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DEATHS JOHN DISMOND COOPER, JR. John Cooper died September 9, 2013 at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, MD as the result of injuries suffered in an auto accident. He was 51. John was an anesthesiologist and served as a LCDR in the United States Public Health Service detailed as a chief medical officer to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in Baltimore. He is survived by his wife of 15 years, Julia Wulfkuhle Cooper, Columbia, MD. Also surviving are his parents, John Sr. and Madlyn Cooper of White Plains, NY; his sister, Kym Cooper of White Plains, NY; and his brother and sisterin-law, Paul and Dahlia Cooper of Closter, NJ. His sister, Karen Cooper preceded him in death. Other survivors include his father and motherin-law, John and Fran
Wulfkuhle of Lawrence, KS; two sisters-in-law and their spouses: Mary and Jason Gladstone of Prairie Village, KS; Erica and John Ross of Seal Beach, CA; and a brother-inlaw, Michael Wulfkuhle, Denver, CO. He is also survived by nine nieces and nephews, Javana Mundy; Joshua Browner; Alanna, Zoe, and Christian Cooper; Charlie, Henry and Ruby Ross; and Emmie Gladstone. A memorial service was held on Friday September 20, 2013, at the Wilde Lake Interfaith Center in Columbia, MD. Contributions in John’s memory can be sent to the Ujima Company, Inc., Multi-ethnic Professional Theatre Company, 545 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222. Please sign this guestbook at Obituaries. LJWorld.com.
ADELEE M. BAARS Adelee “Addie” McCaslin Baars, 87, of Topeka, passed away Sunday, September 22, 2013 at Midland Care. Her funeral service will be held at Dove Cremation & Funeral Service on September, 26, 2013 at 10:00AM . The family will greet friends for one hour prior to the service. Burial will be at Leavenworth National Cemetery, Leavenworth, KS. Addie was born August 10, 1926 in Hoyt, KS to Peter and Bettie (Payton) McCaslin. She graduated from Hoyt High School in 1944. She married Cassius R. “Chuck” Baars on January 1, 1968 in Topeka. They called Lake Dabinawa, in Jefferson county, home for many years before returning to Topeka in 2000. Addie was employed by Hallmark. She and Cassius owned and operated Shady Grove Mobile Home Park in Topeka for many years. Addie was a member of the Eagles Lodge in Lawrence, Kansas. In addition to her parents, Addie was preceded in death by
her loving husband of 32 years, Cassius R. Baars; and three brothers, Durrell, James and Jean. She is survived by her step-children, Charles (Vivian) Baars of Lawrence, KS, Debra Littlefield of Topeka, KS, Judith Baars and Sandra Graham both of northwest Arkansas; three sisters, Jennie Cockrell of Kansas City, KS, Adelaide McWhirt of Topeka, and Bettiejo Hinkle of Kansas City, KS; 7 grandchildren; 9 great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. Addie’s family would like to thank the staff at Midland Hospice House for the compassionate, tender care that they provided while she was in their care. Memorial contributions may be made to The House at Midland Care, 200 SW Frazier Cir. Topeka, KS 66606. To leave a message for the family online, please visit www. DoveCremation.com. Please sign this guestbook at Obituaries. LJWorld.com.
GINA YVONNE MOTEN Funeral services for Gina Yvonne Moten, 57, Lawrence will be held at 1:00 p.m. Thursday, September 26, 2013 at Warren-McElwain Mortuary in Lawrence. Burial will follow at Oak Hill Cemetery. She died Saturday September, 21, 2013 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Gina was born June 21, 1956 in Compton, CA the daughter of Peter and Carol (Snow) Vonknorring. She completed Cosmetology school after graduating from high school. Gina was a childcare provider. She married William Gilbert Moten in Lawrence, KS and they have been married for 38 years. He survives of the home. Other survivors include her father; two sons, William Gilbert “Gil” Moten, Jr., Justin Moten; four daughters, Jasmine Moten, Brianna Moten, Arianne Moten, Annetta Moten; three son-in-laws, Alrick Johnson, Obadiah Davis, Ahmad Austin; one daughter-in-law, Jamie
Moten; 22 grandchildren; two great grandchildren; and two brothers, Peter Vonknorring, Anthony “Nick” Vonknorring. She was also preceded in death by her mother, Carol Amerine. The family will greet friends two hours prior to the service from 11:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. Thursday, September 26, 2013 at the mortuary. The family suggests memorials in her name to the American Cancer Society and may be sent in care of the mortuary. Online condolences may be sent to www. warrenmcelwain.com. Please sign this guestbook at Obituaries. LJWorld.com.
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ates, but Hayden said district officials themselves weren’t surprised by the overall number.
No crystal ball “RSP had anticipated growth of 154 students, which is about 1.5 percent,” he said. “We felt like based on just preenrollment numbers as we were going through the spring, and based on kindergarten roundup, that the number would be higher than that. And so we planned for 190.” What was surprising, Hayden said, is where the growth occurred, particularly at Deerfield School, 101 Lawrence Ave., which saw a much bigger than expected increase in kindergarten enrollment. “Deerfield kindergarten was projected to have 67 kids, and they had (103), so, that was pretty surprising,” he said. “If you went on just trend data, you would have thought they would fall at least in the 80s in their student count for new kindergartners. And so when RSP said 67, I was thinking that would be different from what we’d typically have. I would have thought it would have been a little bit more than that, but certainly not 35 kids more than that.”
