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‘If I was a commissioner ...’
By John Hanna Associated Press
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ALTHOUGH A BIT TOO YOUNG TO QUALIFY for the position, 9-year-old Jack Bellemere, a fourth-grader at Raintree Montessori School, wants to be a county commissioner. Jack was photographed Thursday in the County Commission chambers at the Douglas County Courthouse.
9-year-old’s civic interests have him longing for a role in government By Alex Garrison acgarrison@ljworld.com
Jack Bellemere is a pretty precocious kid. He’s got a mop of curly brown hair, glasses and a bit of a shy demeanor. He likes karate and U.S. history and has a solid habit of shooting rapid-fire questions to his ever-patient mom: How old do you have to be to go to college? Which streets run parallel? What’s eminent domain again? Recently, Jack asked some questions that got him and his mom, Kim
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We’re figuring out ways to plug him in. I love “great questions” he had to see a young person thinking beyond himself.” asked her in a meeting be— Douglas County Commissioner Nancy Thellman Bellemere, started on a path to Jack meeting the Douglas County Commission and sitting in on its meetings. He wants to be a county commissioner. They told Commissioner Nancy Thellman, whom Kim knows through acquaintances, and she got him started with a primer on how things there work.
The only problem? Jack’s about nine years too young. Jack, 9, is going into the fourth grade at Raintree Montessori. He technically lives over the line in Leavenworth County, but that hasn’t dampened his civic interest. Thellman introduced him to the rest of the commission during its meeting
forehand. “We’re figuring out ways to plug him in,” she said of getting Jack involved. “I love to see a young person thinking beyond himself.” The process started after one of his inquisitive conversations with his mom, this one about proposed changes to the airport near their rural home. That got him to thinking about the process of Please see COUNTY, page 2A
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KU ranks highly in paper, radio, ‘jock’ categories By Andy Hyland ahyland@ljworld.com
Kansas University received national recognition on Monday for its campus newspaper, its college radio station and its sporting opportunities.
The Princeton Review annually compiles college ranking lists using information collected from student surveys. KU was ranked on three of its lists this year, at No. 6 for “Best College Newspaper,” No. 16 for “Best College Radio Station” and
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Officers pour resources into underage drinking battle By George Diepenbrock gdiepenbrock@ljworld.com
The cycle starts again. Thousands of new Kansas University students made it to Lawrence in recent days for orientation and classes. Now a group aimed at curbing underage drinking hopes to leave an early impression about stopping another cycle that often involves a new set of underage drinkers. “We’ve got a lot of new faces coming to town with freshmen coming here,” said Jen Jordan, a member of the Draw the Line Lawrence Coalition, which includes several area law enforcement agencies. “We want them to be aware of how our community feels about it.” The group is stressing the importance of a series of special patrols in bars, liquor stores and in neighborhoods, plus recent prosecutions involving city and state social hosting laws.
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TOPEKA — A Kansas congressman’s 10-second naked plunge into the sea where the Bible says Jesus walked on water prompted apologies Monday from him, head-shaking from other Republicans and the kind of international attention that no politician wants. Rep. Kevin Yoder is all but certain to keep his seat despite any embarrassment arising from last year’s inci- Yoder dent in Israel because Democrats haven’t fielded a candidate against him. But the freshman Republican acknowledged many of his constituents are wondering what
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City commissioners are considering a new policy that essentially calls for the city to begin charging its own water and sewer utility for services received. Page 6A
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