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District wants to add 12 new classrooms in addition to 11 already planned By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com
over each other. To end the adult-sanctioned food fight, the youth, ages 12-19, launched more than 3,000 water balloons to clean off. Fourteen-year-old Gretchen Boxberger had ketchup dripping down the side of her face and potatoes matted in her hair, but she said her messy clothes and skin were worth it for the fun she had.
Preliminary numbers from the first week of the new school year show enrollment grew much more than expected this year, especially in elementary schools, and that could force the Lawrence school board to rethink some of the bond-funded construction projects they’ve been planning. Unofficial totals compiled on Aug. 30 show elementary enrollment grew by 95 students this year, or about 1.8 percent. The district already had been planning for a net addition of 11 new classrooms as part of the projects being financed with the $92.5 million bond issue that voters approved in April. But officials are now recommending another 12 new classSCHOOLS rooms on top of that, for a total of 23. “The administration recommends the construction of these additional classrooms to avoid the future placement of mobile classrooms on our elementary campuses,� Superintendent Rick Doll said in a memo to the school board. “This will be the most cost efficient way to construct these classrooms.� The school board will consider that recommendation when it meets at 7 p.m. Monday at the administration center, at 110 Mc-
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PARTICIPANTS FIGHT a messy condiment war that included ketchup, mustard, flour, mashed potatoes and water balloons Sunday evening at Christ Community Church, at 1100 Kasold Drive. The purpose of the event was to raise hunger awareness.
Hundreds of kids wage food fight to raise awareness about hunger By Meagan Thomas mthomas@ljworld.com
At about 7 p.m. Sunday evening, hundreds of kids picked sides in a Lawrence field and prepared to fight. They yelled taunts across the grass at one another. Rowdy high school boys ripped off their T-shirts in preparation for battle. And then it began. The two sides rushed for containers filled with the
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One of the biggest needs we have in the community is people who can’t afford to eat.� — Glenn Fletcher, pastor at Christ Community Church
first weapon: flour. After the field and its combatants were covered in a white powdery cloud, streams of red and yellow flew through the air as kids took aim with ketchup and mus-
tard bottles. Then they ran toward the containers filled with mashed potatoes and gravy. Using their hands as spoons, they poured the liquid potatoes and gravy
Seventh-grader moonlights as stilt walker By Caroline Boyer
Claire Gurley is tired of being short, proud of the fact that she has finally grown past being 5 feet tall. “I’m 5-foot and a quarter,� the 12-year-old clarifies. A few times a year, she gets to add another 40 inches to her height and tower over the rest of the crowd, thanks to a pair of stilts. And Claire loves
being that much farther from the ground. “You see things from a different perspective,� she says. Claire learned how to walk on stilts when she was 7, and for the past three years she has been performing semiprofessionally as a stilt walker with Olathe-based Theatre Tech Productions. For the next several weekends, the Clark Middle School seventhgrader will be found on her
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14, and she now works professionally with costumes. Claire’s father, Matt Gurley, performs as a magician, and the pair met at the Kansas City Renaissance Festival. So naturally Claire had to find her own niche within the family. When she was 7, a friend of her father’s, who is a stilt walker, noticed her interest in his performance.
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stilts at least once a weekend at the Kansas City Renaissance Festival’s Bonner Springs fairgrounds. “It really evolved out of something for her to do with our weird family,� said her mother, Dani Gurley. “She took it and made it hers.� The Gurleys are definitely a family dedicated to all things Renaissance Festival. Dani Gurley’s first job was at a festival when she was
CLAIRE GURLEY chats with other performers at the Kansas City Renaissance Festival. Claire will walk the festival grounds on her stilts a few times each weekend this season.
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