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RSP officials have said one factor making it difficult to pinpoint enrollment at the building level is the district’s relatively liberal policy of allowing transfers between buildings. But Hayden said the district has tightened that policy in recent years, and that the bigger cause for uncertainty is the somewhat transient nature of the Lawrence population. “I think there’s a lot of movement between rental properties that makes it difficult to predict,” he said. “If you were to look at just transfers buildingby-building, yeah it could be difficult to nail it down, but I think it’s less to do with transfers than it is to do with the transient population that’s moving in and out of houses and condos and town homes and rental homes.”
Future construction As part of the upcoming bond-funded construction projects, the district already planned to add 11 new elementary classrooms, most of which will replace temporary mobile units that are being used in various grade schools now. But after receiving preliminary enrollment estimates earlier this month, the Lawrence school board voted to expand the scope of the bond-funded construction projects by adding 12 more elementary classrooms to the sched-
L AWRENCE J OURNAL -W ORLD ule on top of the 11 that had already been planned. They also approved adding “shell” space at Sunset Hill School that could be converted into six more classrooms in the future. That adds up to 29 new and potentially new classrooms already being planned. That additional space beyond what was already planned with the bond issue will be funded with a combination of bond-related earnings and capital outlay funds. The school board recently agreed to form a standing committee to monitor enrollment trends and make recommendations each year about adjusting the boundaries of attendance zones to keep school populations in balance. But as the students in those growing grade schools get older, Hayden said the district may have to look at either expanding the existing four middle schools, or possibly building a fifth middle school. He noted that three of the four middle schools — South, Southwest and West — are already nearing their current capacity, although Liberty Memorial Central Middle School has room for about 200 more students. But that may only buy the district some time. — Peter Hancock can be reached at 832-7259. Follow him on Twitter.com/ LJWpqhancock.
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base of membership. Just recently the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas and Western Missouri joined the coalition voicing concern about drone usage. The Douglas County Republican Party also has joined the group. “They have great potential to violate civil rights and the Constitution,” said Kathleen Ammel, secretary of the Douglas County Republican Party. Plus, she said the drones could create other problems such as noise pollution, visual pollution and the possibility of the devices crashing into crowds. City commissioners acknowledged drone usage in the city could create some problems, but they said they didn’t want to try to write a policy on how city government should use drones until such time that the city actually is seriously considering using drones. “If we owned a drone or we were going to buy a drone, we would need a drone policy,” City Commissioner Bob Schumm said. “But we don’t own one and we don’t have any interest in having one. I just think this is all very premature.” City commissioners said they didn’t know when, if ever, the city would be looking to add
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Among recent projects was a renovation of Wescoe beach that added lights, seating and trees to the popular campus gathering spot. The Student Senate contributed $100,000 to the project. Students like the renovations overall, but many question whether it was worth the money, Halling said. Already this semester the Senate has funded some requests at far low-
Lawrence city commissioners unanimously agreed to temporarily close a portion of New Hampshire Street to accommodate construction of a new downtown hotel. But commissioners at their Tuesday evening meeting did agree to a slight change in plans for the street closure. Commissioners would allow the section of New Hampshire from Ninth Street to the midblock crossing near the Lawrence Arts Center to be completely closed to traffic from Oct. 7 to Oct. 18 — except that one lane of traffic for southbound motorists
would be open during the weekend of Oct. 11 through Oct. 13. The partial street opening would make access to the Lawrence Arts Center easier for a conference of nearly 400 English teachers who will be using the center that weekend. The hotel’s construction crew asked for the street closure in order to move a storm sewer that is in the way of the excavation that is being done for the multistory hotel and retail building under construction at the southeast corner of Ninth and New Hampshire streets.
a drone to its fleet of vehicles. While they said they couldn’t ever imagine owning a weaponized drone, they didn’t rule out that practical uses would develop for them. Cities have mentioned drones potentially being useful for everything from reading water meters to surveying dangerous structure fires. Only a handful of cities have adopted drone use policies, with Charlotesville, Va., the most prominent example. Members of the Kansans for Responsible Drone Use began asking commissioners to consider a policy in May.
“I have just had a bit of a problem spending valuable time on this when we we know there are other issues that are impacting us more now,” Dever said. But Dever said he would be fine with signing a simple statement that the city would adopt a policy before using drones. Commissioners directed City Commissioner Mike Amyx to sit down with key members of the group within the next couple of weeks to draft a statement that could be brought back to the commission for consideration.
er amounts than groups had requested. For example, the Jayhawk KANSAS Motorsports UNIVERSITY club requested $16,000 for auto supplies. The senate offered it $6,000 and some “encouraging words” about raising funds from other sources, Halling said. “No one’s happy about receiving less than what they ask for, obviously,” Student Body President Marcus Tetwiler said. “But everyone has been very
pleased with the process.” Along with the activity fee funds, the Senate helps oversee the $22 million from fees that KU students pay to get access to everything from buses to health care to the recreation center. Halling said in the past there have been discrepancies between projected costs and actual costs in paying providers for these services. Halling and Tetwiler both said this year’s Senate is looking at costs for those services more critically.
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