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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2014
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Sunday's Mini Big Event canceled due to weather
LANE COFAS
@OttoVeatch
The second Mini Big Event, which was scheduled for yesterday, was canceled Thursday due to weather conditions.
According to the Big Event's Facebook page, the event exists to "unite KU students, faculty and staff with the Lawrence community, and to foster a culture of services through collaboration." The Mini Big Event is a smaller version of the Big Event, which occurs in the spring.
Three hundred volunteers
"Earlier in the week we had decided to scale back our event to only accommodate job sites that were indoors due to the extremely cold weather forecasted for today [Sunday]," Wilkin said. "On Thursday evening we decided as an executive team to cancel the event as we were only anticipated to serve about seven homeowners [from the original 25 that signed up] that wanted inside
Homeowners,who were expecting volunteers yesterday were contacted with the reasoning behind the cancellation, and will be contacted again in the spring for the fifth annual Big Event after registration opens, Wilkin said.
were unable to give their time because of the cancelation, said Liz Wilkin, director of the Big Event. The event will not be rescheduled.
cleaning work done," Wilkin said.
According to the event's Twitter feed, the city of Lawrence took applications for volunteers to help shovel sidewalks after the snowfall yesterday morning.
Colorado health officials may ban edible pot treats
- Edited by Ashley Peralta
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Pot-infused brownies are divided and packaged at The Growing Kitchen in Boulder, Colo. Colorado health officials want to ban many edible forms of marijuana, including brownies, cookies and most candies, limiting sales of pot-infused food to lozenges and some liquids.
DENVER — Saying they're still worried that edible pot sweets are too attractive to kids, Colorado health authorities plan to ask Monday for a new panel to decide which marijuana foods and drinks look too much like regular snacks.
A Health Department recommendation, obtained by The Associated Press in advance of a final meeting Monday on edible marijuana regulations, suggests a new state commission to give "pre-market approval" before food or drinks containing pot can be sold.
The recommendation comes a month after the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment suggested banning the sale of most kinds of edible pot. That suggestion was quickly retracted after it went public.
Marijuana-infused foods and drinks have been a booming sector in Colorado's new recreational marijuana market. But lawmakers feared the products are too easy to confuse with regular foods and drinks and ordered marijuana regulators to require a new look for marijuana edibles.
The new Health Department suggestion calls for a commission to decide which types of foods can be sold.
"The department remains concerned that there are products on the market that so closely resemble children's candy that it can entice children to experiment with marijuana. Marijuana should not seem 'fun' for kids," the agency wrote in its recommendation.
The ultimate decision on how to change Colorado's edibles market will be made by state lawmakers in 2015.
The state's Marijuana Enforcement Division is holding work groups with industry representatives, law enforcement, health officials and parent groups to come up with a group recommendation to lawmakers on the question. The final workgroup meets today.
A Health Department spokesman did not respond to a request to comment on the revised suggestion, which
hasn't yet been made public
Edible-pot makers fumed at the suggestion, saying it runs afoul of a voter-approved constitutional amendment that guarantees access to retail marijuana in all its forms. State regulations limit potency, serving size and packaging, but there are no regulations on what kinds of foods may contain pot. Edible-pot manufacturers say that limitation would go too far.
"We're governed to death, and people need to take responsibility for themselves," said Elyse Gordon, owner of Better Baked, a Denver company that makes edible pot products including teas, energy bars and candies.
"I don't think anyone in the industry is looking to make products for children, and we resent this idea that people aren't responsible for the products they bring into their home."
Also coming out from the Health Department Monday is a highly anticipated statement about marijuana use by pregnant women and nursing mothers.
BOSTON — From Boston to Los Angeles, police departments are bracing for large demonstrations when a grand jury decides whether to indict a white police officer who killed an unarmed teenager in Ferguson, Missouri.
US cities brace for protests following Ferguson decision
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The St. Louis County grand jury, which has been meeting since Aug. 20, is expected to decide this month whether Officer Darren Wilson is charged with a crime for killing 18-year-old Michael Brown after ordering him and a friend to stop walking in the street on Aug. 9.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Officer Darren Wilson attends a city council meeting in Ferguson. Police identified Wilson as the police officer who shot 18-year-old Michael Brown on Aug.9, 2014 in Ferguson.
The shooting has led to tension with police and a string of unruly protests there and brought worldwide attention to the formerly obscure St. Louis suburb, where more than half the population is black but few police officers are.
Activists in Ferguson met Saturday to map out their protest plans. Meeting organizers encouraged group members to provide their names upon arrest as Darren Wilson or Michael Brown to make it more difficult for police to process them.
Andrew Smith, a police spokesman. "We saw what happened when there were protests over there and how oftentimes protests spill from one part of the country to another."
In a neighboring town, Berkeley, officials this week passed out filers urging residents to be prepared for unrest just as they would a major storm — with plenty of food, water and medicine in case they're unable to leave home for several days.
sion in the racially charged case will, inevitably, reignite long-simmering debates over local police relations with minority communities.
For some cities, a deci-
"It's definitely on our radar," said Lt. Michael McCarthy, police spokesman in Boston, where police leaders met privately Wednesday to discuss preparations. "Common sense tells you the timeline is getting close. We're just trying to prepare in case something does step off, so we are ready to go with it."
In Las Vegas, police joined pastors and other community leaders this week to call for restraint at a rally tentatively planned northwest of the casino strip when a decision comes.
"Naturally, we always pay attention," said Cmdr.
In Los Angeles, rocked by riots in 1992 after the acquittal of police officers in the videotaped beating of Rodney King, police officials say they've been in touch with their counterparts in Missouri, where Gov. Jay Nixon and St. Louis-area law enforcement held a news conference this week on their own preparations.
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