in the top 11⁄2 — 9-1 W-5 5-1 5-4 1 of the ninth inning to tie 3 1 ⁄2 4-6 W-1 5-3 3-3 the game at 2.

1 4 ⁄2 3 5-5 L-2 5-2 2-6 Morrison’s homer kept 1 4 ⁄2 3 5-5 L-1 3-3 4-5 Nationals starter Stephen Strasburg from his third GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away win of the season. Strasburg allowed four hits, — — 6-4 L-1 4-2 6-3 walked one and struck out 3 3 4-6 W-1 4-4 3-4 six over six scoreless in31⁄2 31⁄2 4-6 W-1 3-2 3-6 nings in his fourth start of the season.

4 4 4-6 L-1 3-3 3-6 Jayson Werth also hom5 5 2-8 L-2 3-5 2-5 ered for the Nationals.

6 6 3-7 W-1 3-6 1-5 Tom Gorzelanny (1-0) pitched the 10th inning for GB WCGB L10 Str Home Away the win.

Edward Mujica (0-1) — — 8-2 W-3 6-0 6-3 came on in the ninth in1 1 4 ⁄2 2 ⁄2 6-4 L-1 5-4 2-3 ning and gave up the win41⁄2 21⁄2 6-4 L-1 4-2 3-5 ning run in the 10th. After Ramos singled to center, 5 3 3-7 L-5 4-5 3-3 pinch-hitter Adam La81⁄2 61⁄2 2-8 W-1 3-7 1-5 Roche grounded to first, but Gaby Sanchez’s throw to second was high, putting Ramos on third. Desmond’s fly ball to centerfield was deep enough to NATIONAL LEAGUE score Ramos, ending the Chicago Cubs 6, Cincinnati 1 game.

SCOREBOARD AMERICAN LEAGUE Toronto 9, Kansas City 5 Texas 10-2, Detroit 4-3 Chicago White Sox 4, Seattle 0 N.Y. Yankees 15, Boston 9 Tampa Bay 4, Minnesota 1 L.A. Angels 6, Baltimore 3 Cleveland 5, Oakland 1

Washington 3, Miami 2, 10 innings N.Y. Mets 5, San Francisco 4 L.A. Dodgers 5, Houston 1 Pittsburgh 2, St. Louis 0 Milwaukee 9, Colorado 4 Atlanta 3, Arizona 2 San Diego 5, Philadelphia 1

UPCOMING American League

National League

TODAY’S GAMES Texas (Lewis 2-0) at Detroit (Smyly 0-0), 1:05 p.m.

Minnesota (Liriano 0-2) at Tampa Bay (Niemann 0-2), 1:40 p.m.

Toronto (R.Romero 2-0) at Kansas City (Duffy 1-1), 2:10 p.m.

Baltimore (W.Chen 1-0) at L.A. Angels (Haren 0-1), 3:35 p.m.

Cleveland (Masterson 0-1) at Oakland (T.Ross 0-0), 4:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Danks 1-2) at Seattle (Millwood 0-0), 4:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 1-0) at Boston (Bard 0-2), 8:05 p.m.

MONDAY’S GAMES N.Y. Yankees at Texas, 7:05 p.m.

Boston at Minnesota, 8:10 p.m.

Toronto at Kansas City, 8:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.

TODAY’S GAMES San Francisco (Lincecum 0-2) at N.Y. Mets (Gee 1-1), 1:10 p.m.

Miami (Jo.Johnson 0-2) at Washington (G.Gonzalez 1-0), 1:35 p.m.

St. Louis (Lohse 2-0) at Pittsburgh (Bedard 0-3), 1:35 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Billingsley 2-0) at Houston (W.Rodriguez 0-2), 2:05 p.m.

Colorado (Guthrie 1-1) at Milwaukee (Gallardo 1-1), 2:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Cueto 1-0) at Chicago Cubs (R.Wells 0-0), 2:20 p.m.

Philadelphia (Blanton 1-2) at San Diego (Bass 0-2), 4:05 p.m.

Atlanta (Delgado 2-0) at Arizona (I.Kennedy 2-0), 4:10 p.m.

MONDAY’S GAMES Colorado at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m.

San Francisco at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.

St. Louis at Chicago Cubs, 8:05 p.m.

Houston at Milwaukee, 8:10 p.m.

Philadelphia at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.

Atlanta at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

LEAGUE LEADERS AMERICAN LEAGUE G AB R H Pct. Ortiz Bos 14 55 9 24 .436 MYoung Tex 14 58 9 24 .414 Hamilton Tex 15 64 14 25 .391 Sweeney Bos 12 41 4 16 .390 Jeter NYY 15 68 12 26 .382 Reimold Bal 11 46 9 17 .370 Pierzynski CWS 12 42 4 15 .357 Konerko CWS 14 54 9 19 .352 Willingham Min 15 56 10 19 .339 Butler KC 14 54 6 18 .333 RBI — Swisher, New York, 20; Hamilton, Texas, 15; Cespedes, Oakland, 14; Longoria, Tampa Bay, 14; Pierzynski, Chicago, 14; Scott, Tampa Bay, 14; Encarnacion, Toronto, 13.

DOUBLES — Ortiz, Boston, 8; Cano, New York, 7; JhPeralta, Detroit, 7; Pujols, Los Angeles, 7; Sweeney, Boston, 7; Butler, Kansas City, 6; ADunn, Chicago, 6; Swisher, New York, 6.

TRIPLES — De Aza, Chicago, 2; Kinsler, Texas, 2.

HOME RUNS — Granderson, New York, 6; Hamilton, Texas, 6; Napoli, Texas, 6; AdJones, Baltimore, 5; Reimold, Baltimore, 5; Willingham, Minnesota.

NATIONAL LEAGUE

G AB R H Pct. Kemp LAD 14 54 16 26 .481 DWright NYM 11 41 5 18 .439 CYoung Ari 11 39 8 16 .410 Posey SF 12 44 5 17 .386 Cuddyer Col 13 47 8 18 .383 Thole NYM 13 35 4 13 .371 McCutchen Pit 13 49 7 18 .367 Freese StL 12 44 7 16 .364 Furcal StL 14 59 7 21 .356 SCastro ChC 15 59 7 21 .356 RBI — Kemp, Los Angeles, 20; Ethier, Los Angeles, 19; Freeman, Atlanta, 13; Freese, St. Louis, 13; LaRoche, Washington, 13; CYoung, Arizona, 13.

DOUBLES — Cuddyer, Colorado, 7; Furcal, St. Louis, 7; Tejada, New York, 7; Freeman, Atlanta, 6; YMolina, St. Louis, 6.

TRIPLES — Pagan, San Francisco, 3; Altuve, Houston, 2; Bloomquist, Arizona, 2; MCarpenter, St. Louis, 2; Cozart, Cincinnati, 2.

HOME RUNS — Kemp, Los Angeles, 8; Beltran, St. Louis, 5; CYoung, Arizona, 5; Ethier, Los Angeles, 4; Hart, Milwaukee, 4; Headley, San Diego, 4; Infante, Miami, 4; HRamirez, Miami, 4.

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Miami

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h bi 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Washington

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E-G.Sanchez (1). LOB-Miami 7, Washington 6.

2B-Reyes 2 (5), Werth (4). HR-Morrison (1), Desmond (2), Werth (1). SB-Dobbs (1), Do.Murphy (1).

S-Bonifacio. SF-Desmond.

IP H R ER BB SO Miami A.Sanchez 7 5 2 2 0 8 Webb 1 0 0 0 0 0 Mujica L,0-1 1 1/3 2 1 0 1 1 Washington Strasburg 6 4 0 0 1 6 Mattheus H,3 1 1/3 1 0 0 0 0 S.Burnett H,3 2/3 0 0 0 0 0 Lidge BS,2-4 1 1 2 2 3 0 Gorzelanny W,1-0 1 0 0 0 0 0 T-2:46. A-26,745 (41,487).

Reyes ss Bonifac 2b-cf HRmrz 3b Morrsn lf GSnchz 1b Dobbs rf DMrph pr-2b J.Buck c Coghln cf-rf ASnchz p Stanton ph Webb p Infante ph Mujica p

Cubs 6, Reds 1 CHICAGO — Paul Maholm pitched six solid innings to earn his first win in nine months, and Chicago beat Cincinnati to stop a six-game slide.

Maholm (1-2) allowed one run and four hits to snap a personal six-game losing streak. The lefthander struck out five and walked three in his first victory since July 10 for Pittsburgh against the Cubs.

Darwin Barney and Steve Clevenger each had three hits for the Cubs, who grabbed control with a four-run second inning.

Starlin Castro had a double and a triple.

Cincinnati

ab r h bi DeJess rf 5 2 21 Barney 2b 4 2 31 SCastro ss 5 0 21 LaHair 1b 2 0 01 IStewrt 3b 4 0 00 Clevngr c 4 1 31 DeWitt lf 3 0 00 Russell p 0 0 00 Dolis p 0 0 00 RJhnsn ph 1 0 10 Marml p 0 0 00 Mather cf-lf 4 1 21 Mahlm p 2 0 00 Campn ph-cf 2 0 1 0 Totals 34 1 6 1 Totals 36 6 14 6 Cincinnati 100 000 000—1 Chicago 140 000 10x—6 E-Rolen (2), Leake (1), S.Castro 2 (7). DP-Cincinnati 1. LOB-Cincinnati 10, Chicago 9. 2B-Cozart 2 (4), Heisey (2), Frazier (1), Barney (2), S.Castro (4), R.Johnson (2), Mather (1). 3B-S.Castro (1). SF-LaHair.

IP H R ER BB SO Cincinnati Leake L,0-2 5 2/3 10 5 5 1 3 Ondrusek 1/3 0 0 0 0 0 Simon 2 4 1 0 0 2 Chicago Maholm W,1-2 6 4 1 1 3 5 Russell 1 2 0 0 0 1 Dolis 1 0 0 0 1 0 Marmol 1 0 0 0 0 1 HBP-by Simon (Barney).

T-2:40. A-38,405 (41,009).

Cozart ss Stubbs cf Votto 1b Phillips 2b Simon p Ludwck lf Rolen 3b Heisey rf Mesorc c Leake p Ondrsk p Frazier ph Valdez 2b

ab r 51 50 30 40 00 30 40 30 30 20 00 10 10

h bi 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0

Chicago

Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo

WASHINGTON’S IAN DESMOND, RIGHT, ACCEPTS CONGRATULATIONS after hitting a home run against Miami. Desmond also hit the game-winning sacrifice fly as the Nationals defeated the Marlins, 3-2 in 10 innings, on Saturday in Washington.

Mets 5, Giants 4 NEW YORK — Ruben Tejada scored the winning run on a throwing error by catcher Buster Posey, and New York beat San Francisco after blowing a three-run lead moments earlier. Mike Pelfrey tossed eight terrific innings, and it appeared the Mets were headed to a fairly simple victory.

San Francisco

New York ab r h bi ab r h bi Pagan cf 5 1 2 0 Niwnhs cf 5 0 00 MeCarr lf 3 0 0 0 DnMrp 2b 4 1 30 Sandovl 3b 4 0 1 1 DWrght 3b 4 0 00 Posey c 4 1 2 0 I.Davis 1b 4 0 11 A.Huff 1b-2b 4 0 0 0 Bay lf 4 1 10 Schrhlt rf 3 1 1 0 Duda rf 2 2 10 Burriss 2b-ss 4 1 2 1 Hairstn pr 0 0 00 BCrwfr ss 3 0 0 0 Thole c 2 0 10 HSnchz ph 1 0 0 0 Tejada ss 3 1 13 Hensly p 0 0 0 0 Pelfrey p 2 0 00 Affeldt p 0 0 0 0 Frncsc p 0 0 00 Vglsng p 3 0 0 0 Byrdak p 0 0 00 JaLopz p 0 0 0 0 Rauch p 0 0 00 Otero p 0 0 0 0 Baxter ph 0 0 00 Pill ph 0 0 0 0 Turner ph 1 0 10 Belt ph-1b 10 1 2 Totals 35 4 9 4 Totals 31 5 9 4 San Francisco 001 000 003—4 New York 000 010 211—5 Two outs when winning run scored.

E-A.Huff (1), Me.Cabrera (1), Posey (4). DP-New York 1. LOB-San Francisco 6, New York 6. 2B-Pagan (3), Belt (2), Dan.Murphy (5), Tejada (7). CS-D.Wright (2). S-Thole 2, Pelfrey.

IP H R ER BB SO San Francisco Vogelsong 7 5 3 3 2 8 Ja.Lopez 0 2 1 0 0 0 Otero 1 0 0 0 0 0 Hensley L,1-1 1/3 1 1 0 1 0 Affeldt 1/3 1 0 0 0 0 New York Pelfrey 8 6 1 1 1 3 F.Francisco H,1 1/3 2 3 3 1 0 Byrdak H,3 1/3 0 0 0 0 1 Rauch W,2-0 BS,1-1 1/3 1 0 0 0 1 Ja.Lopez pitched to 3 batters in the 8th.

T-2:55. A-33,844 (41,922).

Pirates 2, Cardinals 0 PITTSBURGH — A.J. Burnett pitched three-hit ball for seven innings in his injury-delayed Pittsburgh debut, and the Pirates beat St. Louis. Burnett, who missed the first three weeks of the year while recovering from a fractured right orbital bone sustained during a bunting drill in spring training, walked two and struck out seven while giving up just three hits.

St. Louis

Pittsburgh

ab r h bi ab r h bi Furcal ss 2 0 0 0 Presley lf 4 0 10 MCrpnt 1b 4 0 2 0 Tabata rf 3 0 00 Hollidy lf 3 0 0 0 McCtch cf 4 2 20 Beltran rf 4 0 0 0 Walker 2b 3 0 10 Freese 3b 3 0 0 0 McGeh 1b 4 0 00 YMolin c 3 0 0 0 PAlvrz 3b 4 0 22 Jay pr 0 0 0 0 Barmes ss 3 0 00 Descals 2b 3 0 1 0 Barajs c 3 0 10 Salas p 0 0 0 0 AJBrnt p 1 0 00 Rzpczy p 0 0 0 0 McLoth ph 1 0 00 Komats ph 1 0 0 0 J.Cruz p 0 0 00 Roinsn cf 4 0 1 0 Watson p 0 0 00 Westrk p 2 0 0 0 Grilli p 0 0 00 Greene 2b 1 0 1 0 Hanrhn p 0 0 00 Totals 30 0 5 0 Totals 30 2 7 2 St. Louis 000 000 000—0 Pittsburgh 000 101 00x—2 E-Robinson (1). DP-St. Louis 1, Pittsburgh 1.

LOB-St. Louis 8, Pittsburgh 7. 2B-McCutchen (3).

SB-Presley (3). CS-Tabata (3). S-Furcal.

IP H R ER BB SO St. Louis Westbrook L,2-1 6 2/3 7 2 2 2 6 Salas 1 0 0 0 1 0 Rzepczynski 1/3 0 0 0 0 0 Pittsburgh A.J.Burnett W,1-0 7 3 0 0 2 7 J.Cruz H,1 1/3 2 0 0 0 0 Watson H,2 1/3 0 0 0 0 1 Grilli H,2 1/3 0 0 0 0 1 Hanrahan S,2-2 1 0 0 0 2 2 T-2:40. A-25,218 (38,362).

Dodgers 5, Astros 1 HOUSTON — Matt Kemp set a franchise record for home runs through 15 games with his ninth of the season to back up a solid outing by Clayton Kershaw, and Los Angeles defeated Houston.

Kemp’s two-run shot to center field in the sixth inning off Kyle Weiland (0-3) scored Dee Gordon, extending the lead to 3-0.

Los Angeles

Houston h bi ab r h bi 3 0 Schafer cf 3 0 00 0 0 Altuve 2b 3 0 00 0 0 JMrtnz lf 2 0 11 0 0 Ca.Lee 1b 4 0 00 0 0 Lowrie ss 4 0 10 1 2 CJhnsn 3b 4 0 00 1 2 MDwns rf 3 0 10 1 0 DvCrpn p 0 0 00 0 0 WLopez p 0 0 00 1 1 MGnzlz ph 1 0 00 0 0 CSnydr c 2 0 00 0 0 Bogsvc ph 1 0 00 1 0 Weilnd p 2 0 00 0 0 R.Cruz p 0 0 00 Maxwll rf 1 1 10 Totals 31 5 8 5 Totals 30 1 4 1 Los Angeles 010 002 020—5 Houston 000 000 010—1 E-Weiland (2). DP-Los Angeles 1, Houston 3. LOBLos Angeles 4, Houston 7. 2B-D.Gordon (3), J.Rivera (3), M.Downs (2). HR-Kemp (9), Loney (1). CS-D. Gordon (3).

IP H R ER BB SO Los Angeles Kershaw W,1-0 7 3 0 0 2 9 MacDougal 1/3 1 1 1 2 0 Jansen H,4 2/3 0 0 0 1 0 J.Wright 1 0 0 0 0 1 Houston Weiland L,0-3 7 6 3 3 1 6 R.Cruz 2/3 1 2 2 2 0 Davi.Carpenter 1/3 1 0 0 2 0 W.Lopez 1 0 0 0 0 1 Balk-Kershaw.

T-3:02. A-25,562 (40,981).

DGordn ss AKndy 2b MacDgl p Jansen p JWrght p Kemp cf Ethier rf JRiver lf GwynJ lf Loney 1b Sellers 3b A.Ellis c Kershw p M.Ellis 2b

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Brewers 9, Rockies 4 MILWAUKEE — Ryan Braun broke out of a slump with a solo homer and two RBIs, helping Milwaukee beat Colorado.

Braun, who will be honored by the Brewers today for winning the National League’s Most Valuable Player award last season, hit his second homer of the season and an RBI triple while ending an 0-for16 slide.

Colorado

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h bi 1 0 1 1 0 0 2 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Milwaukee

ab r h bi RWeks 2b 4 1 11 CGomz cf 4 1 11 Braun lf 4 2 22 ArRmr 3b 3 1 00 Hart rf 3 2 10 Ishikaw 1b 0 0 00 AlGnzlz ss 4 1 34 Gamel 1b 3 0 00 Dillard p 0 0 00 Lucroy c 3 1 10 Estrad p 1 0 00 Aoki ph 1 0 00 Morgan ph-rf 2 0 0 0 Totals 33 4 6 4 Totals 32 9 9 8 Colorado 000 102 001—4 Milwaukee 000 021 60x—9 LOB-Colorado 4, Milwaukee 4. 2B-Rosario (3), Hart (5), Ale.Gonzalez (3). 3B-R.Weeks (1), Braun (1).

HR-Tulowitzki (2), Helton (3), Braun (2), Ale.Gonzalez (3). SB-C.Gonzalez (2), Tulowitzki (1), Helton (1), E.Young (3), C.Gomez (5). S-Lucroy.

IP H R ER BB SO Colorado Pomeranz 5 2 2 2 3 6 Rogers L,0-1 BS,1-1 1 1/3 5 4 4 0 0 E.Escalona 2/3 2 3 3 1 1 Roenicke 1 0 0 0 0 1 Milwaukee Estrada 5 2 1 1 0 9 M.Parra BS,1-1 2/3 1 2 2 1 0 McClendon 1/3 1 0 0 1 0 Veras W,2-0 1 0 0 0 0 2 Dillard 2 2 1 1 0 2 WP-Rogers. PB-Rosario 2.

T-3:13. A-43,565 (41,900).

Scutaro 2b Fowler cf CGnzlz lf Tlwtzk ss Helton 1b Cuddyr rf Rosario c Nelson 3b Pomrnz p EYong ph Rogers p EEscln p

Braves 3, Diamondbacks 2 PHOENIX — Tommy Hanson pitched seven strong innings, Dan Uggla homered, and Atlanta beat Arizona.

Hanson allowed two runs on five hits for the Braves, who have won 10 of 11. Hanson (2-2) struck out seven, walked one and retired the last 13 batters he faced.

Uggla broke a 2-all tie with a one-out towering drive to left, his 12th career homer against the Diamondbacks.

Atlanta

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Arizona

ab r h bi Blmqst ss 4 0 00 GParra cf 4 1 10 J.Upton rf 4 0 10 MMntr c 3 0 01 Gldsch 1b 4 0 10 Kubel lf 4 1 11 A.Hill 2b 3 0 10 RRorts 3b 3 0 00 JSndrs p 1 0 00 Pollock ph 1 0 00 Shaw p 0 0 00 DHrndz p 0 0 00 Totals 32 3 6 3 Totals 31 2 5 2 Atlanta 111 000 000—3 Arizona 110 000 000—2 E-A.Hill (3). LOB-Atlanta 5, Arizona 4. 2B-J.Upton (3). HR-Uggla (2), Kubel (1). CS-Bourn (3). S-Hanson, J.Saunders.

IP H R ER BB SO Atlanta Hanson W,2-2 7 5 2 2 1 7 Venters H,4 1 0 0 0 0 3 Kimbrel S,5-5 1 0 0 0 0 3 Arizona J.Saunders L,1-1 7 6 3 2 1 5 Shaw 1 0 0 0 1 0 D.Hernandez 1 0 0 0 0 3 T-2:17. A-30,188 (48,633).

Bourn cf Prado lf Fremn 1b McCnn c Uggla 2b C.Jones 3b Heywrd rf JWilson ss Hanson p Venters p Kimrel p

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Padres 5, Phillies 1 SAN DIEGO — Cory Luebke outpitched Roy Halladay and San Diego beat Philadelphia, snapping the Phillies’ 13-game winning streak at Petco Park.

Luebke (2-1) held the Phillies to two hits in eight innings, struck out five and walked two.

The Padres hadn’t beaten the Phillies in their downtown ballpark since Aug. 16, 2008. The Phillies’ 13-game winning streak at Petco had been the longest active for any visiting club at any particular ballpark.

Philadelphia

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2B-Wigginton (2), Alonso (3), Bartlett (3). 3B-Maybin (3), O.Hudson (2). SB-Venable (2), Maybin (4).

S-Halladay.

IP H R ER BB SO Philadelphia Halladay L,3-1 7 5 2 2 4 5 Stutes 1 3 3 3 1 1 San Diego Luebke W,2-1 8 2 0 0 2 5 Street 1 1 1 1 1 2 WP-Stutes.

T-2:23. A-31,437 (42,691).

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Sunday, April 22, 2012

9B

AMERICAN LEAGUE ROUNDUP

Chicago’s Humber finds perfection Second Game Texas

The Associated Press

White Sox 4, Mariners 0 SEATTLE — Phil Humber had Tommy John surgery before his career even started. He bounced around a bit as he tried to make it in the major leagues.

Now, well, Humber is just perfect.

Humber threw the first perfect game in the majors in almost two years, leading Chicago to a victory over Seattle on Saturday.

“What just took place was just awesome,” Humber said.

It was baseball’s 21st perfect game and first since Philadelphia’s Roy Halladay threw one against the Florida Marlins on May 29, 2010. It was the third in White Sox’s history, joining Mark Buehrle against Tampa Bay on July 23, 2009, and Charles Robertson against Detroit on April 30, 1922.

Before Saturday, Humber was best known as one of four prospects the Mets traded to Minnesota for two-time Cy Young Award winner Johan Santana in February 2008.

That’s no longer the case — not after tossing the majors’ first no-hitter of the season and the second April perfect game in major-league history.

“I don’t even know what to say,” Humber said. “I don’t know what Philip Humber is doing in this list. No idea what my name is doing there, but I’m thankful it’s there.”

He was drafted No. 3 overall by the New York Mets in 2004, one pick after Justin Verlander went to the Detroit Tigers. But Humber was sidelined by elbow-ligament replacement surgery the following year and didn’t win a game in the majors until 2010 with Kansas City.

With the White Sox lined up on the top step of the dugout, Humber fell behind 3-0 to Michael Saunders leading off the ninth. But he rebounded to strike him out. John Jaso then flied out before Brendan Ryan, another pinch hitter, struck out to end the game.

Ryan took a checked swing and missed at a fullcount pitch that was outside and low, but the ball got away from Pierzynski.

Ryan lingered outside the

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T-3:11. A-35,001 (41,255).

Rays 4, Twins 1 ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. — James Shields carried a three-hitter into the ninth inning, B.J. Upton had a key two-run single, and Tampa Bay beat Minnesota.Shields (3-0) allowed one run and five hits over eight-plus innings while winning his third consecutive start after getting a no-decision on opening day.

Minnesota

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CHICAGO WHITE SOX PITCHER PHIL HUMBER, CENTER, IS MOBBED BY TEAMMATES after pitching a perfect game against Seattle. The White Sox defeated the Mariners, 4-0, on Saturday in Seattle. batter’s box for a minute, unsure of umpire Brian Runge’s call, and Pierzynski fired to first to complete the play.

“I was more nervous than I was in the World Series,” catcher A.J. Pierzynski said. “There was no build up for this, it just happened. And you want it so bad for the guy on the mound and you want him to have that achievement forever and you want to have him remembered forever. It’s a special thing that Phil did.”

Humber fell to his knees when it was over, and his teammates rushed toward the mound to congratulate him.

“I saw it get away from A.J. and saw the umpire ring him up and at that point, a ton of emotions and a lot of joy and excitement,” Humber said.

“Most of all, just gratitude.

Just thankful for where I’m at.”

Humber’s wife, Kristan, is nine months’ pregnant and due May 8. He called her after the game.

“Humber pitched a great ballgame and Pierzynski did a great job working with him out there,” Mariners manager Eric Wedge

said. “We really never got anything going.”

Humber struck out nine and threw just 96 pitches in his first career complete game. The right-hander went to a three-ball count only three times.

Chicago

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T-2:17. A-22,472 (47,860).

