KU graduate to receive Spirit of Service award

A 2003 Kansas University graduate will receive the top award offered to Americorps volunteers today during a ceremony in Kansas City, Mo.

Katie Teske will receive one of 12 Spirit of Service awards as part of the National Conference on Community Volunteering and National Service.

Teske has worked on a variety of projects as a volunteer in Incline Village, Nev. Her accomplishments include securing dental services for low-income children; leading the Children’s Cabinet at the town’s Snow Club, making skiing and snowboarding available to low-income children; and working with Girl Scouts to develop an outreach project to develop empowering activities for girls.

She is the daughter of Gary and Linda Teske of Lawrence.

Lawrence resident meets Bush at White House

Lawrence resident Scottie Lingelbach received a surprise, personal tour of the White House from President Bush last week while she was in Washington, D.C., attending World War II Memorial events.

Lingelbach attended the memorial ceremony as a guest of NBC newsman Tom Brokaw and stayed with Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Richard Myers and his wife, Mary Jo. Lingelbach was featured in Brokaw’s 1998 book, “The Greatest Generation.”

Lingelbach said she went with the Myerses to a breakfast at the White House attended by members of the president’s Cabinet. Although President Bush was not at the breakfast, Lingelbach said she had a chance encounter with him in one of the hallways. Lingelbach was introduced to him by Myers and then taken by the president to see a few rooms.

“He put his arm around me and said, ‘Come on, I want to show you something,'” Lingelbach recalled. “Afterward he said, ‘Well, I guess I better get back to work.'”

Lingelbach served with the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service during World War II and worked with the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Education

Duke program to honor middle-schoolers today

About 500 top middle school students from across Kansas will be at Kansas University today for an annual recognition program through the Duke University Talent Identification Program.

This is the sixth year KU has conducted the ceremony, which will be at 1:30 p.m. at the Lied Center.

The TIP program honors students who have the top 5 percent of college entrance exam scores.

Students from Lawrence chosen to participate are Molly Albrecht, Lauren Bandle, Lydia Belcher, David Brown, Timothy Clark, Alexander Clark, Emily Coatney, Kyle Consolver, Emily Corliss, Sara Cortese, Anjali Datta, Julia Davidson, Carina Fowler, Edward Huneke, Alexandria Hyler, Hannah Kapp-Klote, Lance Kilburn, Robert Knight, Julian Kuszmaul, Christopher Lyons, Cale Moore, Mackenzie Moore, Elizabeth Murray, McKean Parker, Andres Ramos, Juliet Remmers, Eileen Richling, Darci Rodecap, Ursula Rothrock, Evan Taylor, Maude Thomas, Dianna Torgerson, Rodolfo Torres-Gavosto, Nicholas Totten, Charles Turner III, Clay Weinaug, Samuel Wessels, Mitchell Whitson, J. Wiebe, Jared Willits and Betty Zhang.

State

Kansas travelers can call for road conditions

Topeka — State officials are reminding Kansas motorists hitting the highways that dialing 511 on their cell phones while in the state will provide travel updates.

Dialing 511 inside Kansas or (866) 511-KDOT anywhere in the United States, travelers can get specific road conditions, construction detours and travel weather information for the state highway system and Kansas Turnpike.

The same road condition information is available on the Internet through the Kansas Department of Transportation’s Kanroad system at www.kanroad.org.

Area 4-H’ers, FFA win showmanship awards

Several area members of 4-H and Future Farmers of America received awards at the 2004 Johnson County Spring Livestock Show, held recently in Gardner.

Local winners included Braxton Nottingham, Lawrence, first in senior sheep showmanship; Paris Nottingham, Lawrence, third in intermediate sheep showmanship; Johanna Lundgren, Ottawa, first in junior sheep showmanship; Andrew Madl, Wellsville, second in senior sheep showmanship and grand champion market lamb; Ben Smart, Baldwin, reserve champion breeding doe goat and second in intermediate goat showmanship; Annie Smart, Baldwin, first in senior goat showmanship; Nathan Smart, Baldwin, second in junior goat showmanship.

There were 163 sheep exhibited by 70 children, and 30 goats exhibited by 20 children.