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Woman's body recovered
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LIBERTY, Mo. — Even as their minivan filled with floodwater, Robert and Melissa Rogers tried to comfort their four children, singing Bible songs and praying.
The waters eventually carried the suburban Kansas City family's minivan off the Kansas Turnpike near Emporia on Saturday as they returned from a family wedding. The children's bodies were found on Sunday. Melissa Rogers' body was found yesterday, along with the body of Al Larsen, 31, of Fort Worth, Texas, who had been in a separate car.
The Rogers' neighbor, Mica Broyles, said the Rogers' faith and calm came as no surprise. The couple was active in the Northland Abundant Life Worship Center, where they helped with youth Bible quizzes, and Robert sometimes played piano.
God," said Broyles, who talked to Robert Rogers Monday.
Rogers told Broyles that when the water got to the steering wheel, he broke out a window of the van but was swept out of the vehicle. He had retained hope that his wife had survived until her body was found.
Their whole life is to glorify
Now, Rogers, 37, tries to rebuild his life without his family. And former classmates, teachers and neighbors begin to mourn the deaths.
Robert and Melissa married on New Year's Eve of 1991, said Broyles, who lives across the street.
The couple's first child was always grinning, always helpful 8-year-old Makenah. The second oldest, 5-year-old Zachary, had Downs syndrome and the family had learned sign language to communicate. Next came 3-year-old Nicholas. He was the baby until the family adopted 21-
month-old Alenah from China.
Lorie Liechi, with Children's Hope International, recalls the day she showed the couple Alenah's picture. "They both started crying." Liechi said. "That was their daughter. They were just thrilled."
Liechti said the couple had always wanted to adopt a child. And news that Alenah was thought to have a congenital heart disease didn't dampen their enthusiasm. When she arrived in America, they found she did not have a heart condition.
Before leaving for the Human Province in January to pick up Alenah, Robert and Melissa videotaped themselves reading bedtime stories. Each night Robert's sister played the video for the children.
But the family was always doing things like that. Liechti adored the family. So did almost everyone who knew them.
Army Corps defends plan
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is defending plans to release water from Kansas reservoirs to support barge traffic on the Missouri River, despite criticism from Gov. Kathleen Sebelius.
Paul Johnston, a corps spokesman in Omaha, Neb., said yesterday that Milford, Perry and Tuttle reservoirs were sources of water for the Missouri because they recharged relatively quickly. The reservoirs are along the Kansas River, which flows into the Missouri at Kansas City.
He also said federal law
required the corps to support barge traffic and did not give the agency the power to ignore that duty.
"I don't think anybody wants any federal agency picking and choosing which laws it complies with," Johnston said during an interview.
Last week, Sebelius said bargetraffic was not as important to the economy as it was decades ago and suggested the corpsmanagement policies for theMissouri were out of date. Shestood by her statements during anews conference yesterday.
"There's been litigation for almost a decade over this issue,
and that seems to be a pretty fruitless area to continue to pursue," she told reporters. "We're no further down the road toward resolution than we were 10 years ago."
The dispute over the river's management involves officials in the eight Missouri River basin states — Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri.
Support for the river's recreation industry, mainly sport fishing on reservoirs in Montana and the Dakotas, has left leaders in those states aligned with environmentalists.
Hall Center breaking ground
By Courtney Kuhlen
correspondent@kansan.com
Kansan correspondent
After nearly two years of planning, groundbreaking for the new Hall Center for the Humanities will take place tomorrow on the site of the old powerhouse, 900 Sunnyside Drive.
Faculty, graduate students and community members are among the expected 100 people to attend Thursday's 3:30 p.m. ceremony, when the first stone of the Hall Center's new home is set.
"We are looking forward to a larger building, because it will give us things we don't have now," said Victor Bailey, Hall Center director.
The new building will be about 11,000 square feet, nearly doubling the size of the current facility. Along with more space, it will include a larger conference room and more offices for resident humanities research fellows.
Bailey said the Hall Center wanted to form an intellectual community through the work of
researchers and employees alike.
"It's nice to think that we will hold many more of our own events." Bailey said, referring to the small building the Hall Center had outgrown.
The new center will incorporate the arches of the old powerhouse on Sunnyside avenue.
Bailey said he thought the site would attract a wider public audience because of interest in the restored and preserved powerhouse.
Edited by Katie Nelson
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