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Cyclist mourned as police seek witnesses By Ian Cummings icummings@ljworld.com
On Sunday, Hayley Berrios went for a bike ride with her husband, Stephen, and some friends from a local church group. The couple had just been married in April. Stephen, a photographer, had
moved to Lawrence to be with Berrios, who started working at a Lawrence nonprofit after graduating from college. She was 29, athletic, and known for her sardonic sense of humor, friends and family said. As the group of bicyclists crossed the South Lawrence Trafficway
about 8 p.m., headed east near the stoplight at 27th Street, Berrios was hit by a truck and killed. The vehicle, a 1974 Chevrolet, was headed north, driven by Walter Spencer, 67, of Lawrence. Berrios was declared dead before a helicopter ambulance could arrive. Law enforcement
HAYLEY BERRIOS, pictured with husband Stephen at their April wedding, was struck and killed Sunday evening as she rode her bicycle.
officers are still investigating the accident and are looking for more witnesses who could help clarify what happened. On Monday, friends and family remembered a young woman who came to Lawrence as a college Please see CYCLIST, page 8A
Boardwalk the ‘last hurdle’ in wetlands
School board approves draft budget for next year By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com
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JON BOYD, REFUGE MANAGER FOR THE BAKER WETLANDS, pulls nails from the wetlands boardwalk Monday. Boyd is removing the boardwalk, which he planned and built as an Eagle Scout project 21 years ago, to make way for the completion of the South Lawrence Trafficway. Boyd says much of the flooring of the boardwalk will be reused on other boardwalk projects.
21 years later, former Eagle Scout dismantling project for trafficway A YOUNG HERON perches Monday near the wetlands boardwalk, where workers were dismantling the walkway.
By Nikki Wentling nwentling@ljworld.com
If you followed the sounds of drilling and pounding hammers near the north entrance to the Baker Wetlands on Monday, you’d quickly come upon the source of the noise. Jon Boyd, his father, Roger, and several others were dismantling one of the complex’s two boardwalks, which is being removed to make way for construction of the South Lawrence Trafficway. For Jon Boyd, refuge manager of the Baker Wet-
lands, the monthlong process of breaking down the 850-foot walkway, board by board, is almost bittersweet. That’s because Boyd
sentimental.” It was the summer after he graduated eighth grade when Boyd, a then-member of Troop 65 out of Baldwin City, devoted three weeks to create the boardwalk. He chose the project to fulfill his leadership requirement because his father was, and still is, director of the Baker Wetlands. The father and son worked together to establish a plan. Then Jon took over, diplanned and built most of recting volunteers who set the boardwalk to earn the the concrete piers and arrank of Eagle Scout at the ranged the timber foundaunusually young age of 13. tion. “I was proud of it when Please see WETLANDS, page 2A I built it,” Boyd said. “It’s
The Lawrence school board gave preliminary approval to a budget for next year that calls for slightly higher spending and a slightly smaller property tax rate than this year’s budget. But the document gives only skeletal details of the district’s actual spending plan for next year. It shows how much would be spent out of various funds in the budget, and how much tax would have to be levied. But it offers no details about how that money would be divided between instructional costs, administration, building maintenance and other kinds of expenses. The two main funds that make up the district’s basic operating accounts — the general fund and Local Operating Budget — would increase to $92.4 million, about $2.6 million more than this year. Those funds are determined by formulas set out in state law that are based on student enrollment. Assistant superintendent Kyle Hayden said further details will be released later, in SCHOOLS advance of the public hearing scheduled for Aug. 12. For the owner of a $200,000 home, the school district budget would cost $1,332 in property taxes — about $2 less than the owner of such a home would have paid this year. Publishing the draft budget sets the upper limit for what the school district can levy and spend next year. After the public hearing, the board will vote on a final budget that is either equal to or less than the published draft budget. For that reason, district finance director Kathy Johnson said some parts of the budget — special revenue funds that do not involve property tax dollars — call for more spending authority than the district actually intends to use. Please see SCHOOL, page 8A
Suspect accused of robbing local businesses, wielding crowbar By Ian Cummings icummings@ljworld.com
A 30-year-old man has been charged in connection with two robberies Sunday, at a pharmacy and a pizza restaurant in Lawrence, where a suspect allegedly threatened several employees, and struck one, with a crowbar. Matthew Glen Allender was arrested about 6 p.m. Sunday in a wooded area near the 800
block of Highland Drive, in central Lawrence, where police were searching for a suspect in the robbery of Domino’s Pizza, at 832 Iowa St. Allender had recently been paroled from Kansas prisons, where he served time for burglary and theft convictions in Shawnee County. Douglas County prosecutors charged him Monday with aggravated robbery and attempted aggravated robbery in connection
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Sixth Street and Wakarusa Drive, said Trent McKinley, a Lawrence Police Department spokesman. At the CVS, store employees told police that a man entered the store carrying a crowbar, threatened employees with it and demanded money. The store clerk complied by opening the register, McKinley said, and the man grabbed some money and fled. About six hours later, em-
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with two separate incidents Sunday morning and evening. Police had responded to the reported robbery at Domino’s about 5:40 Allender p.m., hours after a similar robbery had been reported about 10:45 a.m. at a CVS Pharmacy, at 4841 Bauer Farm Drive, near
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ployees at the Domino’s Pizza on Iowa Street made a similar report of a man threatening employees with a crowbar and demanding money. In this case, the man struck an employee with the crowbar and fled when his demands weren’t met immediately, McKinley said. The employee who was struck was not injured. Employees at both stores
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