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Colyer: Refugees want support at home Lt. gov., Ben Carson aid Syrians in Jordan
By Peter Hancock Twitter: @LJWpqhancock
Topeka — Kansas Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer spent another Thanksgiving holiday treating victims of the Syrian civil war at two refugee camps along
the Jordanian border. This year, however, another high-profile physician accompanied him on the trip: Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson.
And both men returned from the trip with a message about how they think the U.S. should respond to the refugee crisis in the region: Send more refugee
aid to Jordan and other countries in the region rather than bringing Syrian refugees to the United States. Please see REFUGEES, page 2A Colyer
COAT DRIVE WARMS UP
HASKELL RAPE CASE
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KU VOLLEYBALL ASSOCIATE HEAD COACH LAURA KUHN sorts through a pile of coats Monday while volunteering at the I-70 Business Center for the annual Share the Warmth coat drive, sponsored by The Salvation Army of Douglas County and Scotch Fabric Care Services. Coats will be available at Suite 104 of the center, 1035 N. Third St., on Thursday from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m., and on Friday from 9 a.m. to noon.
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ore than 2,000 people will be warmer this winter thanks to the Share the Warmth coat drive sponsored by The Salvation Army of Douglas County and Scotch Fabric Care Services. The Salvation Army this year has collected more than 2,800 items — coats, hats, mittens and blankets — for people in need, and employees at Scotch Fabric have spent hours cleaning them. “It’s a lot of extra hours for the few of us who stay,” said Thomas Shmalberg, a
vice president of Scotch Fabric. Shmalberg said his grandfather began the practice of cleaning the coats 29 years ago, and this is his sixth year handling the project. “The good feeling you get from this when people get the coats is unbelievable,” Shmalberg said. Coats will be available at the I-70 Business Center, 1035 N. Third St., Suite 104, on Thursday from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m., and on Friday from 9 a.m. to noon, said Lt. Marisa McCluer of The Salvation Army. The only requirement for a free coat is that you are a Douglas County resident.
There are heavy coats, long coats, light coats, adult and kids coats, baby coats — and in a variety of colors and fabrics, McCluer said. The number of coats collected this year is up in part because of the help of Hilltop Children’s Center, McCluer said. In addition, the recent cold snap has put people in a winter mindset. “I think we had a last-minute rally when it got cold outside,” McCluer said. “People thought, ‘I need a new coat, and I’ve got to do something with the old one.’ When it is warm outside people don’t think about it as much.”
Douglas County District Judge Paula Martin on Monday decided not to impose any sanctions against the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office after prosecutors in a rape case admitted to improperly disseminating a sealed document. The affidavit regards the alleged victim’s previous sexual conduct and was filed under seal in August by the attorney of one of the two defendants COURTS in the case. The document was filed under seal because of the “rape shield” law, which limits the introduction of evidence at trial regarding an alleged rape victim’s sexual history. The defense attorneys in the case had argued that the dissemination of the sealed record tainted witnesses’ testimony. The prosecution’s case alleges that a 21-year-old man and 20-year-old man raped a fellow student in their Haskell Indian Nations University dormitory on Nov. 15, 2014. The 21-year-old is charged with aiding and abetting attempted Please see AFFIDAVIT, page 3A
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Tax incentive request could revive old debate Town Talk
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ll we’ll need tonight at City Hall are the “Solid Gold” dancers, because I suspect commissioners will hear a classic tune: questions about whether the city is business-friendly enough. Commissioners at their meeting this evening are set to finally hear an incentives request for the proposed remodeling of
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while the ground floor would continue to be used as a restaurant, although a tenant hasn’t yet been found. I say the commission is “finally” going to hear the incentive request because this item has been sitting in the commission’s to-do box for a while.
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the Pachamamas building at Eighth and New Hampshire streets. As we previously have reported, a development group led by Lawrence businessmen Doug Compton and Mike Treanor has plans to add four stories onto the existing one-story restaurant building. The four new stories would house about 55 apartments,
Later this week a Kansas University Student Senate ad hoc committee is expected to complete its recommendation for the next steps in impeachment proceedings against one of the body’s top three officers, with recommendations for the KANSAS other two expected later. UNIVERSITY It’s an increasingly complicated attempt to unseat the three leaders over diversity issues, which now involves a lengthy list of grievances against them dating back to last spring.
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