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Yankees 15, Red Sox 9 BOSTON — Nick Swisher hit a grand slam to help New York erase a ninerun deficit, then he added a two-run double to give the Yankees the lead as they posted back-to-back seven-run innings to beat Boston and send the Red Sox to their fifth straight loss.

A day after Red Sox starter Clay Buchholz gave up five homers and

the Yankees spoiled Fenway Park’s 100th anniversary party, Boston chased New York starter Freddy Garcia after 1 2/3 innings and opened a 9-0 lead through five. But Mark Teixeira homered twice, the second a three-run shot in the seven-run seventh that cut the deficit to 9-8.

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HR-Swisher (4), Teixeira 2 (3), C.Ross (3). SB-E.Nunez (3), Aviles (2). SF-Sweeney, D.McDonald.

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F.Morales pitched to 1 batter in the 8th.

Aceves pitched to 6 batters in the 8th.

Rapada pitched to 1 batter in the 3rd.

Logan pitched to 1 batter in the 9th.

HBP-by Phelps (Youkilis). WP-Eppley.

PB-Saltalamacchia.

T-3:52. A-37,839 (37,067).

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Rangers 10-2, Tigers 4-3 DETROIT — Justin Verlander pitched six innings without allowing an earned run, and Detroit salvaged a split of its doubleheader with Texas, beating the Rangers, 3-2, in the nightcap.

Texas routed the Tigers, 10-4, in the first game for its eighth consecutive victory, but Verlander (2-1) held off the powerful Rangers, allowing four hits and three walks while striking out eight. The Rangers managed an unearned run in the fourth, but Detroit answered with three runs.

First Game Texas

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IP H R ER BB SO Texas M.Harrison W,3-0 7 2/3 6 3 3 0 6 Uehara 1 1/3 2 1 1 0 2 Detroit Porcello L,1-1 1 10 9 8 1 1 Below 6 4 0 0 0 4 Schlereth 2 3 1 1 0 0 Porcello pitched to 3 batters in the 2nd.

T-2:34. A-41,427 (41,255).

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HBP-by Pavano (J.Molina), by Al.Burnett (C.Pena),

by Shields (Willingham). WP-Gray. PB-J.Molina.

T-3:03. A-31,774 (34,078).

Angels 6, Orioles 3 ANAHEIM, CALIF. — Jered Weaver pitched his first complete game of the season, Bobby Abreu highlighted a five-run fifth inning with a tiebreaking two-run single, and Los Angeles beat Baltimore.

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T-2:24. A-38,054 (45,957).

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BLUE JAYS 9, ROYALS 5

Toronto stretches K.C.’s losing streak to nine KANSAS CITY, MO. (AP) — Drew Hutchison had a lot of help from his offense to win his major-league debut.

Colby Rasmus hit two home runs to back Hutchison and the Toronto Blue Jays handed the Kansas City Royals their ninth straight loss, 9-5 Saturday night.

Edwin Encarnacion also homered and drove in three runs for the Blue Jays, who stroked a season high 14 hits.

“The offense did a great job and made it a little easier on me,” Hutchison said. “I wouldn’t say easy, but anytime they are putting up that type of run support it gives you a chance to go out there and really compete.”

Hutchison (1-0), who had never pitched above Double-A before Saturday, left after 99 pitches and 5 1/3 innings, allowing five runs and eight hits, including two homers. Hutchison became the eighth youngest starting pitcher in Blue Jays history at 21 years, 243 days.

BOX SCORE Toronto

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TORONTO’S JOSE BAUTISTA BREAKS HIS BAT as he hits into a double play against Kansas City. The Blue Jays defeated the Royals, 9-5, on Saturday night in Kansas City, Mo. “It was good to get it out the way and it was a lot of fun,” Hutchison said. “I kind of took a look around. I really wasn’t that nervous. There was a little bit of a different feeling, but I enjoyed it.”

He became the first Blue Jays pitcher to win his debut since Ricky Romero on April 9, 2009.

The Royals losing streak

is their longest since losing 10 in a row July 10-24, 2009. They have lost a club record nine consecutive home games, dating to last season.

Rasmus hit a two-run homer off Everett Teaford (0-1) in the sixth to put the Blue Jays ahead to stay, 6-5. He and Encarnacion homered off rookie reliever Kelvin Herrera in

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Umpires-Home, Marty Foster; First, Tim Timmons; Second, Jeff Kellogg; Third, Eric Cooper.

T-3:03. A-27,804 (37,903).

the three-run seventh. It tial threat. I thought he was Rasmus’ third career kept his poise. He threw strikes with his fastball multihomer game.

“I thought Drew threw particularly. All and all I the ball as we anticipat- think an impressive firsted,” Blue Jays manager time out.”

Left-hander Darren John Farrell said. “He had the one four-run inning Oliver, who at 41 is nearly where he worked behind twice the age of Hutchiin the count. He got a key son, entered in the sixth ground ball double play after Alcides Escobar’s in the one inning to slow single advanced Mike down another poten- Moustakas to third. Oliver

struck out Mitch Maier and retired Yuniesky Betancourt on a fly to preserve the lead. Escobar had four hits, matching his career high.

“That’s just a great job by him to come in there and really defuse that situation,” Hutchison said.

By somebody old enough to be his father.

“I guess, but I won’t say that too loud,” Hutchison said. “His locker is right down there.”

Royals manager Ned Yost said Hutchison “did a good job.”

“He commanded the ball, worked both sides of the plate and kept it down,” Yost said. “We had opportunities to score, and did score. You want your bullpen to hold them and we just couldn’t do that.”

Royals starter Luis Mendoza faced 19 batters and 11 reached base — 10 hits and a walk — before being pulled with one out in the fourth. The Blue Jays batted around in a four-run fourth that Adam Lind started with a double.

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Sunday, April 22, 2012

. SPORTS

L AWRENCE J OURNAL -W ORLD

SCOREBOARD Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters

Saturday At The Monte-Carlo Country Club Monte Carlo, Monaco Purse: $3.18 million (Masters 1000) Surface: Clay-Outdoor Singles Semifinals Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def.

Tomas Berdych (6), Czech Republic, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.

Rafael Nadal (2), Spain, def. Gilles Simon (9), France, 6-3, 6-4.

Doubles Semifinals Bob and Mike Bryan (1), United States, def. Marcel Granollers and Marc Lopez, Spain, 6-4, 7-6 (5).

Max Mirnyi, Belarus, and Daniel Nestor (2), Canada, def. Michael Llodra, France, and Nenad Zimonjic (3), Serbia, 4-6, 6-4, 10-5 tiebreak.

Texas Open

Saturday At TPC San Antonio, Oaks Course San Antonio Purse: $6,2 million Yardage: 7,435; Par: 72 Third Round a-amateur Ben Curtis 67-67-73—207 Matt Every 63-74-73—210 John Huh 77-68-67—212 Seung-Yul Noh 73-71-68—212 Charlie Wi 72-69-71—212 Matt Kuchar 70-76-67—213 Greg Chalmers 72-72-69—213 Brian Gay 73-69-71—213 David Mathis 69-67-77—213 Cameron Tringale 72-65-76—213 Chris Stroud 72-73-69—214 Bob Estes 72-72-70—214 Martin Flores 71-73-70—214 Ryan Palmer 71-69-74—214 Ryan Moore 72-72-71—215 Fredrik Jacobson 68-76-71—215 Kris Blanks 74-73-68—215 Kevin Streelman 71-70-74—215 Frank Lickliter II 71-70-74—215 Scott Piercy 76-65-74—215 Brian Harman 72-73-71—216 Nathan Green 73-71-72—216 Brendan Steele 73-74-69—216 Kevin Kisner 73-70-73—216 Billy Mayfair 70-73-73—216 Daniel Summerhays 74-68-74—216 Billy Hurley III 71-77-68—216 a-Jordan Spieth 75-70-72—217 J.J. Killeen 73-71-73—217 Charley Hoffman 72-74-71—217 Justin Leonard 74-70-73—217 Skip Kendall 71-73-73—217 Tom Gillis 72-72-73—217 Russell Knox 72-71-74—217 Tim Herron 74-69-74—217 Hunter Haas 66-74-77—217 Tommy Biershenk 70-74-74—218 Harrison Frazar 72-74-72—218 Garth Mulroy 71-71-76—218 Matt Jones 77-71-70—218 Will MacKenzie 72-76-70—218 Patrick Reed 71-74-74—219 Kyle Reifers 70-75-74—219 Cameron Beckman 68-76-75—219 Spencer Levin 71-75-73—219 Chad Campbell 73-71-75—219 Miguel Angel Carballo 70-73-76—219 David Hearn 74-74-71—219 Bill Lunde 73-70-76—219 Bud Cauley 70-72-77—219 Blake Adams 71-69-79—219 Will Claxton 75-71-74—220 Hank Kuehne 72-74-74—220 Paul Stankowski 73-74-73—220 Jerry Kelly 72-74-75—221 Derek Lamely 68-75-78—221 J.J. Henry 74-74-73—221 Robert Damron 76-72-73—221 Scott Langley 72-76-73—221 Stephen Ames 74-74-73—221 Danny Lee 75-71-76—222 Graham DeLaet 73-74-75—222 Marco Dawson 71-73-78—222 Ricky Barnes 74-74-74—222 Harris English 70-73-80—223 Nick O’Hern 73-74-76—223 Bobby Gates 77-71-75—223 Briny Baird 73-73-78—224 Ted Purdy 76-72-76—224 Joe Ogilvie 72-73-80—225 Garrett Willis 75-72-78—225 Shaun Micheel 77-71-77—225 Patrick Sheehan 72-71-82—225 Billy Horschel 74-74-77—225 David Duval 75-73-77—225 Scott Dunlap 72-76-77—225 Made cut did not finish Brendon de Jonge 72-75-79—226 Rich Beem 69-78-79—226 Mark Anderson 71-77-79—227 Diego Velasquez 73-75-80—228 Zack Miller 72-76-84—232

Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf

Saturday At Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort & Spa Savannah, Ga. Purse: $2.7 million Yardage: 7,087; Par: 72 Second Round Bryant/Purtzer 60-65—125 Allen/Frost 62-63—125 Kite/Morgan 65-61—126 North/Clampett 64-62—126 Couples/Haas 63-63—126 Faxon/Sluman 62-64—126 Pernice/Tway 65-62—127 Hallberg/Pavin 65-62—127 Langer/Lehman 64-63—127 Cook/Sindelar 63-64—127 Bean/Lu 63-64—127 Cochran/Perry 62-65—127 Browne/Pate 64-64—128 Fleisher/Jenkins 62-66—128 Irwin/Baker-Finch 66-63—129 Gallagher/Huston 66-63—129 Jacobsen/Weibring 65-65—130 McNulty/Eger 66-64—130 Mize/Sutton 64-66—130 Stadler/Goodes 65-65—130 Brooks/Glasson 65-66—131 Senior/Lyle 65-66—131 Fergus/Levi 66-65—131 Roberts/Simpson 64-67—131 Hatalsky/Nelson 67-64—131 Calcavecchia/Spittle 66-66—132 Blake/Funk 66-66—132 Gilder/Romero 66-67—133 Quigley/Thorpe 67-67—134 Beck/Wiebe 67-67—134 Doyle/Vaughan 69-67—136 Jacobs/Zoeller 67-70—137 Wadkins/Wadkins 70-67—137 Green H./Thompson 69-72—141 Sigel/Tewell 71-71—142

STP 400 Lineup

After Saturday qualifying; race Sunday At Kansas Speedway Kansas City, Kan. Lap length: 1.5 miles (Car number in parentheses) 1. (22) A J Allmendinger, Dodge, 175.993.

2. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 175.747.

3. (20) Joey Logano, Toyota, 175.724.

4. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 175.667.

5. (55) Mark Martin, Toyota, 175.484.

6. (56) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 175.444.

7. (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 175.313.

8. (15) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 175.302.

9. (5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 175.092.

10. (12) Sam Hornish Jr., Dodge, 175.086.

11. (2) Brad Keselowski, Dodge, 175.063.

12. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 174.927.

13. (39) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 174.887.

14. (51) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 174.876.

15. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 174.803.

16. (10) David Reutimann, Chevrolet, 174.803.

17. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 174.706.

18. (17) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 174.486.

19. (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 174.323.

20. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 174.261.

21. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 174.244.

22. (38) David Gilliland, Ford, 174.171.

23. (14) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 174.143.

24. (30) David Stremme, Toyota, 174.031.

25. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 174.02.

26. (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 174.003.

27. (34) David Ragan, Ford, 173.947.

28. (9) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, 173.863.

29. (78) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 173.756.

30. (47) Bobby Labonte, Toyota, 173.745.

31. (49) J.J. Yeley, Toyota, 173.516.

32. (83) Landon Cassill, Toyota, 173.388.

33. (36) Dave Blaney, Chevrolet, 173.383.

34. (23) Scott Riggs, Chevrolet, 173.249.

35. (93) Travis Kvapil, Toyota, 173.221.

36. (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 173.182.

37. (98) Michael McDowell, Ford, 173.155.

38. (26) Josh Wise, Ford, 172.756.

39. (42) Juan Pablo Montoya, Chevrolet, 172.507.

40. (13) Casey Mears, Ford, 171.985.

41. (87) Joe Nemechek, Toyota, 171.625.

42. (32) Reed Sorenson, Ford, Owner Points.

43. (19) Mike Bliss, Toyota, 171.396.

Failed to Qualify 44. (79) Tim Andrews, Ford, 170.989.

45. (33) Jeff Green, Chevrolet, 169.769.

46. (74) Tony Raines, Chevrolet, 169.444.

High School

Kansas Relays Saturday at Memorial Stadium City and Area results Boys discus — T11. Blake Hocking, LHS, 153-11; T11. Dayton Valentine, Baldwin, 153-11.

Girls 1600 sprint medley — 11.

Lawrence (Jensen Edwards, Monica Howard, Marissa Pope, Leah Gabler) 4:31.44; 18. Mill Valley (McKenzie Schmitt, Whitney Hazlett, Stephanie Lichtenauer, Emma Hansen) 4:38.27; 20. Free State (Kayla Presswood, Ana Tuicakau, Kiara Clark, Logan Hassig) 4:44.92.

Boys 1600 sprint medley — 8. Free State (Seth Maples, DayShawn Berndt, Kyle Freeze, Kamp Wiebe) 3:41.40; 11.

Mill Valley (Jack Lopez, Kyal Long, Ashton Proctor, C.J. Meeks) 3:42.15; 18.

Lawrence (Brandon Maxey, Gari Jones, Philip Gabler, Josh Shump) 3:50.02.

Girls 4x200 relay — 14. Free State (Kayla Presswood, Khadijah Lane, Ana Tuicakau, Courtney Huffman) 1:51.53.

Boys 4x200 relay — 10. Free State (Tyler Odell, Seth Maples, Kyle Freeze, DayShawn Berndt) 1:31.58.

Girls 4x880 relay — 22. Free State (Lynn Robinson, Molly McCord, Lauren Wethington, Bailey Sullivan) 10:03.34; 31. Lawrence (Leah Gabler, Michala Ruder, Payton Covert, Riley Shook) 10:23.73; 34. Mill Valley (Stephanie Lichtenauer, Katie Strickland, Devin Ristau, Josie Hanson) 10:40.07; 36. De Soto (Jordan Kline, Taylor Saucerman, Meredith Wolfe, Sarah Churchwell) 10:55.57.

Girls long jump — 1. Emily Brigham, Mill Valley, 18-10; 5. Alexa HarmonThomas, FS, 17-08; 11. Jennifer Whitledge, Tonganoxie, 16-06.50; 30.

Mary Altman, Mill Valley, 15-04.75; 32.

Gabbi Dabney, FS, 15-00.75.

Girls 4x100 Sunflower Showdown — 5. Free State (Kayla Presswood, Khadijah Lane, Ana Tuicakau, Courtney Huffman) 52.11.

Boys 4x100 Sunflower Showdown — 3. Free State (Adam Joice, Tyler Odell, DayShawn Berndt, Seth Maples) 44.06; 6. Lawrence (Jordan Brown, Brendon Maxey, Asaph Jewsome, Gari Jones) 44.60.

Girls 100 hurdles — 1. Alexa HarmonThomas, Free State, 14.45.

Boys 400 — 5. Ashton Proctor, Mill Valley, 50.40.

Boys long jump — 15. Philip Gabler, LHS, 20-04.50.

Girls 1600 — 21. Lynn Robinson, FS, 5:21.64.

Boys 1600 — 12. Angel Vasquez, De Soto, 4:25.02; 23. Kain Anderson, FS, 4:27.60.

Girls discus — 4. Katie Kehl, Baldwin, 131-11; 6. Rebecca Finley, LHS, 128-02; 15. Matia Finley, LHS, 112-07.

Girls 4x400 Sunflower Showdown — 3. Free State (Khadijah Lane, Bailey Sullivan, Courtney Huffman, Lynn Robinson) 4:07.37; 6. Lawrence (Jensen Edwards, Leah Gabler, Marissa Pope, Monica Howard) 4:12.19.

Boys 4x400 Sunflower Showdown — 3. Mill Valley (C.J. Meeks, Jack Lopez, Keenan Ford, Ashton Proctor) 3:28.69; 5. Baldwin (Chad Berg, Tosh Mihesuah, Joel Halford, Asher Hannon) 3:28.88; 8.

Free State (Kyle Freeze, Stan Skwarlo, Adam Joice, Seth Maples) 3:39.62.

NHL Playoff Glance

(x-if necessary) FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7) Wednesday, April 11 Philadelphia 4, Pittsburgh 3, OT Nashville 3, Detroit 2 Los Angeles 4, Vancouver 2 Thursday, April 12 NY Rangers 4, Ottawa 2 San Jose 3, St. Louis 2, 2OT Boston 1, Washington 0, OT Phoenix 3, Chicago 2, OT Friday, April 13 New Jersey 3, Florida 2 Philadelphia 8, Pittsburgh 5 Detroit 3, Nashville 2 Los Angeles 4, Vancouver 2 Saturday, April 14 Washington 2, Boston 1, 2OT Ottawa 3, NY Rangers 2, OT St. Louis 3, San Jose 0 Chicago 4, Phoenix 3, OT Sunday, April 15 Nashville 3, Detroit 2 Philadelphia 8, Pittsburgh 4 Florida 4, New Jersey 2 Los Angeles 1, Vancouver 0 Monday, April 16 NY Rangers 1, Ottawa 0 Boston 4, Washington 3 St. Louis 4, San Jose 3 Tuesday, April 17 Florida 4, New Jersey 3 Nashville 3, Detroit 1 Phoenix 3, Chicago 2, OT Wednesday, April 18 Ottawa 3, NY Rangers 2, OT Pittsburgh 10, Philadelphia 3 Vancouver 3, Los Angeles 1, Los Angeles leads series 3-1 Thursday, April 19 New Jersey 4, Florida 0 Washington 2, Boston 1

Phoenix 3, Chicago 2, OT, Phoenix leads series 3-1 St. Louis 2, San Jose 1 Friday, April 20 Pittsburgh 3, Philadelphia 2, Philadelphia leads series 3-2 Nashville 2, Detroit 1, Nashville wins series 4-1 Saturday, April 21 Washington 4, Boston 3, Washington leads series 3-2 Florida 3, New Jersey 0, Florida leads series 3-2 Ottawa 2, NY Rangers 0, Ottawa leads series 3-2 St. Louis 3, San Jose 1, St. Louis wins series 4-1 Chicago at Phoenix (n) Today’s Games Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, 11 a.m.

Boston at Washington, 2 p.m.

Los Angeles at Vancouver, 7 p.m.

Monday, April 23 NY Rangers at Ottawa, 6 p.m. x-Phoenix at Chicago, TBD Tuesday, April 24 Florida at New Jersey, TBD x-Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, TBD x-Vancouver at Los Angeles, TBD Wednesday, April 25 x-Washington at Boston, TBD x-Chicago at Phoenix, TBD Thursday, April 26 x-Ottawa at NY Rangers, TBD x-New Jersey at Florida, TBD x-Los Angeles at Vancouver, TBD

BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES-Traded INF Josh Bell to the Arizona Diamondbacks for a player to be named later.

BOSTON RED SOX-Acquired OF Marlon Byrd and cash considerations from the Chicago Cubs for RHP Michael Bowden and a player to be named later. Designated INF/OF Nate Spears for assignment.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS-Placed RHP Greg Holland on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Jeremy Jeffress from Omaha (PCL).

OAKLAND ATHLETICS-Recalled LHP Pedro Figueroa from Sacramento (PCL). Optioned RHP Graham Godfrey to Sacramento.

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS-Placed RHP Daniel Hudson on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Jonathan Albaledejo from Reno (PCL).

CHICAGO CUBS-Placed RHP Ryan Dempster on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 18. Recalled OF Tony Campana from Iowa (PCL).

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES-Placed LHP Cliff Lee on the 15-day DL. Recalled LHP Joe Savery from Lehigh Valley (IL).

PITTSBURGH PIRATES-Activated RHP A.J. Burnett from the 15-day DL. Optioned RHP Jared Hughes to Indianapolis (IL).

HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL-Suspended Phoenix F Raffi Torres 25 games for a hit that injured Chicago’s Marian Hossa in an April 19 game.

FLORIDA PANTHERS-Recalled D Tyson Strachan from San Antonio (AHL).

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Blue Valley Southwest Invitational Saturday at Overland Park Team scores: Overland Park Aquinas 304, Blue Valley Southwest 297, Seabury 184, St. James 150, Topeka West 104, Roeland Park Miege 76, Shawnee Heights 25.

Seabury results 200 medley relay — 3. Reese Edwards, Elizabeth Padgett, Phoebe Grabill, Ryal Mitchell, 2:03.84.

200 individual medley — 1. Grabill, 2:16.7.

50 freestyle — 2. Edwards, 26.43. 13.

Mitchell, 29.91.

100 butterfly — 2. Edwards, 1:03.97. 3.

Maddie McCaffrey, 1:06.35.

100 freestyle — 1. Grabill, 55.96. 3.

Elizabeth Padgett, 57.74. 12. Emilie Padgett, 1:06.88.

200 freestyle relay — 2. McCaffrey, Edwards, Emilie Padgett, Grabill, 1:54.08.

100 backstroke — 5. Elizabeth Padgett, 1:08.5. 12. Mitchell, 1:21.23.

400 freestyle relay — 3. McCaffrey, Elizabeth Padgett, Mitchell, Emilie Padgett, 4:25.21.

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April 21 At Schwerin, Germany, Karoly Balzsay vs. Dimitri Sartison, 12, for Balzsay’s WBA World super middleweight title; Rafael Bejaran vs. Ante Bilic, 12, for Bejaran’s WBO European middleweight title; Jurgen Brahmer vs. Vikapita Meroro, 10, light heavyweights.

At the Don Haskins Center, El Paso, Texas (SHO), Abner Mares vs. Eric Morel, 12, for the vacant WBC super bantamweight title; Anselmo Moreno vs. David De La Mora, 12, for Moreno’s WBA Super World bantamweight title; Luis Ramos Jr. vs. Daniel Attah, 10, lightweights; Librado Andrade vs.

Rowland Bryant, 10, super middleweights.

At Morelia, Mexico, Jesus Silvestre vs. Edwin Diaz, 12, for the interim WBA World minimumweight title; Cristian Mijares vs. Cruz Carvajal, 12 rounds, junior featherweights; Marvin Quintero vs. Al Sabaupan, 12 rounds, IBF lightweight title eliminator At San Juan, Argentina, Omar Narvaez vs. Jose Cabrera, 12 rounds, for Narvaez’s WBO junior bantamweight title.

April 26 At Panama City, Panama, Carlos Tamara vs. Ricardo Nunez, 12, IBF flyweight eliminator.

At the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Tulsa, Okla., Carson Jones vs. Allen Conyers, 12, for Jones’ USBA welterweight title.

April 27 At Resorts, Atlantic City, N.J., Omar Sheika vs. Yusaf Mack, 12, for the USBA light heavyweight title.

At the Buffalo Run Casino, Miami, Okla. (SHO), Thomas Osthuizen vs.

Maxim Vlasov, 12, for Osthuizen’s IBO middleweight title; Luis del Valle vs.

Christopher Martin, 10, super bantamweights.

At Austin, Texas (ESPN2), Ismayl Sillakh vs. Denis Grachev, 10, light heavyweights; Javier Fortuna vs.

Yuandale Evans, 10, lightweights.

April 28 At Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, N.J. (HBO), Bernard Hopkins vs. Chad Dawson, 12, for Hopkins’ WBC light heavyweight title; Seth Mitchell vs.

Chazz Witherspoon, 10 rounds, heavyweights.

At Maracay, Venezuela, Liborio Solis vs. Santiago Ivan Acosta, 12, for Solis’ interim WBA World super flyweight title.

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Tony Held Age: 26 Relationship status: Single Hometown: Kansas City, Kan. Occupation: I’m a corporate merchandiser for the Buckle.

Dream job: I would like to get into a buyer’s position at the Buckle.

What were you doing when scouted? I’m working in the Lawrence Buckle location.

How would you describe your style? I try to be pretty openminded and fashion forward. I’m up for trying any trend, but I also realize that the fit of any garment to a person is important.

Current favorite fashion trends: For guys I like the skinny or straight-cut jeans, and I like that people are cuffing them. It lends more of a casual style to the look. I also like tank tops in a CLOTHING DETAILS: Gray henley style, with slip-on shoes, Steve Mada wide neck. den, $49.95; jeans; Buffalo Fashion brand, $108; gray henley shirt, Alternative Earth trends you hate? It bugs me brand, $25; button-up shirt, 7 Diamonds, $79.95; when I see guys in jeans that don’t frames, Guess, $115; fit them or are too watch, Guess, $69.95 big for them.

Fashion influences? I’m influenced by the designers at the Buckle, and also various current trends I see in movies.

