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kidneys.
Jer, who listens to Aerosmith because it's cool and Paula Abdul because she's pretty, said he liked the class because it was fun.
"Causing trouble is my main thing." he says with a grin.
Despite the laughter and fun and games, Davis said the classroom served academic purposes as well.
"The there two sessions," Davis said. "In the morning we focus on math and reading. In the afternoon, we spend about 45 minutes mathematics and the last hour or so on arts and crafts or fun and games."
Davis said the classroom helped the students maintain a little normality amid their physical and emotional pain.
"It is hard for these children to enjoy life while going through treatment," she said. "We make a lot of mistakes, but give a little bit of success every day."
Ryan Trendblood, 9, of Topeka also suffers from cancer. He has not yet lost all of his hair, and he spins his Kansas Jayhawk T-shirt around to brush the falling hair from the back of his shirt. Ryan Trendblood plays in the University of Kansas and play as a member of the basketball team.
"It gives me a lot of fun things to do." he says.
Ryan also enjoys playing with computers and Nintendo, and coming down to the classroom.
Davis said her happiness came from watching the children forget the pain of their illnesses.
"Hey, bald men are beautiful," he interjects.
"Seeing these kids just be regular kids is wonderful," she said. "Giving them the ability to make things happen makes things it all worthwhile."
Someone makes a joke about having no hair, and Jer turns and places his hands on top of his bald head.
"So are partially bald men," Ryan adds with a smile. So are all the children.
Changes advised for airport
Runway needs service
Bv Kathryn Lancaster
Kansan staff writer
Lawrence aviators discussed the need for improved runway conditions and additional airplane hangars for the Lawrence Municipal Airport at a public meeting last night.
About 15 people met at City Hall to discuss improvement plans for the airport.
Jim Sirhall, airport consultant based in Aurora, Colo., said one of the most pressing problems the airport faced was surface conditions on both runways. The surfaces of buildings built up at least four inches to handle airplanes.
The Lawrence airport is a transport airport, which
means that planes weighing more than 60,000 pounds cannot land.
Sirhall suggested that Lawrence consider changing its designation to become a reliever airport, providing a landing option for pilots seeking to avoid more congested Kansas City and Topeka airports.
The reliever designation would allow the airport to compete for millions of federal dollars and would make the airport more commercially viable, Sirhall said.
"It really opens the door for extra funds," he said.
I freely opens the door for extra hands. At Al Stuber, a pilot who keeps three planes at the airport, said he would like to see more general aviation planes before new hangars were built. A number of companies, including Cessna, have quit making single-engine airplanes because of increasing liability costs.
The best way to bring new general aviation planes to the area is to seek legislation that will limit the number of liability claims against airline companies, Stuber said.
City Commission votes to postpone project for widening Sixth Street
Kansan staff writer
By Kathryn Lancaster
Lawrence city commissioners voted Tuesday to maintain four lanes of traffic along Sixth Street from Tennessee to Alabama streets.
The commission had considered expanding Sixth Street from four lanes to five in summer 1990 but decided to delay the project after hearing numerous complaints about safety along the street.
The project's goal is to make the street more efficient and improve traffic flow, said Mike Wildgen, acting city manager, who recommended approval of the five-lane project. The street would not have been widened, but lanes would have been redrawn to add a center turning lane.
Kelley Hayden, who lives just north of Sixth Street, said that a fifth lane was not needed and that it would
create additional problems for people living in the neighborhood. It would move traffic closer to street curbs, endangering pedestrians, many of whom are young children walking to school, and would lower property values.
He said the project would encourage more traffic traveling faster.
Commissioners intend to proceed with a resurfacing project from Maine to Massachusetts streets this summer but voted to establish a task force to study the issue and develop recommendations to present to the commission.
The city is asking the Kansas Department of Transportation to finance half of the $170,000 resurfacing project, which commissioners hope to have finished by fall.
To meet this deadline, Wilden said, some plan must be submitted to KDOT within the month.
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