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MAYA DAVISON, 13, PULLS HER FRIEND GRACIE HALL, 13, of Lawrence, away from racks of tempting shoes at Brown’s Shoe Fit, 829 Massachusetts St., Thursday during the annual Downtown Lawrence Sidewalk Sale. Photo gallery at LJWorld.com
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Stata Norton Ringle never stopped learning, and she never stopped giving back to Kansas University, either. The KU Endowment Association today announced a $10 million gift from the estate of Ringle, a former dean Special to the Journal-World and professor at the KU Medical STATA NORTON RINGLE Center, and her works in a lab at Kansas husband, David University Medical Center, Ringle. They both likely in the late 1970s. died in 2012 at ages 89 and 88, respectively. Equal parts of the gift will go toward three different purposes: scholarships for students in the School of Health Professions
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: A young boy walks with his mother beneath a rack of clothes Thursday at the sidewalk sale; Amanda Berck, 16, of Lenexa, waves the spray of a water mister her way near the Downtown Lawrence Inc. table at the sidewalk sale; rows of earrings tempt a shopper; and early risers line up outside Urban Outfitters to get a predawn jump on bargains.
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An estimated 10,000 shoppers hit downtown to find bargains
tore owners and employees began to break down tents and move off the sidewalks and back inside Thursday evening as a few people scanned through the remaining merchandise left on tables. Every so often, another surge of shoppers would find their way to Massachusetts Street, searching for last-minute, heavily discounted items before the sun officially set on the 54th annual Downtown Lawrence Sidewalk Sale. Sally Zogry, the new director of Downtown Lawrence Inc., helped to organize the sidewalk sale for the first time this year. She walked up and down
Larry Schaake isn’t sure what he’d do without crop insurance. It costs so much to plant his crop nowadays that if it doesn’t grow, which has happened in recent years because of the drought, it could be enough to put a farmer out of business. “That’s probably our only salvation,” the 71-year-old Lawrence corn-and-soybean grower said of crop insurance. “Our input costs are unreal.” Schaake is one of a number of local farmers watching Congress’ negotiations of a new farm bill. Both the House and Senate’s versions of the legislation cut the $5 billion a year the government currently pays to farmers in direct payments while beefing up crop insurance. Bill Wood, county director for Douglas County Extension, said that local farmers he has visited with hope the law has a strong
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