L A W R E NC E
JOURNAL-WORLD ®
75 CENTS
LJWorld.com
-/.$!9 s !5'534 s
The challenge of eating locally
Libyan rebels take capital ——
Gadhafi regime appears near end By Ben Hubbard and Karin Laub Associated Press
TRIPOLI, LIBYA — Euphoric Libyan rebels took control of most of Tripoli in a lightning advance Sunday, celebrating the victory in Green Square, the symbolic heart of Moammar Gadhafi’s regime. Gadhafi’s defenders quickly melted away as his 42-year rule crumbled, but the leader’s whereabouts were unknown and pockets of resistance remained. State TV broadcast Gadhafi’s bitIt’s over, ter pleas for frizz-head.” Libyans to defend his regime. Oppo— Chant by hunsition fightdreds of Libyans ers captured against dictator his son and Moammar Gadhafi one-time heir apparent, Seif al-Islam, who along with his father faces charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands. Another son was under house arrest. “It’s over, frizz-head,” chanted hundreds of jubilant men and women massed in Green Square, using a mocking nickname of the curlyhaired Gadhafi. The revelers fired shots in the air, clapped and waved the rebels’ tricolor flag. Some set fire to the green flag of Gadhafi’s regime and shot holes in a poster with the leader’s image. The startling rebel breakthrough, after a long deadlock in Libya’s 6-month-old civil war, was the culmination of a closely coordinated plan by rebels, NATO and anti-Gadhafi residents inside Tripoli, rebel leaders said. Rebel fighters from the west swept over 20 miles over a matter of hours Sunday, taking town after town and overwhelming a major military base as residents poured out to cheer them. At the same time, Tripoli residents secretly armed by rebels rose up. When rebels reached the gates of Tripoli, the special battalion entrusted by Gadhafi with guarding the capital
“
Mike Yoder/Journal-World Photo
LOGAN LUCE, A KANSAS UNIVERSITY GRADUATE STUDENT, picks up some fresh vegetables from Nathan Atchison, of Atchison Farms, at the Tuesday downtown Lawrence Farmers’ Market. The market is one good place to reliably find local produce.
Doing the ‘right thing’ not always easy By Karrey Britt kbritt@ljworld.com
Eating and buying local foods is a challenge, even in Lawrence, if you’re an average Joe like me. First, they are hard to find. There are not a lot of local products in grocery stores among the thousands of choices that line the shelves. Some stores are good about marking local products, such as Checker’s and Hy-Vee, while others are not. For example, at a Dillons store, the Iwig Family Dairy milk was not marked as being locally produced in nearby Tecumseh. Even at The Merc Community Market & Deli, which has more than 800 locally produced items, it was hard to figure out what was local. There were labels for organic, local or both. They have a new P6 logo, which means the food meets two of three criteria: from a small-scale producer, locally grown or produced, or produced by a co-op. While eating out, you may be eating local beef or a local tomato or you may not. Most Please see LOCAL, page 2A
The taste test Twenty-five employees at The World Company and visitors participated in a taste test of the following items. One was local — produced or grown within 60 miles of Lawrence — and the other was not local. They voted on which they thought tasted best or marked if they couldn’t tell a difference. Here are the results: ! Cucumbers — 6, local; 11, not local; 8, no difference. ! Tomatoes — 24, local; 1 not local. ! Cantaloupe — 1, local; 22 not local; 1 no difference. ! Loaf of multigrain bread — 9, local; 14 not local; 1 no difference. ! 2 percent milk — 8 local; 7 not local; 3 no difference. Note: The local food was purchased at the Lawrence Farmers’ Market or The Merc. The food that was not locally grown was purchased at Dillons. The cantaloupe came from Rocky Ford, Colo.
Tomatoes
Cucumbers
Bread
Milk
Please see LIBYA, page 7A
TRANSPORTATION
Committee wants K-10 to be a safety corridor By George Diepenbrock gdiepenbrock@ljworld.com
Members of a Kansas Highway 10 safety committee had a long list of concerns last week when they proposed a plan to increase fines and enforcement on the commuter highway east of Lawrence. They wanted a crackdown on speeding after Kansas Department of Transportation officials showed them statis-
tics that 15 percent of drivers were traveling faster than 77 mph within the 70 mph speed limit. Also, they worried about the number of drivers sending text messages as they barrel down the four-lane highway frequently taking their eyes off the road to look at their phones. As the first recommendation from the group, formed to study whether the state should put cable median bar-
County and Johnson County officials and residents was formed at the urging of Gov. Sam Brownback in the wake of the April 16 cross-median crash near Eudora that killed two of the city’s residents, including 5-year-old Cainan Shutt. Sen. Tom Holland, D-Baldwin City, said at last week’s meeting he intended to begin Please see SAFETY, page 2A
INSIDE
Storm chance Classified Comics Deaths Events listings
High: 91
riers on K-10 between Lawrence and Lenexa, it will ask the Legislature to designate the stretch of K-10 as a highway safety corridor, a tactic that some states have been using for several years. Members of a K-10 safety committee last week proposed a plan to increase fines and enforcement on the busy commuter highway east of Lawrence. The committee of Douglas
4B-10B 9A 2A 10A, 2B
Horoscope Movies Opinion Puzzles
9B 5A 8A 9B
Sports Television
Low: 72
Today’s forecast, page 10A
Join us at Facebook.com/LJWorld and Twitter.com/LJWorld
1B-3B 5A, 2B, 9B
Kevin Anderson/Journal-World Photo
COMMUTERS FILL THE LANES of Kansas Highway 10 during the evening rush hour Thursday.
COMING TUESDAY A Kansas Bioscience Authority board meets to determine what investments it wants to recommend.
Vol.153/No.234 36 pages
Energy smart: The Journal-World makes the most of renewable resources. www.b-e-f.org