Annual jamboree raises funds for park memorial

About 300 people Saturday stopped by New York School for the March Madness Trade & Sale Jamboree, which featured crafts by about 20 artists and craftspeople.

Prints, charcoal sketches, handmade soaps and painted bird baths were on display in the school gym, along with baked goods and used books and records.

The East Lawrence Neighborhood Assn. sponsored the event, and the money raised will be used for neighborhood projects such as the Hobbs Park Memorial, said Liz Brosius, neighborhood association board member and co-organizer of the event.

Brosius said the neighborhood association sponsored the event to bring the community together.

“We want to further being good neighbors, address the problems and celebrate some of the wonderful things that are in our neighborhood,” she said.

Community service: Blood center beginning ‘March Madness’ drive

College basketball fans will be able to prove they really bleed the colors of their favorite school during the Community Blood Center’s March Madness blood drive.

Donors who give blood during the second annual drive, which runs from Monday through March 16 and is sponsored by Topeka radio station V-100, will receive a free commemorative T-shirt and have a chance to win $5,000 in merchandise from Brandsmart.

The donor who comes closest to naming the national basketball champion and the combined score of the national championship game will win the grand prize.

To schedule an appointment, call the Lawrence donor center at 843-5383. Donors must be at least 17 years old, weigh at least 110 pounds and be in good health.

University Daily Kansan: Court denies newspaper attorney fee reimbursement

The University Daily Kansan will not be reimbursed its attorney fees in its lawsuit to get the Kansas Highway Patrol to turn over the report from a fatal accident.

A state court ruled in 2000 that the patrol should have released the accident report from the Sept. 16, 2000, car accident that killed Felicia Bland. But the court also said the UDK, the Kansas University student newspaper, would not receive attorney fees because no evidence showed the patrol acted in bad faith by withholding the report.

The Kansas Supreme Court agreed Friday, ruling against the UDK’s appeal.

A teen-ager, Sean Scott, was later convicted of drunken driving in Bland’s death. Other criminal and civil cases pending from the wreck are pending.