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Woman arrested in fatal stabbing By Ben Unglesbee bunglesbee@ljworld.com
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SANTA BOB, LEFT, OF LAWRENCE, TEASES HELEN BRINGHURST, OF LAWRENCE, about her K-State stocking hat at the Lawrence Community Christmas Dinner on Wednesday at First United Methodist Church, 946 Vermont St. Bringhurst was volunteering and serving pies as Santa Bob made his rounds around the room during the Christmas dinner.
Volunteers make church dinner into a Christmas giving tradition By Ben Unglesbee bunglesbee@ljworld.com
John Lingenfelser was among the volunteers who woke up early on Christmas morning to be at the First United Methodist Church by 6 a.m. to start cooking yams. This is his 11th year volunteering to help coordinate the annual community Christmas din-
ner. Why does he do it? Because it’s Christmas. “This is what Jesus would do. This is where he would be on a Christmas day,� Lingenfelser said. The annual Christmas dinner is organized by the Community Christmas Day Dinner Committee, a group of nine volunteers that meets two or three times each year to plan the event.
DOROTHY MONAGHAN, of Lawrence, has volunteered for about 10 years at the annual meal. Ed Martinko, who has volunteered for the last seven or eight years and today was supervising the serving line, said the dinner brings in about Please see DINNER, page 2A
Lawrence police have arrested a suspect in connection with a fatal stabbing Wednesday morning at the The Grove at Lawrence apartments. Police and medical personnel responded to a reported stabbing at 3:30 a.m. in the 4300 block of West 24th Place, where police found a man with at least one stab wound to the chest. On first arrival, medics reported the victim to be in critical condition, then went into cardiac arrest at 3:47 a.m., as first reported by Operation 100 News, a blog that covers overnight breaking news. Medics attempted life-saving measures, but the victim died, said Sgt. Trent McKinley, Lawrence Police Department spokesman. Police detained and transported the suspect from the scene to the Law Enforcement Center for an interview, McKinley said. Later that morning, police arrested Marci Deshayna Cully, 27, of Lawrence, on suspicion of second degree murder, according to the Douglas County booking log. Cully had also been arrested in September in connection with criminal property damage. McKinley said in a news release that police determined the stabbing occurred during a domestic disturbance. Because the incident was related to domestic violence, the police are not releasing the name of the victim, McKinley said. Cully will likely make her first appearance in court today.
Restoration marks Eudora windows’ 100th anniversary “
By Stephen Montemayor
If somebody throws something at (a window), it will bounce off and hopefully hit them in the head.�
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It’s late afternoon, and Wade Walchak hasn’t taken a lunch break yet. Instead, he’s steadying himself on the balls of his feet on scaffolding outside St. Paul United Church of Christ, 738 Church St., and studying the stained-glass windows he has been tasked with saving. Sun peeks between clouds to illuminate the red panes of Jesus’ robe as Walchak trains his eyes on the delicate task of
— Stained-glass restoration expert Wade Walchak bolstering the windows’ protective lead bars and Lexan window covering. The new sheets of Lexan, Walchak said, will protect the windows from being broken and won’t yellow for at least 10 years. “If somebody throws something at it, it will bounce off and hopefully
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hit them in the head,� said Walchak, who runs a stained-glass restoration business out of Belton, Mo. Originally from Winona, Minn., which bills itself as the stained glass capital of the United States, Walchak was called on by the church to lead $30,000 in repairs
in time for the 100th anniversary of the windows’ installation. Walchak replaced the lead between the pieces of glass and the protective covering on the windows. The church, founded in 1868, is also nearing the 100th anniversary of its present building. Clippings from the Eudora Weekly News inside the church tell how in 1913 a small congregation colRichard Gwin/Journal-World Photo laborated to chip in $8,000 to build the new church. A WADE WALCHAK OF SENTIMENTAL ART GLASS COMPANY works on the stained glass windows at St. Paul United Church Please see WINDOWS, page 2A of Christ in Eudora.
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