Do you have any piercings or tattoos? I have three tattoos, and I think tattoos can be a part of fashion, too, so I wanted them to be in visible places. My tattoo on my right forearm was influenced by my music.

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MEMBERS OF THE TEAM CHANNEL FOUR NEWS TEAM, from left, Matt Parker, George Parker, Patrick Funston and Arnie Knudson, all of Lawrence, work out an answer to a question as they play trivia April 15 at Bigg’s Barbecue, 2429 Iowa.

Championship draws teams from throughout state

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Erin McKee Age: 24 Relationship status: Single Hometown: Hutchinson Time in Lawrence: One and a half years Occupation: I work in the men’s department at Weaver’s.

Dream job: I would like to be able to write whatever I want. I especially like writing fiction.

What were you doing when scouted? I am going to buy candy at Au Marché!

How would you describe your style?

You caught me on kind of a different day; usually I am wearing combat boots, and I really like a kind of grunge/rock/feminine style.

Current favorite fashion trends: I love really bright floral dresses, and anything with fringe.

Fashion trends you hate? I hate flip CLOTHING DETAILS: flops. Also I don’t Sandals, Weaver’s, $70; really like it when floral skirt, gift from my people wear legmother; tank top, Target, gings or tights $5; cardigan, Target, $5; instead of pants. bag, Urban Outfitters, Fashion influ- $30; frames, Banana ences? I take a lot Republic, $270; watch, Fossil, $40. of influence from the 1990s, as well as liking looks from the late ’50s and ’60s.

What would you like to see more of in Lawrence? I would like to see more hot-dog stands.

Tell us a secret: I’m a hipster.

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ADAM CAREY, OF KANSAS CITY, MO., SHOWS the rest of his Animatronic Grandma teammates the answer as they play trivia April 15 at Bigg’s.

If you know the color of azurite and the Great Lake with the smallest surface area, you might be a contender in the Kansas Trivia League.

The league had its mini league championship April 15 at Bigg’s Barbecue, 2429 Iowa, drawing a crowd of about 160 competitors divided into 35 teams.

Creative names are part of the game — the weirder, the better. Competitors on this

Sunday night include Bert & Ernie’s Love Child and Animatronic Grandma.

Some teams are made up of families, others of friends, and came from throughout the state. Rachel, Robin and Joe Edmunds make up the team of Idiot & Savant. Robin and Joe drove from Manhattan, and their daughter, Rachel, joined them from Kansas City.

“Who’s the idiot and who’s the savant? It depends on the question,” Robin says.

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Robinson’s reaction sums up KU defeat ONLINE: See a time-lapse of the 52 photographs of the Jayhawk players in sequence at Lawrence.com

THIS IS ONE IN A SEQUENCE OF PHOTOGRAPHS taken at the conclusion of Kansas University’s loss to Kentucky in the championship game of the NCAA Tournament. I kept my camera on Thomas Robinson for 30 seconds, from the end of the game, until he was assisted off the court by his teammates.

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After KU made the Final Four, photo coverage of each game had less to do with shooting numerous action photos and more to do with capturing key plays and player reactions in the final seconds or at game’s end.

I’m of the opinion that nobody cares much about a photo of a thunderous dunk in the first half of a game that a team eventually loses. So as the closing seconds ticked off the clock in the championship game between KU and Kentucky, and the score favoring the Wildcats, my attention turned to keying on a KU player, specifically Tyshawn Taylor or Thomas Robinson, and their reac-

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tion to the emotional loss.

As the buzzer closed out the Jayhawk loss, my camera landed on Robinson, his head down and Kentucky players beginning to celebrate in the background. Rather than take this one shot and look for other possibilities, I decided to keep my camera glued on Robinson.

In the sequence that follows, he leans over, alone, bracing himself on his knees.

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my camera registers it as only a six-second span.

Teammate Kevin Young walks into the scene next, and then I remember hearing a loud explosion.

I kept my camera to my eye and continued photographing. By the time Tyshawn Taylor stepped in to console Robinson, bright-colored streamers and confetti were falling from the ceiling and through my photograph. I realized what the explosion had been.

It was a surreal and beautiful visual moment and it set the stage for a photograph of the players, huddled together, supporting each other in the loss. I stayed framed on the scene until the three — Young and

Taylor on each side of Robinson — walked off the court.

The entire sequence consists of 52 photographs taken over a 24-second period. I have no knowledge of anything else happening inside the entire Superdome during that half-minute.

I felt lucky to be in a position to photograph each of those moments and capture one that summed up the players’ emotional loss after a well-played game, tournament and season.

— Chief photographer Mike Yoder can be reached at 832-7141.

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KANSAS UNIVERSITY THEATRE MEMBERS, FROM LEFT, ANDREW SHAW, JULIA GEISLER AND NICK KELLUM rehearse for Stephen Sondheim’s “Merrily We Roll Along” Monday at the Crafton-Preyer Theatre. The show will be performed 2:30 p.m. today and April 29 and at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Crafton-Preyer Theatre. Read a review of the performance Monday at Lawrence.com.

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This week’s defending champions are Team Channel Four News Team.

“Last time, we missed six of the first seven questions — it was brutal. This has been way too easy,” says team member Patrick Funston at halftime. “It’s nice to hear more groans than cheers (when you know the answer).”

Teams play every week at venues throughout the state. Team membership is flexible week-to-week, and there are no limits on team size. For the finals, however, only five members may compete.

A competitive spirit is evident at tonight’s event.

For the game, the emcee asks a question, then plays a song. All teams must turn in an answer before the song ends. In this crowd of experienced trivia players, many teams have an answer ready and in the air before the music even starts.

At a regular trivia night, teams bring their answers to the emcee on slips of paper. Such a crowded and competitive venue means that off-duty emcees walk around the crowd, collecting answers from each table.

Many teams discuss their possible answers in hushed tones, even writing down choices to show each other so they won’t be overheard by neighboring competitors.

“We’re just here for the fun of it. Some teams are serious,” says Melanie Lawrence of team Steins and Fine Minds from Topeka. “Once you start playing trivia, it awakens your brain. We enjoy the beer, too.”

Perhaps the most important rule in the game is that players are not allowed to have their cellphones out, lest someone be tempted to turn to the Internet for an answer.

Such a transgression is grounds for immediate disqualification.

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CHRISTINE KELLER, FOREGROUND, SORTS and checks trivia answers as Owen Kennedy asks questions during trivia April 15 at Bigg’s Barbecue, 2429 Iowa.

Both the weekly trivia games and the final are free to play, but teams must qualify to play in the big competition. The trivia league held several semifinals last month to gain entry to this game, and the team with the most topfive finishes of the season at each venue gained direct entry t o the finals.

“In the old days, the only entertainment was to go see a band, and you had to pay a cover charge. This gives a more cerebral entertainment,” says emcee Dell Johnston, who runs games at the 23rd Street Brewery and Dempsey’s Burger Pub every week. “I admire the intelligence of the teams here.”

Other local venues for trivia include Wayne & Larry’s, The Jayhawker at The Eldridge and Saints Pub + Patio.

The weekly prize is $80 in gift certificates for the top three teams. In the finals, the stakes are much higher.

The winning team of the evening was Jack & Coke from Kansas City.

Team members Scott Gregory, Art Loepp, Doug Polson, Jeff Dayton and David Bruce took home a total of $1,500 in cash.

Second- and third-place teams took home $400 and $150, respectively.

The top 15 teams received prizes of cash and/or gift certificates.

At halftime, Jack & Coke was in 30th place, but in the trivia league,

comebacks are part of the game as later rounds are worth more points.

“If you make a mistake on the front side, it doesn’t kill you,” says John Parker of Team Channel Four News Team.

Jack & Coke takes its name from a charity bike ride its members organize in memory of Doug Polson’s son, Jack Polson, who was 27 years old when he died from liver cancer in 2009. This year, the ride will take place May 12 in Missouri.

“We started getting together for (charity) meetings and playing trivia at the same time,” Dayton says.

Gregory estimated that their team had the oldest average age in the competition — a number in the 60s, he said.

“This is the biggest thing since I won the spelling bee in the eighth grade,” jokes Gregory.

The hardest questions for them were about the name of the mineral hardness scale (the Mohs scale) and the name of the boxer who was called the Brockton Blockbuster (Rocky Marciano).

Area owner of Challenge Entertainment Drew Coté, who runs the Kansas Trivia League, says he hopes the league can become part of a national trivia league competition by 2013. Last Sunday’s game was the fifth championship the league has held since it started.

Lawsuit claims ‘Bachelor’ discriminates NASHVILLE, TENN. — Two black men are taking “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette” to court with a lawsuit that claims the reality shows are blocking contestants of color from starring roles.

Nathaniel Claybrooks and Christopher Johnson filed a federal lawsuit in Nashville Wednesday against the popular TV shows claiming they are engaged in a pattern of racial discrimination that intentionally excludes people of color. The Nashville men said at a casting call in August that they were given scant consideration compared to white men seeking a leading role for “The Bachelor.”

Claybrooks said white applicants were given far

more time and consideration during the interview process.

“I only wanted a fair shot at the part,” said the soft-spoken Claybrooks, a 39-year-old college graduate and electric company meter reader who owns several small businesses.

“Looking back at how I was treated at the casting call last year, it was clear that that wasn’t possible. I never even had a chance.”

Their attorneys said it is the first racial discrimination lawsuit filed against a reality show. It does not ask for a specific dollar amount of damages, but it does propose to make major changes in how people are seen on TV.

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Josh Daniels, assistant pastor, Lawrence “‘Citizen Solider’ by Stephen Ambrose.”

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Rising from their seats en masse, the liberal faithful at Beverly Hills’ Saban Theatre greeted Rachel Maddow like parishioners welcoming a mega-church pastor.

Cellphone cameras flashed like fireworks.

Lusty, and perhaps a few lustful, cheers cascaded from the Art Deco mezzanine.

Bill Maher, the interviewer at Tuesday night’s Writers Bloc public chat, turned to Maddow as they Alex Bork, took the sold-out theater’s sound man, stage. “How much of that Lawrence do you think was for you, “The ‘Dune’ books.” and how much was for me?” Maher joked.

No offense, Bill, but on this night, in one of the bluest ZIP Codes of an indigo-hued state, it didn’t appear to be even close.

By many measures, Maddow, the 39-year-old star of a popular self-titled MSNBC news show, who self-identifies as “not a TV anchor babe” but “a big lesbian who looks like a man,” is the most revered A.J. Knudson, figure in progressive media server, today, especially now that Lawrence Keith Olbermann, who first “‘The Book of Rhymes.’ brought Maddow to MSIt compares rapping and NBC as a substitute host, writing and talks about is on an involuntary hiatus how each has a rhythm.” from the airwaves.

Her national profile is likely to rise further this spring with the publication of her first book, “Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power.” The book, essentially a 261-page reported essay arguing that, over the last half-century, a feckless U.S. Congress has surrendered its constitutionally granted war-making powers to the president while Charles Bryan, the American public has retired, been systematically blindLawrence ed to combat’s gruesome “‘Heinrich Himmler’ by realities, entered the New Peter Longerich.”

York Times best-sellers list this week at No. 1.

War, in Maddow’s words, has become “frictionless” and painless for most Americans, except those actually fighting it, and she thinks it’s way past time for a national debate about how we got here.

Asked by Maher what she thought the Founding Fathers would make of this state of affairs, Maddow responded with the rapidDenny Chadwick, fire colloquial humor that campus minister, salts her TV commentary.

Lawrence “I think they’d be pissed,” “Virgil’s ‘Aeneid’ and Augustine’s ‘Confessions,’ she told Maher. “Polls don’t plus my wife and I listen determine whether or not to Lilian Jackson Braun’s we go to war. Congress ‘The Cat Who ...’ series on is supposed to determine whether we go to war,” she audiobook.” added later.

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BEST-SELLERS Here are the best-sellers for the week that ended April 14, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.

Fiction 1. “Calico Joe.” John Grisham. Doubleday, $24.95.

2. “Guilty Wives.” James Patterson & David Ellis.

Little, Brown, $27.99.

3. “Come Home.” Lisa Scottoline. St. Martin’s, $27.99.

4. “The Lost Years.” Mary Higgins Clark. Simon & Schuster, $26.99.

5. “The Shoemaker’s Wife.” Adriana Trigiani.

Harper, $26.99.

6. “Sacre Bleu.” Christopher Moore. Morrow, $26.99.

7. “Stay Close.” Harlan Coben. Dutton, $27.95.

8. “The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection.”

Alexander McCall Smith.

Pantheon, $24.95.

9. “Betrayal.” Danielle Steel. Delacorte, $28.

10. “The Lifeboat.” Charlotte Rogan. L,B/Reagan Arthur, $24.99.

11. “The Beginner’s Goodbye.” Anne Tyler. Knopf, $24.95.

Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo 12. “A Dance with DragTELEVISION JOURNALIST RACHEL MADDOW, pictured Feb. 2, 2010, at the Senate ons.” George R.R. Martin.

Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, published her Bantam, $35. first book this spring, “Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power.”

13. “Lone Wolf.” Jodi Picoult. Atria, $25.

14. “Lover Reborn.” J.R. since Maddow’s cable in long, finely chiseled para- subject of “Drift” through Ward. NAL, $27.95. program premiered, the graphs. “But to me, [this] is the long-form medium 15. “The Cove.” Ron Rash. former AIDS activist and the driving and largely un- of print rather than the Ecco, $26.99.

Air America talk-show explored dynamic shaping short-form, “sound-bite” host doesn’t think that the experience of modern medium of television. much has changed for her America, especially the po“To trick myself into Nonfiction in front of the camera. litical experience of mod- making the time” to write, 1. “Drift.” Rachel Maddow.

“I’m still wearing the same ern America.” she holed up at her literary Crown, $25. blazers. I think the (TV Nor is military over- agent’s office in downtown 2. “Mrs. Kennedy and studio) lighting got better, stretch, and the post-Wa- Manhattan, sans Internet Me.” Clint Hill with Lisa Mcand then it got worse.” tergate phenomenon of access. “It was like writing Cubbin. Gallery, $26.

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Dahmer graphic novel years in the making (and remaking)

By Rich Heldenfels Akron Beacon Journal

Comic-strip writer and artist Derf Backderf thinks it’s time to make a graphic novel about something other than the Akron, Ohio, area. And he knows it’s time to put aside Jeffrey Dahmer.

In addition to the ongoing satirical strip The City, Backderf has written three graphic tales: “Trashed,” about his work as a garbageman in Richfield, Ohio; “Punk Rock and Trailer Parks,” a semi-fictional look at music and adolescent life in Akron in the late 1970s; and what may be his magnum opus, “My Friend Dahmer,” about Backderf’s

school-years acquaintance with the notorious serial killer.

Backderf knows the “minutiae about Dahmer.”

“That’s OK. ... When I took on this book, and maybe one of the reasons it took so long, is that I resigned myself to talking about Jeffrey Dahmer for the better part of a year after it came out.

But, after that, I’m done. After that, when someone asks me — as they always do — you knew Dahmer, what was he like, I’ll say, read the book. It’s all in there.”

And what’s in there is his latest look at the area where he grew up, not that far from where he now lives in Cleveland.

“Everything I’ve done is really set in the same 20-mile

radius,” he said with a laugh.

“Which means I should probably do something else with my next book. Akron’s not that interesting,” he said, laughing again. “Although it’s been pretty fertile so far ... and I know that landscape so well.”

Dahmer, especially, has been fertile and familiar territory, a blending of the story of young Dahmer and of junior-high and high-school life in that period, and the way everyone around Dahmer, including Backderf, either failed to see someone spiraling into deeper and more awful trouble, or just ignored him.

“He was so good at flying under the radar that he even to a certain extent flew under mine,”

Backderf said. Indeed, when Backderf’s wife, reporter Sheryl Harris, called him to say one of his classmates had been accused of those grisly crimes, Backderf at first guessed it was an entirely different classmate.

“My Friend Dahmer” began as a short story in 1991, not long after Dahmer was exposed; that story was expanded into a 100page account in 1998 that Backderf could not sell, then shrank to 24 pages for a version Backderf self-published in 2002.

“The response from that little, self-published book, even though it only sold a couple thousand copies, was enough that it reaffirmed in my head that ... if I get this in front of the

right people, it’s going to be a book that’s going to be something special,” he said. “And I was right.”

The proof came after he re-researched, rewrote and redrew “My Friend Dahmer” for an elaborate, 224-page version published by Abrams ComicArts to general raves.

While some names have been changed, the book scrupulously identifies all of the published and anecdotal sources of the information. Backderf said, “I built the book off the footnotes.”

It has already sold out its first printing, Backderf said recently, and a second printing has been ordered.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD Grid Iron

By Kevin G. Der Edited by Will Shortz When this puzzle is finished, 12 special squares, along with the shaded squares, will create an image of 56-Down. The 12 squares corresponding to the “reflection” of the special squares, when read clockwise from top left, will spell an alternative name for 56-Down.

Across 1 Plushlike 5 Anjou relatives 10 “Love Train” singers, with “the” 15 Brit. decorations 19 Low men?

24 Peace Nobelist Root 26 Without problems 27 Holiday decoration 29 Where 56-Down embarked 31 Stress reliever 32 Actress Téa 33 Iconic line shouted in “56-Down” 35 & 37 #1 song from “56-Down” 39 Martini go-with?

40 Bit of chiding 41 Shiva’s wife 42 Cat genus 43 Italian holiday 45 Sinn ___ 47 Easter ___ 50 Forest specimens 52 “Be my guest” 56 Silence indicator 59 “Cool” amount 62 In ___ place 64 Rafael, to friends 66 Trims, say 68 Jefferson or Madison 69 Rest on

71 High clouds 73 Mess of a mess 75 Auto-___ 76 Footstool 78 Georgia O’Keeffe Museum site 80 Slowpokes’ fines 82 Filled, as an office 83 Coup d’___ 84 Builder of a 2x2 vessel?

85 Blue Ribbon maker 86 Hosp. scan 87 Winner of a 1970s-’80s war 90 Singer Jones 92 Literally, “my Lord” 94 Amount before overtime 96 Shake 100 Tried to win 102 Major operation?

104 To this moment 106 Fads 108 Run together, in a way 109 Tater 110 Toddlers’ coddlers 112 Third string 113 Once more: Abbr.

114 It’s not basic 116 Dict. info 117 Tabula ___ 119 Yorkshire river 121 Flags 123 Clear (of) 124 Triumphant end?

125 “56-Down” co-star 128 “56-Down” co-star 132 “King Lear” role 136 Pittance 138 Protection around the world?

139 Some buggy drivers 141 Record-tying achievement for “56-Down” 149 Said yea or nay 150 Bank support?

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99 Interference detector?

101 Voice of Carl in Pixar’s “Up” 103 Acts the middleman 105 Dundee denial

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110 Ginnie ___ 111 Mrs., abroad 113 “Gimme ___” 115 “In my view …”

118 Zero-emissions vehicle 120 Athlete’s pointer?

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131 “Now you speak” 133 Hoedown attendee 134 Together, in music 135 Cashier’s cry 137 Late-night fliers 140 Word of indifference 142 Suffix with alk143 Barracks V.I.P. 144 Setting for some wrestling 145 “___ truly” (abbreviated sign-off) 146 Biological chain 147 It appears overnight 148 Grads-to-be: Abbr.

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75 Intuitions 76 Freeway access 77 LP speed 80 Sudden forays 82 Not liquid or gas 83 One-liner 84 1960s hairdo 85 — Dion 87 Pot covers 88 Oater showdown 89 Welcome 90 Musical drama 91 Luxury fur 92 Fine violin, briefly 94 Black-footed critter 95 Fellows 96 Decaf brand 97 What banks do 98 Mdse.

99 U2 producer 100 Casts a ballot 101 Green Hornet’s valet 102 Market collapse 104 With greater frequency 107 Trout habitat 108 Up — — point 109 Caravan sighting 113 South Seas clothes 114 Hack’s customer 115 Water slide 117 Bar mitzvah dance 118 Is 119 — Raton 120 Complainers 122 “Kidnapped” monogram 123 Practical jokes 124 Regions 127 Avoids capture 129 Feel sore 130 Buoy up 131 Reduce by 50 percent 132 Trigonometry function 133 Back muscles 134 Stage platform

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UNITED FEATURE SUNDAY CROSSWORD

UNIVERSAL SUDOKU

See both puzzle SOLUTIONS in Monday’s paper.

Down 1 Quagmire 2 Lopsided 3 Unruffled 4 Jr.’s son, maybe 5 Minn. neighbor 6 Wine-making family 7 Dismounted (2 wds.)

8 Customary practices 9 Farm measures 10 Dust collectors 11 Rapper Dr. — 12 Salad ingredient 13 Where Rome is home 14 B-movie pistols 15 Temper 16 Charmed 17 Well-known 18 Kampala’s country 19 Hospital helpers 20 Wallpaper, etc.

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THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

by David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek

Unscramble these six Jumbles, one letter to each square, to form six ordinary words.

CENTIJ

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CERNDH

See the JUMBLE answer on page 2C. TRYOWH

Last week’s solution

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Across 1 In a reverie 7 Watch over 12 Unyielding 17 Back financially 21 City near Syracuse 22 Movie award 23 Video-game pioneer 24 Fit of shivering 25 Call again 26 Deadlines (2 wds.)

28 — Almond of Soft Cell 29 “Mogambo” name 30 Inelegant solutions 32 Van Gogh’s medium 33 Maria Conchita — 35 — Thomas Clocks 37 Bassoon cousins 38 All ears 39 More arrogant 40 Golfer Sam — 42 Startled cries 43 The two together 44 Flowering trees 45 Bonsai’s land 47 Algebra or geometry 48 Down the hatch 49 Big bird 52 Telegraph signal 53 Johnnycake 54 Lost a lap 55 Date ender, maybe 59 “Werewolves Of —” 61 Roomful of students 62 Go sour 63 Sticky 64 Kentucky Derby award 65 Nile goddess of truth 66 “Veni, —, vici” 67 “True Lies” co-star 68 Sarah — Jewett 69 Shoved off 70 Eager

AWENOP CEESXS Solution, tips and computer program at: http:// www.sudoku.com.

Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by the above cartoon.

PRINT YOUR ANSWER IN THE CIRCLES BELOW

2012

Sports Community History Arts Learning

A celebration of our hometown heroes April 29th in the

Join us for the Larry Awards A Special Tribute To Lawrence’s Finest

Thursday, April 26th, 2012 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

You may not know them by name, but you’ve been impacted by what they’ve done. These are our hometown heroes…

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our innovators, healers, teachers and tradition-makers. The ones who continue to push the boundaries of possibility and selflessness to bind us, define us, enrich us and sustain us.

As we reveal and honor the outstanding Nominees to be featured in this upcoming special edition.

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Sunday, April 22, 2012

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What is your favorite way to connect with God through nature?

Morning sun, stars draw heart to God The Rev. Pam Morrison, addiction recovery minister, The Healing House, Kansas City: To describe one way that I feel close to God through nature is too limiting.

One of my favorite songs is the “Canticle of the Sun.” It points at the problem of choosing. The lyrics include, “The heavens are telling the glory of God and all creation is shouting for joy!” This is based on Psalm 19’s declaration of the glory of God throughout nature.

I could speak of so many ways in which my heart is drawn to God by all sorts of settings. But let me choose two.

One moment in which I feel especially close to

God is in the mornings when the sun is just rising and there is still a quiet calm that’s only bro- Morrison ken by bird calls. I like to sit in my backyard, which looks out over a farm, and feel both the morning chill and the slowly increasing warmth of the sun. The greenness of grass and trees, signs of the awakening spring, fill me with hope and anticipation.

Again, a scripture comes to mind: Psalm 57:8: “Awake, my glory!

Awake, harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.”

The second setting in

which I feel especially close to God is at night, looking up at the stars.

There is a verse in Isaiah that describes God having a name for every star (Isaiah 40:26). I also think of the ancient figure Abraham and how he stood under the Diyah Pera/Lionsgate Photo stars and heard God’s plan IN THIS FILM IMAGE RELEASED BY LIONSGATE, FRAN KRANZ is shown in a scene from “The and promises for his life, Cabin in the Woods,” now playing at Southwind Cinema 12 theaters in Lawrence. that “he would have more descendants than stars in the sky” (Genesis 15:5), SCENE STEALERS though based on natural circumstances, Abraham’s age and childlessness, such a miracle would seem absurd. Yet, Abraham did have children. The stars give me a sense of God’s tremendous care for each of us.

‘Cabin in the Woods’ turns horror genre on its ear

— Send email to Pam Morrison at revpmorrison@aol.com.

Send your questions about faith and spiritual issues for our religion columnists to religion@ljworld.com.

Mountains symbolize creative powers The Rev. Nate Rovenstine, pastor, Lawrence Wesleyan Church, 3705 Clinton Parkway: When I posted this question to my Facebook friends, I received a variety of interesting responses. The responses included: running, walking, pulling weeds, gardening, oceans, mountains, snow, seasons, stars, mist, rivers, lakes, forests.

One said, “The sublime fear and awe of a mountain top in a light snowstorm — coupled with the excitement and exhilaration of skiing!”

Personally, I love the mountains. Once, when my girls were very young, we went on a hike to an amazing mountain lake.

I’ll never forget standing there absorbing God’s creative powers, relishing the

determination of my little girls to make the arduous hike, and wondering how anyone could not sense God’s Rovenstine presence in that place.

Like many of my Facebook friends, the connection between God and nature seems obvious to me.

God is the creator, and his creation is awe-inspiring.

When we take time to be “awed,” we are reminded of God’s power and intimacy.

We need to spend more time in nature so we can connect with God. We also have a stewardship responsibility to take care of his amazing handiwork.

