Habitat for Humanity offers training for volunteers
Lawrence Habitat for Humanity is seeking to train volunteers in task-specific building skills for Habitat projects.
Training skills will be taught throughout the year in clinics focused on house framing, roofing, siding installation and other skills.
Once trained, volunteers will be certified as crew leaders that will direct small groups of unskilled workers on Habitat for Humanity projects.
The drywall installation clinic to certify drywall crew leaders will be Feb. 17 and Feb. 19. Volunteers will train from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. and will practice skills until 3 p.m. Clinic space is limited to 10-15 volunteers. Call Linda Klinker at 832-0777.
Higher education
Best-selling authors Ivins, Williams to speak at KU
Two best-selling writers and renown political analysts will be on the Kansas University campus Friday for public lectures.
Molly Ivins, political columnist and author, will speak at 1:30 p.m. in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
At 3:30 p.m., Juan Williams, author and host of National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation," news and call-in show will speak in room 203, Green Hall.
Ivins will be on campus to receive the William Allen White Citation, an award given annually for excellence in journalism.
Her weekly column appears in newspapers nationwide and her latest book, "Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush," is a critical look at the president's political record in Texas.
Williams is appearing as part of Black History Month.
Aside from hosting the NPR show, Williams is a contributing political analyst for the Fox News Channel. His best-selling book, "Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965," was a companion to the PBS series of the same title.
Kansas University
Court won't review Watkins Trust decision
The Kansas Supreme Court won't review a Douglas County District Court case involving Watkins Hall trust funds.
More than a year ago, Kansas University students living at Watkins Scholarship Hall filed a court claim that the fund's trustee, Bank of America, cannot prove the trust's income is being spent for purposes it was originally intended.
The bank was ordered by District Judge Jack Murphy to provide more detailed documentation about the trust fund.
The bank sought review of Murphy's order by the Kansas Court of Appeals and the Kansas Supreme Court, both of which refused.
The case now returns to Douglas Count District Court.
David Brown, a Lawrence attorney representing the students, said he was pleased with the Supreme Court's decision, handed down Wednesday.
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