Free two-hour workshop scheduled for Thursday

The Lawrence Coalition to Honor End-of-Life Choices – or CHEC – and Lawrence Memorial Hospital’s Palliative Care Team will hold a free two-hour workshop to educate community members about the meaning of living wills and the legal steps involved in creating them.

The workshop will take place at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the LMH auditorium, 325 Maine.

Living wills are documents that state people’s health care wishes, should they ever become unable to speak for themselves. Creating a living will in Kansas does not require an attorney and can be done free of charge at LMH.

For more information about the workshop, contact Viva Bolova at 840-3130.

Two KU seniors to study abroad

Two Kansas University seniors have been awarded Freeman-Asia scholarships to study abroad in Asia during the next school year.

Jonathan Evenson, of Fort Polk, La., and John Casey O’Donnell, of Lawrence, received the scholarships, which are funded through the Freeman Foundation.

Evenson also is the third KU recipient of the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship for study abroad, which provides study abroad funding to U.S. undergraduate students who receive Pell Grants.

The Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.