The Bible speaks of Jesus’ involvement in creation. “For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.”

Jesus was not only involved in creation, but he has made it possible for us to be in a relationship with God. Because of Jesus, I can worship God in nature, and I am made right with him. I am very grateful that God is our creator.

I am equally grateful that Jesus is our redeemer.

— Send email to Nate Rovenstine at jnrovenstine@juno.com.

ARTS NOTES Festival to feature winner and DVD collections music from before 1800, according to a media reCriterion and others, high schoolers’ films from lease from the school, and said Jeff Kuhr, Lawrence

The seventh annual Focus Film Festival will feature the work of high schoolers from across northeast Kansas.

The winning films, chosen from 80 submitted, in a range of categories — from drama to sci-fi to documentary as well as technical achievement categories — will be shown at 2 p.m.

April 29 at Liberty Hall, 644 Mass. Local filmmakers Jon Niccum, Patrick Rea and Marc Havener will judge the films, which range from 30 seconds to 15 minutes long, and Debra Granik, director of the film “Winter’s Bone,” will judge the drama category.

The winners announced at Liberty Hall will receive a range of prizes, including film editing software from Adobe for the best-in-show

High School film teacher.

The event is being organized by LHS seniors Bailey Richards, Lauren Flemming and C.J. Roush.

A number of local businesses have contributed prizes for a raffle at the award ceremony as well as snacks for movie-watchers.

The event is free, though they will take donations, Kuhr said.

Concert to present early-music ‘bouquet’ Kansas University’s School of Music will present “A Bouquet of Early Music,” its Collegium Musicum spring concert, at 7:30 p.m. April 29 in Swarthout Recital Hall on KU’s campus.

The Collegium Musicum vocal ensembles perform

this year’s spring concert will feature excerpts from the opera “Dido and Aeneas” by Henry Purcell and a suite of dances from “Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme” by Jean-Baptiste Lully.

The concert is free.

Wakarusa museum opens May 6 The Wakarusa River Valley Heritage Museum will open at 1 p.m. May 6 at the site of the former Wakarusa Elementary School on Route 5. Directions and more information are available on the museum’s website, wakarusamuseum. org.

The open house will include display of an exhibit honoring the area’s involvement in the Underground Railroad.

By Eric Melin ONLINE: See trailers of the films at Lawrence.com

This weekend isn’t really a big one for new movie releases, so I thought I’d catch up with a movie that came out last week and been receiving a lot of media attention. It turns out, it’s actually quite worthy of all the buzz it’s been getting.

The first “Scream” movie in 1996 deconstructed the horror genre by having its characters talk about horror movie “rules” even as they were in one themselves. More than 15 years later, the new mind-bending horror flick “The Cabin in the Woods” takes horror satire to a whole new level.

The director of Marvel’s upcoming movie “The Avengers” (Joss Whedon) and a veteran of the hit TV series “Lost” (Drew Goddard) have teamed up for one of the most original horror movies in a long time.

It begins rather strangely.

You may wonder whether you’re in the correct theater or not: Two middleaged men (character actors Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford) walk to work in a high-security compound making idle office chatter. After a big title card comes up and assures you you ARE in the correct theater, the action abruptly shifts to something more familiar to horror audiences: a group of teenagers spending a weekend in a secluded cabin.

The teenagers fit the stereotypes of most slasher movies: The jock (Chris Hemsworth, “Thor”), the slut (Anna Hutchison), the brain (Jesse Williams), the stoner (Fran Kranz), and the virgin (Kristen Connolly).

The strategic unfolding of how these two stories relate to each other is what makes “The Cabin in the Woods” such a refreshing surprise. If you’ve ever wondered why someone walks into a pitch-black basement all alone or does other really stupid things that usually wind up getting them killed in horror movies, “The Cabin in the Woods” has the answer.

The entire film works as a metaphor for horror filmmakers and horror audiences. At least for commercially successful

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IN THIS FILM IMAGE RELEASED BY SONY PICTURES CLASSICS, Joe

Taslim as Jaka, left, and Yayan Ruhian as Mad Dog are shown in a scene from “The Raid: Redemption,” now playing at Liberty Hall in Lawrence.

horror films, the ones that make a ton of money usually follow some pretty established templates. “The Cabin in the Woods” certainly sends up the slasher movie template, but it also opens up to cast a much wider net, and the story actually supports that larger exploration.

Much has been written about the “twist” or “surprise” ending. Simply put: there isn’t one. It would be a shame to spoil the bigger picture of “The Cabin in the Woods” before seeing it, but what’s really happening is a slow trickling out of information that will gradually alter the perspective of what you’re seeing.

All the meticulous buildup leads to a hugely satisfying payoff; the kind that doesn’t really exist in mainstream modern horror anymore. And — despite all its ironic detachment — “The Cabin in the Woods” has tons of laughs, some truly jaw-dropping moments and a couple of scenes of unexpected poignancy that make it more than a parody movie. Whether you like horror movies or not, you owe it to yourself to see “The Cabin in the Woods.” !"!"!

At Liberty Hall this weekend is the action import “The Raid: Redemption,” directed by Gareth Evans, who apparently has no time for things like character development or reflection. Who needs ‘em in an action movie? This film is so packed with nonstop action and violence that it has raised the ire of no less than Roger Ebert, who gave the movie one star, and then wrote an entire other blog to ex-

plain himself.

He tweeted: “Violence.

All violence. Wall-to-wall violence. But who or what is redeemed? How? Why?” A quote from his blog that I found fascinating: “When I began, I found the star rating system to be absurd. I still do. But I thought I’d found a way to work with it. I’d take a ‘generic approach.’ Instead of pretending a star rating reflected some kind of absolute truth, I’d give stars based on how well I thought a movie worked within its genre and for its intended audience.

A four-star rating might indicate the movie transcended generic boundaries. For example, what genre does ‘The Tree of Life’ or ‘Synecdoche, NY’ belong to?

“I can’t take this much longer. I can’t function like a butcher’s scale. Is it enough to spend two hours determining if a film ‘achieves its generic purpose?’ Shouldn’t it do more than that? Perhaps provide some humor, humanity, romance, suspense, beauty, strategy, poetry.” !"!"!

Also, showing at the Kansas Cosmosphere in Hutchinson is “Air Racers 3-D,” an IMAX documentary narrated by “Fast and Furious” star Paul Walker about the legendary Reno National Championship Air Races. The movie promises “spectacular aerial photography and unprecedented access granted to the course.”

— Read more about movies from Eric Melin every Friday on his Scene Stealers blog on Lawrence.com.

Ryan Seacrest is heir apparent to Dick Clark’s pop influence

By Sandy Cohen Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — As a kid, Ryan Seacrest idolized Dick Clark. As an adult, he modeled his career after the entertainment giant and helped him carry on with his annual New Year’s Eve celebration after a stroke took its toll.

He called the 82-year-old mogul who died Wednesday “one of the greatest influences in my life.”

Now Seacrest — un-

cannily in the Dick Clark mold — is left to carry on the youthful vitality and innovative spirit that Clark used so effectively to meld music and media.

And the 37-year-old is well on his way. Following Clark’s playbook, Seacrest started as a radio host before expanding to TV and eventually producing.

He’s the voice of his nationally syndicated morning radio show and the international program

“American Top 40.” He’s the face of “American Idol” and E! News.

He’s the producer behind “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” and its associated spinoffs, along with many other shows, including “Food Revolution” and “Shahs of Sunset.”

He’s on the red carpet at the Grammys and Golden Globes. He’ll be an Olympic correspondent for NBC and has hinted that he could take on a role at the “Today” show.

“Sometimes when I go home and turn on the hot water faucet, I think he’s going to come out. He’s everywhere,” said longtime Hollywood publicist Michael Levine. “In the short term it can provide some annoyance, but in long term just adds to his iconic stature.”

Clark parlayed his early radio dreams into a nearly four-decade run of “American Bandstand.”

He invested in the artists he promoted there and went on to produce hit

shows like “TV’s Bloopers and Practical Jokes” and the American Music Awards.

Seacrest enjoys a similar omnipresence, said veteran Hollywood publicist David Brokaw.

“He’s becoming a 21st century Dick Clark,” Brokaw said. “‘American Idol’ is a show for everyone,” and that provides Seacrest a similar platform to what Clark had with “American Bandstand.”

Seacrest paid tribute to his mentor on “American

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“He will be missed greatly,” Seacrest said.

“Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family. I know he’s in a better place, saying, ‘Let’s get on with the show.’ You got it, boss.”

Among Seacrest’s other entertainment ventures: A $300 million partnership with broadcasting giant Clear Channel to acquire and develop new media companies.

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HOME&GARDEN Sunday, April 22, 2012 ! Lawrence.com

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Is it too early to plant tomatoes?

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he question about when to plant tomatoes is long debated between gardeners, and I consider it to be one of the top five gardening questions for this area.

The answer varies depending on your soil type, exactly where you live, microclimates, and what kind of protection you are willing to give the plants. Tomato plants could be fine given the right conditions.

Would I plant my tomatoes yet?

No. You have probably already been to the garden centers, where the tomato plants are sitting out and crying to be taken home. “I’ll add color and life to your salad!” they shout. “Are you ready for a BLT?” Giving in to fresh, green, healthy plants looking for a home is admirable. Taking them home and setting them out into adverse conditions could be detrimental to a plant’s health, however, with tomato plants being particularly vulnerable.

The bottom line is to pay more attention to soil temperatures and nighttime temperatures than to the calendar. Soil should be at least 60 degrees Fahrenheit, measured consistently rather than on one warm day. Soil temperature thermometers are available for less than $10.

Nighttime temperatures should be consistently 45-55 degrees Fahrenheit or above.

Cooler weather inhibits growth on tomato plants, making them more susceptible to root rots and root damage.

Row covers, black plastic, and/or water tubes like Wall O’ Water can be used to warm the soil and protect the plants if you are serious about early tomatoes. Commercial growers use high tunnels (unheated greenhouses) to produce early crops.

Another option for gardeners who are simply eager to start picking tomatoes is to plant early ripening varieties. Seed packets and plant labels typically list the number of “days to maturity.” This number of days is the average length of time it should take to get ripe fruit after planting the seed. Days to maturity can be offset by adverse environmental conditions, such as low soil temperatures.

Many tomato varieties require one hundred or more

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days from seed to maturity. Some varieties will, however, produce ripe fruit in 60 to 70 days. Sungold and Yellow Pear are early ripening varieties that are on my planting list anyway because of their delicious fruit, and Celebrity and Early Girl are long-standing favorites amongst gardeners.

Gardeners debating the when-to-plant rule often cite the “rules” about the average date of last frost and the frostfree date. Since the dates themselves seem a bit laden with misinformation, let me clarify.

According to the K-State Research and Extension Weather Data Library, the average date of last frost in Lawrence is April 10. The frost-free date in Lawrence is May 2. The average date of last frost is just what it sounds like — the average date. The frost-free date is the day when there is a 95 percent chance that frost will not occur on or after that date.

Because frost kills tomato and other warm-season plants, planting them earlier just means there is more risk involved. Some gardeners I know generally wait until Mother’s Day or even Memorial Day to transplant tomatoes into the garden. Within reason, later is generally better.

And, in case you are wondering, the other four of my top five gardening questions are, in no particular order: “What’s wrong with my tree?”, “How ‘bout this weather?”, “Is this a weed or a plant?” and “How do I get rid of those pesky moles?”

— Jennifer Smith is the Horticulture Extension Agent for K-State Research and Extension in Douglas County. Contact her or an Extension Master Gardener with your gardening questions at 843-7058 or dgemg@sunflower.com. iStock photo

Kovel’s Antiques: Ironing used to be daily chore

By Terry Kovel

Permanent-press fabrics have relieved most households of the need to iron clothing.

In past centuries, ironing was an almost daily duty of a woman in the home. Before about the 10th century, cloth was ironed with smooth wooden or glass pieces and a pounding stick.

Heat was not used until the 16th century in Europe. By then, pressing irons were metal pans with long handles. A piece of charcoal was put in the pan to heat the bottom and the heated pan was rubbed over the cloth.

This crude iron was gradually improved. Charcoal was replaced by a heated iron rod to avoid the charcoal ashes that sometimes fell on the cloth. Next came special box irons with handles and pointed fronts. They

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steam. Some even became cordless and could fold up to go with travelers.

All types of old ironing sticks, mangling boards and irons are collected today. Nineteenth- and unusual 20th-century examples sell for hundreds of dollars.

In the 1950s, an early Chinese iron that looks THIS 8-INCH EARLY-20TH-CENTURY COPY of an like a small, ornate cookancient Chinese iron used to press cloth sold for ing pot with a handle was $89 at a December 2011 Ivey-Selkirk auction in St. copied and used as a porLouis. Its shape inspired a 1950s ashtray. An antique table ashtray. These midChinese iron would sell for hundreds of dollars.

20th-century copies sell for about $30 today. A genuine antique Chinese were shaped like the elec- Unfortunately, some of iron is worth hundreds of tric and steam irons used the liquid-fueled irons dollars. today. blew up.

Soon a solid piece of The electric iron was Recently I puriron, also in today’s famil- patented in 1882, but few chased five matchiar shape, was made to put homes had electricity ing maple side on the stove to heat, then back then. So the electric chairs with “Mottville, quickly used to heat and iron was not in general N.Y.” stamped on the smooth cloth. use until about 1915. back of the top slat of By the turn of the 20th Since then, irons have each chair. Two of the century, irons were heat- been improved with the chairs are stamped “F. ed by liquid gas, alcohol, addition of thermostats Sinclair” under “Motgasoline or electricity. that control heat and tville,” while the other

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three are stamped “Union Chair Works.” I’ve cleaned up the chairs and given them new woven seats.

Please tell me the approximate age and value of the chairs, and explain the different marks.

The Union Chair Works factory was built in Mottville, near Skaneateles, N.Y., in 1866, although some records say the founding of the company dates back to 1859. The company’s owners, Joseph Hubbard and Francis A. Sinclair, advertised their furniture under the brand name “Common Sense” and eventually made chairs, rockers, tables and settees. The company operated at least into the 1880s, and perhaps into the early 1900s.

If all you had to do to get the chairs into tiptop shape was clean them and replace the woven seats, the set could sell for more than $500.

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My mother left me an oval brooch made of blue milk glass. I think it originally belonged to her grandmother, who died in 1924. It’s a series of little blue balls and tiny silver balls. The goldtone border is impressed “Czechoslovakia” in capital letters on the back.

What do you think it’s worth?

The country of Czechoslovakia was formed in 1918, when World War I ended. So your brooch was not made before 1918.

The country split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993. Costume jewelry made of Czechoslovakian glass sells for a wide range of prices, depending on design and condition. Your brooch could sell for $20 to $50.

— Send questions to Kovels, Lawrence Journal-World, King Features Syndicate, 300 W. 57th St., New York, NY 10019.

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Join the Footprints Team Footprints-Hiring for Full-Time Position Seeking adaptable individual who is competent and reliable. Our focus is customer service, so we need someone who has better than average people skills. We are a retail store and an online mail order company, so being comfortable with technology is a must. Pay will be based on skill level. Benefit package will be discussed. Apply in person M-F 10-4 Footprints, 1339 Mass.

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KU Medical Technologist Student Health Services at the University of Kansas Lawrence campus has an immediate opening for a Medical Technologist. This position is for a full time permanent technologist to work in a dynamic ambulatory student health center.

For more information, a complete position description, and to apply, visit https://jobs.ku.edu and search for position 00206991.

Application deadline is April 27, 2012.

EO/AA employer.

Great benefit package includes medical, dental, 401(k), and advancement opportunities

Sells:

4:45 PM Wed., Apr. 25 on site www.williamsauction.com

Lawrence Public Library has opening for part-time security officer.

See http://www.lawrence.lib.ks.us/ about/jobs.html for further information.

EngineersTechnical

FOOD SERVICE • Senior Production Supervisor Ekdahl Dining Sun. - Wed. 10:30 AM - 9 PM $12.18 - $13.63/hr.

Full time employees also receive 1 FREE Meal ($7.50) per day Full job description available online at: www.union.ku.edu/hr Applications available in the Human Resources Office 3rd Floor, Kansas Union 1301 Jayhawk Boulevard EOE Lawrence, KS

Contact Tena Bush 785-832-9449

Animal Control Officer

City of Lawrence This civilian position works full-time within the Police Dept to provide fieldwork in the enforcement of animal control & licensing ordinances. Requires good verbal / written communication skills, valid drivers license, & physical ability to work w/animals & in all weather conditions. Prefer NACA Level I certification. Hrs. are Mon., Tues., Fri., Sat. & Sun. 12pm - 8:30pm.

Days off are Weds. & Thurs. Days off and shift are subject to change based on dept need. Must pass background check, post offer City physical and drug screen. $13.51 per hour Apply by May 7, 2012 To Complete App Go To: www.LawrenceKS.org/Jobs EOE M/F/D

General

General

General

Appointment Setters

$350 to $600/week. + bonuses No experience Necessary.

Call Today, start this week.

785-856-1243 Paid Training

CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE Enjoy talking on the phone? Do you have great customer service skills?

Lawrence Journal-World is actively seeking an experienced, positive, and customer orientated individual to join our talented customer service team.

Rep will answer incoming calls and address newspaper subscription customer calls; work with team members to facilitate timely newspaper deliveries; provide information to sell and retain a variety of subscription offers; generate daily reports; and demonstrate our commitment to customer service by following up with customers to ensure superior results.

Ideal candidates must have excellent verbal and written communication skills and interpersonal skills; strong organizational skills with ability to follow through; minimum one year of customer service experience in a call center environment preferred; will represent the World Company in a professional and positive manner; be proficient in MS Office; can work independently with minimal supervision; and able to multi-task on numerous projects and work in a fast paced environment.

Must be available to work Mon. - Fri., 10:30am - 6pm.

To apply submit a cover letter and resume to: hrapplications@ljworld.com We offer an excellent benefits package including health, dental, and vision insurance, 401k, tuition reimbursement, paid time off and more! Background check, pre-employment drug screen, and physical lift assessment required.

EOE DETAILER, Part-time detailer needed 24-35 hrs. per week including Saturdays.

We will work with your class schedule. Must be at least 18 years old to apply.

You need a clean driving record and must pass a drug screen. Apply in person at: CROWN TOYOTA, 3430 S. Iowa, Lawrence

Forester

City of Lawrence Provide advanced level work in arboricultural, tree care & maintainence in the Parks and Recreation dept’s Forestry division.

Operates various equip. such as loaders, dump trucks, chippers, chain saws. Requires HS/ GED; 2+ yrs. urban forestry experience; current KAA Arborist certification & CDL or ability to obtain within 6 mo. of hire. Must pass background check, physical and drug screen. $16.95 per hour.

Apply by May 7, 2012 To Apply Go To: www.LawrenceKS.org/Jobs EOE M/F/D House Cleaners needed PT Only. $9/hr to start. Must be reliable w/car. Call Elbow Grease, 785-691-5780.

Interested in helping individuals with developmental disabilities live meaningful & fulfilling lives? Full time day & Part time evenings/wkds. 785-218-5206

JOB FAIR! HOME DELIVERY SPECIALIST Lawrence Journal-World is hiring for part-time Home Delivery Specialists to support our circulation team.

Specialist is responsible for accurate delivery of newspaper routes to achieve our delivery goals, independent contractor orientation and redelivery of newspapers to subscribers. The core work hours are 2:00-11:00 a.m.

Candidates must be flexible and available to work weekends and days off will vary from week to week.

Ideal candidates must have good communication and organizational skills; team player; able to work with minimal supervision; reliable transportation, a valid driver’s license, proof of insurance and a safe driving record; and ability to lift 50 lbs.

To apply submit a cover letter and resume to: hrapplications@ljworld.com We offer a competitive salary, mileage reimbursement, employee discounts and more! Background check, pre - employment drug screen, and physical lift assessment required.

EOE

Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!

Come Grow With Us • Machine Operators (Operating printing presses) 2ND & 3RD SHIFT SOME WAREHOUSE EXPERIENCE A PLUS $10.53 WITH SHIFT DIFFERNTIAL • Processing Tech PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE AS A TECHNICIAN. SELF-STARTER ELECTRICAL SKILLS STRONG MECHANICAL ABILITY GOOD COMMUNICATION SKILLS. $15.00-$20.00 hr • Facilities Maintenance 3rd shift 480 volt, 3 phase electrical systems, air compressors and vacuum pumps, industrial pumps and water treatment systems, motor drives, control systems, OSHA regulations, HVAC, or power transmission is necessary. $20- $24 depending on experience • Weekend Warriors ($14.00 hr) MANUFACTURING EXPERIENCE REQUIRED 3RD SHIFT FRI.-SAT. 11:00PM-7:30AM 1STT SHIFT SAT.-SUN. 7:00AM-3:30PM 2NDD SHIFT SAT.-SUN. 3:15PM-11:30PM Excellent Benefits after 60 days Applications only accepted online at: WWW.BerryPlastics.com (click on) corporate click drop down link to employment EOE

Let Westaff help you find a job…. that’s right for you!

Tuesday, April 24th 10 am to 2 pm Lawrence Workforce Center 2540 Iowa Street Temporary-Temporary-toHire- Special Projects Great jobs at top local companies • 1st, 2nd, 3rd shifts • Production Line Operators • Machine Operators • Background/Drug Screen req’d

If you are unable to attend the Job Fair Please fill out an application online at: www.westaff.com or call 785-273-3939

Join the Footprints Team Footprints-Hiring for Full-Time Position Seeking adaptable individual who is competent and reliable. Our focus is customer service, so we need someone who has better than average people skills. We are a retail store and an online mail order company, so being comfortable with technology is a must. Pay will be based on skill level.

Benefit package will be discussed. Apply in person M-F 10-4 Footprints, 1339 Mass.

Pay Raise Every Payday!!!

Now Hiring Full Time & Part Time Team Members!!!

Above Average starting Pay - $8.90/hr.

EZ GO MP209, Kansas Turnpike Lawrence, KS 66044 Call 785-843-2547 for directions We offer the best in benefits!!!

• Paid vacation & sick leave • Free medical & life insurance • Tuition Reimbursement • 401K We promote from within!!!

Apply in person or online at ezgostores.com Summer Part Time Help The City of McLouth will be accepting applications for part-time summer help.

Applicants must be at least 16 years of age, able and willing to shovel, mow, sweep, paint, and other duties associated with normal City maintenance operations.

Depending on weather, successful applicants would be working an average of 20-30 hours a week, for 6-8 weeks. Applications and further information may be obtained at McLouth City Hall, 110 N. Union, McLouth, KS. The Mad Greek is now hiring for Asst. Manager/Host position, days & eves.

Must have restaurant exp.

Apply within at 907 Mass.

Looking For A NEW Opportunity?

Manpower is currently hiring for: *Housekeeping *Kitchen Aide *Landscaping *General Labor

WATER TESTER. $2- $3K/ Mo. 1st yr. $4- $5K/Mo. 2nd yr. H.S./College Preferred.

No Experience/Will Train.

Mgmt Opp. Call Monday only, 785-266-8198.

Healthcare

Apply Today! www.manpowerjobs.com EOE 785-749-2800

MULTIMEDIA SALES MANAGER The World Company is seeking an innovative and experienced Multimedia Sales Manager who will be responsible for leading a team of multimedia sales reps in a fast paced print and digital integrated sales environment. Are you a motivated sales leader with a proven track record in leading successful teams? Can you answer YES to the following questions?

• Do you want to coach and develop your team to be the best media sales reps in the industry?

• Do you use unique and innovative ways to achieve revenue budgets?

• Do you believe digital advertising needs to be a part of every campaign?

• Do you use social marketing as part of your everyday life?

• Do you place client visits at the top of your priority list every week?

• Are you famous for getting results for your customers?

• Are you a great listener and problem solver?

• Do you love to turn a “no” into a “yes?”

• Do you love staying on top of the current Internet trends and finding digital solutions for your clients’ needs?

If you’ve answered YES to these questions and possess strong leadership and relationship-building skills; have experience playing a pivotal role in the development and implementation of advertising strategies; and have experience in print and online media sales, then we want to hear from you!

As Multimedia Sales Manager some of what you would do includes: • Supervise and develop sales representatives in their efforts to sell creative solutions to clients to capitalize on our one million unique visitors per month on a collection of nationally recognized websites such as kusports.com, ljworld.com and Lawence.com.

• Sell clients a platform of products including online advertising, web banners, social marketing, sports marketing, search engine optimization, Deals, and event marketing sponsorships.

• Monitor, evaluate and drive individual and team performance to reach sales objectives.

• Participate in the development and sales of new, revenue-generating projects.

• Create a work environment that promotes communication, encourages cooperation and operates efficiently, focusing on both overall revenue growth and success of individual revenue units.

• Know the strengths and weaknesses of the competition across all advertising mediums and position The World Company accordingly.

Ideal candidates will also have at least five years of successful career development in sales, e.g. growth in territory or responsibility; a bachelor’s degree is preferred or equivalent years of experience; a proficiency for understanding and selling all media types; a creative, positive and flexible attitude and a team-oriented philosophy; strong sales and organizational skills; strong communication skills, negotiation and influencing skills, both written and oral; ability to work in a fast-paced, high-pressured, evolving environment; proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook) and media software; and a valid driver’s license, reliable transportation with proof of auto insurance, and a clean driving record.

We offer a competitive salary and commissions with an excellent benefits package including health, dental and vision insurance, 401k, tuition reimbursement, paid time off and more! Background check, pre-employment drug screen and physical lift assessment required. To apply submit a cover letter and resume to hrapplications@ljworld.com. EOE

is seeking a Part Time Certified Medication Aide Evening and Overnight Submit Application to: 1216 Biltmore Drive Lawrence, KS 66049 jobs@neuvanthouse.com Fax:785-856-7901 For qualifications, position information, to apply - visit: www.neuvanthouse.com Neuvant House of Lawrence is a Tobacco Free Campus.

