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Forum calls for child-care programs
By Holly Lawton Kansan staff writer
The problems leading to the nation's child-care crisis are easily identified, but solutions must be implemented to solve these problems, speakers agreed at a child-care forum last night.
About 80 people, primarily women, met at the Lawrence Public Library. Auditorium to discuss the crisis and how it affected local parents, businesses and care providers. More than one third of the audience represented day-care providers.
Keynote speaker was State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, who explained the effects of the child-care dilemma and what was being done at the federal and state levels of government to improve it.
"It is so important, particularly in low-income families, that we provide quality care for our children," Branson said. "It's a real crisis in this state. We are cut to the bone in health and day care services."
Branson said the state legislature was taking steps to improve the problems. Attorney General Robert Stephan had formed a day care committee and was calling for a pilot day care program in Topeka for children of state employees, she said.
business jobs, and they love, she said. "This would be a good example of rest of the state and its businesses," Branson said. "Maybe it will get the local businesses to implement their own child-care programs."
Branson also said that Gov. Mike Hayden was planning to announce the instatement of the Governor's Office on Families and Children, which will serve as an advisory to the governor on children's issues. It will coordinate all state children's programs and seek out available grants for planning.
"We need a stronger lobby for better day care," Branson said. "That's why the laws aren't strong enough. If you care, get out and work for this."
There are many factors contributing to the child-care problem, said Peggy Scaly, child care licensing charge nurse for the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department. After paying the
"The median annual income for the single mother is $6,400, well below the federal poverty line." Scaly said. "And the cost for quality infant care is $100 per week. Obviously, this just doesn't work."
providers' salaries, child-care centers have little money left to go to the center. More than 40 percent of the state's licensed centers won't accept low-income children.
"The parents are going to be the first ones to be heard," she said. "We need to work together to get the Legislature's attention."
Gail Shredders, vice-president of the Douglas County Child Development Association, said parents had to take the initiative for their children
Kathleen Brady-Mowrey, chairman of the KU Classified Senate and Unclassified Professional Staff Association Joint Childcare Committee, challenged the members of the audience to involve themselves in the child-care dilemma.
"If you go away enlightened about this issue tonight and are motivated to do something about it, we have achieved our goal," she said.
Intersection of Naismith, 19th on city's list for traffic light
By Steve Buckner
Kansan staff writer
After years of congestion, the intersection of 19th Street and NaiSmith Drive may get a traffic light.
"Hopefully, when students return in the fall, there will be new lights there," said Terese Gardner, city engineer.
Gardner stressed that although the intersection qualified for traffic lights, the final decision did not rest in her office.
"It is tentative on the City Commissioners' approval," she said.
The process of installing traffic lights is extensive, Gardner said.
"It's been on the list for a couple of years," she said of the intersection. "We've conducted traffic counts, and it meets the requirements. We just hired an engineer to add geometric designs."
The designs, Gardner said, entailed two left turn lanes for both directions of 1st Street and right turn lanes for both directions of both streets.
"So, this summer we plan to be working on 19th and Nismath," she said.
Ron Cook, an engineer for facilities operations, said he saw an immediate benefit from a signal at that intersection.
"I think it would improve the flow of traffic, especially on game days," he said.
Many intersections are counted, but few receive lights, she said. The city budget allows for only one new light each year because of the systems' costs. The equipment costs $20,000, she said, and bidding an entire package, which includes installation and labor, could cost as much as $75,000 for one light.
Gardner estimated that the city conducted 100 traffic counts each year. The traffic counts, she said, are done on an as-needed or as-requested basis. In order to get a traffic light, Gardner and her team conduct several surveys that must meet federal standards with respect to the traffic count.
Gardner said that 19th Street would be part of two other engineering studies next year in addition to the University of Smithm. The intersections at Oudaniel Road and Louisiana Street also will be considered for future work.
"We're just doing the engineering," she said. "We may proceed immediately or wait. Again, funding is a big consideration."
Neighbors raise voices about club
By Lisa Moss
Kansan staff writer
The Lawrence/Douglas County planning commission sent the owners of Pizazz a notice citing violations of the site plan approved by the city commission and citing the club's use of a vacant lot not zoned for commercial use, said David Guntert of the planning commission.
Don Schmidt said he would be meeting with city planning officials today to discuss correcting the violations.
The club owners, Jon and Don Schmidt, were given 14 days to respond to the notice. Guntter said
Sue Suepher lives ½ blocks from the club. She said the club was causing problems in the neighborhood.
