Sites offer youngsters free breakfasts, lunches

Six sites in Lawrence will offer free meals on weekdays to children ages 18 and under this summer.

The meals are offered to those who have enrolled in the Summer Food Service Program that is offered by the Kansas Department of Education and uses federal funds.

The locations and times are:

• Lawrence Boys and Girls Club, 1520 Haskell Ave., 7:30 a.m. to 8 a.m. and noon to 1 p.m., through July 30.
• East Heights Elementary, 1430 Haskell Ave., 7:45 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. and 11 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Today through June 30.
• East Lawrence Center, 1245 E. 15th St., noon to 1 p.m., today through July 30.
• Van-Go Mobile Arts, 715 N.J., 11 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., today through July 30.
• New York School, 936 N.Y., 7:45 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. and noon to 1 p.m., today through July 30.
• Pinckney School, 810 W. Sixth St., 7:45 a.m. to 8 a.m. and noon to 12:30 p.m., July 12-Aug. 5.

Ottawa festival offers new activities

This year’s Ottawa Skunk Run on June 12 will feature two new events.

The Iron Horse 5-kilometer run will start at 7:30 a.m. at the Marais des Cygnes River and go down part of the Prairie Spirit Trail. The entry fee is $16 before June 6 and $18 afterward. Money raised benefits the Prairie Spirit Trail and the Franklin County Historical Society. Call (785) 418-1088 for more information.

The June Jaunt is sponsored by Mid America Nutrition Program and will raise money for Meals on Wheels programs. It will start at 8 a.m. and utilize the entire Prairie Spirit Trail from Ottawa to Garnett.

Participants may begin at either trailhead, Country Mart in South Ottawa or in Garnett, and walk, jog or ride bicycles. Water and restrooms will be available along the way and a safety patrol will be on duty. To get more information or participate, call (785) 242-8341 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday or (785) 242-8609 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Oskaloosa sale to benefit food bank

The Oskaloosa Presbyterian Church, located on the town square, will hold its second annual garage sale at 8 a.m. Friday and Saturday.

The sale, one of the largest in Jefferson County, will have everything from collectibles to dishes and furniture.

Proceeds go to God’s Storehouse, the food bank of the county. Last year’s sale raised $2,500.

Lawrence couple to portray Cordleys

As part of Lawrence’s Chautauqua celebration next month, a Lawrence couple will portray the Rev. Richard Cordley and his wife, Mary. Richard Cordley was an outspoken abolitionist and leader in the Free State movement.

Harold and Donna Riehm will perform at 9:30 a.m. Sunday, June 27 during the morning service at Plymouth Church, where Richard Cordley served as pastor for 38 years during the late 1800s.

Harold Riehm, a member of the Lawrence Chautauqua Planning Committee, will portray the pastor circa 1904, shortly before his death. The performance will relate Cordley’s involvement in the founding of Lawrence, housing a runaway slave, Quantrill’s Raid and the 1870 construction of Plymouth Church.

Richard Cordley was a nationally recognized pastor and writer whose home burned to the ground during Quantrill’s Raid in 1863. Some say he was a primary target because of three sermons he’d delivered in Kansas City, Mo., just before the raid.