EEO/ADA Compliant KMC seeking LPN/MA for Derm Clinic in Lawrence.

Mon. - Fri. Days. Previous out-patient clinic experience preferred.

Free health, dental & life insurance provided. Resumes to: sdean@kmcpa.com FAX: 785-354-1255 PHONE: 785-295-0929

KU Medical Technologist Student Health Services at the University of Kansas Lawrence campus has an immediate opening for a Medical Technologist. This position is for a full time permanent technologist to work in a dynamic ambulatory student health center.

For more information, a complete position description, and to apply, visit https://jobs.ku.edu and search for position 00206991.

Application deadline is April 27, 2012.

EO/AA employer.

Registered Nurse

Full time RN/Case Manager needed in Hospice program.

Applicants must possess a high level of technical and interpersonal skills. Work closely with patients and other health professionals to assess and manage end of life care. Assist with on call rotation for all agency patients.

One year’s nursing experience required; hospice/ home health experience preferred.

Fax resume to (785) 843-6439, e-mail to H_Resources@kansas vna.org or mail resume to Douglas County Visiting Nurses Ass’n, 200 Maine Suite C, Lawrence KS 66044. EEOE

Journalism

Auctions Galen & Dale Douglass Memorial Consignment

Auction

Auction Calendar Photographer KU-Lawrence

Innovative, energetic photographer with a sensitivity for telling the brand story through a vibrant photojournalistic style. Associates degree and 5 yrs. professional experience with superior photo abilities and Photoshop mastery required.

Complete job description and application process at https://jobs.ku.edu Position 00000460 Application review begins May 7, 2012 An EO/AA employer

Landscaping & Lawn Lawrence Landscape Inc is looking for a Lawn Applicator.

Full-time position, experience preferred.

Must have valid driver’s license and pass a drug test! Complete listing at www.lawrenceland scape.com (our application is online) Call (785) 843-4370 or come by 600 Lincoln Street to apply.

Manufacturing & Assembly Manufacturing Help Help wanted in local manufacturing company.

Duties would include drilling and cutting of parts.

Hours are 6 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday-Thursday.

Must be able to pass a drug test.

Please submit resumes to Leander Health Technologies, 315 NE Industrial Lane, Suite A Lawrence, KS 66044

Part-Time Project Manager, Part-time.

Design & implement various multimedia projects; web-based education programs, marketing, data bases, administrative duties & customer service.

Send CV/Resume, cover letter, portfolio, references: Acumen Institute. ai060110 @gmail.com 785- 856-0473

Sales-Marketing Asst. Warehouse Manager Heavy lifting req. $12/hr. to start. Call after 10:30AM 785-331-2031

AUCTION Sun., Apr. 22 - 12 Noon 22142 Kansas Avenue Paradise Trailer Park Tonganoxie, KS JIM & DORA FLOWERS GRIFFIN AUCTIONS Ottawa, KS 785-242-7891 www.kansasauctions.net/griffin

PUBLIC AUCTION

Sun., Apr. 22nd 1 PM 1100 S. Brockway Street Olathe, KS M&R GLASS INSTALLATIONS Branden Otto, Auctioneer 785-883-4263 www.ottoauctioneering.com

Real Estate/Household AUCTION Sun., Apr. 22, 10AM & Noon 20140 Parallel Rd. Tonganox, KS LINDSAY AUCTION & REALTY SERVICE INC 913-441-1557 www.lindsayauctions.com ESTATE AUCTION Wed., Apr. 25, 2011 - 4PM Thurs., Apr. 26, 2011 - 4PM 1336 N.E. Forest Topeka, KS CYNTHIA JOHNSON ESTATE Prudential Auctions 785-554-3049, 785-845-7855 www.garyhenson.com AUCTION Sat., Apr. 28th, 2012, 10AM 529 West Lone Jack - Lee’s Summit Rd. Lone Jack, Missouri Dave Spivey Liquidation Dirk Soulis Auctions 816-697-3830 www.DirkSoulisAuctions.com

AUCTION Sat.,Apr. 28th - 10 AM 2612 W. 27th Terrace Lawrence, KS 66047 SHIRLEY and the Late LOWELL HENDERSON

Paxton Auction Service

785-331-3131 785-979-6758 www.kansasauctions.net/paxton CONSIGNMENT AUCTION Sat., Apr. 28, 2012 - 10AM Lone Star Church 883 E 800 Rd. Lawrence, KS GALEN & DALE DOUGLASS MEMORIAL 785-865-7211 www.kansasauctions.net/ douglass/04/28.PHP FINE ART AUCTION Sun., Apr. 29th, 12 Noon 529 West Lone Jack - Lee’s Summit Rd. Lone Jack, Missouri Dirk Soulis Auctions 816-697-3830 www.DirkSoulisAuctions.com

Auctions Competitive, athletic minded, self-motivated, aggressive sales person for a “hunters” position with a Billion dollar company. Outstanding growth potential. Above average base, commissions & bonuses with outstanding benefits. Contact Jack or Ted at 785-233-1556 for interview or email resume to: jack_hopkins@unifirst.com

Security

Lawrence Public Library has opening for part-time security officer.

See http://www.lawrence.lib.ks.us/a bout/jobs.html for further information.

Trade Skills Fleet Maintenance Technician

The City of Eudora, Kansas (population 6,300) seeks responsible applicants with excellent mechanical skills for the maintenance and repair of city owned diesel and gasoline fleet vehicles and equipment including but not limited to automobiles, trucks and lawn equipment. Interested applicants should submit an application and/or resume to the City of Eudora, Box 650, Eudora, KS 66025 Attn: Pam Schmeck or at pschmeck@cityofeudoraks.gov.

Position open until filled. For more information go to www.cityofeudoraks .gov. or call 785-542-2153.

EOE

WarehouseProduction

Standard Beverage is currently hiring!

We are looking for:

CLASS B DELIVERY DRIVER 4 DAYS/WEEK Self-motivated, customer friendly DELIVERY DRIVER with Class B CDL to deliver and unload our top selling products.

We offer excellent benefits such as health, dental and life insurance as well as 401(K)!

Please apply in person at: Standard Beverage Corporation 2300 Lakeview Rd. Lawrence, KS No phone calls please.

Equal Opportunity Employer

2 DAY

ESTATE AUCTION Wed. Apr. 25th - 4PM Thurs. Apr. 26th - 4PM 1336 N.E. Forest Topeka, KS Wed: Military books, nice furniture, tools, appls., Kitchen Aid professional mixer, kitchen items, new Fiesta, Dept. 56, prints, TVs, printers, household.

Thurs: Bookcases, shelving, H.B. books, prints, 32” Flat screen, linens, nice Xmas, Pfalzgraff stoneware, scrapbooking, storage, sewing, collectibles, DVDs, VHS, AIWA stereo, household, leather recliner

LOST Pendant, Lost Wed, Apr. 11, in Lawrence. Small hummingbird pendant with silver backing & cloisonne front. Reward for return — sentimental value. Thank you. Call 785-213-0822

Lost Pet/Animal LOST Cat, Gray/blond, blue eyes, short gray tail. Front declawed. Missing from Wakarusa & Harvard, Lawrence. Shy, no collar, chipped. If found please take to vet office, Humane Society, or call 785-864-9272.

Thicker line?

Bolder heading?

Color background or Logo?

Ask how to get these features in your ad TODAY!!

Mid-West Fine Art AUCTION Paintings, Prints & Studio Pottery

Sun., Apr. 29th, 12 Noon 529 West Lone Jack - Lee’s Summit Road LONE JACK, MO 64070 Original works by R. Eastwood, W. Dickerson, L.Foltz, L. Gillette, K. Mattern, P. Epp, B. Sandzen, P. Shirer, R. Sudlow, & Many Others. Prints by J.S. Curry, T.H. Benton, A. Hall, M. Huntoon, many others. Plus Studio Pottery by Harding Black and Poilla Pillin.

Dirk Soulis Auctions 1-816-697-3830 1-800-252-1501 www.DirkSoulisAuctions.com

Prudential Auctions 785-554-3049

AUCTION

Sat., Apr. 28th, 10 AM 2612 W. 27th Terrace Lawrence, KS 66047 Furniture, Household, Tools, Collectibles, Misc.

Furniture, Oak dining table w/4chairs; oak roll top desk; Howard Miller Grandfather clock (The New Yorker); hall table; sm. round parlor table; Lane coffee table & end tables; Lane cedar chest; Select comfort Queen bed; chest of drawers; Armoire; rocking chair; Maytag washer & gas dryer; Kenmore upright freezer; dorm fridge; GE elec. Stove; swivel rocker; Sunheat infared heater; World Wide double door safe; sm. Blue Diamond wall safe; Household, Salad Master pots & pans; glassware; flatware; kitchen appliances & utensils pressure cooker; canning jars; Jazzy 1105 elec.

Scooter; Ranger II elect. wheel chair; Invacare walker seat; New Life Oxygen concentrator; Bernina 1006 sewing machine; Baby lock BLE3ATW surger; Collectibles, Tools, & Misc. misc. coin books; old Kansas tags; All-Power 3250 watt generator; Toro snow thrower; bench vise; bench grinder; power tools; many hand tools; Craftsman shop vac.; ice cream freezer; lawn furniture; oil lamps; garden tools; ladders; work bench; file cabinets; metal shelving; lots of misc. This is a partial list!!

Estate of Shirley and the Late Lowell Henderson Concessions by Daughters of Isabella View pictures at: www.kansasauctions.net

Paxton Auction Service

Auctioneers: Chris Paxton & Doug Riat 785-331-3131 785-979-6758 www.paxtonauction.com

David Spivey Rare Books

Liquidation IV

Books, Maps, Fine Art and Prints Sat., Apr. 28th, 10 AM

529 West Lone Jack - Lee’s Summit Road

LONE JACK, MO 64070 1000s of items both cataloged and un-catalogued: Maps, Antiquarian Books, 100s of Prints, many Paintings, Early Documents, Railroad and other Stocks, Record Albums, Misc Antiques, Studio Camera, much more.

Dirk Soulis Auctions 1-816-697-3830

www.DirkSoulisAuctions.com

Apartments Unfurnished

Apartments Unfurnished

Sunrise Place Sunrise Village

VILLA 26 APARTMENTS

Apartments & Townhomes $200 - $400 OFF 1st month On KU Bus Route

Applecroft Apts.

2 Bedrooms near KU. Pool, microwave, DW, and laundry facilities 837 MICHIGAN 3 & 4 Bedrooms FREE wireless internet, DW, W/D, pool, on KU bus route. 3BRs with garages.

660 GATEWAY COURT

Quiet, great location on KU bus route, no pets, W/D in all units.

785-842-5227 www.villa26lawrence.com

Campus Location

Studio, 1 & 2 Bedrooms Gas, Water & Trash Paid

785-843-8220

chasecourt@sunflower.com

Call 785-841-8400 www.sunriseapartments.com

Chase Court Apts.

1 & 2 Bedrooms

Campus Location, W/D Pool, Gym & Small Pet OK

785-843-8220

chasecourt@sunflower.com

Greens at Alvamar 1 & 2 BR Apts.

Starting at $675. Lg. Pets Welcome. Free Carport.

3700 Clinton Parkway 785-749-0431

HIGHPOINTE APTS

Fall & Immediate Avail.

2001 W. 6th. 785-841-8468 www.firstmanagementinc.com

Parkway Properties

Studios, 1 & 2 Bedrooms starting at $390. Great apts. with courteous and responsive management.

Call TODAY for the BEST selection: 785-841-1155 pkwyproperties@att.net www.parkwaypropertiesks.com

YOUR PLACE, YOUR SPACE

Start at $495 One Bedroom/studio style Pool - Fitness Center -On-Site Laundry - Water & Trash Pd.

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• Park West Gardens Apts • Park West Town Homes • Homes at Monterey Bluffs and Green Tree Call for more details 785.840.9467

Spring Into Action

Take advantage of our rent specials while they last!

2 & 3BR units, all elect., water/trash pd. Sm. dog and students welcome!

Income restrictions apply

LAUREL GLEN APTS

REAL ESTATE AUCTION

May 17, 2012 - 6:30PM

663 E 550 Rd, Lawrence, KS Farm land, Beautiful home, Horse/Livestock facility.

176 +/- ac. on DG. CO. farm /pasture land w/Modern beautiful improvements.

Offered in 3 tracts.

SELLER: Wauk-A-Way Farms & WW Wempe Estate For add’l. info & pics visit: www.FloryAndAssociates.com Jason Flory - 785-979-2183

PARKWAY COMMONS 1, 2 & 3 Bedrooms

FALL DEPOSIT SPECIALS! W/D, Pool, Small Pet OK! Fall KU Bus Route Avail.! pwc@sunflower.com 785-842-3280 2BR — 1017 Illinois. 2 story, 1 bath, CA, DW. $500/mo.

No pets. Call 785-841-5797 www.rentinlawrence.com

2BR — 1305 Kentucky, in 4-plex. CA, DW. No pets. $450/mo. Call 785-841-5797 www.rentinlawrence.com 2BR - 1331 Delaware, for fall, 1 bath, 1 story, CA, W/D hookups, 1 pet ok. $450/mo. Call 785-841-5797

Home Improvements Rental Turnovers Repairs, Paint, Clean.

785-766-5285

2BR - 2412 Alabama, 2nd floor in 4-plex. 1 bath, CA, DW, washer/dryer, no pets. $470/mo. Call 785-841-5797

3BR — 2327 Yale, 2 story, 2 bath, CA, DW, FP, 2 car garage, no pets. $825/mo. Call 785-841-5797 3BR — 940 Tennessee, for fall, 2nd floor, CA, laundry, DW, 1 bath, no pets. $610/mo. Call 785-841-5797

CAMPUS LOCATIONS! 1, 2, 3 BRs

Briarstone Apts.

1010 Emery * 785-749-7744 3BR — 1002 Alma, for Aug. 2 story, 2 bath, 2 car, FP, DW, CA, W/D hookup, 1 pet. $825/mo. 785-841-5797 Furnished 3 & 4BRs Washer/dryer included 19th & Mass., on bus route

Ask about 2-person Special!

785-842-4455

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Apartments, Houses & Duplexes. 785-842-7644 www.GageMgmt.com

BRAND NEW One Month FREE

2451 Crossgate Drive

BRAND NEW 1BRs, $540/mo.

Includes full size W/D, Very small pet okay.

Open House: Mon. - Sat. - Noon - 4pm 785-760-7899

2BR - 951 Arkansas, 2 story, 2 full bath, CA, DW, W/D $710. No pets. 785-841-5797 www.rentinlawrence.com

2BR Unit in 4-plex. 1 bath, new carpet & appls. $450. + Deposit & Refs. No pets.

1BR — 740 Massachusetts, Avail. now. 785-217-5360 above Wa Restaurant, big windows, 1 bath, CA. $750/ 2BRs - 1244 Ohio, for fall, 1st floor, AC, laundry. No pets. mo. No pets. 785-841-5797 $450/month.

785-841-5797 www.rentinlawrence.com 1BR, 4BR, 5BRs avail. - CA, DW. 1BR - $425-$525/mo. 2BRs - 826 Kentucky, for fall, 4 & 5BRs - lg. family/ hous- 2 full bath, 2 story, CA, DW. ing welcome. $1,500-$1,700. No pets. $570 or $595 with W/D hookup. 785-841-5797 785-766-0743, 785-727-3160 2BR — 2406 Alabama, for fall, 1.5 bath, 2 story, CA, DW, W/D hookup. $570/mo.

No pets. Call 785-841-5797

RENT SPECIAL!

2BR starting at $580 W/D included. Pool

The Woods of Old West Lawrence 785-841-4935

2BR — 946 Indiana, for fall, in 6-plex, CA, laundry, off 2BR — 1315 E. 25th Terrace, street parking. $440/mo. for fall, 1 story, 1 bath, CA, No pets. Call 785-841-5797 DW, W/D hookup. No pets. $480/mo. 785-841-5797

Cedarwood Apts 2411 Cedarwood Ave. Beautiful & Spacious

1 & 2BRs start at $400/mo. * Near campus, bus stop * Laundries on site * Near stores, restaurants * Water & trash paid 4BR duplex - start at $795 —————————————————— Get Coupon* for $25 OFF

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2BR — 3732 Brushcreek, 1 bath, 1 story, garage, CA, DW, W/D hookup. No pets. $540/mo. 785-841-5797 2BR — 719-725 W. 25th, for Fall, AC, W/D hookups. No pets. $410 - $420 per month. Call 785-841-5797 2-4BR, 1310 Kentucky. Near KU. $595 - $1,200/mo. $200 $400 Deposit. 785-842-7644 www.gagemgmt.com 2BRs - for fall, tri-level, 1 bath, CA, all elect., W/D hookup, DW, study. $650/ mo. No pets. 785-841-5797

ASHBURY TOWNHOMES

785.843.4040 www.thefoxrun.com

Near K-10, W/D hookups & fenced courtyard.

3BR Available, No dogs

MOVE IN SPECIALS

Call NOW 785-842-1322

We are PRE-LEASING the following addresses: 1745 W. 24th street 2 blocks from Iowa. 1802 W. 5th, 446 Grandview Terr., 448 Grandview Terr., 450 Grandview Terr., 850 Oak. Call today to set up your tour.

785-266-3499 Or check us out on the web: at www.rmstopeka.com

Duplexes 4 & 5BRs near KU, shared yard w/deck, W/D hookup, 1316 Valley Ln.: 4BR, 3 bath, $1,400+deposit. 1318 Valley Ln., 5BR, 3 bath, full bsmt., kitchen area, $1,600. + deposit. No pets. 785-842-8411 2BR, bi-level, large! 1.5 bath, hard wood floors, DW, W/D hookup, basement. Cats ok. Avail. now. $585/mo.

785-841-5454, 785-760-1874

1BR, 1.5 bath 2BR, 2.5 baths

2BR, 1 Bath. Large 1/2 Duplex, Lower RecRm with laundry; $800/mo. will consider one pet with non-refundable pet dep. avail.

June 1.

913-859-0359. No calls after 9:30 pm.

Rent Includes All Utilities. Plus Cable, Internet, Fitness & Pool.

Garages Available Elevators to all floors

2BR, W/D hookups, 1 car garage, deck, lg. back yard, No pets. $500. Avail. now.

785-841-5454, 785-760-1874

Tuckaway at Frontier 542 Frontier, Lawrence

Reserve YOURS for Spring/Fall

Call Today 785-856-8900

Leasing 1, 2, 3BRs for FALL 700 Comet Lane, Lawrence 785-832-8805 www.firstmanagementinc.com

2BR — 934 Illinois, In 4-plex, 1st floor, DW. $490/month.

No pets. Call 785-841-5797 www.rentinlawrence.com

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Move-In Specials!

• 2 & 3BRs available • 2 Bath, W/D hookups • 2 Car garage w/opener • New kitchen appliances • Maintenance free 785-749-2555/785-766-2722

HAWTHORN HOUSES

2 & 3 Bedroom Houses

FALL DEPOSIT SPECIALS! Pet under 60lbs OK! pwc@sunflower.com 785-842-3280

3+BR, 2 bath, CA, FP, 2 car w/opener, fenced yard, shed. 2352 Haversham Dr. $1,125/mo. 785-842-3911

HAWTHORN TOWNHOMES 2 & 3 Bedroom Townhomes FALL DEPOSIT SPECIALS Fall KU Bus Route Avail.!

Pet under 60lbs OK! pwc@sunflower.com 785-842-3280

3BR — 2109 Mitchell,for Aug. 1 story, 1 bath, 1 car, CA, DW, No pets. W/D hookups, $775/mo. 785-841-5797 3BR, 1 bath, 1 car garage w/ opener, range, refrig., W/D hookups. $795/mo. Deposit & Refs. Call 785-749-3840

LUXURY LIVING AT AFFORDABLE PRICES

3BR, 1 bath, 1620-27 W. 20th Terr. Close to KU. Avail. now and August 1st. $875/ mo. Call 785-842-7644

RANCH WAY TOWNHOMES on Clinton Pkwy.

3BR, 2 bath, $820-$840 2BR, 1 bath, $760/mo.

3BR, 1.5 Bath. 2434 Arkansas, FR, FP, office area, 2 car, fenced yard. No Pets or Section 8. $825/mo.

Avail. now. 785-832-9906

Half Off Deposit

Gage Management 785-842-7644 www.gagemgmt.com

Brand New

Single Family Homes 4 & 5 BRs - Avail. Now 2,400 -3 ,300 sq. ft. $1,800 - $2,200 month

2BR, in a 4-plex. New carpet, vinyl, cabinets, countertop. W/D is included. $575/mo.

785-865-2505

Garber Property Mgmt.

785-841-4785 garberprop.com

AVAIL. Now, Smr., & Fall 3BR, 2 bath, major appls., FP, 2 car.

785-865-2505

Apartments, Houses & Duplexes. 785-842-7644 www.GageMgmt.com

3BR Townhomes Avail.

Adam Ave. 2 bath, 2 car, 1,700 sq. ft., some with fenced yards, $995/mo. Pets okay with paid pet deposit.

GPM

Now Leasing for June 1st & Aug. 1st Executive homes on W. 22nd Ct., Lawrence

www.garberprop.com 785-841-4785

3-5BR homes, 2 car garages, some with finished bsmt. Pool & playground in the Development.

Apartments, Houses & Duplexes. 785-842-7644 www.GageMgmt.com

For more info please call

785-841-4785

www.garberprop.com

GPM

Mobile Homes

Now Leasing for June & August

2BR, 1 bath, freshly painted, new carpet & linoleum. avail. now in Lecompton. $555/mo. Call 785-887-6584

Adam Ave. Townhomes 3BR, 2 bath, 2 car garage, 1,700 sq. ft., some with fenced in back yards. $1,200/mo.

Office Space 2420 Iowa St., Suite A, Lawrence, KS. 1,200 sq. ft. Available June 1st. $1,350 per mo. Call 785-766-3949

Office Space Available

at 5040 Bob Billings Pkwy.

785-841-4785

Pets okay with paid pet deposit

Retail & Commercial Space

www.garberprop.com

785-841-4785

2859 Four Wheel Drive

PARKWAY 6000

Studio/office, Wi-Fi avail., private bathroom, 697 sq.ft.

785-842-5227 for more info

CALL FOR SPECIALS! • 3 Bedroom, 2 bath • 2 car garage w/opener • W/D hookups • Maintenance free 785-832-0555, 785-766-2722

Pole Building 25x40 & lot for rent. Great for const. storage or tinkering. $400/mo. N. Lawrence location 785-760-1590

Saddlebrook & Overland Pointe

LUXURY TOWNHOMES GREAT Move In Specials

Call for Details

625 Folks Rd • 785-832-8200

Area Open Houses

Houses 1st Class, Pet Friendly Houses & Apts.

Canyon Court Apts DEPOSIT SPECIALS!

Great Locations! Great Prices!

1, 2 & 3 Bedrooms

Call for SPECIALS

785-838-3377, 785-841-3339 www.tuckawaymgmt.com

3BR, 1.5 bath, FP, DW, W/D hookup. 2832 Iowa. $625/ mo. No pets. Avail. now.

785-841-5454, 785-760-1874 Apartments, Houses & Duplexes. 785-842-7644 www.GageMgmt.com

Townhomes Use Your Tax Refund to Invest in a Co-op

1, 2, & 3BR townhomes in Cooperative. Units start at $412 - $485/mo.

Water, trash, sewer paid.

FIRST MONTH FREE! Back patio, CA, hard wood floors, full bsmt., stove, refrig., W/D hookup, garbage disposal, Reserved parking. On site management & maintenance. 24 hr. emergency maintenance.

Membership & Equity Fee Required. 785-842-2545 (Equal Housing Opportunity) www.pinetreetownhouses.com

1, 2 & 3 BRs

Bob Billings & Crestline

www.meadowbrookapartments.net

785-842-4200

www.vintagemgmt.com 785-842-1069 2BR — 427 Minnesota, for fall, 1 bath, 1 story, AC, W/D hookup. $650/mo. 1 Pet OK. Call 785-841-5797 2-6BR houses available for August 1. Close to Campus & downtown. 785-842-7644 www.gagemgmt.com

4BR, OPEN Sat./Sun. 1-3PM 4408 W 24th Pl., Lawrence.

SW, 1,746 sq.ft. Bright & spacious split level. 3 bath, DR, LR, rec. rm., laundry, deck, fenced yard, 2 car, $172,000. 785-423-5917 http://www.forsaleby owner.com/listing/4224C

YOUR PLACE, YOUR SPACE STARTING AT

$495.00 PER MONTH Water & Trash Paid

One Bedroom/Loft Style Pool • Fitness Center • On-site Laundry • Pet Friendly

7 8 5 . 8 5 6 . 7 7 8 8 www.ironwoodmanagement.net

ALSO, CHECK OUT OUR LUXURY APARTMENTS & TOWN HOMES!

1-5 BEDROOMS • Garages • Pool • Fitness Center

Now Leasing for 2012!

Fast, Reliable Maintenance On-site Management Close to KU, 3 Bus Stops

Crossgate Casita’s

advanco@sunflower.com

PARKWAY 4000

Bainbridge Circle 3BR, 1.5 - 2.5 bath, 1 car garage, 1,200 - 1,540 sq. ft. $795 - $950/mo.

2BR - 3062 W. 7th, for fall, 2 full baths, 1 story, CA, W/D hookup, DW, study. $690/ mo. No pets. 785-841-5797

2BR — 536 Ohio, for fall, 1st 1BR, downtown S. Park lo- floor, 1 bath, AC. $450/mo. cation, 1021 Rhode Island, No pets. Call 785-841-5797 W/D, DW, low utils., off-st. www.rentinlawrence.com parking, quiet. For August.

