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DEATHS Journal-World obituary policy: For information about running obituaries, call 8327151. Obituaries run as submitted by funeral homes or the families of the deceased.
Private roads remain thorny issue for county By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com
DEAN RAINS Dean Rains, 69, Tonganoxie, KS, died Monday August 5, 2013 at his home. A private graveside service was held August 7th in Hubbel Hill Cemetery, Tonganoxie.
MARJORIE KIMBALL DERBYKimball, Marjorie., age 95, retired postal clerk, passed away August 3, 2013. Memorial service 10am Saturday, August 10, at the Bartlett Arboretum Depot, 301 N. Line St, Belle Plaine. Burial 3pm in Mathewson Cemetery, Piedmont, OK. She was a charter member of Woodlawn United Methodist Church and a long time Derby Public Library board member. Marjorie was preceded in death by her parents, Otis and Juanita Fry; husband, Les Kimball; sister, Joy Parker Richards; brother, Harold Fry; daughter in-law, Martha Kimball. She is survived by her sons, Steve (Sally) of Belle Plaine, Philip (Jennifer Brown) of Lawrence, KS and Alan Kimball of Eugene, OR; grandchildren, Robin
(Jodi Ziesemer) Kimball, Rich Kimball, Corinna Kimball-Brown, Lauren Kimball-Brown, Mary (Forrest) Moyer, William (Jennifer) Kimball; greatgrandchildren, Madeline Moyer, Murphy and Sophie Kimball; sister, Willa (Gene) Gill; sister in-law, Lois Bestgen; many nieces and nephews. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be sent to the Derby Public Library, 1600 Walnut Grove., Derby, Kansas Humane Society, 3313 N. Hillside St., Wichita, and Heartland Home Health and Hospice, 3210 W. Kellogg Dr., Wichita. Send condolences and view tributes via www. smithfamilymortuaries. com. Please sign this guestbook at Obituaries. LJWorld.com.
MATHEW JOHN WILLKOMM Mathew John Willkomm, 84, of Perry, KS., died August 5, 2013 at the Pioneer Ridge Care facility in Lawrence. He was born October 18, 1928, in Paris Township, WI, the son of Nicholas Peter and Josephine Magdalena Neu Willkomm. Matt served in the US Navy during WWII (19431946). He worked for W.D. Shereman at the Shereman’s Garage in Perry and retired from the USD 343 Bus Barn as the head mechanic. He was a member of the St. Theresa’s Catholic Church. Matt served as mayor of Perry from 1989 to 2005. He married E. Maxine Thompson in California. She preceded him in death on April 7, 2005. Survivors include two daughters, Ruth Ellis and her husband Gary, Darlene Annis and her husband Richard “Dick”, all of Perry, two brothers, George and Maureen Willkomm, Kenosha, WI., Nicholas and Mary Lou Willkomm, Union Grove, WI., Sr. Generose Willkomm, OSF, St Francis, WI., three sister-in-laws, Edna Willkomm, Kenosha, WI., Ethel Willkomm, Racine, WI and Joan
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ries of my family seeing the burning of the town from our farm,” Altenbernd said. “And then they got nervous and went and hid in the cornfield.” Altenbernd, who owns a local housing rental business, has been in Lawrence his entire life and still has the family’s original homestead. He’s even taken to collecting Civil War letters, and said he didn’t want to let the 150th
Willkomm, Salem, WI., 9 grandchildren, 14 great grandchildren and 2 greatgreat grandchildren. He was also preceded in death by 4 sisters and 8 brothers. Mass of Christian burial will be 10:00 AM Saturday, August 10, at St. Theresa’s Catholic Church in Perry. Visitation will be Friday night at the Funeral Home from 6:00PM to 8:00PM, with rosary at 7:30. Burial will be at the Mt. Calvary Cemetery in Perry. Memorial donations may be made to the St. Theresa’s Catholic Church and sent in care of the Barnett Family Funeral Home, PO Box 602, Oskaloosa, KS 66066. Online condolences may be made at www.barnettfamilyfh. com Please sign this guestbook at Obituaries. LJWorld.com.
