Injury accident reported on turnpike

A Mission woman suffered minor injuries in an accident Wednesday night on the Kansas Turnpike a mile east of the East Lawrence terminal.

Krystyn Riddle, 37, suffered neck and back injuries in the accident, which occurred around 7 p.m. Wednesday, according to a Kansas Turnpike Authority report released Thursday. She was treated and released at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, a nursing supervisor said.

Riddle was driving eastbound in a 1990 Mazda pickup when her vehicle sideswiped a 2004 Chevrolet car driven by Jessica Jamison, a 24-year-old Oklahoma City resident. The report said the cause for the sideswipe was unknown.

Riddle’s pickup hit the median. Jamison’s car spun and came to a rest in the south ditch.

Jamison did not seek treatment.

Higher education

Haskell acknowledges congressional funds

Haskell Indian Nations University officials on Wednesday welcomed news that U.S. Rep. Dennis Moore, D-Kansas, had added $700,000 to the 2005 omnibus appropriations bill for lab equipment.

Earlier, Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kansas, announced that he had requested $1.22 million for a science center at Haskell. Brownback also included the $700,000 in the Senate version budget bill.

“We deeply appreciate the efforts of Senator Brownback and Representative Moore to secure funding for a science facility and science equipment,” said Haskell President Karen Swisher.

The funding is expected to help Haskell enhance its science, technology, engineering and mathematics capabilities.

The budget bill has passed the House and Senate and awaits President Bush’s signature into law.

Shopping

Youth art sale planned this weekend

Holiday shoppers this weekend can buy fresh, funky and functional art made by youths from a nonprofit organization.

Artists in Van Go Mobile Arts’ vocational arts training program have fashioned works such as glass bowls, frames and mirrors, masks, mosaic lamps, painted gardening items and even a poetry book.

The holiday sale kicks off Saturday with a reception from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Van Go, 715 N.J.

After Saturday, shoppers can buy artwork from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday until Dec. 23.

Television

Area students to compete in High Q

Five area high schools will send teams to the High Q academic competition in December at Washburn University in Topeka.

Students from Lawrence, Free State, Baldwin, Perry-Lecompton and Tonganoxie high schools will compete Dec. 4 against other schools from around the state. They will field questions in topics such as literature, history, math and science.

Washburn and WIBW-TV are sponsoring the contest.

Economics professor wins teaching prize

An assistant professor of economics has won Kansas University’s 2004 Byron T. Shutz Award for distinguished teaching.

Ted Juhl, who teaches courses in macroeconomics and general economics, will receive $4,000.

The award was established to honor Shutz, who attended KU in 1918 and 1919 but left to support his widowed mother. He was a commercial real estate broker and mortgage banker. The award was created in 1978.

High school thespians collect tons of food

Free State High School’s thespian troupe collected 5,773 pounds of food for Penn House as part of a national food collection campaign called Trick or Treat So Kids Can Eat, or TOTS-EAT.

TOTS-EAT is a community service initiative for the International Thespian Society, a division of the Educational Theatre Assn.

Pulitzer winner to speak at KU

Kevin Helliker, a Kansas University graduate and Pulitzer Prize winner, will deliver a speech Monday in the Big 12 Room of the Kansas Union.

Helliker, who won the 2004 Pulitzer for explanatory journalism, will speak at 5 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

Helliker is the Chicago bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal. He won journalism’s top prize for a series he co-wrote that dealt with aortic aneurysms.

The 1982 KU graduate also has worked at the Kansas City Times, Corporate Report Kansas City magazine and Arizona Trend magazine.