County residents finish law enforcement course

Four Douglas County men were among the 66 February graduates at the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center near Hutchinson.

Graduates include Gary Gazzarari and Adam Hoover, of the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, and Brian Welsh and Jason White, of the KU Public Safety Office.

The law enforcement officials completed a 14-week basic training program at the center, which is operated by KU.

About 450 officers go through the training each year.

KU to lose assistant of Multicultural Affairs

The associate director of the Kansas University Office of Multicultural Affairs will leave in May.

Tony Daniels is moving to Fort Collins, Colo., where his wife, Christina, will work in microbiology at Colorado State University.

Daniels plans to find a position in the student affairs area at CSU. KU officials will conduct a search for a new associate director of the office, which is directed by Robert Page.

Radio-controlled plane events set for Saturday

Radio-controlled airplanes will fill the sky Saturday at the Clinton Lake RC field, below the dam on the south end.

Called the 2004 Fun Fly, the contests and events will begin at 9 a.m., with sign-in at 8 a.m.

Among the events planned are “bombs away,” “touch and go” and “Indy loop and land.”