Former KU standout a Kansan of the Year

Lynette Woodard, former Kansas University basketball standout and coach, has been named Kansan of the Year by Native Sons and Daughters of Kansas.

Woodard played at KU from 1978 to 1981, setting college records for career field goals and field goal attempts. She also played for the Harlem

Globetrotters.

She was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in September and will be inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in June.

She served as an assistant coach at KU for four years under Marian Washington, until Washington retired last year.

The Native Sons and Daughters chose Emery Fager, chairman of the board of Commerce Bank and Trust of Topeka, as Distinguished Kansan of the Year.

The awards will be presented during a banquet at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 28 at the Kansas Expocentre in Topeka. Tickets are $35 per person or $400 for a table that seats 10. Payment for tickets can be mailed to Ed Moses, 700 S.W. Jackson, Suite 1408, Topeka, 66612. For more information, contact Mary Nichols at (785) 296-7634 or Steve Johnson at (913) 319-8604.

Event

Students to participate in Right to Life March

Students from 10 Kansas colleges, including Kansas University, will participate this month in the 32nd annual Right to Life March in Washington, D.C.

About 150 anti-abortion advocates are expected to depart Jan. 21 after an 11 a.m. send-off mass at the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center, 1631 Crescent Road. The rally will be Jan. 24.

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‘River City Weekly’ features author, quilter

Author James F. Brooks delves into the politics of identity as he discusses his book “Confounding the Color Line: The Indian-Black Experience in North America” and “Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship and Community in the Southwest Borderlands,” which he edited.

Brooks, press director of the School of American Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico, was the keynote speaker for a November conference “The Shifting Borders of Race and Identity” in Lawrence.

Then, Lawrence resident Marla Jackson sews and talks about her quilts. Jackson’s works, which are often drawn from African-American history, have been displayed in the “Threads of Faith” exhibit in New York City and at the American Bible Society and at the Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tenn.

“River City Weekly” with host Greg Hurd premieres on Sunflower Broadband Channel 6 at 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays with replays at 9:30 p.m. Wednesdays, 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Thursdays, 9:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. Fridays, 9 a.m. Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Mondays, and 10 a.m. and 8:30 p.m. Tuesdays.