The Shawnee Dispatch / Archive for Tuesday, March 20, 2007

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Lawyers at home in dream office: By Caroline Boyer; March 20, 2007; The newest business to downtown has taken up residence in the area's newest building.
Out & About: March 20, 2007
De Soto Schools Calendar: March 20, 2007
Revised board game made for entrepreneurs: By Caroline Boyer; March 20, 2007; Ever thought of buying up some real estate on Shawnee Mission Parkway? Perhaps purchase a few of Shawnee's many banks?
Murder trial ends with 2nd hung jury: By Caroline Boyer; March 20, 2007; It was the second trial for a man accused of murdering his romantic partner in his Shawnee home, but the results were the same.
Egg hunters ready for annual event: March 20, 2007; The fields at Gum Springs Park will once again be dotted with 35,000 brightly-colored, candy-filled eggs for the city's annual Easter Egg Hunt March 31.
Shawnee Town ready to take first steps in 10-year makeover: By Caroline Boyer; March 20, 2007; Shawnee Town is about to take the next big step in its 10-year strategic plan, but there's already evidence of the intriguing things to come.
City Council in 2nd look at rentals: Governing body will decide among three alternatives for regulation of run-down homes; By Caroline Boyer; March 20, 2007; Cracking down on owners of rental homes who let the property fall into disrepair will take some work.
Uneasy alliances mark race: By Ed Parker; March 20, 2007; De Soto School Board candidates have learned that politics makes strange bedfellows. With four contested races on next month's ballot, candidates are finding it is easier to campaign as a group than as individuals.
Methadone: deadly painkiller: Synthetic narcotic developed to treat addiction often prescribed as analgesic; deaths up 389 percent in 5 years; Eric Weslander; March 20, 2007; Dr. William McKnelly oversees the Kansas City Metro Methadone Program. Regarding a recent spike in methadone deaths, McKnelly said the problem was not so much with treatment programs for heroin addicts as with medical doctors prescribing the synthetic narcotic for pain relief.
Shawnee firm takes part in making over KC home: By Caroline Boyer & Jesse Truesdale; March 20, 2007; Two area businesses helped to make a Kansas City, North, family's dream house come true last week.
Calendar: March 20, 2007
Ice cream shop follows barber in D.T. locale: By Caroline Boyer; March 20, 2007; With the new Splash Cove pool in downtown Shawnee, Carol Gonzales, city manager, has often commented that what downtown really needs now is an ice cream shop.
Letter: No to Wal-Mart: March 20, 2007
Opinion: Debate should focus on workers: March 20, 2007; Members of the City Council, in discussing how best to gauge public opinion on an indoor smoking ban for Shawnee businesses, spent a fair amount of time last week voicing their concerns about the rights of business owners to decide whether to allow smoking on their premises. Better they should spend their time discussing how to see to it that the employees in Shawnee businesses are not continually subjected, day in and day out, to a fog of cancer-causing substances in their workplaces.
Letter: Exploitation?: March 20, 2007
Letter: Remember to Vote: March 20, 2007
JCCC hires new president at last: Dispatch Staff; March 20, 2007; Johnson County Community College announced Tuesday that Terry A. Calaway, Coolidge, Ariz., has accepted the position of college president and will begin in that position July 1.
Birth: Jenna Grace Newman: March 20, 2007
Obituary: Carl H. Anthony: March 20, 2007
Obituary: Edna Marie Donlen: March 20, 2007
Obituary: James Elbert Irvine: March 20, 2007
Obituary: Pernie Osipik: March 20, 2007
About methadone: March 20, 2007; Methadone, created in a lab by Germans to replicate morphine, first gained attention in the mid-20th century as a promising cure for heroin addicts. McKnelly, a professor of psychiatry, says he had the first methadone program west of the Mississippi, founded in 1966 in affiliation with the Kansas University Medical Center.
Shawnee Mission School Calendar: March 20, 2007
Parochial School Calendar: March 20, 2007
