Midway Railway offers holiday train rides

Baldwin — The Midland Railway of Baldwin will offer Christmas Train excursions departing from Baldwin and Ottawa on Saturday.

The trains will leave at 9:30 a.m. and noon from Baldwin’s Santa Fe Depot, 1515 W. High St., for the former town site of Norwood.

Trains will leave at 3:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. from the Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall on U.S. Highway 59 north of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad overpass in Ottawa for the round trip to Norwood.

Santa Claus will be on each train for photo opportunities.

Tickets are $8 for adults and $4 for children and can be purchased at the Santa Fe Depot in Baldwin or the VFW Hall in Ottawa.

For more information, call (800)751-0388 or go to the railway’s Web site, www.midland-ry.org

The Midland Railway is a nonprofit, historical railroad operated by the Midland Railway Historical Assn.

Above, Mary Lynn and Randy Poletis and their daughter Maddy, 8, of Lake Lotawana, Mo., ride a passenger car on the railway.

Accident

Wreck injures two

A two-car collision northwest of Lawrence Saturday sent two people to the hospital for treatment, according to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office.

The accident occurred about 11:30 a.m. when one car struck the back of another on North 1800 Road near the Kansas Highway 10 bypass interchange with Interstate 70.

A 1990 Mercury Sable driven by Charles Weber, 67, Williamsburg, was struck by a 1996 Sable driven by Rebecca Rothwell, 23, Lawrence. Both vehicles were westbound, according to the sheriff’s report. The drivers were not hurt, but two passengers in Weber’s car were injured.

They were identified by the sheriff’s office as George Scott, 63, Montgomery City, Mo., and Shelley Floyd, 56, Lorington, Mo. Both were taken by ambulance to Lawrence Memorial Hospital, where they were treated and released, a hospital nursing supervisor said.

The cause of the accident is still under investigation. Traffic was down to one lane for about an hour and 45 minutes while officers and emergency crews worked at the scene.

Recognition

State health workers graduate from program

Twenty-five graduates of the Kansas Public Health Certificate Program will be honored during a ceremony at 1 p.m. Dec. 15 at the Old Supreme Court chambers in the state capitol.

Joe Harkins, director of the Governor’s Natural Resources Policy Office, will speak to the group.

The program is a division of Kansas University Continuing Education.

The graduates include Richard L. Ziesenis, director of environmental health for the Douglas County Health Department, and Virginia Ramseyer Winter, a Eudora resident who works at KDHE.