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Indian tribe purchases large tract along I-70 By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
An Oklahoma-based Indian tribe that once explored building a casino in Lawrence and was recently reported to be interested in moving its tribal headquarters to Kansas has purchased 87 acres of prime property along the Kansas Turnpike near the North Lawrence interchange. A Delaware Tribe of Indians spokesman declined to comment on whether the tribe has
an interest in building a casino or headquarters on the property. In a written statement, tribal leaders said plans are likely to include housing, child care and a medical clinic to serve the state’s American Indian population. In March, the Oklahoma City Oklahoman reported that the Delaware were considering moving their tribal headquarters from Bartlesville, Okla., to Wyandotte or Leavenworth counties in Kansas because of restrictions they faced in Okla-
THE DELAWARE Tribe of Indians has purchased 87 acres of the Pine Family Farms operation, which is just east of the Kansas Turnpike interchange that leads into North Lawrence.
homa. The land the tribe purchased in Lawrence earlier this month was owned by the Pine Family Farms operation just east of the North Lawrence interchange. “The Lawrence property is seen as an investment in the future as the tribe promotes its theme of ‘Return to Kansas,’” the tribe said in its statement. The tribe lived on a reservation between Lawrence and Leavenworth between 1830 and 1866. Following the Civil
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By Ian Cummings icummings@ljworld.com
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LUCY SOMERS, 13, OF THE JAYHAWK 4-H CLUB, helps prepare for Tuesday evening’s fashion show at the Douglas County Fairgrounds. The annual event is known as the 4-H Public Fashion Revue. The next event on the Douglas County 2013 Fair Schedule is the Jackpot Barrel Racing Competition at 7 p.m. Friday in the Community Building.
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Board unanimously passes ‘14 budget Budget calls for hike in rates, but commissioners say increases will help put city on strong foundation for decades to come. Page 3A
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Local food bank starts growing its own produce By Giles Bruce gbruce@ljworld.com
Like many food pantries, Lawrence’s Just Food realizes just how hard it can be to obtain fresh produce at a low cost. So it started growing its own. Last month, the pantry planted a garden on its property in east Lawrence, with a goal of feeding its clients fruits and vegetables and teaching them how to grow their own. Just Food expects to harvest about 1,000 pounds of produce — including watermelon, tomatoes, eggplants, cucumbers and spinach — before the season is over. “This is really part of our initiative to get more produce into the diets of folks,” said Just Food CEO Jeremy Farmer. “We also want to show clients that gardening is easy to do.” The gardens are one more step the Lawrence food bank is taking away from the traditional food pantry model, in an effort to address local hunger issues while improving the health of their clients. Just Food, which serves more than 9,000 Douglas County residents a month, now acts as the central food-distribution facility for the county,
Douglas County prosecutors have filed an additional misdemeanor charge against a 22-year-old Kansas University student in connection with an August accident that cost another student his legs. The new charge, refusing to submit to drug or alcohol testing, a misdemeanor, was filed against Julian Kuszmaul Monday, as he awaits a trial in September on charges of second-offense DUI, possession of marijuana and following too closely, all misdemeanors. Kuszmaul was first charged in Douglas County District COURTS Court in January, months after the Aug. 26 accident in the 1600 block of Tennessee Street that badly injured another KU student, Colby Liston. Since then, Kuszmaul’s attorney, Thomas Bath Jr., has filed a motion to suppress the results of a blood test administered to Kuszmaul after the accident. The test results showed Kuszmaul’s blood-alcohol was 0.25, three times the legal limit of 0.08, when his Ford Explorer struck and pinned Liston, who was 18 at the Please see CHARGE, page 2A
Bob Dole, Eisenhower’s granddaughter join Brownback’s re-election team By John Hanna Associated Press
how to prepare healthy food on the cheap, with several participants graduating from the pantry and cutting down on their fast-food use. Farmer said Just Food came to realize that the most economical food to obtain — processed, loaded with sugar and salt — was also the
TOPEKA — Republican Gov. Sam Brownback announced Tuesday that Kansas GOP icon and former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole will serve as an honorary national co-chairman of his 2014 re-election campaign, along with a granddaughter of President Dwight Eisenhower. Brownback’s campaign released a joint letter from Dole and Mary Jean Eisenhower, president of a Kansas City, Mo.-based humanitarian group formed by her grandfather. The announcement of their roles comes Brownback amid ongoing criticism that the conservative governor’s stances on taxes and social issues put him too far to the right of “traditional” Kansas Republicans embodied by Dole and Dwight Eisenhower. Also, the announcement occurred a day after Dole’s 90th birthday, marked with a celebration at the Institute of Politics bearing his name at Kansas University.
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AUTUMN RICE, AN AMERICORPS INTERN, waters the new garden on the property at Just Food pantry, at 1200 E. 11th St. Rice helped plant the garden in June, and Just Food will distribute the garden’s produce to its customers, giving them some fresh food options. The garden has already produced onions, lettuce and chard and will soon have tomatoes, peppers, squash and zucchini. Eventually the pantry would like to build a greenhouse for year-round growing of fresh produce. allowing other local socialservice agencies to focus on other needs. It has also switched over to a choicebased food system, which lets clients shop as if they were in a grocery store and pick out only the food they need, cutting down on waste. And it has been providing cooking classes to low-income residents to show them