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City to challenge Census numbers ——
Officials want population set at 90,000 By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
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KANSAS UNIVERSITY BAND MEMBERS, clockwise from left, Winston Heilman, Jeff Jasperson, Colin Lohrenz, Will Marsh, Chris Carter and Cody Janousek have been playing in bands together for 10 years, at West Junior High School, Free State High School and then at KU. The six played their final football game together on Saturday during the Jayhawks’ game against Iowa State.
Instrumental friendships forged through band ————
Six members of Marching Jayhawks have played together since their days at West Junior High
By Matt Erickson merickson@ljworld.com
Winston Heilman doesn’t know what might have happened if, when he showed up to his first day of practice with the Marching Jayhawks in August 2009, he’d looked around at the 300 people surrounding him and didn’t see anyone he recognized. But that’s not what happened. Instead, he could look around and see five other faces who’ve been there since seventh grade: Chris Carter, Cody Janousek, Jeff Jasperson, Colin Lohrenz and Will Marsh. “Starting out that first
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I probably wouldn’t have stuck with KU band if I didn’t have these people around me.” — Colin Lohrenz, on being in band with five friends he’s known and played with since junior high day, it was nice to have some familiar faces,” Heilman said. At this point, “familiar” is perhaps an understatement. Those six students, now all KU seniors from Lawrence, have played together in marching bands now for 10 years.
They lined up alongside each other for the first time as seventh-graders at what was then West Junior High School in the fall of 2003, when Bill Self was preparing for his first season as KU’s men’s basketball coach. They were 12 or 13 years old. They stuck with it at Free State High School. And when they got to KU, they joined the Marching Jayhawks. All along the way, they watched many, many others drop out. Now 21 or 22, they marched in the same formation for the final time Saturday, at the final Please see BAND, page 2A
Lawrence’s population mystery soon may be over. City officials are ready to acknowledge the city’s population didn’t grow as much over the past decade as they once thought — but they still believe the U.S. Census Bureau has undercounted the city’s population by about 2,400 people. City commissioners at their Tuesday evening meeting will be asked to send an official letter asking the Census Bureau to review evidence gathered by city staff that suggests there were about 90,000 people living in the city in 2010 rather than the official Census count of 87,643. The appeal could end a multi-year disagreement between the city and the Census on population totals. “At the end of this process, I think we’re going to be much closer to knowing how many people actually are living in Lawrence,” said Amy Miller, a planner who has been leading Please see CENSUS, page 2A
After 15 years, closing of Milton’s is hard to swallow By Ian Cummings icummings@ljworld.com
Breakfast lovers found a bittersweet flavor in the coffee and pancake syrup at Milton’s on Sunday morning. The popular breakfast landmark was packed with regular customers, as usual, and it was just as noisy as ever with chatter and clinking glasses. Dozens huddled around the front door, looking forward to bacon and eggs, familiar customers who were generally not complaining about the 30-minute wait. Staff posted a sign
up front reading: “In light of our closing ... please be courteous of others waiting to enjoy Milton’s.” Most were well aware that Sunday was the final day of business for Milton’s, 920 Massachusetts St. It became a topic of conversation at many tables, where regulars had been sitting down together for up to 15 years. Fischer Almanza, a senior at Bishop Seabury Academy, said he had been coming in for french toast after church, along with his little sister and his parents, since he was a child. Like many, Almanza
it was the last day. This was one place she used to think of while living away from Lawrence for years, wishing she could go in and sit by the window with a cup of coffee. “I’m sad,” she said. “I was surprised when I read in the paper that it was closing.” Lewis said he isn’t ready yet to talk about exactly why Milton’s is closing, but he’s said before it’s not because of any drop in business. As previously reJohn Young/Journal-World Photo ported, he is staying busy as a partner in Loopy’s, a PATRONS READ NEWSPAPERS AND DRINK COFFEE outside Milton’s, 920 Massachusetts St., as they wait to be seated Please see MILTON’S, page 2A Sunday, which was the restaurant’s final day of business.
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already missed Milton’s and didn’t know what he would do for breakfast in the future. “I have no clue,” he said. “There are other breakfast places but not like this. It’s insanely depressing.” Owner David Lewis said it was emotional for him, too. “A lot of friends, a lot of customers, have been with us since we opened,” he said. “People have been bringing their kids here since they were born.” Rosalee Roth, of Lawrence, brought her grandson, Ry, and his wife, Katherine, to Milton’s knowing
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Lawrence city commissioners on Tuesday are scheduled to accept $5.2 million worth of bids — the first received for the project — which will allow preliminary construction work to begin by Dec. 17. Page 3A
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