The Wichita Eagle from Wichita, Kansas • 11

WWWKANSASuCOMNEWS 1 FRDAY FEBRUARY 21 2003 THE WICHTTA EAGLE 3B WICHITA AND THE REGION AROUND THE AREA Dancing for diversity Spanish news starts Monday with 1 anchor Salina police take action on officer shooting officer Hie Salina Police Department has taken action" against an officer whose pistol accidentally fired a bullet into another officer's toe The officer who has not been identified was taking the gun apart fix cleaning 6 when it fired and injured Jason Smith LL Mike Sweeney said Sweeney said the investigation determined that the officer didrrt follow proper procedures for making his weapon safe The 40caliber Clock semiautomatic discharged while die officers were standing around a table inside the police department's training building following a routine weapons Linda Sloan will go it alone to get Hechos up and running onUHF Channel 51 Spanish-speaking parents in their education is new for me but I really like and enjoy she said of journalism will be a combination of local news and live talk involving a guest in die studio Just how much time will be devoted to each is still being worked out Dickens said Sloan said that her first guest will be Carlos Mayans one of the 15 candidates for Wichita mayor The mayoral primary is Tuesday Another guest in the first week will be Rosa Molina director of die lffichita Medical Sendee Bureau a nonprofit agency that serves low-income and senior citi The Wichita Eagle Linda Sloan will become first Spanish-language television news anchor when she bunches Wichita Monday on low-power KSML UHF Channel 51 The newscast whose tide translates as will run from 5 to 5:30 pm Monday through Friday right before Azteca national "Hechos newscast Sloan who is from Honduras but has beai in Wichita sown years said she is looking forward to die challenge of preparing and delivering a daily news-cast basically by herself for now News director RJ Dickens had hoped to bunch die Spanish newscast with co anchors at the beginning of February but find die right people After several delay Dickens decided to go with Sloan as solo anchor to get the local newscast up and running This will be first venture into broadcast journalism 1 am pretty confident I can do said Sloan who works as a translator at Wesley Medical Center She also works with the Wichita school district to involve zens She will talk about prescriptions Sloan will also do double duty as a reporter for KSMTs English sister station KCTU UHF Channel 55 She said she will be abb to draw from the Channel 55 local news for stories to translate for her Spanish broad cast Taxi mechanic pleads guilty to drug charges A mechanic fora defunct Leavenworth taxi service that police say was involved in a scheme to distribute drugs and alcohol has pleaded guilty to three drug-related charges Michael Byms 42 of Leavenworth pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of posses-sion of methamphetamine with intent to sell within 1000 feet of a school Byms also pleaded guilty to two felony charges of telling meth Three other charges were dismissed in die dea agree menL Byms could face more than five yean in prison Sentencing is March 31 In the scheme drug customers would call and request certain Are Taxi Service drivers who dial showed up with drugs or alcohol for sale Leavenworth police said In a related case former Ace owner Edward Savage 28 pleaded guilty in December to felony possession of metham- phetamine and misdemeanor possession of drug para- phppiali- Neither Channel 51 nor Channel 55 is available on Wichita cable Both local low-power stations can be received through a UHF loop antenna available at electronics stores Reach Bob CurtrtjN at 268094 orMJnnpaewocnuNpBfiank Daryl Jack a student at Haskafl Indian Nations University In Lawrence dances at Olathe East High School Students there sponsored an assembly to appreciate and celebrate diversity WTO UreSetecfaict ANNOUNCING Watch out for that rolling tumbleweed Tt will cause a huge weed problem mt he said liven for a farmer who controls his weeds the seed spreads as the tumble iroUacroBSi weeds roll across cadi OVOTT The Other Guys' I For maty motorists the first impulse when confronted on the highway by one of the weeds is to try to avoid it A Kansas Highway Patrol trooper said the last thing a driver should da human nature to swerve when an object is coming toward said Mike Frederiksen a trooper based in Garden City I preach and preach that you shouldn't do AtcocMtd fan Camp for kids with lupus (staking applications Camp Sunshine a weeklong summer camp in Maine for children with lupus and their families is now accepting applica-tfons Children can canoe swim fish and do arts and crafts while their parents participate in discussion groups with other parents who have children with lupus a chronic inflammatory disease Camp costs $1500 which is paid for by donations and spon- 1 sorships Ifyou know a child under the age of 18 Alohas been diagnosed with lupus please contact the Lupus Foundation of America Kansas Chapter PO Box 12204 Wichita KS 67277 or call 262-6180 At Midwest Toyota ow advertised prices are so lew we've upset the competition So lor a fantastic deal on a new or certified pre-owned Toyota please come by or caD our friendly staff: Craig Kevin Damon Keith or Trever We Will Not Be Undersoldl GARDEN They roam at will across the countryside in southwestern Kansas leaving belund a trail of broken ground noxious droppings and nervous drivers Tumbleweeds aren't uncommon in this flat open land where trees are sparse and hills are even more rare But this year die big blowing balls of dead plants are not only bigger than normal also more abundant Debbie Dowell looked out through ha kitchen window after a night of blustery winds and saw a huge drift covering the swing set in her back yard know howahbzzard will cause Dowd asked was die same way but instead of snow there were tumbleweeds at least 10 to 12 feet high They had completely covered our daughter's swing set and the dndfioi pen I have never seen anything like Neither has Lane County district conservationist Arien Ricke who warns that the deluge of tumbleweeds this winter will lead to even bigger problems down the roadT and having a head-on collision can be Tumbleweeds loosen soil par-' tides as they blow across fields causing the dirt to be caught up hi die wind Lane County former Vance Ehmke said tumbleweeds are covering his tree tops as high as 20 feet to 25 feet He plans to use a front-end loader to push the weeds out He has begun burning the weeds to get them off his property They are very destructive" he said They bounce along spreading their seeds by the -SanhBahsri 1 2 5 (316)755-4000 755-1212 or 1-000-872-2894 Apartment Directory 2100 Mortgage Iotas 647! 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