School activities are mostly quiet during Thanksgiving week.

The School Board authorized the Lawrence High School Marching Band to accept an invitation to participate as one of seven “honor bands” in the Portland Rose Festival that will take pace in June of 1982.

Both the boys and girls basketball teams continue preseason practices. New boys head coach Ted Juneau and second-year girls coach Gary Johnson made cuts to their rosters for the season.

Seven LHS students prep for a week long trip for the Close Up Foundation’s government studies program in Washington D.C., but the details of the trip are clouded by President Regan’s budget veto.

President Regan vetoed an emergency spending resolution to restore operating funds to federal agencies and told his Cabinet to “cut down, shut down and eliminate all unnecessary government services.” It was his first veto in 10 months of office.

After months of considering what kind of development should take place in downtown Lawrence, the city created a Downtown Improvement Committee to be appointed by the Lawrence City Commission. The committee will make recommendations to the city for recruitment of a developer, and on redevelopment proposals for downtown Lawrence.

Back In The Day
November 16 – 22, 1981
Nov 30 – Dec 6, 1981