2BR - 741 Mchigan, for fall, $525/mo. 785-331-6064 1.5 bath, 2 story, CA, DW, W/D hookup, full unfin. bsmt. 1 pet ok. $730/mo.

Call 785-841-5797

Studio Apartments 600 sq. ft., $675/mo.

825 sq. ft., $855/mo.

No pets allowed Call Today 785-841-6565

2 Bedrooms $550-$800/mo. www.lawrencepm.com 785-832-8728 / 785-331-5360

3BR, 2121 Inverness, for Aug. 2 story, 2.5 bath, CA, DW, W/D hookup, 2 car, 1 pet. $940/mo. 785-841-5797

www.tuckawaymgmt.com

1BR - 951 Arkansas, CA, DW, 2BR - 426 Minnesota, for fall, laundry, $470, w/W/D $495, in 4-plex, CA, 1 pet ok. $430/mo. Call 785-841-5797 no pets. Call 785-841-5797 www.rentinlawrence.com www.rentinlawrence.com

DOWNTOWN LOFT

SUNDAY, APRIL 22, 2012 3D Houses

Brighton Circle 3BR, 2.5 bath, 1 car garage, 1,650 sq. ft., $950/mo.

2BR — 3506 Harvard, for fall, bi-level, 1 bath, CA, DW, W/D hookups. No pets. $480/mo. Call 785-841-5797

Apartments Unfurnished

Send resume and salary history to mgrlawrence@edrtrust.com EOE M/F/D/V Drug-Free Workplace

Townhomes

Studios & 1BRs for Aug. 1. 1/2 3BR - 951 Arkansas, 2 story, block to KU. $400-$525. GAS/ 2 full bath, CA, DW, laun- WATER PAID. 785-842-7644 dry, microwave, $750/mo. www.gagemgmt.com With W/D $775/mo. No Studios — 2400 Alabama, all pets. Call 785-841-5797 elect., plenty of parking, AC, www.rentinlawrence.com laundry. $390, water/cable 3BR College Hill Condo near paid. No pets. 785-841-5797 KU. Panoramic view, 2 bath, new Carpet, W/D. $795/mo. 2BR — 2400 Alabama, 2nd floor, 1 bath, AC, DW, launKU Bus route. 785-865-8741 dry on-site. $490/mo. No 3BR, 1028 Ohio. Lovely pets. Call 785-841-5797 home, great for family near KU/downtown. Low utils.

Has study, appls., parking. $1,305/mo. 785-979-6830

2BR — 2524 Winterbrook, for fall, 1 story, 1 bath, CA, DW, W/D hookup, garage. No pets. $525/mo. 785-841-5797

2BR - 413 W. 17th, avail. now or fall, new kitchen, hardwood floors, laundry, CA, DW. No pets. $550/mo.

Water paid. 785-841-5797

Great benefit package includes medical, dental, 401(k), and advancement opportunities

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2BR — 1030 Ohio, for fall, CA, DW. $650/mo. No pets.

Call 785-841-5797 2BR — 1214 Tennessee, for fall, in 4-plex, 1 bath, CA, DW. No pets. $460/mo.

Call 785-841-5797

Leasing & Marketing Manager

Ready to show off your marketing ability and have fun?! The Reserve on West 31st, near the University of Kansas campus, is searching for a Full-Time Leasing and Marketing Manager. Candidate must be goal oriented, organized, outgoing and enjoy interacting with customers in a professional manner.

Experience in apartment and/ or student housing industry is a plus. Responsibilities include leasing apartments to prospects, developing & implementing marketing plans, and leading the leasing team.

2BR — 1027 Mississippi, for fall, 1 bath, CA, laundry, 3BR - 1116 Kentucky, for fall, DW, 1 cat ok, $500/mo. Call 1st floor, wood floors, CA, 785-841-5797 has washer & dryer. $610/ 2BR — 1414 Tennessee, for mo. No pets. 785-841-5797 fall, top floor, 1 bath, AC. 3BR — 1131 Tennessee, 1st No pets. $440 per month. floor, 1 bath. Avail. now. No Call 785-841-5797 pets. $650/mo. 785-841-5797 www.rentinlawrence.com Call 785-838-9559

Regents Court

Cynthia Sue Johnson Estate For more details see: www.garyhenson.com

A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE LEASING 1 & 2BRs FOR NOW, Summer and FALL 2012

- Auctioneers -

Todd Douglass 785-636-7565 Lester Edgecomb 785-594-3507 Ben Yoder 785-489-2349 Jeremy Douglass 785-331-7201

Exceptionally nice, clean items - some never used.

Partial List!

Terms: Cash or Check w/ proper ID. Statements made day of auction take precedence over all printed material. Auctioneers are not responsible for theft, damage or accidents.

Lost Item

Sat., April 28 - 10AM Lone Star Church 883 E 800 Rd., Lawrence FARM MACHINERY 1953 Model 22 Massey Harris; 1951 Farmall Super C; 1956 AC WD-45, wide front; Other farm equipment.

ATV, AUTOS, RV, TRAILERS 2002 Chevy 1/2T ext. cab pickup; 1966 Ford F-100 long bed truck; 1972 VW Beetle; 1985 26’ Ford Holiday Rambler motor home; 4 wheeler - ‘07 Raptor 350 Yamaha; Several trailers; Golf cart LAWN, GARDEN, TOOLS New/used tools, Welders, rolling toolboxes, table saw, air/welding equip., riding mower, pressure washer, concrete statuary, BBQ grills, dog pen, pool, toys GUN/COLLECTIBLES Winchester 12 ga shotgun, Natl Wildlife Turkey Fed. .22 Rifle; JD Ertl toy tractor, donated by Heritage Tractor FURNITURE & HOUSEHOLD Dining set-table, 6 chairs, hutch & buffet, Dressers, sofa, loveseat, lamps, tables, trunk, entertainment center, bar, barstools, desks, chairs, file cabinet.

ANTIQUES Dressers w/mirrors, tools, crocks, dishes COINS & CURRENCY / MEMORABILIA (See web) 12” x 16” photo signed

by Arnold Palmer Consignments accepted daily until Apr. 28.

Breakfast & Lunch served Terms: Cash or approved check before removing purchases. Not responsible for accidents/theft.

Statements day of sale take precedence over printed materials.

Complete list & photos at http://kansasauctions.net /douglass/04/28.php Debbie Douglass-Metsker 785-865-7211 or email: ddmetsker@gmail.com

Apartments Unfurnished

2BR, 2 bath, fireplace, CA, W/D hookups, 2 car with opener. Easy access to I-70. Includes paid cable.

Pets under 20 lbs. allowed Call 785-842-2575 www.princeton-place.com

• Ironwood Court Apts.

• Park West Gardens Apts.

• Park West Town Homes

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BUSINESS Auctioneers

Carpets & Rugs

Linda’s Cleaning Done Right 30 yrs. experience Excellent references Only $15 per hour 785-393-2599

BILL FAIR AND COMPANY AUCTIONEERS SINCE 1970 800-887-6929

Automotive Services Auto Maintenance and Repair

Up to 70% OFF

storewide on popular carpet, wood laminate, ceramic and vinyl floors.

———— Stain-resistant carpet from

67c sq.ft!

Ceramic and laminate from

77c sq.ft!

www.lawrenceautodiag.com

785-842-8665

(Bet THAT got your attention!)

————THIS is the low-price, spring cleaning sale you’ve waited all winter for!

Need it installed?

Our Installer-Direct Service is just one more way you save!

Bryant Collision Repair Mon-Fri. 8AM-6PM We specialize in Auto Body Repair, Paintless Dent Repair, Glass Repair, & Auto Accessories.

785-843-5803 bryantcollisionrepair@msn.com. lawrencemarketplace.com/ bryant-collision-repair Buying Junk & Repairable Vehicles.

Cash Paid. Free Tow. U-Call, We-Haul!

Call 785-633-7556

Dale and Ron’s Auto Service

Family Owned & Operated for 37 Years Domestic & Foreign Expert Service 630 Connecticut St

785-842-2108

http://lawrencemarketplace. com/dalerons

Floor Trader

Harris Auto Repair

Domestics and Imports Brake repair Engine repair AC repair / service Custom exhaust systems Shock & Struts Transmissions Tire sales / repairs

Hite Collision Repair

“If you want it done right, take it to Hite.”

Auto Body Repair Windshield & Auto Glass Repair 3401 W 6th St (785) 843-8991 http://lawrencemarket place.com/hite

Tires, Alignment, Brakes, A/C, Suspension Repair Financing Available 785-841-6050 1828 Mass. St lawrencemarketplace.com/ performancetire

Westside 66 & Car Wash

Full Service Gas Station 100% Ethanol-Free Gasoline Auto Repair Shop - Automatic Car Washes Starting At Just $3 2815 W 6th St | 785-843-1878 http://lawrencemarketplace. com/westside66

Carpet Cleaning Kansas Carpet Care, Inc.

Your locally owned and operated carpet and upholstery cleaning company since 1993!

• 24 Hour Emergency Water Damage Services Available

By Appointment Only

Oakley Creek Catering - Full Service Caterer Specializing in smoked meats & barbeque

- Corporate Events, Private Parties, Weddings-

On-Site Cooking Available Family Owned & Operated

785-887-6936 http://oakleycreek.com

Cell Phone Service & Repair

Buy * Sell * Repair * Smart Phones Tablets Gaming Systems 2201 W 25th St.

785-424-5960

lawrencemarketplace.com/ wirelessrestore

Child Care Provided

Full service preschool & licensed childcare center for children ages 1-12. Open year-round, Monday- Friday, from 7 am to 6 pm

FREE ADS for merchandise

DECK BUILDER

Over 25 yrs. exp.

Licensed & Insured Decks, deck covers, pergolas, screened porches, & all types of repairs Call 913-209-4055 for Free estimates or go to prodeckanddesign.com Looking for Something Creative?

Call Billy Construction Decks, Fences, Etc. Insured. (785) 838-9791 www.billyconstruction.com

Heating & Cooling

Artisan Floor Company

Hardwood Floor Installation, Refinishing and Repair Locally Owned, Insured, Free Estimates 785-691-6117 www.artisanfloorcompany.com

Air Conditioning/ & Heating/Sales & Srvs.

• Decks • Gazebos • Framing • Siding • Fences • Additions • Remodel • Weatherproofing & Staining Insured, 20 yrs. experience.

785-550-5592

Hilltop Child Development Center, 1605 Irving Hill Road Lawrence, Kansas 785-864-4940 hilltop@ku.edu twitter.com/HilltopCDC Serving Lawrence since 1972.

Cleaning

For Everything Electrical Committed to Excellence Since 1972 Full Service Electrical Contractor www.quality-electric.net

Get Lynn on the line!

785-843-LYNN www.lynnelectric.com

http://lawrencemarketplce.com/ lynncommunications

ADVANCED SYSTEMS Basement & foundation repair Your hometown company Over three decades 785-841-0145 mybasementiscracked.com Concrete, Block & Limestone Wall Repair, Waterproofing Drainage Solutions Sump Pumps, Driveways.

785-843-2700 Owen 24/7

FOUNDATION REPAIR

Mudjacking, Waterproofing. We specialize in Basement Repair & Pressure Grouting.

Level & Straighten Walls & Bracing on wall. BBB .

Free Estimates Since 1962

Wagner’s 785-749-1696 www.foundationrepair.com

Garage Doors

• Garage Doors • Openers • Service • Installation Call 785-842-5203 or visit us at Lawrencemarketplace.com /freestategaragedoors

Janitorial Services Business-Commercial-Industrial Housecleaning Carpet Cleaning Tile & Grout Cleaning The “Greener Cleaner” Locallly Owned Since 1983 Free Estimates

785-842-6264

Eco-Friendly Cleaning

Five yrs. exp. References, Bonded & Insured Res., Com., Moveouts 785-840-5467

Give your sweetie the gift of cleaning.

Gift Certificates Avail.

Family owned and operated since 1992

Sue Bee’s Cleaning 785-841-2268

WorldClassNEK.com Find jobs & more on

Housecleaner

Honest & Dependable Free estimate, References Call Linda 785-691-7999

Painting

Low Maintenance Landscape, Inc.

Ambidextrous Painting 785-424-5860 All aspects of Painting Fast, good, 20+yrs. knowledgeable, reasonable, Mark & Carolyn Collins

1210 Lakeview Court, Innovative Planting Design Construction & Installation www.lawrencemarketplace. com/lml

785-550-5610

Free Estimates on replacement equipment! Ask us about Energy Star equipment & how to save on your utility bills.

785-843-2244

www.scott-temperature.com www.lawrencemarketplace. com/scotttemperature

Plan Now For Next Year • Custom Pools, Spas & Water Features • Design & Installation • Pool Maintenance (785) 843-9119

midwestcustompools.com

Fast Quality Service

Lawn, Garden & Nursery

Commercial &Residential 24 hour Service

For all your Heating, Air Conditioning and Plumbing needs

Serving the Douglas & Franklin county areas

Golden Rule Lawncare Complete Lawncare Service Eugene Yoder Call for Free Est. Insured.

785-224-9436

785-594-3357

Green Grass Lawn Care Mowing, Yard Clean-up, Tree Trimming, Snow Removal. Insured all jobs considered 785-312-0813/785-893-1509

Home Improvements

Lawn & Landscape Maintenance

www.ah-air.com

Big/Small Jobs Dependable Service

Home Repair Services Interior/Exterior Carpentry, Windows, Doors, Roofing, Vinyl siding, Painting, More 35 yrs. exp. Free estimates.

913-636-1881 JASON TANKING CONSTRUCTION New Construction Framing, Remodels, Additions, Decks Fully Ins. & Lic. 785.760.4066 http://lawrencemarketplac e.com/jtconstruction

No Job Too Big or Small

Mowing Clean Up Tree Trimming Plant Bed Maint.

Whatever U Need Marty Goodwin 785-979-1379 MLS - Mowing or 1 Time w/out Contracts Res/Com. Spring Cleanup, Reseeding, Fertilizer, Mulch-Stone, etc.

785-766-2821 Sr. discount mikelawnservice@gmail.com

785-841-3088

Mowing My Way Through College

• Garage Doors • Openers • Service • Installation

General Services

Int. & Ext. Remodeling All Home Repairs Mark Koontz

Bus. 913-269-0284

REMODELING & HANDYMAN SERVICES

785-856-GOLD(4653) Jewelry, coins, silver, watches. Earn money with broken & Unwanted jewelry

We provide door-to-door transportation as well as many additional services to residents of Douglas County living with disabilities.

Call to schedule a ride: 843-5576 or 888-824-7277 Monday - Friday 7:30 am - 3:30 pm We ask for $2.00 each way.

Even if you don’t have a disability and you live outside the Lawrence City limits, we can help.

Funded in part by KDOT Public Transit Program

• Baths • Kitchens • Rec Rooms • Tile • Windows •Doors •Trim •Wood Rot Since 1974 GARY 785-856-2440 785-925-0803 gwbrown52@sunflower.com www.winston-brown.com Licensed & Insured

Renovations Kitchen/Bath Remodels House Additions & Decks Quality Work Affordable Prices

Affordable, Experienced, Reliable, Call For an est.

Connor at 785.979.7390 Mowing...like Clockwork!

Honest & Dependable Mow~Trim~Sweep~Hedges Steve 785-393-9152 Lawrence Only

1783 E 1500 Rd, Lawrence

PineLandscapeCenter.com Find us on Facebook Pine Landscape Center 785-843-6949

Summer Mowing or 1 Time 15+ Years Experience & Dependable! Also do yard work & some hauling.

Call Harold 785-979-5117

Medical-HealthTherapy

Rental Turnovers Repairs, Paint, Clean.

785-766-5285

Breathe Holistic Life Center

mmdownstic@hotmail.com Lawrencemarketplace.com/tic

www.independenceinc.org Snow Removal Driveways & Sidewalks

Apply at eapp.adecco.com Or Call (785) 842-1515 BETTER WORK BETTER LIFE lawrencemarketplace.com/ adecco

Full Remodels & Odd Jobs, Interior/Exterior Painting, Installation & Repair of:

NOT Your ordinary bicycle store!

Temporary or Contract Staffing Evaluation Hire, Direct Hire Professional Search Onsite Services (785) 749-7550 1000 S Iowa, Lawrence KS lawrencemarketplace.com/ express

Events/ Entertainment Eagles Lodge

Banquet Room Available for Corporate Parties, Wedding Receptions, Fundraisers Bingo Every Friday Night 1803 W 6th St. (785) 843-9690 http://lawrencemarket place.com/Eagles_Lodge

Guttering Services

Yoga is more than getting on the mat.

Live Passionately Yoga Nutrition Classes Relaxation Retreats 1407 Massachusetts 785-218-0174 lawrencemarketplace.com/ breathe

785-843-2174

1388 N 1293 Rd, Lawrence

Insured 20 yrs. experience

Haul Free: Salvageable items. Minimum charge: other moving/hauling jobs.

Also Maintenance/Cleaning for home/business, inside/out plumbing / electrical & more. www.a2zenterprises.info 785-841-6254

STARVING ARTISTS MOVING

15yr. locally owned and operated company.

Professionally trained staff. We move everything from fossils to office and household goods.

Call for a free estimate.

785-749-5073 http://lawrencemarketplace. com/starvingartist

Music Lessons

JAYHAWK GUTTERING

Seamless aluminum guttering. Many colors to choose from. Install, repair, screen, clean-out. Locally owned.

Insured. Free estimates.

PIANO LESSONS

785-842-0094

Heating & Cooling

Serving individuals, farmers & business owners 785-331-3607

LawrenceMarketplace.com/ kansasinsurance

Learn to play 30-50 songs in the first year with Simply Music!

Keys of Joy 785-331-8369 Karla’s Konservatory 785-865-4151

Lawrencemarketplace.com/ keysofjoy

Landscaping “Your Comfort Is Our Business.”

Installation & Service Residential & Commercial (785) 841-2665 http://lawrencemarketplace. com/rivercityhvac

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Complete interior & exterior painting Siding replacement

Painting A. B. Painting & Repair

Flower Beds, Mulching, Mowing, Weedeating, Pruning, Retaining walls.

Int/Ext/Specialty Painting Siding, Wood Rot & Decks Kate, 785-423-4464 www.kbpaintingllc.com

Professional Painters Home, Interior, Exterior Painting, Lead Paint Removal Serving Northeast Kansas 785-691-6050 http://lawrencemarket place.com/primecoat Riffel Painting Co. 913-585-1846 Specializing in new homes & Residential interior and exterior repaints Power Washing Deck staining Sheet Rock Repair Quality work and products since 1985

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WorldClassNEK.com

Drury Place

Live More Pay Less Worry-free life at an affordable price Lawrencemarketplace.com/ druryplace

Roofing

Re-Roofs: All Types Roofing Repairs Siding & Windows FREE Estimates (785) 749-0462 www.meslerroofing.com

Complete Roofing

Tearoffs, Reroofs, Redecks * Storm Damage * Leaks * Roof Inspections

We’re There for You!

785-749-4391

Supplying all your Painting needs.

Serving Lawrence and surrounding areas for over 25 years.

FOLSOM ROOFING RE-ROOFS, RE-DECKS, & REPAIRS FREE ESTIMATES 913-207-2861

Locally owned & operated.

Free estimates/Insured.

Pet Services Prompt Superior Service Residential * Commercial Tear Off * Reroofs

Free Estimates

Insurance Work Welcome

785-764-9582

Lawrencemarketplace.com/ mclaughlinroofing

I COME TO YOU!

Dependable & Reliable pet sitting, feeding, walks, overnights, and more!

References! Insured!

785-550-9289

785-865-0600

Complete Roofing Services Professional Staff Quality Workmanship http://lawrencemarketplace. com/lawrenceroofing

Travel Services Professional Service with a Tender Touch

Stress Free for you and your pet.

Lawrence First Class Transportation Limos Corporate Cars Drivers available 24/7

785-841-5466

Lawrencemarkeptlace. com/firstclass

Plumbing RETIRED MASTER PLUMBER & Handyman needs small work.

Bill Morgan 816-523-5703

Taking Care of Lawrence’s Plumbing Needs for over 35 Years (785) 841-2112 lawrencemarketplace.com /kastl

Recycling Services 12th & Haskell Recycle Center, Inc. No Monthly Fee Always been FREE! Cash for all Metals 1146 Haskell Ave, Lawrence 785-865-3730 http://lawrencemarketplace. com/recyclecenter Lonnie’s Recycling Inc. Buyers of aluminum cans, all type metals & junk vehicles. Mon.-Fri. 8-5, Sat. 8-4, 501 Maple, Lawrence.

785-841-4855 lawrencemarketplace.com/ lonnies

Repairs and Services

Tree/Stump Removal

BUDGET TREE SERVICE, LLC. 913-593-7386

Trimmed, Shaped, Removed Shrubs, Fenceline Cleaned

No Job Too Small Free Est. Lic. & Ins. 913-268-3120 www.budgettreeservicekc.com

Chris Tree Service

20yrs. exp. Trees trimmed, cut down, hauled off.

Free Est. Ins. & Lic. 913-631-7722, 913-301-3659 www.KansasTreeCare.com Tree Trimming & Removal Local Arborist since 1997 Ks Arborist Assoc. Certified Licensed & Insured call 785-760-3684

Vacuum Service & Repair DAVE BALES Vacuum Cleaner, Sewing Machine, Lamp Sales & Repair. All makes & models Have your Kirby, Rainbow, Filter rebuilt for a fraction of a new one. 935 Iowa St. Lawrence Ks 785-550-7315

Window Installation/Service • Unsightly black streaks of mold & dirt on your roof?

• Mold or Mildew on your house?

• Is winter salt intrusion causing your concrete to flake?

Free Quote

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785-841-6845

Mobile Enviro-Wash LTD

Noe Singleterry 913-585-1450

Water, Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration • Odor Removal • Carpet Cleaning • Air Duct Cleaning •

1510 St. Andrews

Int/ext. Drywall, Tile, Siding, Wood rot, & Decks 30 plus yrs. Refs. Free Est.

Al 785-331-6994

Repairs and Services

785-766-2785

inside-out-paint@yahoo.com Free Estimates Fully Insured Lawrencemarketplace.com/ inside-out-paint

Call Calli 785-766-8420

Insurance

Steve’s Place

Banquet Hall available for wedding receptions, birthday parties, corporate meetings & seminars.

For more info. visit http://lawrencemarket place.com/stevesplace

Decks Drywall Siding Gutters Privacy Fencing Doors Trim

913-488-7320

jayhawkguttering.com

Inside - Out Painting Service

www.cnnmobilepetsalons.com

Moving-Hauling Office* Clerical* Accounting Light Industrial* Technical Finance* Legal

BLACKSTONE Painting & Hardwood Interior/Exterior Painting Hardwood Refinishing & Installation Ed Walters 785-393-1592

ROCK-SOD-SOIL-MULCH

(785) 550-1565

Retired Carpenter, Deck Repairs, Home Repairs, Interior Wall Repair & Painting, Doors, Wood Rot, Powerwash 785-766-5285

Employment Services Bird Janitorial & Hawk Wash Window Cleaning.

• House Cleaning • Chandeliers • Post Construction • Gutters • Power Washing • Prof Window Cleaning • Sustainable Options Find Coupons & more info: lawrencemarketplace.com/ birdjanitorial Free Est. 785-749-0244

Landscaping

Roger, Kevin or Sarajane

Foundation Repair

Accessible and General Public Transportation

under $100

WorldClassNEK.com

Decks & Fences

Electrical

LawrenceMarketplace.com/ bpi

MULTIPLE PHOTOS, MAPS, EVEN VIDEO!

Staining & Engraving Existing Concrete Custom Decorative Patterns Patios, Basements, Garage Floors, Driveways 785-393-1109 www.robinseggconcrete.com

Flooring Installation

Stacked Deck

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ENHANCE your listing with

CONCRETE INC. Your local concrete Repair Specialists Sidewalks, Patios, Driveways, Waterproofing, Basement, Crack repair 888-326-2799 Toll Free

Driveways, Parking Lots, Paving Repair, Sidewalks, Garage Floors, Foundation Repair 785-843-2700 Owen 24/7

785-842-3311

Specializing in Carpet, Tile & Upholstery cleaning. Carpet repairs & stretching, Odor Decontamination, Spot Dying & 24 hr Water extraction. www.doctor-clean.com 785-840-4266

Concrete

Catering

785-838-4488

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Computer Running Slow?

Viruses/Malware?

Troubleshooting? Lessons?

Computer Questions, Advise?

We Can Help — 785-979-0838

Decorative & Regular Drives, Walks & Patios Custom Jayhawk Engraving Jayhawk Concrete 785-979-5261

CELL PHONE REPAIR

Across The Bridge In North Lawrence 903 N 2nd St | 785-842-2922 lawrencemarketplace.com/ battery

Computer/Internet

3000 Iowa -Lawrence 841-3838 www.FloorTraderLawrence.com

WIRELESS RESTORE

For All Your Battery Needs

Cleaning

Call 866-823-8220 to advertise.

785-842-3030

Martin Windows & Doors

Milgard replacement windows Free est. 15 yrs. exp.

Locally owned & operated Great prices! 785-760-3445

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Real Estate Auctions

Real Estate Auction

Nominal Opening Bid: $1,000 215 North Kallock Street, Richmond, KS 3BR, 2 bath, 1,008 sq. ft.(+/-)

Sells:

4:45 PM Wed., Apr. 25 on site www.williamsauction.com

800-801-8003 Many properties now avail. for online bidding!

