Lawrence Journal-World 07-18-13

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Lawrence resident shot to death

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By Ian Cummings and Peter Hancock icummings@ljworld.com; phancock@ljworld.com

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PARIS SPOTTED TAIL, 9, leaps in front of the crowd while dancing during the final Lawrence City Band concert of the summer, which was Wednesday at South Park. The final concert normally features cannon fire during the “1812 Overture,” but federal budget cuts prevented the Kansas National Guard from performing its ceremonial role in this year’s event.

Cannon cut from performance as a result of sequestration By Giles Bruce gbruce@ljworld.com

Washington gridlock has begun to encroach even on innocent summer fun in the park. The Lawrence City Band’s final summer concert Wednesday did not, for the first time in a generation, include a cannon shooting during the performance of the “1812 Overture,” which is traditionally one of the event’s closing numbers. The Kansas National Guard has provided and fired the cannons in previous years but stopped such ceremonial activities because of sequestration cuts imposed by Congress. The band’s fireworks went on as planned. The City Band started the cannon tradition in

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A LARGE CROWD GATHERED around the South Park gazebo for the final Lawrence City Band concert of the season. the late 1980s. For about a decade before that, local volunteers shot 12-gauge shotguns filled with blackpowder blanks into tilted barrels. That had replaced the tradition of simulat-

DEAN SOMERVILLE, Lawrence, warms up on his tuba before the start of the final ing cannon fire with a bass Lawrence City Band concert drum. of the season. Band members may have found a solution for War re-enactor has volunthe coming years, if the teered his club’s services military cannons remain for the 2014 City Band fiunavailable: A local Civil nale.

New service allows people to feed KU parking meters from their smartphones; no coins needed The stickers are coming to all of the campus’ longmerickson@ljworld.com term parking meters, the biggest concentration Parking on the Kansas of which is near the Ambler Student Recreation University campus during Fitness Center and the Watkins Memorial Health the day, for someone without Center. Others are scattered around campus.

By Matt Erickson

a parking permit, can often mean plunking some quarters into a meter. But starting next month, all you’ll need is a cellphone. That’s because of the bright green stickers now adorning the campus’ longterm parking meters. They’ll allow campus visitors, or anyone else without a permit, to use their cellphones to pay an hourly parking rate

for some campus spots — including one lot, near Memorial Stadium, not previously open to visitors. The service is offered through a company called Parkmobile. Parkers can use the company’s free smartphone app to pay, or they can call a number to pay over the phone.

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“We were looking for a way to make it easier for people to buy some time,” said Donna Hultine, director of KU Parking and Transit. She said the service is not active yet at KU, but it will be by the time the fall semester begins, on Aug. 26. The stickers are coming to all of the campus’ long-term park-

The new parking meter sticker ing meters, the biggest concentration of which is near the Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center and the Watkins Memorial Health Center. Others are scattered around campus.

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Environmentalists criticize provision in farm bill that could affect coal-fired plant By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com

TOPEKA — Buried in the farm bill that was approved by the U.S. House is a provision that environmentalists said Wednesday would make it easier to build a coal-burning electric power plant in southwest Kansas. Environmentalists have won federal court decisions that will require an environmental review before Hays-based Sunflower Electric Power Corp. can build the $2.8 billion, 895-megawatt plant near Holcomb. But a section of the House’s farm bill would essentially negate that environmental review requirement, according to Bill Griffith, energy chair of the Kansas chapter of the Sierra Club, and Amanda Goodin, an attorney for Please see COAL, page 2A

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A man was shot and killed in Lawrence on Wednesday evening, and two people were arrested in Topeka in connection with the crime. The shooting reportedly took place about 6:20 p.m. at a residence at 647 Michigan St., according to a Lawrence police spokesman. Police have not identified the victim, only saying that he was a 51-year-old Lawrence resident. But a neighbor who said he performed CPR on the victim described him as a man who lived in the residence with his son. Alex Hormell, 53, who lived next door, said the victim’s distraught son told him that a man had knocked on the door before the shooting. Police Capt. Steve Zarnowiec said police were in the early stages of investigation, as crime scene tape went up in the area. According to the Shawnee County Dispatch Center, two people, one male and one female, were arrested in southeast Topeka at 6:41 p.m. in connection with the shooting. Late Wednesday evening, Lawrence Police Department detectives were questioning the suspects. Hormell said he did not hear the shooting but ran over to the residence where it occurred when he heard shouting. He found his neighbor lying near his front door, apparently shot in the head, just behind his left ear. Hormell began performing

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Lake to be treated Douglas County officials are planning once again to use a chemical treatment to control an aggressive underwater weed that is plaguing Lone Star Lake. Page 3A

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