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Horse power drives Christmas parade
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50-year water vision on tap Panel will explore how to pay for Brownback’s far-reaching plan
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CANDACE BRAKSICK, LEFT, AND MARGARET DICK, RIGHT, LONGTIME PARTICIPANTS in Lawrence’s Old-Fashioned Christmas Parade, ride in the front of their surrey in Saturday’s parade, which featured about 45 wagons and buggies and more than 100 riders on horseback. Watch a video of the Christmas parade at LJWorld.com/paradevideo.
Meet Candace Braksick, holiday tradition
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here is horsepower, and then there is the power of a horse, and they indeed are different things. Horsepower makes NASCAR racers roar around a track and — as countless commercials have demonstrated — makes pickup truck owners take comfort in knowing that they could pull a really large boat, or perhaps something slightly more affordable, like a space shuttle. But the power of a horse ... well, apparently it can make a grown man dress up like George Washington. At least, that’s the way Candace Braksick figures it.
In the late 1990s, Candace was helping organize a “Patriots Parade” near her rural Jefferson County home in McClouth, and she figured George Washington would be a good addition to the festivities. She could make the costume easy enough, but she needed a fellow to wear it, and a big white horse to carry our country’s first president. A friend said he knew a guy in the area who had a big white horse, but Candace didn’t know him. So, she did the only logical thing. Please see HOLIDAY, page 3A
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Topeka — Gov. Sam Brownback and members of his administration are moving forward on their plan for the long-term future of the Kansas water supply. But many parts of the plan, such as dredging state Estimated cost to dredge lakes, and pos- federal reservoirs in eastern sibly building Kansas by end of century an aqueduct from the Missouri River to western Kansas, will require large amounts of new revenue, as well as cooperation from other states. During a meeting of the governor’s Council of Economic Advisers last week, Agriculture Secretary Jackie McClaskey asked the group to help form a blue ribbon panel to come up with options for longterm funding of the plan. “One of the things we have heard across the state is that we really need business leaders to be a part of that task force,” McClaskey said.
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Historic restoration running behind By Chad Lawhorn Twitter: @clawhorn_ljw
Construction scaffolding around the historic Carnegie building is not the type of Christmas decor the city’s Parks and Recreation Department was planning for the venerable building at Ninth and Vermont streets.
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$400,000 Carnegie Building makeover slowed by cold, could pause until spring But a $400,000 project to repair a parapet wall and replace the roof on the early 1900s building is taking longer than city officials had anticipated. “We wanted them to be done with it by the end of the
month, but it is progressing slower than we wanted to,” said Mark Hecker, the city’s assistant director of parks and recreation. “Every time it gets
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WORKERS WALK PAST THE CARNEGIE BUILDING, at Ninth and Vermont streets, during restoration work in July.
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Big project Beer and mini-bowling, of all things, may play a role in helping save Lawrence’s 1869 Turnhalle building. Page 3A
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