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INSIDE TODAY: THE BEST OF LAWRENCE WINNERS Best of Lawrence contest. Voters picked winners in more than 130 categories spread out among five broad topics: Community, Food, Going Out, Retail and Services. Take a look inside today’s Journal-World for our special magazine that

Ask Lawrence residents for an opinion, and they’ll sure give it — especially if it’s about the best place for a sandwich, a cold beverage or a hot deal. More than 7,500 ballots — a record — were cast in the lawrence.com 2013

rence contest has a category for almost everyone. Check it out for yourself, and then feel free to do what Lawrence residents also are known to do: Debate the outcomes.

On Father’s Day, these guys seriously play

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lists the top three winners in every category and includes profiles on many of the top finishers. Whether it is Mexican food restaurants battling it out like matadors or dentists trying to drill the competition, this year’s Best of Law-

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Today’s forecast, page 10A

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Theatre Lawrence revels in new space

Expanding hunting at refuge will harm endangered cranes, some contend

For 28 years, Theatre Lawrence had to make do in a cramped, repurposed church. Now it has a brand new $7 million building with 35,000 square feet of space. Page 1C SPORTS

By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com Nick Krug/Journal-World Photos

KU baseball sees family tradition After coaching three sons at KU from 2003-2010, KU baseball coach Ritch Price again has a family member in the dugout. Son Ritchie has joined his dad as a full-time assistant coach. Page 1B

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JOE HARDY, OF LAWRENCE, right, hugs Jesse Chavez, of Shawnee, after Chavez’s team lost the championship round during the eighth annual Brother Olympics horseshoe throwing event, Saturday at Broken Arrow Park. At left is Gabriel Chavez, of Lawrence. Dozens of male relatives — fathers, sons, cousins, uncles and nephews — come together each Father’s Day in Lawrence for the event, which is designed to bond the men through competition. See the photo gallery online at LJWorld.com.

Family’s homespun Olympics an outlet for bonding, bragging

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INDEX Arts&Entertainment 1C-8C Books 6C Classified 6B-10B Deaths 2A Events listings 10A, 2B Horoscope 9B Movies 2C Opinion 9A Puzzles 9B, 7C Sports 1B-8B Television 10A, 2B, 9B, 8C Vol.155/No.167 28 pages

Rare bird at heart of dispute

t’s a high-stakes horseshoe game. There are men who build horseshoe pits in their backyards so they can practice all year for this one match in Lawrence’s Broken Arrow Park. There’s a 72-year old man known as Uncle Martin, a Grade A horseshoe trash-talker, who comes all the way from San Antonio for the match. This year, there were nearly 60 men drawn to the pits. There were brothers against brothers, cousins against cousins, uncles against nephews, and every combination in between. Those stakes are high

Lawhorn’s Lawrence

Chad Lawhorn

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enough, but there’s a pairing that takes it to an even higher level: Father versus son. There were about a half-dozen of those pairings, and don’t think for a second that just because it’s

Father’s Day weekend that there was any slack cut in those rivalries. Just the opposite. Fathers have had this date circled on their calendars for quite awhile. “I can still beat them in horseshoes,� Gabriel Chavez, 47, says of his two late twentysomething sons who compete in the event. “That’s where I can remind them that the old man still has a little bit left in the tank. And when I beat one of them, I can still call him a kid.� Being able to have a kid again on Father’s Day weekend: The stakes don’t get much higher than that.

Horseshoe pitching is just part of the fun that took place Saturday. Members of Lawrence’s Chavez family gathered at both Broken Arrow and Centennial parks to compete in six events over seven hours: A home run derby, a hot shot basketball competition, horseshoes, bowling, a pool tournament and a dart tournament. They use nearby facilities at Royal Crest Lanes and

Expansion of hunting opportunities in the Quivira National Wildlife Refuge is being proposed by wildlife officials but faces opposition from birdwatchers who say the recommendation will put at risk the endangered whooping crane. “What has become probably the most significant migratory stop for the whooping crane in Kansas could be substantially less accommodating for whooping cranes in the future,� said Ron Klataske, executive director of Audubon of Kansas. But Mike Oldham, manPlease see CRANES, page 2A

Please see OLYMPICS, page 7A

Many area dads

have faced tough challenges to be with their kids on Father’s Day. Page 3A

AP File Photo

THE WHOOPING CRANE is the tallest bird in North America — some reach 5 feet — and one of the rarest.

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