From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for July 4, 1986:

• A suggestion by City Commissioner Ernest Angino was gaining momentum in Lawrence. Angino had suggested that a good way to encourage peaceful relations among nations was to establish a one-on-one program such as a Sister City. The city commission had thrown their support behind the project, but Mayor Sandy Praeger said that a community-wide effort was needed to make the program a success. Several other Kansas cities, including Olathe, Ottawa, Topeka, and Wichita, already had sister cities in other countries.
• Mice were beginning to get on the nerves of the workers at the Douglas County Judicial and Law Enforcement Center. Douglas County Dist. Atty. Jim Flory reported that when he flipped a light switch in the building one morning, he “obviously awoke Mickey from a sound sleep, at which time he looked at me with a terrorized state of mind and ran past me to the clerk’s office.”