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By Giles Bruce gbruce@ljworld.com
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PINCKNEY SCHOOL PRINCIPAL KIRSTEN WONDRA, top left photo, and paraeducator Marty Marsh, left and top right photos, were hit with pies Friday at the school. Students and staff raised money for Junior Achievement, and those who raised the most got the pastry in the face, to the delight of many young students, bottom photo.
Lawrence Memorial Hospital is among Kansas hospitals that are reporting a lowerthan-average number of infections acquired on their premises. LMH reported that in 2011 and 2012 its intensive care unit had no occurrences of the two major infections cited in a recent report from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. In 2011, KDHE began asking medical facilities across the state to begin submitting information about hospitalacquired infections — cenHEALTH tral line-associated bloodstream infections and catheter-associated urinary tract infections — as part of a national effort to track and reduce their occurrence. Patients at the more than 70 facilities in Kansas that reported the data, which represent nearly all of the ICU beds in the state, had 67 percent fewer central-line infections and 26 percent fewer catheter infections in 2011 compared with the national average Please see LMH, page 2A
Animal rights advocates call for stricter protections for pets has “a serious enforcement problem.” From 1999 through June 2011, the state seized or received on consent 10,451 animals from licensed and unlicensed operations. Fifty-one percent of those animals were from unlicensed facilities, she said. “The only way the puppy mill problem is going to be resolved is to have the Legislature update the KPAA (Kansas Pet Animal Act) with accepted wel-
By Scott Rothschild srothschild@ljworld.com
TOPEKA — Animal rights advocates on Friday called on legislators to enact changes to state law to protect pets in the face of reports that Kansas is one of the nation’s leaders in so-called puppy mill operations. Midge Grinstead, state director for The Humane Society of the United States, said the state
fare standards and appropriate enforcement tools,” Grinstead said. Proposed changes to the KPAA are being considered Grinstead by a HouseSenate committee, which will forward its recommendations to the full Legislature when the 2014 ses-
sion starts in January. Dori Villalon, executive director of the Lawrence Humane Society and acting president of the Pet Animal Coalition of Kansas, said the state needs to ban the use of carbon monoxide to euthanize animals, saying that an injection of sodium pentobarbital, which veterinarians use, is more humane. “Putting a dog in a box and filling that box with carbon monoxide gas does not provide
that struggling and frightened animal with a good death. In fact, it is a slow death whereby the animal remains conscious while the gas starts to affect his internal organs,” she said. “It’s time to update the law and outlaw gas chambers,” she said. She also called for more inspections of breeders to make sure that animal housing standards are being met. Please see ANIMAL, page 2A
Social Service League celebrates a century-plus of community work By Giles Bruce gbruce@ljworld.com
The Social Service League of Lawrence may or may not be 150 years old, depending on your source. While the date of its founding
may be in dispute, what’s not in contention is that Lawrence’s oldest continuously running service organization has done a lot of good for a lot of people over the past century-plus. The Social Service League is dedicated to helping the needy,
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shoes for children and clothing and bedding for the needy. Local lore has it that the Social Service League originated after residents came together to provide aid to victims of Quantrill’s Raid, in 1863. In a 1940 speech before the league’s
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whether they live in Lawrence or are passing through. At its downtown thrift store, people can purchase used, low-cost items to get them through tough times. Money raised at the store is used to provide eye exams and glasses for children and adults,
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board of directors, then-store manager Bessie Taylor said the group started from a single idea: assisting friends and neighbors. That effort supposedly spawned, in 1871, the Lawrence Please see SOCIAL, page 2A
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Kansas can’t shield residents relying on social services from the federal government’s partial shutdown past mid-November, Gov. Sam Brownback’s office says. Page 3A
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