Lawrence Journal-World 06-22-2016

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WEDNESDAY • JUNE 22 • 2016

Tough budget choices ahead for city

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FROM LEFT, JUDY ROMERO, BERTHA BERMUDEZ AND VAL HOWLAND SPREAD SOME RICE OUT TO COOL to be used to make sopa in preparation for this weekend’s annual St. John’s Mexican Fiesta. The fiesta will be held from 6-11:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, 1234 Kentucky St.

Fiesta to celebrate Mexican culture, food this weekend Out & About

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n some ways, St. John’s Mexican Fiesta isn’t unlike La Yarda, says fiesta publicity chair and longtime St. John parishioner Jacinta Hoyt. The community of Mexican railroad workers that sprung up 90 years ago in East Lawrence is long gone (the patch of small, brick homes was washed away

in the flood of 1951), but its memory lives on through Hoyt, whose immigrant grandparents settled in La Yarda way back when, and the many Lawrencians who share her Mexican heritage. “La Yarda was like one big family. These families would come together and have communal meals and do all sorts of things together.”

At St. John, she says, “We’re still able to get together every summer and put on the fiesta.” This summer’s fiesta, slated for 6 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, 1234 Kentucky St., promises the same authentic Mexican Please see FIESTA, page 2A

Disagreements about funding allocations to nonprofits and other local agencies were “minor” compared with the decisions the Lawrence City Commission will soon be facing, City Manager Tom Markus warned Tuesday. A budget work session at City Hall on Tuesday afternoon focused on requests from social service agencies, economic development groups and other outside entities, such as the Lawrence Public Library and Lawrence Humane Society. All together, the groups requested approximately $9.5 million, and the city is recommending they get a total of $8.4 million. Please see BUDGET, page 6A

Voting lawsuits complicate election By Peter Hancock Twitter: @LJWpqhancock

Lawrence suffers job losses in latest report

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f my house is any indication, job numbers have to improve this summer. (There’s the crew of workers filling the Gatorade stations throughout the house, and, of course, the security team that ensures I’m not allowed to turn down the thermostat.) But positive job numbers weren’t the case for Lawrence and Kansas during the month of May.

Let’s take a look at a mishmash of recently released job data. It wouldn’t be fair to say that Kansas is part of the Dirty Dozen. There were not a dozen states during the month of May that saw job declines, according to new federal data. But there were seven states that saw job losses compared with May 2015, and Kansas was one of

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them. So, maybe we’re part of the Sleepy Seven, or I’ll let you come up with your own nickname. Here’s a look at the seven: l North Dakota: 16,600 jobs lost; 3.6 percent decline l Wyoming: 9,500 jobs lost; 3.2 percent decline l Louisiana: 19,600 jobs lost; 0.9 percent decline

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Topeka — With advance balloting for the 2016 primaries to begin in less than a month, county election officials throughout Kansas are still unsure about which voters will be allowed to cast ballots in which races. “The counties have been all talking about this,” Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew said. “I’m ready for all scenarios. If on the day before the election we get an order that tells us one way or another, I can operate either way. I think most counties are preparing for that.”

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