Monarch-tagging event set for Saturday morning

Butterfly lovers will gather Saturday at the Baker Wetlands to tag the thousands of monarchs expected at the site south of Lawrence.

The tagging event, sponsored by the Jayhawk Audubon Society and the Kansas University-based Monarch Watch, is from 7:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Organizers will provide nets, tags and instructions on how to tag the monarchs. At left, a volunteer tags a butterfly at last year’s event.

For more information, contact Monarch Watch at 864-4441.

Courts

Hearing to resolve remaining Watkins issues

A hearing tentatively has been set for Nov. 24 to resolve the remaining issues involved in the lawsuit filed by residents of two Kansas University scholarship halls against the university.

The residents are asking Douglas County District Judge Jack Murphy to require KU to give them more say in their halls’ upkeep and whether fees for Bank of America’s attorneys will be paid from the trust set up to maintain the halls.

Murphy on Monday dismissed most of the claims in the lawsuit at the request of the residents. The students sued in 2001, saying KU and Bank of America weren’t properly using the trust fund left by Elizabeth Miller Watkins to repair their halls. They sought more than $75,000 in damages.

However, the students later said they were pleased with recent upkeep at the scholarship halls and they found no signs of mismanagement during the past five years, the allowed statute of limitations.

Kansas University

Student success focus of multicultural event

The success of students from traditionally underrepresented ethnic minority groups will be the focus of a conference today at the Kansas Union at Kansas University.

The 2003 Multicultural Student Success Conference, which begins at 3 p.m., includes several workshops designed to help students improve academic achievement, leadership skills and career exploration. Leaders from campus minority organizations, faculty and representatives from companies with internships also will be on hand.

The featured speaker will be Rickey Jones, a former college administrator, high school dropout program coordinator, minority student program director and college athletic coach. He recently served as a mentor for T.J. Ford, the University of Texas basketball player picked seventh in this year’s NBA draft.

6Productions

Authors to share tales on ‘River City Weekly’

Authors Tanya Shaffer, Laura Moriarty and Tom Averill share insights on their writing with host Greg Hurd this week on “River City Weekly.”

Shaffer highlights her autobiographical travel-tale “Somebody’s Heart is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in Africa.”

Laura Moriarty reveals some of the creative process involved in writing “The Center of Everything,” the story of Evelyn Bucknow’s below-the-poverty-line coming-of-age in Kansas.

Tom Averill shares highlights from a journey into adulthood set in a fictitious Kansas Scottish community in “The Slow Air of Ewan MacPherson.”

“River City Weekly” premieres on Sunflower Broadband Channel 6 at 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays with encore performances at 7:30 weeknights, 8:30 weekday mornings and 9 a.m. Saturdays.

Gas prices

Pump Patrol seeks deals

The Journal-World has found a Lawrence-area gasoline price as low as $1.56 at Zarco 66 No. 3, 900 Iowa. If you find a lower price, call Pump Patrol at 832-7154.