Dads help for the day at Mize Elementary: By Ed Parker; March 20, 2007; Steve Hoover said lunchtime at Mize Elementary School was particularly chaotic. Watching students at lunch was part of his job last week, as Hoover volunteered for a day at the school as part of the Watch D.O.G.S. program.
Tacos of Mercy: Area seniors’ project nets $1,000: By Jesse Truesdale; March 20, 2007; Two area students used a school project as an opportunity to raise money for South African children in need with the help of a Shawnee-based charity.
Gymnasts qualify for state championships: March 20, 2007; Twenty-two members of the USATT Team from Miss Maria's Acrobat & Dance Studio, 15555 W. 87th St., Lenexa, have qualified to attend the 2007 USA Gymnastics Trampoline & Tumbling State of Kansas Championships, including several girls from Shawnee.
KU Hospital leader resigns, accepts position in Illinois: Sophia Maines; March 20, 2007; It's been a tough battle.
MINING’S LEGACY A SCAR ON KANSAS: The mining industry that once sustained Cherokee and Crawford counties has been dormant for decades. But its legacy still lives in the landscape and the people of southeast Kansas.; Mike Belt; March 20, 2007; Rick Schultz never knows when the ground underneath him might disappear.
Health leaders: Too many Kansans are uninsured: Fear, illiteracy, stress of poverty notwithstanding, legislators seek ways to find solutions; Scott Rothschild; March 20, 2007; For years, politicians and policymakers have talked about the need to expand health coverage to those who are uninsured.
How Medicaid, Healthwave work: March 20, 2007; Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (in Kansas, it is called HealthWave) are federal- and state-funded programs that provide health care.
Lawmakers criticize health care backlog: Scott Rothschild; March 20, 2007; Some lawmakers are getting angry about reports that thousands of Kansans eligible for Medicaid are not getting coverage because of recent federal requirements to show proof of U.S. citizenship.
House OKs tech school bill: March 20, 2007; The Kansas House on Monday gave preliminary approval to a bill that would set up a panel to coordinate technical schools and advise the Kansas Board of Regents on funding of technical schools.
League tabs 4 Cougars all-Sunflower: By Pete Logan; March 20, 2007; The 2006-2007 Shawnee Mission Northwest boys basketball team was a squad known for accomplishing more as a unit than a team with a superstar. In fact, eight different Cougars led the team in scoring in different games this past season. Still, the Sunflower League coaches noticed the outstanding play of several individual Cougars. Four of them were honored last week with the unveiling of the 2006-2007 Sunflower League postseason awards.
Lone all-KVL rep ‘the standard’ for hard work: By C. J. Moore; March 20, 2007; If it were up to Andrew Wendorff, he probably would not have made the all-Kaw Valley League first-team.
Lady Jags land 2 honorable mention honors: By C. J. Moore; March 20, 2007; The Mill Valley High School girls basketball team may have made history this season by advancing to a sub-state championship for the first time in the school's existence, but that accomplishment went a bit overlooked by league coaches.
Northwest girls dive into season with depth: By Pete Logan; March 20, 2007; Fresh off a successful boys campaign, Shawnee Mission Northwest swim coach Scott Virden has found little time to rest.
Basehor-Linwood’s girls hoops coach steps down: By Matt Tait; March 20, 2007; Basehor-Linwood High School girls basketball coach Tami Holthus saw her program criticized and scrutinized for most of the two years she spent in town.
New coach made big splash: By Pete Logan; March 20, 2007; When Scott Virden introduced himself to the Shawnee Mission Northwest boys swim team as their head coach, he asked his athletes to do something special.

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Whom do you think John McCain should choose as his running mate?

“Sometimes he has a perception of being ambivalent, and he could pick a woman who has a strong record — there are some good choices out there. He’s probably going to have to make some choices about what voters he wants; if he chooses someone like Mitt Romney, he could get more conservative voters.”

— Densel Ballo

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