Williams & Williams KS Broker: Daniel Nelson Re Lic BR00231987 Williams & Williams Re Lic CO90060880

Lawrence For Sale, 1,100 sq. ft., 3BR, 1.5 bath townhome, SW Lawerence. Newer roof, furnace & CA. Attached garage. 3319 Rainier Dr. $79,900. Call 785-749-5956 Lawrence Open House Sun Apr., 22, 1-3 PM

1216 Chadwick Court 4BR 2.5 Bath Colonial w/ bsmt. All appls. included.

Quiet cul-de-sac location, private fenced back yard.

Walk to Quail Run. Curb appeal & updated interior! $250,000. For info/appt. call 785-550-3305 or email 10degc@gmail.com

Mobile Homes OWNER WILL FINANCE 3BR, 2 bath, CH/CA, appls., shed, clean, move in ready!

Lawrence 816-830-2152

Acreage-Lots 6 Acre Farmstead 8 miles west of Lawrence. Includes 3 Morton Bldgs., 4 barns, silo, smokehouse. Repo, assume owner financing. $975 monthly. 785-554-9663

Household Misc.

Viking Sewing machine, all Boat & Trailer, 1973 Chrysattachments, Class 105, ler, fiberglass Cuddy $98.

Please call cabin, 21 ft. boat, 318HP In785-832-2266 board engine with outdrive on tantum trailer, $3,400.

785-550-8667

Lawn, Garden & Nursery

Black & Decker Jigsaw, 1/5 Cruiser 2004 5th wheel, 28 HP single speed. Model foot, 2 slides, Clean. New 7504. $15. 785-865-0819. tires. One owner. Many extras go with camper.

Black & Decker Router $14,750. Call 785-841-4421 model 7600. 5/8 HP. $25.

785-865-0819.

Itascia 2000 Class A Circular Saw, Rockwell Suncruiser Motor Home, 35 7.25” Double Insulated. ft. V-10 triton, 68K miles, good condition and good $25. 785-865-0819. tires. One owner. $26,000.

Pad Sander, Craftsman Call 913-268-8167 (Sears) Pad Sander, orbital motions 1/6 HP. $15.

785-865-0819

Miscellaneous Fishtank w/stand, 20 gallon tank, and pump comes with extras. $70 or best offer. 785-764-3643

423B E 4th Street Tonganoxie, KS 66086 913-704-5037 Antiques, Collectibles, Glass, Furniture, Treasures BSA Boy Scouts of America vintage items. Felt pillow cover with emblem, three neckerchiefs (olive, red and white), Woolwine canteen. $30.

785-749-4924 noon to 8 p.m.

Perfect for any celebration. 7 pink & white checked gingham tablecloths. Measure 4’x8’. Each $8. Discounts when buying more than one.

Call 785-842-8865 Perfect for weddings, rehearsal dinners, birthdays, showers, anniversaries, or any celebration. 42 clear glass globe vases with blue flowers around the top, including pebbles. $1 each. Call 785-842-8865

Sony Portable DVD Player, with remote & charger, Used maybe 5 times for vacation, $50. 785-764-3643

Equipment

Exercise Bike, adjustable, deliver Pro-Form GR 80. $89, Please call 785-832-2266

Arts-Crafts Free to an artistic environment. More than one box of mosaic materials. call 785-841-5577

Baby & Children Items Crib - Like new baby crib with support mattress $100.00 Call 785-331-3003

Building Materials CEILING FANS, Chandeliers, sconces, lights. Various styles of lighting fixtures being replaced on remodel. Chandelier $100.

Ceiling fans $30/offer, Sconces $10/offer 3500 Riverview Dr. Mon-Sat 8-5, or call 785-218-2850 GENTLY USED CABINETS FOR SALE. Oak kitchen cabinets $100/set or offer.

Oak master bath cabinets $100/set/offer. Oak guest bath cabinets $75/set/ offer. 3500 Riverview Dr. Mon-Sat 8-5, 785-218-2850 TOILETS, TOILETS, TOILETS FOR SALE! Gently used, brand name white ceramic toilets in excellent condition. Being replaced during remodel. $35/offer. 3500 Riverview Dr. Mon- Sat 8-5, or call 785-218-2850

Ford 2003 Taurus SE. Nice reliable, economical Taurus at a great price. Small V6 and clean inside. See website for photos.

Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/7 Ford 2002 Taurus,Tan, all electric, 4dr, 6 cyl., 111,000 miles. Average condition, Runs good, nice car. $3,395. 785-760-4980

Cadillac 2006 DTS Luxury II, low miles, leather heated memory seats, sunroof, stk#673262 only $17,415.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

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Lincoln 2004 Town car Ultimate, local trade, super clean, sunroof, leather heated seats, all the luxury you have been looking for without the luxury price!! Stk#112011 only $13,444.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Mercury 2004 Grand Marquis 40K, Gold Ash Metallic Wow! This One’s Nice www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Wed April 18th and runs thru Sun April 22nd 7am-?

1901 New Hampshire Lawrence, KS If your starting a new household or having a baby this is the sale to be at.

Most items are new in the box at 50-90% off regular retail.

Everything from cosmetics to deodorant.

John Deere Riding Lawn mower with rear bagger, Scottsdale wooden swing sets, strollers, pack and plays, baby wipes, cribs and changing stations.

Fan blown water slide great for the kids this summer, youth life jackets, Step 2 pink play house, Fisher Price grand doll house super set, youth and adult basketball goal....new in the box.

Loads of Furniture ... patio chairs and love seat, desks, night stands, TV stands, shelf, kitchen pantry, leather chairs with ottomans (new in box), dining room table and chairs, saucer chairs, vacuum cleaners, card table and chairs, galvanized trash cans. Several styles of grills ....

ALL BRAND NEW AND MUCH MUCH MORE

Cadillac 2006 STS AWD, V8, loaded with luxury and power!

Stk#330051 only $16,884.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Chevrolet 2007 HHR 63K, Dark Blue Call Now! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Pontiac 2009 G3, FWD, 4cyl, great commuter car, On Star, GM certified, which means no cost to you on regular scheduled maintenance for two years!!

Stk#12308 only $12,844.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Pontiac 2006 Grand Prix 56K, Stealth Gray Love Your Car! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Chevrolet 2008 Impala LT GM certified, alloy wheels, remote start, power equipment, spoiler, stk#100441 only $14,440.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

WE BUY CARS Top dollar for top late model vehicles.

Drive in, see Danny or Jeff and get your big bucks today!

2840 Iowa St. Lawrence.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Cars-Imports

Pets

Furniture

Horse-Tack Equipment

End Tables - 2 solid oak end tables $25.00 each.

Call 785-331-3003 Horse Sale: Special RegisEntertainment Center, tered Horse Sale. Sun. Apr. Cream colored Painted 29, Noon. Campbell’s Sale Barn, Linwood. 913-724-1403 Bookcase/Entertainment Center. 76” tall, 36” wide.

70’s era - solidly built. Bottom cabinet has sliding shelf. Fresh paint and new hardware is all it needs.

Top comes off, you haul. $100. Call 785-887-1044 before 9 pm.

Chevrolet 2009 Malibu LS FWD, 4cyl, great gas mileage, GM certified, 1 owner trade in, great dependability and gas mileage plus no maintenance cost for 2 yrs!

Stk#322421 only $13,788 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Acura 2003 TL 3.2 FWD, V6, sunroof, leather heated seats, alloy wheels, cd changer, very dependable, stk#481162 only $9250.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Chrysler 2005 Pacifica 59K, Stone White Perfect For Today’s Busy Family! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Chrysler 2010 300 Touring Edition, 31K, White Call Now! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Honda 2010 Accord EXL, one owner local trade, sunroof, leather heated seats, alloy wheels, very nice!

Stk#306421 only $17,756.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

2007 Honda Civic EX 53k, AT, Factory Nav, Moon, 1-owner, WOW $13847 View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

2005 Honda Civic LX-168k, AT, CD, 1-owner, Reliable Transportation, Clean, Only $7916 View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

Honda 2008 CRV EX, 4WD, V6, sunroof, ABS, alloy wheels, CD changer, power equipment, very nice!

Stk#10604 only $19,841.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Cars-Imports

Cars-Imports

SUNDAY, A)R+, 22, 2012 5D Crossovers

Mazda 2010 3i Sport 40K, Gun Metal Blue Apply Today!

Drive Tonight! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Mercedes 2006 E350 only 42k miles, sunroof, leather heated seats, Harmon/Kardon sound, and much more luxury!

Stk#683251 only $23,888.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Mercury 2006 Montego 59K, Oxford White Lifetime Engine Warranty www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/7 Saab 2003 9-3 Convertible with low miles and awesome condition.

Automatic, silver with clean navy blue top. Seats four, and it’s top-down weather.

Clean history, no accidents. See website for photos and more info.

Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/7

2003 Toyota Corolla S type-87k, AT, Dealer Maint., 1-owner, Steal for $9821 View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

Kia 2010 Sportage LX Black Cherry, 49K Lifetime Engine Warranty? Yes!!! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Toyota 2009 Yaris, FWD, 4cyl, power equipment, cruise control, great gas mileage and dependability!

Stk#328732 only $12,315.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Toyota 2008 Yaris 79K, Meteorite Gray Great Selection Of 2 Doors AND 4 Doors!

Apply On-Line at www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Chrysler 2005 Pacifica 59K, Stone White Perfect For Today’s Busy Family! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Mazda 2009 Tribute I Touring, 4cyl, FWD, great economy SUV, alloy wheels, power equipment, stk#549442 only $15,441.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Volkswagen 2009 New Beetle 42K, Candy White, Now More Than Ever, Apply On-Line At www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Volkswagen 2008 Rabbit 48K, 4 Door, Silver Apply On-Line www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Crossovers

Mazda 2009 Tribute I Touring, 4cyl, FWD, great economy SUV, alloy wheels, power equipment, stk#549442 only $15,441.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Saturn 2008 Astra XR 49K, Arctic White Want Something Special? www.academycars.com 785-841-0102 BMW 2005 X5 AWD 4.4I leather heated seats, alloy wheels, loaded. Stk#17346A1 only $17,841 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Pontiac 2008 Torrent, one owner, GM certified, alloy wheels, ABS, remote start, On Star, great gas mileage!

Stk#517581 only $16450.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Infiniti 2003 I35.

Pearl white with tan leather and moonroof, very popular combination.

Essentially same car as a Maxima, but fancier. Very nice sedan w/famous Nissan V6, and automatic. A great buy!

See website for photos.

Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/ /7 Jaguar 2007 X-Type All Wheel Drive. Local car, extremely clean and well equipped. Cream leather interior with heated seats.

Traded in on newer Jaguar.

Beautiful Dark Chili Red, like new condition. Great price! See website for photos.

Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/7 7 Jaguar 2007 X-Type All Wheel Drive. Local car, extremely clean and well equipped. Cream leather interior with heated seats.

Traded in on newer Jaguar.

Beautiful Dark Chili Red, like new condition. Great price! See website for photos.

Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 7 785-856-6100 24/7

2009 Subaru Legacy 2.5i Special Edition- 64k, AT, AWD, Full Power, Moon, 1-owner, Only $12777 View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

2006 Subaru Outback Legacy Wagon 2.5i-75k, AT, AWD, CD, Heated Leather, Steal $14768 View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049 Toyota 2001 Camry LE. Very nice clean sedan for age. Burgundy with clean gray cloth. Four cylinder automatic for great gas economy. Hard to find nice used Camrys. This is one.

See website for photos.

Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/7

Saturn 2009 Outlook XE AWD, On Star, alloy wheels, room for 8, sunroof, and affordable!

Only $22,777. stk#15091 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com Buick 2008 Enclave CXL, FWD, room for seven, premium wheels, remote start, sunroof, leather heated seats, navigation, Bose sound and much more, stk#494541 only $24,744.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Chevrolet 2004 Suburban LT room for 8, running boards, alloy wheels, power equipment, stk#383812 only $12,888.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Chevrolet 2009 Traverse LS AWD, GM certified, great room for the family with room for seven, stk#17729. Only $22,861, hurry this won’t last long at this price!

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Kia 2008 Spectra EX. ONE owner, NO accident, very clean four door automatic.

Still has factory warranty!

32 MPG highway and side airbags. Lot of car for under $10k. See website for photos.

Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/7 Kia 2008 Spectra EX. ONE owner, NO accident, very clean four door automatic.

Still has factory warranty!

32 MPG highway and side airbags. Lot of car for under $10k. See website for photos.

Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/7

Subaru 2009 Forester 2.5X AWD, 2.5 4cyl, power equipment, ultra sunroof, traction control, alloy wheels, stk#10459 only $19,914.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

1996 Toyota Corolla DX-216k, AT, Moon, Fully Serviced, Drive anywhere, Dependable, Inexpensive transportation, $3497 View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

Lexus 1999 ES300 in black with tan leather, and moonroof. Nice car in great color combination.

CarFax 2 owner, no accidents. 105K miles, very low for 1999. See website for photos.

Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com 2441 W. 6th St. 785-856-6100 24/7

Chevy 2007 Equinox AWD LS, V6, alloy wheels, steering wheel controls, On Star, cruise control, power equipment and affordable. Only $14,335. stk#10266 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

2007 Subaru Forester 2.5x-102k, 5-speed, 4WD, CD, High Safety, 1-owner, Only $10861 View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

2010 Toyota Corolla 40k, 5 Speed, Moon, Prior Accident, Full Factory Warranty, 1-owner, Steal $13777 View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

2007 Mazda 6i Sport 103k, AT, Sale $9444 View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

Saturn 2008 Outlook XR AWD, room for 7, GM Certified, On Star, leather heated seats, alloy wheels, regular scheduled maintenance included for 2 years!

Stk#168631 only $23,884.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Scion 2008 xD 41K, Barcelona Red Apply On-Line At www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Ford 2008 Escape XLT 4cyl, fwd, ABS, traction control, cd changer, alloy wheels, power equipment, great gas mileage, stk#564292 only $15,776.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

PUT YOUR EMPLOYMENT AD IN TODAY!!

Go to ljworld.com or call 785-832-1000.

UP TO FOUR PACKAGES TO CHOOSE FROM!

Dodge 2007 Magnum Stone White, 57K. Love Your Car!

Hyundai 2011 Santa Fe GLS, AWD, alloy wheels, steering wheel controls, power equipment, save thousands over new!

Stk#19411 only $20,888.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Honda 2007 Fit Sport 64K, Nighthawk Black Call Today! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Cadillac 2007 SRX, V8, leather heated seats, alloy wheels, steering wheel controls, On Star, Bose sound system, stk#364761 only $16,888.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Bicycles-Mopeds

Bike: 16” girl’s Rawley bike, White Wood queen size like new, pink, includes bed with rails. Crisp and training wheels, helmet, clean looking. $100. Please and handle bar purse. $50. call 785-843-0333. You haul.

Please call 785-550-6829

Honda 2009 Accord EX 52K, Alabaster Silver Love Your Car! Apply On-Line At www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Hyundai 2007 Tucson Limited, 77K, Black Apply On Line At: www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

Nissan 2009 Pathfinder SE 4wd, tow package, alloy wheels, leather heated seats, power equipment.

Stk#544482 only $23,748.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

DON’T MISS SALE

Cars-Imports

Nissan 2011 Versa Don’t buy new!

Save thousands with these great commuter cars! 2 to choose from starting at $13,400 stk#12767 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Cadillac 2006 CTS, leather heated seats, sunroof, alloy wheels, power equipment, stk#633431 only $11,745.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Lawrence

Need to find good home for full blood chihuihuis. Male Pure Vanilla Extract, Cou- 1-1/2 yrs old w/papers. Femarin Free, 1-Liter Btl. male 5yrs. old full blood.

Coumarin Free. $7.50. Call 785-749-2523/785-838-8593 785-550-6848. Lv. Msg.

Nearly new sofa. $100.

Please call for more info.

785-331-3003

Ford 2011 Fusion SE save thousands over a new one! Great gas mileage!

Stk#12267 only $17,814.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Cadillac 2005 SRX AWD, leather memory seats, alloy wheels, power equipment, stk#592722 only $13,415.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Food & Produce

Chair, Silver futonmeasuring 28” high x 40” diameter with 3” black quilted cushion. Like new. $40. Call 785-842-8865

Don’t see what you want? Give us a call and we can help you find it!

Dale Willey Automotive, just ask for Doug at 785-843-5200 2840 Iowa St. Lawrence.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Ford 2002 Thunderbird local trade, very sharp, only 25k miles, alloy wheels, cd changer, power equipment, stk#56689B1 only $19,650.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Golf Clubs: ADAMS IDEA A70S hybrid-iron set. 8 clubs total. 4 hybrids & 4 irons. ProLaunch graphite shafts by Grafalloy, regular flex. #1 hybrid in golf!!

New last year, used 5 rounds. New cost $899 last year, will sell for $450.

Thes clubs will go quick.

Please call 785-842-2987

Refrigerator, GE white textured side by side, ice & water in door. Excellent cond. $300 or best offer.

913-558-5605

KITCHEN AID BRAND APPLIANCES White Kitchen Aid appliances being replaced on remodel. Dishwasher, stove, trash compactor. Each $100/offer.

3500 Riverview Dr. Mon-Sat 8-5 or call 785-218-2850

Buick 2010 Lucerne CXL, GM certified, alloy wheels, leather heated memory seats, On Star, lots of room and great gas mileage! Stk#17227A only $23,419 Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Perfect for weddings, rehearsal dinners, birthdays, showers, anniversaries, or any celebration. 50 clear glass, globe vases including pebbles in original boxes.

Regularly $4.50 each, NOW $2.00. Call 785-842-8865

Appliances

Electric Grill, About 20x12, w/ thersm. ~ cooks great ~ new ~ was origiginally $ 70 - asking $20. (Selling because I have 2) Please call 785-550-4142.

Cars-Domestic

Fishtank, 29 gallon tank, with lights powerhead/ supplies with nice stand, optional. Black Nice. Leave message if no answer $100. 785-764-3643

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Case No. 2011 CV 330 Div No. 1 Proceeding Under K.S.A. Chapter 60.

Title to Real Estate Involved NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that under and by virtue of an Order of Sale issued by the Judge of the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas, I will offer for sale at public auction and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand in the Jury Assembly Room of the Douglas County Courthouse in the City of Lawrence in said County and State on the 10th day of May, 2012, at 10:00 o’clock a.m. on said day, the following described interest in real estate situated in Douglas County, Kansas, to-wit: Lot Seven, in Block Two, in Diamondhead, a subdivision in the City of Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas (commonly known as 6208 Berando Court, Lawrence, KS 66049). together with all fixtures, appurtenances, etc. thereunto pertaining; said interest in real property is levied upon as the property of defendants and all other alleged owners and will be sold without appraisal to satisfy said Order of Sale.

On this 11th day of April, 2012 SHERIFF OF DOUGLAS COUNTY

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In the Matter of the Marriage of ROWSHAN ARA BEGUM, Petitioner, and ADNAN ANWAR, Respondent.

Case No. 2012-DM-200 NOTICE OF SUIT THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ADNAN ANWAR AND ALL OTHER PERSONS WHO ARE OR MAY BE CONCERNED. You are hereby notified that a Petition has been filed in the Douglas County Court by Rowshan Begum; you are hereby required to answer the petition on or before May 25, 2012, in the Court at Lawrence, Kansas.

A hearing on the matter is scheduled for June 12, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. in Division 2 of the court named above. If you fail to answer, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the petition.

Rowshan Begum, PETITIONER Christopher Behre, #21273 Kansas Legal Services 2001 Haskell Avenue Lawrence, KS 66046 (785) 838-3401 Attorney for Petitioner ________ (Published in the Lawrence Daily Journal-World April 22, 2012) Indian Education Act Application Public Hearing Monday, April 23, 2012

A public hearing for the Lawrence Public Schools Indian Education Title 7 grant application will be at 6:00 p.m., Monday, April 23, 2012, at the Title 7 Native American Student Services Office, Centennial Building, 2145 Louisiana St., Lawrence, Kansas. This grant application seeks continuLawrence ing federal funds authorized under the 1988 Indian (First published in the Law- Education Act. rence Daily Journal-World April 15, 2012) The 2012/2013 proposal will be reviewed and discussed IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF at the hearing. All parents DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS of eligible Native American students and all other citiFIRST FEDERAL zens are urged to attend.

SAVINGS & LOAN, The recommendations Plaintiff, made at the public hearing vs. will be incorporated into MICHAEL NUFFER, the application which is Defendant. submitted to Washington D.C. Case No. 2011 CV 302 Div No. 1 Submitted by: Proceeding Under K.S.A. Chapter 60.

Title to Real Estate Involved

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STEVENS & BRAND, L.L.P. P. O. Box 189 Lawrence, KS 66044 (785) 843 0811 Attorneys for Plaintiff Bradley R. Finkeldei #19470 ________

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(First published in the Lawrence Daily Journal-World April 15, 2012)

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(Published in the Lawrence Mike Hutto, Lots 1, 2, part of Lots 3, 4 Daily Journal-World April Public Works Director and part of Tract A, Herb’s 22, 2012) 4 East Seventh Street 2nd Plat, a subdivision in P.O. Box 650 City of Eudora, Kansas the City of Eudora, Douglas Eudora, Ks 66025-0650 LOW! LOW! LOW! County, Kansas formerly INTEREST RATES ON ALL REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS known as Lots 1, 2, 3, and 4 Proposals will be promptly USED VEHICLES in Block 235, City of Eudora, opened at the scheduled AVAILABLE ONLY AT Douglas County, Kansas. time and read out loud. An Project: DALE WILLEY 1. Full depth patching on apparent low bidder will be AUTOMOTIVE! recognized and proposals together with all fixtures, city streets. appurtenances, etc. there2. Removal and replace- will be reviewed for comunto pertaining; said inter- ment of concrete curb and pleteness by the city. A full est in real property is lev- gutter. bid tabulation will be proied upon as the property of vided to all bidders followdefendants and all other al- Prospective Bidder: ing evaluation. leged owners and will be The City of Eudora is resold without appraisal to questing proposals for two The city shall award the satisfy said Order of Sale. projects. Project 1 can be project to the lowest resummarized as removal sponsible bidder. A letter of On this 11th day of April, and replacement of approx- award with notice to pro2012 imately 533 feet of concrete ceed date will be provided SHERIFF OF curb and gutter. Project 2 to the selected bidder.

DOUGLAS COUNTY can be summarized as full depth patching on several All questions related to the project shall be directed to city streets.

Pontiac 2006 Solstice, PREPARED BY: Mike Hutto, City of Eudora leather, alloy wheels, enSTEVENS & BRAND, L.L.P. Public Works Director, at Sealed proposals shall be joy the summer in this P. O. Box 189 (785)542-3100 or due on May 29, 2012, at great one of a kind roadmhutto@cityofeudoraks.gov.

Lawrence, KS 66044 10:00 AM. ster!

Stk#10990 only (785) 843 0811 $12,841 Sincerely, Attorneys for Plaintiff Proposals shall be mailed Dale Willey 785-843-5200 or delivered to: www.dalewilleyauto.com Mike Hutto Bradley R. Finkeldei #19470 City Hall ________ Toyota 2006 Tundra, S5-Off Road, V-8, 4.71 L, double cab, 4WD, 30K miles, in (First published in the Lawgood condition.

Brush rence Daily Journal-World bumper w/ winch, tow April 15, 2012) pkg., bed liner, power rear windo, heated leather IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF front seats, alloy wheels, DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS cassette and single CD, FIRST FEDERAL KBB $23,600.

Asking SAVINGS & LOAN, $22,700. Contact Ken at Plaintiff, (785) 832-1025 vs.

MICHAEL NUFFER CONSTRUCTION, INC., et al., Defendants.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that under and by virtue of an Order of Sale issued by the Judge of the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas, I will offer for sale at public auction and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand in the Jury Assembly Room of the Douglas County Courthouse in the City of Lawrence in said County and State on the 10th day of May, 2012, at 10:00 o’clock a.m. on said day, the following described interest in real estate situated in Douglas County, Kansas, to-wit:

Jennifer Attocknie, Director Title 7 Program Native American Student Services Lawrence Public Schools _______

NOTICE TO BIDDERS:

Interested vendors are encouraged to visit the University of Kansas Purchasing Services website for a listing of Current Bid Opportunities. Electronic Bid postings are located at: www.purchasing.ku.edu /Bids/KU_Bids.aspx Interested vendors may also contact KU Purchasing Services, 785-864-5800.

1246 West Campus Road Rm. 30, Lawrence, KS 66045 Fax 785-864-3454 or email: purchasing@ku.edu

Lawrence

Lawrence

City of Eudora Public Works Director

Eudora, Ks 66025-0650

Bids will be promptly opened at the scheduled time and read out loud. An City of Eudora, Kansas apparent low bidder will be recognized and bids will be REQUEST FOR BIDS reviewed for completeness by the city. A full bid tabuProject: Asphalt Overlay lation will be provided to all 2012 Street Maintenance bidders following evaluation.

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Prospective Bidder: The City of Eudora is requesting bids for 2” overlay on various streets in the city. The project can be summarized as 2” overlay of approximately 20,953 sq. yds on various streets within the city.

The city shall award the project to the lowest responsible bidder. A letter of award with notice to proceed date will be provided to the selected bidder.

All questions related to the project shall be directed to Mike Hutto, City of Eudora Director of Public Works, at Sealed bids shall be due on (785)542-3100 or mhutto@cityofeudoraks.gov.

May 29, 2012 at 10:00 AM. Bids shall be mailed or delivered to: City Hall Mike Hutto, Public Works Director 4 East Seventh Street P.O. Box 650

Sincerely, Mike Hutto City of Eudora Public Works Director _______

Stepfather too hung up on a name Dear Annie: I am a 56-year-old stepfather to two wonderful young women, ages 20 and 17.

