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LAWRENCE FORECAST Storm Mound N.J. Attorneys' Science
Shawn Milrad, KU Atmospheric Science
Friday
HI: 95
Partly cloudy skies, and continued
hot and muggy. South-southeast
winds at 10-15 mph.
L0: 75
THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2011
HI: 85
LO: 72
Saturday
Mostly cloudy with a 60% chance of showers and thunderstorms.
Rain may be heavy at times.
get your shades, man!
HE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
not too bad
HI: 90
LO: 73.
good nap day
Sunday Partly sunny and humid with 30% chance of showers and thunderstorms on Sunday.
Monday HI: 90 Partly sunny and humid. L0: 73
nearly impossible to stay in
NEWS AROUND THE WORLD
Associated Press
DECORAH, IOWA
A Secret Service agent on assignment in Iowa to help with presidential security has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence. City Police Chief Bill Nixon said 40-year-old Daniel L. Valencia was off duty when he was arrested Saturday in Decorah. President Barack Obama visited the northeast Iowa city on Monday as part of his three-day Midwestern bus trip. Nixon said no vehicles were involved in an accident. He declined further comment Wednesday. Secret Service spokesman George Ogilve confirmed that Valencia is an agent and that the matter had been turned over to the agency's Office of Professional Responsibility.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
The Haiti reconstruction panel co-chaired by former President Bill Clinton is announcing a major new project to rebuild part of the capital damaged in last year's earthquake. The Interim Haiti Recovery Commission plans to spend $78 million to revitalize 16 neighborhoods and remove people from six major settlement camps that formed after the earthquake. The commission announced the effort Wednesday in a statement released just ahead of a Clinton speech. The International Organization for Migration estimates that about 630,000 Haitians are still without homes.
NAIROBI, KENYA
A British government minister said up to 400,000 Somali children could die of starvation unless urgent action is taken. International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell on Wednesday made the first visit in 18 years by a British minister to Somalia's capital of Mogadishu, where he met with government leaders and aid groups. Mitchell said in neighboring Kenya that Britain will give UNICEF more than $41 million in additional aid. That will allow nearly 200,000 people to have two months of supplementary food rations and vaccinations against measles for 800,000 children.
LONDON
London police forces said 1,000 people have been charged in the unrest that rocked the capital for four days, as human rights groups reiterated concerns that the sentences being handed out nationwide are disproportionate. Acting chief Tim Godwin issued a statement Wednesday that said while the milestone is significant, the investigation is ongoing. He urged the public to turn in anyone involved in the disorder. U.K. police have arrested more than 3,000 people over riots that erupted Aug. 6 in north London and flared for four nights across the capital and other English cities.
BEIRUT
Syrian troops detained scores of people in Damascus and the coastal city of Latakia in overnight raids as President Hassar Basha's regime tried to forcefully end a five-month uprising, activists said Wednesday. The crackdown has intensified since the start of the holy month of Ramadan, killing hundreds and detaining thousands. Despite broad international condemnation the regime has unleashed tanks, ground troops and snipers in an attempt to retake control in rebellious areas. The government insists its crack-down is aimed at rooting out terrorists.
COMMUNITY
Local SRS office will stay open after closure scare
SARA SNEATH ssneath@kansan.com
Tanya Rezayazii spent her senior year interning for the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services in Lawrence. She shadowed social workers during intakes and helped enroll clients into SRS services.
The Lawrence SRS office was in danger of being shut down before the community helped to keep it open. City commissioners voted to help pay to let the office keep its doors open.
In July, SRS announced their plans to close nine offices, including the Lawrence location, which is the state's fifth largest office.
TYLER ROSTE/KANSAN
"It was shocking," said Re$ayazdi. "We were the go-between for these clients. We would get them transportation for their services. Now they are on their own."
"It was a tough decision, really," Mayor Aron Cromwell said. "We had to make a quick decision to go ahead and do it. Although it wasn't an ideal decision, we had to do it anyway."
However, according to an SRS news release from Aug. 9, Lawrence City commissioners voted to pay $112,500 to SRS in 2012 and 2013 to keep the local office open. These amounts will be matched by Douglas County.
According to the SRS press release, the Lawrence office will remain open and in full service on a long-term basis.
Angela de Rocha, SRS director of communications, said the department administers a number of programs for the federal government such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. De Rocha said the Kansas offices take in clients and match them with services for which they are eligible.
The department released a document outlining their reorganization and continuation plan. The document listed five reasons for the Lawrence office closing, among them were significant savings and nearby
"It it was just a bad idea to close it in the first place," Rezayadi said. "I see it as the community coming together. If we're going to have to pay for it, we're going to have to
access to other local offices.
Rezayazdi said transportation issues and access to internet would have made it extremely difficult for some clients to receive aid if the Lawrence office shut down.
pay for it."
"A ton of people from the city stepped up and came up with options to help keep it open," Cromwell said.
Cromwell said concerned citizens pressured the state into keeping the Lawrence office open.
Edited by Jennifer DiConato
Baby J turns 40 years old this year! The mini-mascot was officially introduced to the Jayhawk Nation at halftime of KU's homecoming victory against K-State on Oct. 9, 1971.
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