- Give thanks to Lawrence area farmers, many will be offering goodies for the holidays
- 06:19 p.m., November 20, 2009 Updated 06:34 p.m.
- Lawrence area farmers and crafters are offering goodies for the holidays this weekend.
- Meals on Wheels gets $1,000 grant to help serve seniors during holidays
- November 20, 2009
- The Senior Meals Program, a division of Douglas County Senior Services, has been awarded a $1,000 grant from Subaru of America Inc. and Meals On Wheels Association of America.
- Salvation Army has high hopes for Red Kettle campaign, despite slow start
- November 20, 2009
- The bells of The Salvation Army’s annual Red Kettle campaign will be ringing with a bit more urgency this year.
- Legislative education committee lobs pre-emptive strike against more budget cuts
- November 20, 2009
- A state committee on Friday sought to put the brakes on further cuts to education.
- Farmers’ Turnpike reopens after four months of construction
- November 20, 2009
- The Farmers’ Turnpike will be open for traffic Friday, more than four months after a major section of the road at the northwestern edge of Lawrence closed for reconstruction.
- KU’s Chancellor issues statement putting support behind Lew Perkins
- November 20, 2009
- In the wake of an ongoing investigation of KU football coach Mark Mangino, and with rumors flying in the media and on message boards, KU Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little issued a statement this morning indicating her full support of athletic director Lew Perkins.
- United Way about $800,000 short of $1.8 million campaign goal
- 01:00 p.m., November 20, 2009 Updated 01:51 p.m.
- While campaign officials would not comment on how far along they were, in order to meet this year’s goal — the highest ever — they said more donations would be necessary.
- Need information during Saturday’s H1N1 clinic? Let us know
- November 20, 2009
- Would you like me to provide updates from Saturday’s community H1N1 clinic through LJWorld? In the past, I’ve provided updates on how long line is at the clinic. Let me know through the comments below if it would be a worthwhile service to you. Also, what kind of information would you like to know?
- Obesity activist crossing country to urge American Indians to embrace healthier diet
- November 20, 2009
- Terrol Dew Johnson has stopped in Lawrence during a 3,000-mile journey to raise awareness of the obesity rate among American Indians. Johnson started in Maine in June 2008 and is on his way home to Tohono O’odham Nation in southern Arizona. The reservation has the highest rate of adult-onset diabetes in the world with over half of the population suffering from the disease. Johnson, 37, is one of them.
- Robbery occurred outside city limits, not in KU parking lot, police say
- November 20, 2009
- A Nov. 12 robbery that reportedly happened in a Kansas University parking lot actually happened in Douglas County, outside the city limits, KU police said Friday.
- 75-year-old Topeka area man dies from H1N1; LMH reports flu activity
- 10:45 a.m., November 20, 2009 Updated 12:33 p.m.
- A 75-year-old man from the Topeka area has died from infection with the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus.
- Statehouse Live: Committee seeks to stop education cuts
- 10:36 a.m., November 20, 2009 Updated 10:36 a.m.
- Issue of seeking federal waiver is discussed.
- Kansas unemployment rate improves slightly
- November 20, 2009
- The state unemployment rate in October was 6.4 percent, down from 6.8 percent in September.
- 40 years ago: New student hospital site recommended
- November 20, 2009
- The KU Student Senate recommended construction of a new $2 million student hospital facility to replace the crowded Watkins Hospital near the chancellor’s residence on the upper campus. The old site now is the home of the School of Social Welfare.
- 100 years ago: Invitations for KU-Missouri game sent
- November 20, 2009
- From the Lawrence Daily World for Nov. 12, 1909: The University Club of Kansas City has sent invitations to the faculty members of the universities of Kansas and Missouri inviting them to make their headquarters at their club rooms when they arrive in Kansas City for the Thanksgiving Day Kansas-Missouri football game on Nov. 26. The girls of both universities are invited to make their headquarters at the Kansas City Women’s Athletic Club rooms.
- 25 years ago: Masquerade deemed a success
- November 20, 2009
- The Lawrence Community Theatre’s Masquerade/Costume Ball proved such a success that Jane Pearce, a theater spokeswoman, said there was sentiment to make it an annual event. More than 200 attended the fund-raiser but there was no immediate estimate of the money raised.
- Sexual healing: Dennis Dailey coaches couples with tough love at his intimacy workshop
- November 20, 2009
- “As I’ve said before, if I teach that class and nobody is upset, I’m probably screwing up somehow,” says Dennis Dailey about his Human Sexuality in Everyday Life class…
- Net Worth: Failed handymen the subject of visual mockery on Web
- November 20, 2009
- I’m not good at fixing things. Sure, I can set up a home stereo system or program a VCR, but tasks that fall into the “handyman” realm are a continual mystery.
- ‘New Moon’ lighter, goofier, better directed
- November 20, 2009
- The “Twilight” soap opera continues with a lighter, goofier and far less erotically charged sequel, “New Moon,” a movie directed by a man and not a woman…
- Canned pumpkin in short supply
- November 20, 2009
- The holidays may not be so sweet this year.
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