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14 • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 2004
Finishing touches
Courtney Kuhlen/Kensan
Janet Reeves, Spring, Texas, senior, adds oil paint to her canvas for a piece for her summer painting class. Reeves worked on it yesterday afternoon in the Art and Design building. She said she had been working on the painting for about three weeks and will finish it soon.
Council revives wine industry
The Associated Press
WICHITA — Before prohibition, Kansas was the home of a thriving wine industry. Kansas State Agriculture Secretary Adrian Polansky wants to bring it back.
Yesterday, he announced the formation of a Kansas Grape and Wine Industry Advisory Council to advise him on marketing, regulation, research and legislative issues of interest to the industry.
"I want to do what I can to help grape growers and vintners recapture this important part of our state's heritage," Polansky said in a statement.
A 1994 statute authorized the formation of such a council, but Polansky is the first agriculture secretary to actually appoint
one, said Lisa Taylor, a spokeswoman for the Kansas Department of Agriculture.
Its members include Greg Shipe, owner of Davenport Winery in Eudora; Norm Jennings, owner of Smoky Hill Winery in Salina; Janet Forge, owner of Prairie Ridge Vineyard in St. George; and Dan Ward, owner of Slough Creek Vineyard in Oskaloosa.
Other members include Kim Heck of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America, which is based in Lawrence; Sorkel Kadir, assistant professor of horticulture at Kansas State University; and Tom Groneman, director of the Kansas Department of Revenue's alcoholic beverage control and inspection unit.