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Fall allergies worse in Douglas County this year By Giles Bruce
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in Lawrence, according to Weather.com. Usually by this time of year, the region has experienced its peak of ragweed pollen levels, Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas — Bill Wood, director of Douglas County Extension City, Mo. reported. Not so this year, as several more high ragspores have been quite high Lawrence area is also affected weed days are expected in the for a few weeks so many by such allergens as Russian coming weeks, with the seaJournal-World File Photo people are suffering,� said thistle, pigweed, mugwort and son lasting into mid-October. LEVELS OF POLLEN FROM RAGWEED, shown Warren Frisk, a physician at sage. “Most plants did well this above with sunflowers, were classified as Asthma Allergy Associates Pollen levels were classiPlease see ALLERGIES, page 2A “very high� last week by Weather.com. in Lawrence, adding that the fied as “very high� last week
Most plants did well this year — weeds included — because we had a wetter, cooler spring and early Many people in the Law- summer.� gbruce@ljworld.com
rence area may have noticed an increase in allergy symptoms lately. That’s because allergen levels have been on the rise as the calendar gets nearer to fall and because of a strong growing season that boosted weed growth. “Weed pollen and mold
Repairs to begin soon on Turnhalle building
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Local architecture company will tackle $125K renovations By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
The law’s online health care exchanges, through which people earning between 100 and 400 percent of the federal poverty level can purchase subsidized insurance, begin open enrollment Oct. 1. Any American of Indian ancestry can, through treaty
Leaders of a local historic preservation group say work soon will begin on $125,000 worth of repairs to a historic building that recently was partially condemned, forcing the closure of a longtime art studio. If weather Leaders of the Lawrence Preserva- doesn’t end up tion Alliance said being a factor, they have hired the Lawrence-based ar- we would hope to chitecture firm of have work done Dunfield Design to by January, but, begin the needed to be safe, we’re design work to repair the Turnhalle estimating early building at 900 spring.� Rhode Island St. City inspectors — Dennis Brown, chairlast month declared man of the Lawrence the basement portion of the building Preservation Alliance unfit for habitation because water infiltration had caused a mold problem in the basement. That city ruling forced Free State Glass, which had its studios in the basement, to halt operations. The business is still shut
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CONNIE FITZPATRICK, LEFT, AND BRENDA QUINONES, both of Lawrence, warm up before taking the stage during the annual Festival of Cultures on Sunday afternoon at South Park. The festival featured music, dance, food, games and crafts, and other activities.
Native Americans among those exempt from health reform’s individual mandate By Giles Bruce gbruce@ljworld.com
One group that won’t be required to have health insurance when the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate goes into effect next year is American Indians, of which Douglas County has a larger-than-average population.
The health reform ance, undocumented law often known as immigrants, prison“Obamacare� maners, Americans who dates that Americans either don’t make carry some type of enough money to file health insurance in taxes or would have 2014 or be fined. The to spend more than HEALTH 2010 law does, how8 percent of their ever, exempt certain income on premipeople from that require- ums, and American Indians ment: members of religious eligible for care through the groups opposed to insur- Indian Health Service.
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Two area women and their organization have made it their mission to make sure that every child gets cake and a present on his or her birthday. Page 3A
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