Tonganoxie City Council members Monday night directed that the center line and parking spaces be painted on the new street surface.

GOP women schedule meeting on Monday
The Leavenworth County Republican Women will meet at 11:30 a.m. Monday at the High Noon Saloon in Leavenworth.

Plans for candidate support events will be announced. New members are welcome to attend the meeting.

For additional information, call Jan Nelson, (913) 727-2319.

City council approves early fireworks show
Each year, the Tonganoxie Nursing Center has a Fourth of July celebration.

Because Independence Day falls on a Tuesday this year, the center would like to have its annual celebration with fireworks on the Sunday preceding the holiday but this is before fireworks can be shot off legally in the city.

So Monday night, Tonganoxie City Council members agreed that the center could shoot fireworks on July 2.

Health department offers vaccine
The Leavenworth County Health Department will give free Hepatitis B vaccine between July 3 and Dec. 29 to all adolescents between 10 and 17.

This is in addition to the vaccine for children up to 3 years old.

Parents should bring a copy of the child’s immunization record.

The clinic at 620 Olive St., Leavenworth, will be open from 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

Quilt show planned for September
The Kaw Valley Quilters Guild of Lawrence will hold its 23rd annual Quilt Show on Sept. 9 and 10.

The show will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sept. 9 and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sept. 10 at the Lawrence Community Center, 115 W. 11th.

Hall of Fame quilts will be displayed at the Watkins Community Museum, 1047 Mass.

Gambino’s Pizza changes its name
Gambino’s Pizza in Tonganoxie recently became an independently owned business and the name changed to Mo’s Pizza.

After being a franchise for 10 years, Emmet and Marla Wetta were ready to make the restaurant independent once again. In April, the Wetta’s franchise contract expired and the two decided not to renew.

Once the restaurant became Gambino’s, the Wetta’s added two other locations in Eudora and Bonner Springs. They have sold both businesses since and are ready to focus on the Tonganoxie location.

“Everything’s better going back to the way we used to make it,” Emmet Wetta said.

The name Mo’s came from his older brother Morris, who died two years ago after receiving a lung transplant.

City council OKs streetlamp repairs
The new street lamps lining Fourth Street that were damaged during the tornado will be replaced and repaired after the Tonganoxie City Council on Monday approved the $596 estimate to fix the damage.

Students receive $1,250 from papers
Tonganoxie High School music students are $1,250 richer, thanks to their work on a newspaper subscription program.

Late this spring, students sold subscriptions to The Mirror and to the Lawrence Journal-World. In return, the students were given $5 for each new or renewed Mrror subscription sold. And they were given $10 for each Journal-World subscription sold.

Last week, The Mirror gave the students $810, and the Journal-World gave them $440.

“I’m really pleased that the students and the newspapers were able to successfully work together,” said Caroline Trowbridge, editor and publisher of The Mirror. “I really am pleased that our subscribers participated in this effort. And special thanks goes to Donna Mages, who collected subscription money from the students. She’s a great volunteer.”