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Written by Kristen Waggener
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Friday, 03 July 2009 10:23 |
 Not even heat and humidity could keep Kathy Fitzke and her 10 budding photographers from going outside to capture images on their cameras.
The Louisburg-based professional photographer taught an introduction-to-photography class for teens and preteens looking to understand and use their own cameras a bit better.
“When I was mentoring some other (children) ... they were just putting their cameras on auto all the time,” Fitzke said. “I wanted to show them how to get a little more creative.”
So, last week, 10 children joined her at her rural Louisburg home to learn the ins and outs of portrait photography, action shots, still lifes and landscapes.
“If they practice, then they get used to (using different settings),” Fitzke said.
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Louisburg
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Written by Kristen Waggener
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Friday, 19 June 2009 08:32 |
Dan and Marty York consider themselves lucky.
A few limbs are strewn about, one of the trees in their backyard is leaning, a few roof shingles are missing, and the electricity went out. But the storm that hit Drexel, Mo., on Monday night left their home — and nearly every home in the small town — mostly intact with comparatively minimal damage.
“As near as we can tell, the only people that had damage were when trees had fallen (on homes or vehicles),” Marty York said.
The National Weather Service in Pleasant Hill, Mo., reported large supercell thunderstorms bore down on southern Miami County and northern Linn County in Kansas and southern Cass County and northern Bates County in Missouri on Monday night and early Tuesday morning producing winds between 90 and 110 mph. The storms were not tornadic in nature, according to the NWS, but the wind speeds were comparable to an EF-1 tornado.
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Louisburg
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Written by Staff
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Friday, 08 May 2009 08:00 |
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Editor’s note: The following is a poem written by Louisburg student Kievah LaHue about her mother in honor of Mother’s Day.
Your words and thoughts have touched my soul ...
When you’re in my heart, you make my life full of
Beauty and perfection too unique to describe,
I’m glad for the creation of our mother-daughter vibe.
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Louisburg
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Written by Doug Carder
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Friday, 20 March 2009 08:00 |
Louisburg USD 416 has officially begun its search for a new superintendent.
The Board of Education voted 7-0 at a special meeting Wednesday morning to hire Bill Majors, assistant executive director of the Kansas Association of School Boards, to help the district conduct the search for Superintendent Rick Doll’s successor. Doll is leaving to take over as the new superintendent of the Lawrence school system. His last day with the Louisburg district will be May 31.
Majors told the board Wednesday he would post the opening that day. KASB will accept applications through April 15. The board tentatively is looking at the week of April 20-24 to conduct interviews, with the goal of naming Doll’s successor by May 1.
“I understand the sense of urgency with filling this position,” Majors told the board.
Majors, who is very familiar with the Louisburg district, cautioned the board the pool of applicants may not be as deep as when he conducted the search in 2005 that led to Doll’s hiring. At that time, the board interviewed four candidates before selecting Doll.
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Louisburg
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Written by Doug Carder
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Friday, 20 March 2009 08:00 |
Dave Tappan will begin the 2009-10 school year with a new title — principal of Louisburg High School.
At a special meeting Wednesday morning, the Louisburg USD 416 Board of Education voted 7-0 to hire Tappan as Sally Lunblad’s successor at LHS. Tappan currently serves as the school’s assistant principal. Lundblad announced earlier this month that she plans to retire at the end of this school year.
Board President Jimmy Allen said the district was fortunate to have an “excellent candidate” already at the school.
“Dave has been an integral part of the advancements we have made at the school. I think he will continue the good work Sally Lundblad has done and push us to continue making improvements, while bringing his own management style and personality to the job,” Allen said. “We feel very good about having Dave as our new principal.”
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