anniversary come to pass without doing something to mark the event that forever changed the city. “I’m just a local boy, and this seemed to be a good thing for a local boy to do,” Altenbernd said. The community also will host several events to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the raid, including a special Lawrence City Band concert and program at 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 18 at South Park. — City reporter Chad Lawhorn can be reached at 832-6362. Follow him at Twitter.com/clawhorn_ljw
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Douglas County hasn’t allowed developers to build private roads since 1998. But during the 26 years before then, when the county did allow private roads, many were built in rural parts of the county, and to this day they can still be the source of controversy. County commissioners tried to deal with one such road Wednesday. But officials say there may be many more in the county — nobody knows exactly how many — that could become the source of future disputes between property owners for many years to come. Private roads are those that serve only a few properties. They are owned, built and maintained entirely at the expense of the property owners. They are not public rights of way that are owned and maintained by the county. The case Wednesday involved a road approved in 1998. It connects with Old U.S. Highway 59,
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puddles and tiny ponds after storms pass, the new design for the lot is specifically tailored to catch the rain. Designed by Kansas City engineering company TranSystems, the retooled parking lot will use a special cement with built-in pores that let water seep through instead of immediately running off into the gutters or evaporating. From there, basins under the lot will collect rainwater. Graves said those basins will be big enough to hold the water from a 100-year flood, or about 8 inches of rain in a 24-hour period. In addition to absorbing water, the cement also will be also lighter in pigment than the old asphalt. That means it will collect less heat in the summertime, reducing what’s called the “heat island effect.” Heat islands are bubbles of hot air hovering over large paved areas that can raise energy costs and trap air pollutants. Captured rainwater will nourish trees plant-
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“When we became aware of it, we got that turned around ASAP,” Partridge said. He noted that there are about $6,000 worth of claims filed with Medicare that are pending and should be paid once the agency is revalidated. Direct medical services to patients is only a small part of the local health department’s overall operations. Most of those services involve immunizations, family planning and testing for sexually transmitted diseases. “The biggest drivers are family planning and immunizations,” Partridge said. Most of the agency’s operations involve inspections of child care and oth-
now known as East 1250 Road, about four miles north of the Franklin County line. COUNTY COMMISSION It was intended to cut across one 5-acre parcel to give access to another, landlocked parcel further away from the highway. But it was unclear from the 1998 records whether the county intended that road to be used only by the one property owner furthest from the road, who has developed a large single-family home, or if it was intended to serve both. Commissioners on Wednesday agreed the road was probably intended to serve both parcels. But they said they would only approve joint access to the road if the two property owners can come to an agreement about sharing the cost of maintaining it in the future. The larger question, however, is how many more such private roads exist in the county that
could become the source of future property disputes. And county officials say there’s no easy answer to that. “It is unknown, specifically, how many private roads were approved by Commissions over this 26 year time span, as there was no complete list maintained for private road approvals,” Linda Finger, interim director of the Zoning and Codes Department, wrote in an email to commissioners. “What exists is a list created by a former public works employee of private roads in the county, with notations about where these are located and, when known, if they were approved by the (commission).” In other business, commissioners approved a 10-year, $3.2 million agreement with Motorola Solutions for maintenance and future upgrades to the county’s new emergency communications radio system.
ed around the lot. And there will be more of those trees, too, not only to suck up the water but also to shade the parking lot, helping to cool it. The extra vegetation also will make the area more of a “park-like setting,” Graves said. Water will also collect in a rain garden at the southern end of the lot. The rain garden will resemble and function as a tiny wetland, with grasses and other plants soaking in water and filtering out pollutants and nutrients that collect on the pavement before they can escape to the sewer system and make it into the watershed.
which typically pays for parking lot renovations, will kick in $500,000 and the university will cover the remaining balance. Over time the lot will reduce maintenance costs as well. Catching rainwater will save on irrigation costs. Donna Hultine, director of KU Parking and Transit, said she hopes the cement pavement will last longer and require fewer repairs than the asphalt that paved the original lot and other lots around campus. The rain garden will also save money in fees that the university has to pay the city for its runoff pollution. Time will tell whether the cost-saving features will offset initial expenses. Hultine said her office has to wait and see whether it can afford to apply Lot 54’s sustainable design to renovations of future lots. At the very least, the lot will make for a nice showand-tell piece. Graves said its proximity to the fieldhouse and major campus trafficways will help the university “showcase in a very meaningful way” the steps it is taking to implement KU’s campuswide sustainability plan.
Costs and benefits All these extra features come with high initial costs, some of which will be offset by funds meant to encourage sustainable building. A $450,000 grant from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment will help defray some expense. The KU Revolving Green Loan Fund has committed money for the new LED lights, and the city will help fund the replacement of the sewer lines near the parking lot. KU Parking and Transit,
er facilities, monitoring outbreaks of infectious diseases, and providing health-related education to the community on topics such as breast-feeding. It also operates Project LIVELY, a program that helps seniors and people with disabilities connect with services that enable them to remain independent and stay in their own homes. According to the department’s most recent annual report, the clinic sees about 80 patients per day for health care services as well as nutrition education and referrals to other services.
– Peter Hancock can be reached at 832-7259. Follow him at Twitter.com/ LJWpqhancock.
— Reporter Ben Unglesbee can be reached at 832-7173.
Britt said about 48 percent of the patients seen in the clinic have some kind of health coverage — Medicare, Medicaid or private insurance. The other 52 percent, she said, are uninsured. During 2012, Britt said, the department billed out $373,986 for medical services and received $231,344 in payments, or 62 percent of what it billed. – Peter Hancock can be reached at 832-7259.
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