Art sale to benefit heart-transplant patient

The Olive Gallery will play host to an art opening today to benefit 12-year-old Rose Naughtin, the Central Junior High School student who in April received her second heart transplant in eight years.

“Art for Rose” will offer for sale donated works made by Lawrence junior high and high school students and other local artists. The event will be from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the gallery, 15 E. Eighth St. Suggested retail prices will be posted on the works.

Local band The Shaggy Haired Outcasts will perform. The Outcasts were featured earlier this month at a benefit concert for Rose at Abe & Jake’s Landing, 8 E. Sixth St.

The Naughtins have insurance, but it doesn’t cover all costs.

Fund-raisers, including two concerts and a “trash can art” auction at Central, have generated about $17,500 for Rose thus far, family friend Deb Rake said.

Head-on collision injures 3 in Jefferson County

A two-vehicle accident Monday afternoon just south of Meriden injured three people.

The driver of a 2000 Ford pick-up, Joleen R. Morris, 41, Valley Falls, was in good condition Tuesday evening at Stormont-Vail Regional Health Center in Topeka, according to a hospital spokeswoman.

Passenger William Morris, 37, Valley Falls, also was in good condition at Stormont-Vail.

The driver of the other vehicle, Thomas A. Wilson, 82, Topeka, was transported by air ambulance to the University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City, Kan., according to a Kansas Highway Patrol report. A spokeswoman from the hospital could neither confirm nor deny Wilson’s presence there.

At 4:45 p.m. Monday, Wilson was southbound on Kansas Highway 4 when he drove onto the shoulder, overcorrected and crossed the center line, striking the Morrises head-on, according to the report.