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RELIGION
Second mosque faces scrutiny
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CHICAGO - While a national debate over a proposed Islamic center near ground zero in New York City has intensified in recent weeks, so has a similar controversy over Islamic centers in DuPage County. Illinois.
County zoning meetings have turned heated lately as residents
have spoken out against M u s l i m groups seeking permits to open religious facilities or expand services near West Chicago and Willowbrook.
corporated residential areas
"There's a growing trend by various right-wing organizations to vilify Islamic organizations."
The county says the measure is not directed at any specific religious group and its timing is coincidental. But constitutional law experts say the proposed amendment could create further legal trouble for the county under federal statute, while Islamic groups say the measure appears to be in direct response
The tense hearings come just a few months after an Islamic group filed a federal lawsuit against the county, alleging discrimination in the rejection of a zoning proposal for an Islamic educational center and place of worship near Naperville.
Now, the county is hoping changes to zoning laws will head off similar controversies in the future. This week, the zoning board will debate a proposed zoning amendment that would prevent religious organizations from opening facilities in unin-
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to the lawsuit.
"Give the situation with ground zero (in New York,) there's a growing trend by various right-wing organizations to vilify Islamic organizations, and I don't think we can take that away from what's happening in DuPage County," said Kevin Vodak, an attorney for the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
The council filed the lawsuit on behalf of the Irshad Learning Center, which had been proposed for a 2.91-acre site on 75th Street between Wehli Road and Naper Boulevard in an unincorporated area near Naperville.
WATER (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
The Kaw River Water Treatment Plant is one of the facilities that is responsible for cleaning up the drinking water for the city of Lawrence. Recently, algae from Clinton lake and the Kansas River has made its way into the drinking water and the water treatment facilities are working to get the drinking water back to normal by the end of this week.
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person got their funky water from.
In this case, Klamm said, many complaints have been coming from around the treatment center for the Kansas River.
Klamm said Clinton Lake's facility is designed to handle reservoir water, which has these issues more often, while the river's facility is designed for river water.
The problem is that reservoirs upstream from Lawrence are releasing their water.
"The river doesn't have river water," Klamm said. "It has reservoir water from upstream."
That is why the algae — followed by smelly geosmin and MIB — are in the Kansas River too and is a key reason for the extra funk in Lawrence's water.
Another problem in fixing the taste is figuring out how it started.
The best way to eliminate the water's funk seems to be adding
"By the time we notice the buildup of geosmin and MIB, the aquea has already broken down, so the cause might have already dissipated," said Don Huggins, aquatic ecologist at the Kansas Biological Survey.
activated carbon to the water.
"Activated carbon is like charcoal, heated up so much that it creates tiny pore holes." Huggins said.
The geosmin and MIB get trapped in its holes.
Huggins said the same process is used in many home water filters because the carbon holes trap other contaminants also.
One problem with adding activated carbon is its cost. Filtering it from the water and sending it
back for recycling and reuse, is expensive.
Another problem with carbon is that its tiny, granular size is hard to manage.
"Carbon will clog our filters," Klamm said. "At a certain point, we can't keep adding carbon anymore. We're at that point now."
Even if the city wasn't trying to fix the taste, the problem would work itself out anyway. Algae have a normal life cycle and they will eventually die out.
- Edited by Clark Goble
NATIONAL
Crew in Alaska searches for missing park employees
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Searchers were continuing to fly over a mountainous stretch of western Alaska Sunday afternoon looking for a missing float plane carrying three National Park Service employees headed to King Salmon.
The massive search involves dozens of people and includes aircraft from the U.S. Coast Guard, the Alaska Air National Guard, the Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Alaska State Troopers and a private carrier, said Katmai National Park Superintendent Ralph Moore. King Salmon is about 285 miles west of Anchorage.
The missing de Havilland Beaver float plane, owned by Branch River Air Service of King Salmon and equipped with an emergency locator transmitter, vanished after leaving Swikshak Lagoon early Saturday afternoon, according to the park service.
The Katmai National Park maintenance crew was in Swikshak, east of King Salmon, to begin work
tearing down a deteriorated ranger station and building a new one. Moore said.
The Park Service crew of three was picked up around 1:45 p.m. Saturday. A second Branch River plane, which picked up two other Park Service employees, left about 15 minutes later. The second plane made it to King Salmon in about an hour, but the first plane never arrived. The weather was deteriorating and the plane that made it through had to fly about 500 feet above ground level along a river drainage, according to the Park Service.
The missing employees and Branch River pilot haven't yet been identified.
"The pilot was very familiar with the area and had flown the route many times," Moore said.
With low clouds, the pilot of the missing plane likely would have headed north up the Katmai coast around Cape Douglas, then cut in along a river drainage — such as the McNeil, Paint or Little Kamishak rivers — to a series of lakes that lead to King Salmon. That route avoids the high mountains and is the way the other pilot made it through, along the Little Kamishak drainage, Moore said.
Pilots usually only take the more direct route over the mountains in good weather. Moore said.
The pilot of the second plane didn't see anything amiss.
"It's hard to know if they actually ended up flying the same (river) drainage", Moore said. "Fifteen minutes of flight time might end up opening up a drainage that was closed before"
Rescuers picked up an electronic signal Saturday and thought it might be emitting from the vanished plane, but it wasn't the type normally sent out by an ELT. Searchers on Sunday didn't pick up the signal again, Moore said.
Low clouds and poor visibility are hampering the search, rescues said.
Moore said there's a chance the plane could have landed and the group could be holed up in a cove waiting for the weather to improve. Signals from any attempts at radio transmissions may be weak or blocked by mountains, the super-intendent said.
Four dead after drug lord fight
DRUGS
CUERNAVACA, Mexico — The decapitated bodies of four men were hung from a bridge Sunday in this central Mexican city besieged by fighting between two drug lords.
Gang leader takes responsibility for decapitated bodies
A gang led by kingpin Hector Beltran Leyva took responsibility for the killings in a message left with the bodies, the attorney general's office of Mexico state said in a statement.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mexican authorities say the cartel split between a faction led by Hector Beltran Leyva, brother of Arturo, and another led by Edgar Valdez Villareal, a U.S.-born kingpin known as "the Barite."
The beheaded and mutilated bodies were hung by their feet early Sunday from the bridge in Cuernavaca, a popular weekend getaway from Mexico City residents.
Leyva cartel since its leader, Arturo Beltran Leyva, was killed there in a December shootout with marines.
Cuernavaca has become a battleground for control of the Beltran
Authorities said the four men had been kidnapped days earlier. The family of one of the men reported the abduction to police.
The message left with the bodies threatened: "This is what will happen to all those who support the traitor Edgar Valdez Villareal."
BUS (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
SafeBus has three transit routes that run from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. It is a free service available to all KU students. New maps of the transit
"We moved the resources to try a new segment in the city to try and improve the productivity of the resource."
routes can be found in many locations around campus, and it will soon be available on KU Transit's website, http://safebus.ku.edu/sb_routes.shtml.
results this new route will bring, they have high hopes that it will encourage more riders to take advantage of the free service.
"Old SafeBus Blue productivity was not meeting the standards set by Yellow and Red," Meier said.
Edited by Anna Nordling
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