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HALEY MOLE, 11, OF LAWRENCE, HOLDS HER NOSE AS SHE JUMPS into the County Fair Swim Club pool, 2119 Maple Lane, on Thursday. The pool opened for the summer last week in eastern Lawrence after an anonymous benefactor donated $10,000 to keep it operating.
Board to consider changes to school start times By Rochelle Valverde Twitter: @RochelleVerde
For many students in the Lawrence school district, the start of the school day comes as early as 8 a.m. For the district’s secondary students, some relief from those early schedules could potentially be on its way. At its meeting Monday, the Lawrence school board will review a report on the district’s start times. The report is the result of one of the board’s annual goals: “to
investigate the impact committee comprising of adjusting school start district- and buildingtimes.” level administrators Of the district’s 20 met to look at the reschools, 12 start at eisearch involving later ther 8 a.m. or 8:05 a.m. start times for secondThe remaining schools SCHOOLS ary students. The comstart at 8:45 a.m. The mittee also discussed earlier start times allow the potential effects that changing district to stagger its schools’ start times might have on the schedules and save money by school district. “double stacking” bus routes. The report will provide inFor those students with early formation from research perstart times who also ride the taining to later school start bus, some routes begin at or times, potential scenarios for before 7 a.m. changing start times and posDuring the school year, a sible effect of changes. Ron
May, director of administrative services for the district, will present the report to the board. In other business, the board will: l Review a committee report about the recognition of former coaches at Lawrence High School. After a proposal was made earlier this year to name the Lawrence High School stadium after late coach Bill Freeman, school leaders are recommending that the stadium and
This week, a group of engineers will finish the final of 40 “energy audits” on city-owned buildings and facilities. As with other Lawrence facilities, including fire stations, recreation centers and parks, 360 Energy Engineers will check City Hall’s lighting, heating and cooling systems, water usage and insulation. The audits, which have been going on across Lawrence the past two months, are part of an effort to install efficient equipment to save energy — and money on utility bills. CITY “The main goal of COMMISSION the program is to address energy efficiency in our city buildings, not only to save energy but to save money for taxpayers,” said Eileen Horn, sustainability coordinator for Lawrence and Douglas County. “At the same time, we can address deferred maintenance in our public facilities.” Lawrence has not bought into anything yet, besides the audits. On May 24, the City Commission unanimously approved a contract with Lawrence-based 360 Energy Engineers, a business started in Kansas University’s Bioscience and Technology Business Center.
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Census numbers show lack of racial diversity in Douglas County Town Talk N Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
o need to cover the furniture or get out the full body smock, but I am planning on painting by numbers. There are new Census numbers out that paint a picture of Douglas County’s diversity. Or perhaps better put, Douglas County’s lack of racial diversity. It has been the case for a long time that Lawrence doesn’t have a lot of racial
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which historically have been two of the larger minority populations in Lawrence. That wasn’t the case in the 2010 census. Black members of the community stood at about 4,500 while Asians numbered about 4,100. But in the five years since, the Asian community has grown by nearly 35 percent. Numbers of black residents also are growing significantly, by
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diversity, but the new estimates from the Census Bureau — which are for 2015 — do show racial minorities in the county are growing. Let’s take a look at some key findings. l When it comes to minority racial populations, Asians are now at the top of the list in Douglas County. In other words, the Asian population is now larger than the black or American Indian population,
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about 20 percent. Lawrence long has had a larger than normal American Indian community, in part, due to Haskell Indian Nations University, but those numbers are shrinking. From 2010 to 2015, the American Indian population declined by 865 people, a drop of about 27 percent. Please see DIVERSITY, page 2A
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