Royals baseball telecast to pre-empt 6 p.m. news

6News at 6 p.m. today will be pre-empted by Kansas City Royals baseball. The Royals are playing the Red Sox at Boston. The game is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. on Sunflower Broadband Channel 6.

The newscast will be seen after the game on Channel 6; the 10 p.m. newscast will air at its regular time.

Lawrence Evangelicals plan prayer vigil

The Lawrence Association of Evangelicals has set a prayer vigil for today, the National Day of Prayer.

The theme of this year’s Day of Prayer is “Righteousness Exalts a Nation.”

The come-and-go vigil, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Lawrence City Commission meeting room at City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St., is open to everyone. Prayer guides will be available.

For more information on the National Day of Prayer, visit the Web site at www.nationaldayofprayer.org.

Fire damages property on farm near Basehor

Basehor — A wind-whipped fire Wednesday destroyed a chicken coop, garage and trailer at a rural Leavenworth County farm, firefighters said.

No one was injured in the blaze that was fought by firefighters from several departments, said Bert Dunham, assistant chief with the Stranger Township Fire Department.

Firefighters were called at 11:17 a.m. to the Leroy Maurer farm, 19341 Fairmount, about eight miles northwest of Basehor. The fire is thought to have started with heat lamps in the chicken coop, Dunham said. It spread to the garage and trailer.

Total damage was estimated around $50,000.

Teenage organ donor featured on brochure

Just three weeks before Alicia Ann Chavez, 14, was killed in a September 2000 traffic accident, she had made the decision to donate her organs when she died.

Now the Lawrence teenager will be featured on the new Midwest Transplant Network brochure being distributed to Kansas Department of Motor Vehicles licensing stations.

Alicia, then a Central Junior High School student, was asked about donating her organs while she was getting her learner’s permit at the driver’s license examining station. She readily agreed, her mother, Amy Chavez, said.

After her death, Alicia’s two kidneys and liver were donated for transplants.