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‘SOMETHING LEGENDARY’ State plane

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By Roxana Hegeman Associated Press

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ABOVE: HASKELL INDIAN NATIONS UNIVERSITY FRESHMAN COLE BRINGS PLENTY, Lakota, Cheyenne River Reservation, S.D., looks through the Haskell Memorial Stadium exhibit on Wednesday, Sept. 14, at the Haskell Cultural Center and Museum, 2411 Barker Ave. BELOW: Haskell Cultural Center and Museum director Jancita Warrington, Menominee, Prairie Band Potawatomi and Ho-Chunk Nation, is pictured on Monday, Sept. 12, outside Haskell Memorial Stadium.

90th anniversary exhibit celebrates Haskell Memorial Stadium’s history BY NICK KRUG ••• nkrug@ljworld.com

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op quiz: What Midwestern stadium was the first in the region to feature outdoor lighting? Hint: If you’re reading this in print, you might even be in the same ZIP code. Was your answer Memorial Stadium? If so, you would be correct. But not the Memorial Stadium at the University of Kansas. Haskell Memorial Stadium is the correct answer, according to Jancita Warrington, director of the Haskell Cultural Center and Museum.

(The stadium) showed that collectively, if American Indian people came together, this is what you produce — something legendary.” — Jancita Warrington, director of the

Haskell Cultural Center and Museum The museum is currently featuring an exhibit highlighting the tremendous efforts involved in the building of the stadium and its significance as it nears its 90th anniversary on Oct. 30. Listening to Warrington excitedly launch into all the history about the days

leading up to the stadium’s inauguration evokes a vision of a World’s Fair-like atmosphere with thousands of “tribal people” attending and thousands of others converging on Lawrence for the four-day event. “Nothing like this had ever happened in the

United States for (tribal people),” Warrington said. “It’s monumental in the federal history as well. Today, it’s really even hard to picture an event this big in Lawrence. There were 12,000 people who arrived

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Wichita — Kansas budget woes haven’t touched the state’s executive aircraft, which is getting a new paint job, a spruced up interior and upgraded avionics this year. Along with regular operating costs, the improvements will cost taxpayers nearly $900,000, according to interviews and other It is not a huge documents sum of money obtained obviously compared through an open records to the budget as request by a whole, but it is The Associsymbolic of, you ated Press. S e n a t e know, our misguided Democratic priorities in terms Leader Anthony Hens- of where ley called money the spending should be “highly iron- spent.” ic” at a time when fund- — Senate ing for high- Democratic way projects Leader has been Anthony slashed. Gov. Hensley Sam Brownback and his allies have taken billions of dollars from the transportation department’s highway fund over the years to balance the state budget. Hensley said the expenditures for the state’s plane went unnoticed during lawmakers’ discussions on the $15.7 billion budget for the 2017 fiscal year, which began July 1. “It is not a huge sum of money obviously compared to the budget as a whole, but it is symbolic of, you know, our misguided priorities in > PLANE, 2A

City to consider waiving some costs of East Hills Business Park Hills Business Park. East Hills was a joint venture between the city, Douglas County and the Economic Development Corporation of Lawrence and Douglas County. Several lots remain unsold, and with them more than $400,000 of outstanding

By Rochelle Valverde rvalverde@ljworld.com

At their meeting on Tuesday, members of the Lawrence City Commission will try to settle business that began nearly 30 years ago with the conception of the East

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received. In August 2015, the City Commission waived $45,000 of the special assessments. Eglinski said commissioners needed to be presented with options on collecting the rest of the payment, deferring or waiving it.

At that time, Assistant City Manager Diane Stoddard said there was no risk to the city of not collecting or forgetting about those payments. “Staff and the county has been in regular

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