Parking for the club is not adequate, and a fence to screen the neighborhood from the club was supposed to be put up, Kapter said.
"The property itself is not taken care of at all," she said. "It makes
the rest of the neighborhood look bad."
Kapfer said past owners of the club had maintained the grounds.
Cindy Denny, another neighbor, said she could see the club from her back window.
Denny agreed that the grounds were not properly maintained.
Denny said the Oread Neighborhood Association fought against allowing the vacant lot for the club to be used for commercial purposes and now it was being misused for club parking.
"Pizzazz has a right to be there, but they need to comply with the site plan and they are not," Denny said. "They are not making every effort to be good neighbors."
Owner Don Schmidt said he took possession of the club a year ago and did not know some things had not been performed.
"Up until the letter I thought we had been good neighbors," he said. "Our attitude is cooperation."
Schmidt said he encouraged neighbors with concerns to talk to him about them.
"I don't see any problem with getting things taken care of," he said.
the commission to conduct any meeting about the proposal while students were away. But Schumma said that students had been involved in the process and had been given opportunities to express their views.
Linda Dick, president of the Schweegler Neighborhood Association, said she thought that the city commissioners had put the proposal off for a few years. "I think it's time that it's taken care of."
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But Smith, Walters and Penny said they would favor delaying action until students returned if student leaders requested that they do so.
Yesterday, student leaders met to discuss their position.
"The major parts we will be addressing are alternatives to the noise ordinance," said B. Jake White, student body president. "Education has been one area that has been overlooked."
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Student leaders are opposed to an ordinance until other avenues have been explored, he said.
If an ordinance is needed, White said, an independent group should write it. The student leaders are against the ordinance proposed by the association, he said.
One objection to the association's proposal is that it is directed at students and greek houses, he said. Another objection is the stiff penalties for the first offense.
"Two-hundred and fifty dollars or 10 days in jail
for the first offense is unreasonable. "White said
"This does not even allow for a warning."
David Katzman, professor of history, lives across the street from Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, 1645 Tennessee St. He said he would favor a noise ordinance if it were not too restrictive.
"Before 11 p.m., if I'm bothered by noise, I think I can adjust," he said. "Loud stereos at 3 a.m. are a problem."
Katzman said he had called the fraternity and other nearby student living groups when noise became a problem. Only in a few instances, he has, has he been forced to call the police.
Derek Bridges, president of Sigma Phi Epsilon, said he would prefer that students and neighborhood groups solve the noise problem without an ordinance.
Rex Buchanan, assistant director for public affairs at the survey, said that some fossils from the Hamilton Quarry display at the Emporia State Museum.
"These particular types of deposits are rather critical in understanding the biota of that period," he said. He opened, clear windows into the past."
Maples said the fossils were not significant by themselves, but the grouping as a whole is scientifically important. By providing a cross-section of the life in an area, this kind of deposit helps scientists understand what was going on biologically at that time.
Biota is the animal and plant life of a region.
Researchers hope to use the Hamilton Quarry deposits as a guide to understanding and finding similar deposits, Maples said.
"We found a lot of high-quality fossils," Maples said. "Mostly vertebrates, mostly fish. There were a fair amount of insect remains, a few reptiles, a few amphibians and a lot of plants."
"We're trying to understand why it's there and use that as a basis for making a better guess at where others might be," he said.
The Hamilton Quarry deposit is essentially a former river channel, filled with a mixture of limestone and shale, Maples said. The southeastern Kansas area as a whole is a series of alternating layers of marine life and land life, laid down during millenia. The differing layers of the area were caused by the advancement and retreat of the seashore, driven by changes in the sea level.
National Geographic has a trust option for publishing the work if they were willing.
"That's entirely up to them," Maples said. "I haven't heard one way or the other. My suspicion is that they will not be publishing it."
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Maples, an assistant scientist at the Kansas Geological Survey, has been working with Hans-Peter Schultze, a curator at the Museum of Natural History, on the work enhanced by the National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Society. NSF has given a two-year, $100,000 grant to geographic gave a $9,000 grant to support last summer's work.
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Researchers from the University of Kansas and other universities have spent the last six months investigating the site, which is a rock quarry located near project co-investigator Christy Kirchner. Titigators likely will spend at least two more years at the site which is about 80 miles south of Topeka.
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Today, the Hamilton Quarry is a series of trenches in the ground of southeastern Kansas. But 280 million years ago, this site was a home for hundreds of plants, fish, insects and animals, all now preserve as fossils.
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