IN LOCAL NEWS…
RECENT K-STATE GRAD KELLY MCMURPHY LAMBRECHT WON THE 2010 WALL STREET JOURNAL STUDENT ACHIEVMENT AWARD. LAMBRECHT WAS NOMINATED BY K-STATE PROFESSOR SCOTT HENDRIX. HENDRIX SAYS LAMBRECHT WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN THE STUDENT FINANCE’S ASSOCIATION VISIT WITH BUSINESSMAN AND PHILANTHROPIST WARREN BUFFETT IN 2009. FOR HER EFFORTS…LAMBRECHT WILL RECEIVE A FREE SUBSCRIPTION TO THE PRINT AND ONLINE VERSIONS OF THE WALL STREET JOURNAL AND HER NAME WILL ADDED TO A PLAQUE IN CALVIN HALL WHICH LISTS PREVIOUS WINNERS.
KANSAS STATE HAS 340 THOUSAND REASONS TO LIKE THE KANSAS WHEAT ALLIANCE. THE ALLIANCE HAS CONTRIBUTED 340 THOUSAND DOLLARS TO THE UNIVERSITY OVER THE PAST YEAR. OFFICIALS SAY THE DONATION WILL HELP WITH FACILITY AND EQUIPMENT NEEDS LIKE REPLACING GREENHOUSES AT KSTATE HAYS RESEARCH CENTER.
IN STATE NEWS…
THE NUMBERS ARE IN FROM THE KANSAS STATE STATE FAIR AND BOY ARE THEY GOOD. ACCORDING TO THE TOPEKA CAPITAL JOURNAL…THE STATE FAIR DREW AN AVERAGE OF 350 THOUSAND VISITORS PER DAY. SALES CAME IN AT 2 MILLION DOLLARS…WHICH IS 2 PERCENT BETTER THAN LAST YEAR. THE HUTCHISON NEWS SAYS THAT GOOD WEATHER WAS THE LEADING FACTOR IN THE INCREASES FROM LAST YEAR.
100 YEARS OF BOY SCOUTS WAS CELEBRATED IN SALINA THIS WEEKEND. ACCORDING TO THE KANSAS CITY STAR…MORE THAN TWENTY FIVE HUNDRED BOY…CUB AND SCOUT LEADERS GATHERED TO CELEBRATE THE EVENT. EAGLE SCOUTS SALINA MAYOR AARON PECK AND KSTATE PRESIDENT KIRK SCHULZ ARRIVED ON SATURDAY FOR THE OPENING CEREMONIES VIA BLACKHAWK HELICOPTER. 100 ACTIVITIES WERE SCHEDULED THROUGHOUT THE WEEKEND CELEBRATION.
IN NATIONAL NEWS….
ACCORDING TO POLICE…AN 8 YEAR OLD NEW YORK BOY WHO WAS STABBED FIVE TIMES IS RECOVERING FROM A PUNCTURED LUNG AND OTHER WOUNDS. POLICE ADD THAT THE BOY WAS WITH HIS FAMILY AT A DAVE AND BUSTERS WHEN A 23 YEAR OLD MAN APPROACHED FROM BEHIND AND BEGAN STABBING THE CHILD. THE SUSPECT EVAN SACHS WAS CAPTURED BY THE BOYS FATHER AND A WITNESS. POLICE SAY THE ATTACK WAS RANDOM. SACHS NOW FACES SECOND-DEGREE ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGES, FIRST DEGREE ASSAULT AND POSSESSION OF A DEADLY WEAPON.
IN ENTERTAINMENT NEWS…
SOUL SINGER SOLOMON BURKE DIED AT AN AMSTERDAM AIRPORT ON SUNDAY. ACCORDING TO HIS FAMILY BURKE DIED OF NATURAL CAUSES. KSTATE GRADUATE AND FORMER ATLANTIC RECORDS PRODUCER JERRY WEXLER CALLED BURKE THE GREATEST SOUL SINGER OF ALL TIME. BURKE WAS INDUCTED IN TO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME IN 2001. HE LEAVES BEHIND 21 CHILDREN, 90 GRANDCHILDREN AND 19 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN.
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