My wife of five years did a wonderful job raising the girls after their father died. Our relationship is open and trusting. I never call them stepdaughters. I view them as my own. And they tell me they love me. My problem? Lately, the title of “stepfather” is having an adverse effect. It makes me feel excluded. I want them to call me “Dad.” I am starting to feel less and less a part of the family.

They’ve done nothing to merit this. It’s all me.

I have talked about this with my wife and oldest child because they noticed me withdrawing. We’ve discussed adoption, but neither they nor I want to write their father off their birth certificates.

And a piece of paper isn’t going to change the

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way we care about each other. So, why am I hung up on a title? All I know is, I don’t like waking up at 3:30 a.m. feeling so despondent. — Bob Dear Bob: The girls can call you “Dad” without having it become official on their birth certificates. It’s a form of address, not a legal title.

And while you can point out that calling you “Dad” doesn’t undermine the girls’ respect for their own father, you must allow it to be their decision.

If they agree, they will need to make a concerted

‘Veep’ is too dumb for HBO Julia Louis-Dreyfus (“Seinfeld”) stars in “Veep” (9 p.m., HBO).

She’s Selina Meyer, a rising political star whose fortunes ebb when she becomes vice president. It quickly becomes clear that the unnamed and unseen president has parked her in an impossible and largely irrelevant ceremonial role to sabotage her career. Meyer and the audience discover that nothing is quite what it seems or as easy as it should be. ‘‘Veep” creator Armando Iannucci directed the 2009 film “In the Loop,” a savage satire of the noncommunication between Washington and London during the buildup to the Iraq invasion.

That film had many things that are sadly lacking in “Veep,” chief among them a connection to actual events and a sense of real stakes.

Equally disappointing is the decision to play Meyer as a scatterbrain. In many ways it’s as if “Seinfeld’s” Elaine Benes has become vice president. She’s simply unbelievable as a character who could have had any political career or posed a threat to anyone.

The supporting cast, including Tony Hale (“Arrested Development”) is game, but they’re generally engaged in bickering, backbiting and double-dealing without consequence, or political resonance. It struck me as warmed-over “Spin City” without that show’s charms.

Tonight’s other highlights

Scheduled on “60 Minutes” (6 p.m., CBS): more details about the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the Middle East’s Christian exodus, Florida’s emerald discovery.

Gold digs to find August’s identity on “Once Upon a Time” (7 p.m., ABC).

David Attenborough appears on the season finale of “Frozen Planet” (7 p.m., Discovery). Viewers can catch up on earlier episodes (noon to 6 p.m., Discovery).

A British officer endures the grim reality of World War I’s trench warfare with flashbacks to his affair with a married Frenchwoman in the “Masterpiece Classic” (8 p.m., PBS) production of “Birdsong,” adapted from a bestselling novel by Sebastian Faulks.

Dany reaches the gates of Qarth on “Game of Thrones” (8 p.m., HBO).

A cryptic message on “The Killing” (8 p.m., AMC).

Don may bring in new business on “Mad Men” (9 p.m., AMC).

Cesare puts art into the art of war on “The Borgias” (9 p.m., Showtime).

Hannah has a health scare on “Girls” (9:30 p.m., HBO)

BIRTHDAYS

Actress Charlotte Rae is 86.

Actress Estelle Harris is 80.

Singer Glen Campbell is 76. Actor Jack Nicholson is 75. Singer Mel Carter is 69. Author Janet Evanovich is 69. Movie director John Waters is 66. Singer Peter Frampton is 62. Actor Joseph Bottoms is 58. Comedian Byron Allen is 51. Actor Chris Makepeace is 48. Actress-talk show host Sherri Shepherd is 45.

effort to use the title until it becomes automatic and natural, and you will have to be patient.

But also please work on your attitude. If they opt to call you “Bob,” it doesn’t mean they don’t consider you their father. If you put your mind to it, you can learn to enjoy that name, too.

Dear Annie: My fiance, “Harry,” has several female friends, but one in particular bothers me.

Harry lives 60 miles away and visits on weekends.

In between, he often goes out with “Liza” for breakfast, lunch or dinner, for long rides, to climb mountains or to swim.

Liza is a lovely lady, and I like her, but she is single, and their relationship is making me uncomfortable. I tried to talk with Harry about it, but he ranted and raved about my jealousy. I don’t believe anything has happened between them, but I feel they are

JACQUELINE BIGAR’S STARS

For Sunday, April 22: This year you could meet someone you believe to be your soul mate. You certainly will enjoy this person. Make no decisions at first, even if you are single. If you are attached, be careful not to become too me-oriented. After all, it takes two to have a relationship.

The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult Aries (March 21-April 19) Your instincts will give you insight into what to do to please a touchy family member. The cost of doing this could be an issue.

Tonight: As you like it.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) You have magic on your side, as you can pull white rabbits out of a black hat. Just make sure you want that which you create. Tonight: Beam in what you want.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Others wonder and perhaps worry about you. They question what you are up to. You could feel burdened by a decision and need more time. Tonight: Go with a surprise.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) If you are with friends and loved ones, you could have a nearly perfect day. Make plans. Invite this close group over for a barbecue or fun get-together. Tonight: Surprises follow you.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) A partner or close family member manages to build your ego even more. This person’s compliments put you on top of the world.

Tonight: Enjoying all the attention and people.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

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You feel as if a muse is riding on your shoulder. Your creativity surges, and with it comes your willingness to take risks.

Tonight: Let your imagination come into play.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Deal with a situation involving a partner or loved one. If you do not have a necessary discussion with this person, there will be more of an issue. Tonight: Dinner for two.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You often allow others to make the first move. You will do this today and be pleased by their choices. Tonight: See what is offered first.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Whatever you choose to do you do with vigor and spirit. Others like your energy and want you to pitch in. Tonight: Give some thought to tomorrow.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You have a lot vested in communicating better, especially with one particular person. You are direct and know what you want.

Tonight: The unexpected could run riot.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Be aware of others’ expectations, yet know that you don’t have to fulfill them. A discussion in an important relationship might be in order. Tonight: Hang out at home.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) You might have had a dream last night that could be impacting your day. Your actions might be more tied to your subconscious than you realize. Tonight: Return calls; catch up on news.

— The astrological forecast should be read for entertainment only.

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playing with fire and not considering my feelings.

What should I do? Am I wrong to worry? — Getting Under My Skin Dear Getting: Harry’s friendship with Liza doesn’t concern us as much as his reaction when you brought it up.

Ranting, raving and accusing you of jealousy is not the reaction of a caring, loving, respectful fiance. It is manipulative. It puts you on the defensive, possibly to shield his own feelings or actions. Whether anything has happened with Liza (or will) is not as important as how Harry feels about her and what that relationship means to him. Please get some premarital counseling so the two of you can hash this out before making ACROSS things permanent.

— Send questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or Annie’s Mailbox, P.O. Box 118190 Chicago, IL 60611.

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1 Plaster of Paris preparation 6 Debilitating guilt 11 Cookout disposable 14 Cool and distant 15 From that day forward 16 Eggs, to a biologist 17 Fabricate 19 Oscar-winning director Gibson 20 Hellenic “H” 21 Ghost’s greetings 22 Free a prisoner, as from ropes 24 Genesis villain 26 Basement’s opposite 27 “Norma ___” (1979 movie) 28 Queensland’s capital 31 Celestial streaker 34 Easy to stick a needle in 35 Appliance setting 36 Playing on the road 37 What this crossword’s theme is?

38 “Do it or ___!”

39 The start of the four theme entries, collectively 40 Office records 41 One working a trade 42 Puts a fence around

Universal Crossword Edited by Timothy E. Parker April 22, 2012 44 Be visibly disconsolate 45 Egyptian bird god 46 Pay for, as a project 50 Fries in a bit of butter 52 Dryer outlet 53 Savings plan for later yrs.

54 Need to be corrected 55 Lords’ places 58 Hawaiian shirt accessory 59 How to do it until you get it right 60 Address the crowd 61 Air traffic control org.

62 Can’t survive without 63 WXYZ phone buttons DOWN 1 “Let the ___ begin!”

2 Bring delight to 3 Aid in finding the Titanic 4 Small French coin, once 5 Quirky 6 Yachtsman’s neckwear 7 Tiny lice 8 Up-to-date antelope?

9 Careful examination 10 Itty-bitty (Var.) 11 In a funny manner 12 Kind of thermometer 13 Follicly challenged

18 “... in ___-horse open sleigh” 23 Apparel for a very young diner 25 Hunted ones 26 Seed coverings 28 Elaine’s surname on “Seinfeld” 29 Cyrano’s famous feature 30 Widespouted mantel pitcher 31 Attended 32 “Closer” Oscar nominee Clive 33 Film candidate’s home?

34 Hollows between hills 37 Mrs. Malaprop’s problem 38 Site of exile for Napoleon

40 Boxer with a grill 41 Float that supports a bridge 43 Paramount workplace 44 Hyperbolic function 46 Boston and Christmas 47 Month after Adar 48 Greek island in the Mediterranean 49 Applies less pressure (with “up”) 50 Word with “centered” or “portrait” 51 ___ code (three-digit number) 52 Declare invalid 56 Refusal from Groundskeeper Willie 57 William Tell’s birthplace

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DEATHS Eliza Neal

Funeral Services for Eliza Neal, 81, Lawrence, will be 10 am Wednesday at Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home.

Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery. Ms. Neal died Friday, April 20, 2012 at Kansas City Hospice House.

The family will receive friends from 5-7pm Tuesday at the funeral home. Condolences may be left at www.rumsey-yost.com.

Ronald L. McGregor

Graveside services for Ronald L. McGregor, 93, will be in Pioneer Cemetery on Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 10:00am.

Mr. McGregor died at his home on April 21, 2012.

He married Dorothy Nuffer on February 13, 1942.

She survives of the home.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to the Ronald L. McGregor Herbarium- KU Endowment and sent in care of Warren-McElwain Mortuary.

Online condolences may be sent to www.warrenmcelwain.com.

Doris M. Mumford Funeral services for Doris M. Mumford, 81, Lawrence, KS will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at First Christian Church in Lawrence. Burial will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery. She died on Friday, April 20, 2012 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

She was born on December 26, 1930 in Cass County, TX, the daughter of Rock I. and Mae Crossland Golden. She moved to Lawrence with her husband in July 1952.

Mrs. Mumford was a long time food service cashier at USD 497. She retired in 1986.

She was a member of the First Christian Church in Lawrence.

She was married to Edwin Mumford on February 14, 1952 in St. Joseph, MO. He preceded her in

death on June 16, 2009.

Survivors include a daughter, Lisa and husband, Chuck Hoag, a son, John D. and wife, Leslie Green Mumford, of West Point, NY, seven grandchildren, Jenna Mumford, Meghan Mumford, Lauren Mumford, Taylor Hoag, Chase (wife, Caroline) Hoag, Austin Hoag, and Courtney Hoag.

The family suggests memorials in her name to the First Christian Church or to the Lawrence Memorial Hospital Palliative Care Unit and may be sent in care of Warren-McElwain Mortuary.

The family will greet friends from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Monday, Aril 23, 2012 at the mortuary.

Online condolences may be sent to www.warrenmcelwain.co m

Myrtle Evelyn Coker Myrtle Evelyn Coker, 92, of De Soto, Kansas passed away April 21, 2012 at Good Samaritan of Olathe. Funeral services will be held 11:00 am Thursday, April 26, 2012 at the De Soto United Methodist Church, 8760 Kill Creek Rd., with private family burial at De Soto Cemetery. Visitation will be from 10 – 11:00 am Thursday, before the service.

Memorial contributions may be made to the De Soto United Methodist Church or Relay For Life of De Soto. Arrangements: Bruce Funeral Home, Gardner, KS (913) 856-7111.

Condolences may be left at www.brucefuneralhome.c om Myrtle was born March 5, 1920 in Prairie Center, KS to Clifford A. and Mary (Jarman) Rowe. She was a life-long De Soto area resident. She married James “Leon” Coker January 29, 1947 in Olathe, KS. Myrtle worked as a banker at the De Soto State Bank for 40 years and helped her husband maintain family farms and rentals. She was a member of the De Soto United Methodist Church where she served as treasurer for 40 years,

was a trustee and an active UMW member. Myrtle was an active volunteer for the city of De Soto and also a member of the De Soto Chamber of Commerce, De Soto Economic Enhancement Committee and Monticello Historical Society.

She was an exceptional community leader and will be dearly missed.

She was preceded in death by her parents and husband Leon in 2008.

Myrtle is survived by her children: Dr. James (Andrea) Tatkon-Coker, Mason City, IA, Steven Coker, De Soto, KS, Mary (Kurt) Guntert, De Soto, KS and Roy (Dodie) Coker, Lawrence, KS; sisters, Doris Haselwanter, San Juan Capistrano, CA, and Bertha Brashears, Greenville, TX; eleven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

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L AWRENCE J OURNAL -W ORLD

LAWRENCE CITY COMMISSION Agenda highlights • 6:35 p.m. Tuesday • City Hall, Sixth and Massachusetts streets • Knology Channel Kansas in 1951 and 25 • Meeting documents online at lawrenceks.org worked in construction at the Hercules Powder Plant and in later years worked as a line foreman at the plant. Later he re- BOTTOM LINE turned to construction City commissioners events also will be seekand then worked nine will consider approving ing permits to serve alyears at the Johnson permits to close several cohol in the public rightCounty Community College before he retired in downtown streets to of-way as part of street accommodate various party events they have 1981. events. Several of the planned.

Beside his parents Mr. Spurgeon is preceded in BACKGROUND death by four brothers, Hobart, Roy, Carl, Harold Events that require from Massachusetts to and five sisters, Lena, Vi- street closing include: New Hampshire from 1 olet, Mary, Lyla and Eve! The downtown bar p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, lyn.

The Replay Lounge is May 26, to host an awards proposing to close 10th ceremony and party folSurvivors include a son, Street from Massachu- lowing its parade through Barrett Chris Spurgeon (Connie) of Gladstone, setts eastward to the alley downtown. The event is Mo.; daughters, Lanna from noon to midnight on seeking a permit to serve Jane Spurgeon (Gene) of Saturday, May 12. The Re- alcohol on the street. ! Brits, the purveyor of Lexington, Mo., and Gin- play folks are asking for many British food items a license to sell alcohol ger Chance of Lawrence, Ks.; former son-in-law on the street during the at 929 Mass., has applied for a permit to close 10th Clarence Chance of event. ! Lawrence Arts Cen- Street from MassachuDeSoto; eight grandchildren, Patrick Spurgeon ter and the Art Tougeau setts to New Hampshire (Megan), Kimberly Baker organization are seeking streets from 9 a.m. to 4 (Robert), Brent Wyatt to close the 900 block of p.m. Saturday, June 2, for (Ryan), Wendy Matousek New Hampshire Street the Queen’s Diamond Ju(Roman), Matthew Rios, from noon Friday, May 25, bilee Celebration event.

Tony Rios, Perry Chance until 1 p.m. Saturday, May The event will include (Kirsten), Dana Chance 26, for festivities related cars on display, vendors, (Mike Warner, to the Arts Center’s Final acoustic music and games. grandson-in-law) four Friday event and the Art ! Organizers are asking great-grandchildren, Tougeau parade on the for Massachusetts Street Cody and Colton Baker, following day. The event from North Park Street Hannah Hagan and Brett also would allow for alco- to South Park Street to be Chance. hol to be served in front of closed from 6 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Sunday, May 6, for the arts center.

The family suggests ! Tougeau also is seek- the annual Art in the Park memorials to Dorsey Post ing to close 10th Street art fair event.

14 in Lawrence, Kansas.

Herschel E. “Tony” Spurgeon Memorial Services for Herschel E. “Tony” Spurgeon, 93, will be at 12:30 PM, April 25, 2012, at D.W. Newcomer’s Sons Johnson County Chapel, 11200 Metcalf Ave., Overland Park, Kansas. Visitation will be held one hour before the service. Inurnment with military honors provided.

Mr. Spurgeon was born February 9th, 1919 in Bolivar, Missouri, Polk County, the son of Harlan E. and Elizabeth Gretchen Spurgeon. He attended Bolivar High School where he excelled in the athletic programs. He had a life-long passion for sports. Herschel married his beloved wife, Devota Maxine Mayse, on March 28, 1937 in Buffalo, Missouri. She preceded him in death December 29, 2011.

Mr. Spurgeon served in the 80th Blue Ridge Division, 319 infantry with the U.S. Army during WWII. He served in three European campaigns, Rhineland, Ardennes and Central Europe in Patton’s Third Army including the Battle of the Bulge. He was awarded the Bronze Star and was a member of Dorsey Post No. 14 in Lawrence,Kansas.

Mr. Spurgeon moved to

Street closings up for approval

Lolita (Lolly) Brooks Coffin Longtime Lawrence resident, Lolita (Lolly) Brooks Coffin, 93, passed away on April 18, 2012 in Durango, Colorado, where she had lived for the past ten years. Lolly was surrounded by her loving family, who grieves her passing, but is comforted by the blessings of her long life, her adventurous spirit, her loving care and knowing she was welcomed home by her husband, Tony, who preceded her.

Lolly is survived by sons Doug Coffin (Kaaren) of Abiquiu, NM; Barry Coffin of Lawrence, KS; Tom Coffin (Julia) of Scottsdale, AZ; and Lynn Coffin (Carly DeLong) of Durango, CO; grandsons Michael Worsham, Brian Coffin, Erik Coffin (Meryl), and Gabrial Coffin; great-grandchildren Ashley Worsham, Miro Coffin, and Paloma Coffin; niece Betty Stone (Paul) of Vienna, VA; and nephew Bob Hardage (Sherry) of Houston, TX. Lolly was preceded in death by her husband, Warner A. “Tony” Coffin, Jr. of Lawrence, KS; parents John Brooks and Bettie Chisholm Brooks of Dustin, OK; brothers Jim Brooks, Claude Brooks and Arthur Brooks; sisters Marie Robinson, Lovie Brooks, Lena Hardage and Montilene Jacoway.

Lolly was born in Dustin, OK on Feb. 24, 1919.

After graduating from Dustin High School, she attended Haskell Institute, graduating in 1941.

She entered civil service and worked from 1941 to 1944, serving in Muskogee, OK, Albuquerque, NM, Chicago, IL and Washington, D.C. Lolly married Lt. Warner A. Coffin, Jr. (USN), son of Warner A., Sr. and Margaret Wabaunse Coffin, on June 12, 1944 in Kansas City. Lolly and Tony raised their four sons at Haskell Institute (now Haskell Indian Nations University) where Tony was Coach and Athletic Director for many years.

After Tony’s passing in

OTHER BUSINESS Recognition

• Proclaim April 23-27 as Tree City USA Week and April 27 as Arbor Day. • Proclaim the month of May as Bike Month and the week of May 14-18 as Bike-To-Work Week.

Consent agenda

1966, Lolly worked at Haskell until her retirement.

Lolly was an intrepid and adventurous world traveler, visiting over 48 countries during her lifetime. Her ever-present spirit of curiosity and love of life took her to many exotic places, often with one of her sons. She was up for anything, whether it was cruising the Nile in Egypt, exploring in Tibet or riding a jitney in Bangkok. An avid bridge player, Lolly played with her many good friends all her life.

Lolly attended St. Johns the Evangelist Catholic Church in Lawrence.

Lolly moved to Durango in 2002, where she continued her active life and travels throughout the U.S. She took her greatest pleasure in the accomplishments of her sons and attended many events with them, from down home barbeques to elegant art world affairs, to state capitols, to the White House. An avid sports fan, Lolly never missed watching her son Lynn at tennis matches or a Jayhawks basketball game.

A graveside service will be held at Mount Calvary Cemetery, 1605 Oak Hill Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66044 on Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. followed by a celebration of Lolly’s life at the 23rd Street Brewery located at 3512 Clinton Parkway, Lawrence, KS. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that a donation be made to the Haskell Alumni Association, 155 Indian Ave., Lawrence, KS 66046, (785) 832-6627. Arrangements are being handled

by Rumsey Yost Mortuary in Lawrence.

• Receive minutes from various boards and commissions: • Approve all claims.

• Approve licenses as recommended by the City Clerk’s Office.

• Bid and purchase items: a) Award the bid for the 2012 Overlay Program Phase 1, Project No. PW1209, to Sunflower Paving, Inc., for a total amount of $669,773. b) Award bid for Project No. PW1207, 23rd Street ITS Project, to K & W Underground, Inc. in the amount of $119,946. c) Authorize final payment and change order in the amount of $11,552 to R.D. Johnson Excavating Co. Inc. for the Farmland Demolition project.

• Adopt the following ordinances on second and final reading: a) Ordinance No. 8697, Ordinance No. 8698, Ordinance No. 8699, Ordinance No. 8700, and Ordinance No. 8701, for the annexation of approximately 126.4 acres for Yankee Tank/ Lake Alvamar. b) Ordinance No. 8726, for a Text Amendment (TA-2-1-12) to the Land Development Code to revise the minimum amount of area of a structure needed to be eligible for a 0.5 parking space per bedroom standard from 3,500 square feet to 4,500 square feet. c) Ordinance No. 8718, for a Text Amendment (TA-10-16-11) to Chapter 20 of the City Code, Land Development Code, to review the uses of the existing industrial districts.

• Approve a Temporary Use of Public Right-of-Way Permit allowing the closure of 10th Street from Massachusetts to New Hampshire from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

June 2 for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebration event.

• Approve a Temporary Use of Public Right-of-Way Permit for the Lawrence Art Guild to close Massachusetts Street from North Park Street to South Park Street from 6 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. May 6 (or rain-out date of May 13) for the 2012 Art in the Park Art Fair.

• Approve Special Use Permit, SE-4-15-12, for a Cinco de Mayo/ Poehler Open House public outdoor concert event from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. May 5 in the vacant lot at 800 Pa. • Accept dedication of an additional easement for Final Plat, PF-74-11, Inverness Park Plaza Addition No. 5, for public utility improvements on property located at the southwest corner of Crossgate Drive and Clinton Parkway in conformance with approved Public Improvement Plans.

• Concur with Traffic Safety Commission recommendation to deny the request for traffic calming on 11th Place between Michael Street and Monterey Way. • Approve application to KDOT for Federal-Aid Safety Program funding for improvements at Ninth and Kentucky streets and Ninth and Michigan streets.

• Authorize staff to submit application for KLINK funding (state fiscal year 2014) for south Iowa Street, 29th Street to south city limits, resurfacing project.

• Authorize staff to negotiate an agreement with BG Consultants for engineering services for the 23rd and Iowa Geometric Improvement project. The agreement will be presented at a later date to the City Commission for approval. Adopt Resolution No. 6966 authorizing the issuance of $1.5 million in General Obligation Bonds for main trafficway improvements at the intersection of 23rd and Iowa streets.

• Authorize the Lawrence Cultural Arts Commission Community Arts Grants as recommended by the Lawrence Cultural Arts Commission.

• City manager’s report.

Regular agenda

• Conduct a public hearing and considering adopting an ordinance regarding the sale of alcohol for temporary events including the Arts Center Final Friday event, Art Tougeau Parade After Party and the Replay Spring Into Summer event. Consider approving Temporary Use of Public Right-of-Way Permits for the same events.

• Consider the following determinations by the Historic Resources Commission concerning the proposed project at 900 N.H.: a) Consider making a determination based on a consideration of all relevant factors that there is/is not a feasible and prudent alternative to the proposed project at 900 N.H. and the proposed project includes/does not include all possible planning to minimize harm to the listed properties. b) Consider an appeal of the HRC determination to deny a Certificate of Appropriateness for the proposed project to be located at 900 N.H. • Receive reimbursement request relating to the proposed development at 900 N.H., consider adopting a resolution on the proposed redevelopment district and consider adopting on first reading an ordinance to remove the east side from the current TIF district, and refer to the Public Incentives Review Committee.

• Consider a motion to recess into executive session for 1 hour for the purposes of possible acquisition of real estate and consultation with attorneys for the city on matters deemed privileged under the attorney-client relationship.

BRIEFLY Watergate figure dies at age 80

by those angered at the abuses he had perpetrated as one of Nixon’s hatchet WASHINGTON — He men. was described as the But Charles “Chuck” Col“evil genius” of the Nixon son spent the next 35 years administration and spent steadfast in his efforts the better part of a year to evangelize to a part of in prison for a Watergate- society scorned just as he related conviction. His was. And he became known perhaps just as much for his proclamations following efforts to minister to prison his release that he was a new man, redeemed by his inmates as for his infamy with Watergate. religious faith, were met Colson died Saturday with more than skepticism

at age 80. His death was confirmed by Jim Liske, chief executive of the Lansdowne, Va.-based Prison Fellowship Ministries that Colson founded.

Liske said the preliminary cause of death was complications from brain surgery Colson had at the end of March. He underwent the surgery to remove a clot after becoming ill March 30 while speaking at a conference.

Zimmerman prepares protect the man whose for release from jail shoot-

men began staking out the Seminole County Jail early Saturday in Sanford, a day SANFORD, FLA. — George ing of the after a Florida judge agreed Zimmerman is getting out unarmed to let Zimmerman out on of jail. Now his defense black $150,000 bail. Zimmerman’s team has to worry about 17-year-old attorney, Mark O’Mara, said it keeping the neighborhood sparked would take a few days before watch volunteer accused nationwide Zimmerman Zimmerman is released. His of gunning down Trayvon protests: family needs time to secure Martin safe on the outside.

Get him out of Florida, keep collateral for the bail, ZimmerDefense attorneys for him from going out in public man needs to be fitted with an electronic monitoring device other high-profile clients and never leave him alone. and O’Mara said he must find who awaited trial on bail A half-dozen reporters, a secure location for him. had advice for how to photographers and camera-