Nursing home to hold egg hunt for children

Children can search for eggs, get their faces painted and meet Peter Cottontail on March 26 at a Lawrence nursing home.

The event starts 10 a.m. at Lake View Manor, 3015 W. 31st St. Children can also eat snacks and compete in a coloring contest.

For more information, call 842-7282.

KU health center has new chief of staff

A longtime staff physician at Kansas University’s Watkins Memorial Health Center has been named chief of staff.

Patricia Denning will succeed Myra Strother in the position. Strother served two two-year appointments as chief of staff.

Denning has worked at Watkins for 15 years. Strother will remain as a physician at the center.

Eldridge renovations behind schedule

Renovations at the historic Eldridge Hotel are slightly behind schedule.

The original re-opening date of April 1, has been pushed back to mid May, said general manager Randy English.

That “is pretty typical when you get into a renovation project of this magnitude,” said English, who has been involved in the renovation of four other historic hotels.

He said crews were working round-the-clock at the hotel to replace the elevator, gut every bathroom and renovate every room and public space.

Above, Serling Eubank, Lawrence, of Preparation Painting, does some finish work Friday in a bathroom at the Eldridge.

English said rooms on the fifth and fourth floors were ready for carpet. And a new chef has been hired to create a menu for the renovated restaurant, yet to be named.

The hotel has been closed for three months.

Crime

Burglaries suspect arrested again

The suspect in a series of burglaries in the Brook Creek Neighborhood in east Lawrence has been arrested again, this time on suspicion of crimes outside the city, Lawrence Police said Friday.

Police wouldn’t identify the suspect but said he’d been arrested on an unrelated warrant in another county in Kansas.

The suspect has not been charged in Douglas County. If charges are filed, he wouldn’t be brought back until his case in the other jurisdiction is finished.

Police believe he’s involved in more than 20 burglaries in Lawrence and Douglas County, including those in the Brook Creek Neighborhood.

There were about eight home burglaries and 11 auto burglaries in Brook Creek during January.