Suicide prevention focus of Headquarters’ opening

A Thursday event at Headquarters Counseling Center will raise awareness of suicide prevention.

The open house, from 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the center’s new location, 211 E. Eighth St., Suite C, is geared toward teenagers and young adults. It will include handouts about suicide prevention and suicide bereavement as well as light refreshments and door prizes. Center staff also will be available to talk.

Kansas University radio station KJHK will broadcast music, much of which will be from the Plea for Peace Tour, a national concert tour raising funds for the National Hopeline Network.

Part of the tour includes a National Hopeline Network truck, which carries a message of suicide prevention, pictured above on New Hampshire Street.

Headquarters, one of the oldest 24-hour counseling centers in the country, is part of Hopeline, the toll-free suicide prevention hotline reached anywhere in the United States by calling (800)-SUICIDE.

An 11:30 a.m. Lawrence Chamber of Commerce ribbon-cutting ceremony will precede the afternoon open house.

Homecoming weekend: Lions alumni group plans Hall of Honor inductions

Three graduates of Lawrence High School and a Liberty Memorial High School alumnus will be inducted Sunday into the LHS Hall of Honor to mark their professional accomplishments.

Since 1994, the Lawrence Lions Alumni Assn. annually recognizes people who have been associated with LHS or its predecessor, Liberty Memorial, by placing them in the hall.

This year’s class:

Don “Red Dog” Gardner, Lawrence. The 1956 graduate is a retired Lawrence police officer and founder of “Red Dog Days,” a popular community fitness program conducted on the Kansas University campus.

Steven Johnson, Lawrence. This 1982 graduate of LHS is an author and illustrator of children’s books. He is a winner of the prestigious Caldicott Award.

Srinija Srinivasan, Palo Alto, Calif. She is a 1989 LHS graduate and vice president and editor in chief of Yahoo Inc.

Elden Tefft, Lawrence. He graduated from Liberty Memorial in 1939. The retired KU professor is an internationally recognized sculptor. He created the “Moses” at KU’s School of Religion, the “Jayhawker” at Strong Hall and the “Roaring Chesty Lion” at LHS.

Channel 6 Productions: TV host and local artist on ‘River City Weekly’

Television personality Bill Kurtis and artist Nancy Marshall headline this week’s “River City Weekly.”

Kurtis, a 1962 Kansas University graduate, is host of such programs as “American Justice,” “The New Explorers” and “Investigative Reports” on the A&E network. Kurtis will discuss his economic development efforts in Sedan, including his latest enterprise, the Art of the Prairie Gallery.

Marshall will take viewers on a

tour of her work painted for the upcoming Lawrence Sister City International Scholarship Dinner and Auction.

“River City Weekly” also will update viewers on the upcoming Lawrence Own Your Art Exhibit.

Greg Hurd is the host of “River City Weekly,” and it premieres at 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays with encores at 7:30 p.m. weekdays, 10:30 p.m. Wednesdays and 9 a.m. Saturdays. “River City Weekly” information can be found on the Web at www.6productions.com.