* Lawrence Humane Society raises funds with cookbook

A cookbook benefiting the Lawrence Humane Society will be available in late April.

The cookbook, “Dogbone Wishes and Catnip Dreams, Recipes for People and Their Pets,” is the first cookbook created by the Lawrence Humane Society. The cookbook has about 250 recipes and will cost $10. All proceeds benefit the Lawrence Humane Society.

Above, Leslie Calvert, of Harrogate, England, stopped by Petco, 3115 Iowa, and met a kitten up for adoption last year by the humane society.

To reserve a cookbook, call the humane society at 843-6835.

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 Continuing education: Media law seminar features ‘L.A. Confidential’ author

Kansas City, Mo. Â James Ellroy, an author whose works include “L.A. Confidential,” will speak April 19 at a media law seminar in Kansas City, Mo.

The 15th annual Media and the Law Seminar, at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center, is a one-day event organized by Kansas University Continuing Education and the Media and the Law Committee of the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Assn.

Other speakers will include Chip Babcock, former attorney for Oprah Winfrey, and Lee Levine, co-author of “Newsgathering and the Law.”

For more information or to register for the conference, call (877) 404-5823 or visit the Web site at www.kuce.org/app/law. Separate luncheon-only tickets to hear Ellroy speak may be available after Friday, if space permits.

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 Humanities: Hall Center sponsoring oral history workshop

“Learning to Hear the Stories III: The Borders of Memory,” a workshop on oral history and traditions, will be from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday in the Kansas Union at Kansas University.

Speakers are Mary Marshall Clark of Columbia University, director of the oral history project on the World Trade Center attacks; Doris Saunders, Chicago, author of “Ancestor Hunting”; Alhaji Papa Susso, director of the Koriya Musa Center for Research in Oral Tradition in the Republic of Gambia, West Africa; and Ross Talarico, California, author of “Spreading the Word: Poetry and the Survival of Community in America.”

The free event is open to the public, but preregistration is required. For more information, call the Hall Center for the Humanities, 864-4798, or send e-mail to hallcenter@ku.edu.

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 Gasoline prices: Pump Patrol seeks best deal

The Journal-World has found a Lawrence-area gasoline price as low as $1.19 at Site Service Station, 946 E. 23rd St.

If you find a lower price, please call us at 832-7154. Be prepared to leave the name and address of the business and the price. Or go to www.ljworld.com/section/ gasoline to join our Pump Patrol board.