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It was an up and down day for the Eudora track team in May when it traveled to Santa Fe Trail High School for it’s 4A track and field regional.

It’s not quite accurate to say the Eudora girls basketball team capped a strong season with a long run in the sub-state basketball tournament.

The race could neither have started or finished any worse. Through the course of it, however, it was evident exactly what made the freshmen boys on Eudora’s cross country team such an asset.

With their sights set on improving the city’s parks, Eudora parks officials are thinking of some creative ways to pay for the upgrades.

A November trial date has been set in the lawsuit Douglas County Rural Water District No. 4 filed against the city of Eudora.

On a recent slow night at home, I picked up a book that has been around the house for some time. I don’t know exactly when it arrived, but it was likely a gift from someone, perhaps my mother.

Eudora wrestling coach Bill DeWitt is no doctor, but last spring he diagnosed his team with “Jayhawk-basketball syndrome.” It was a way for the coach to explain his team’s repeated frustrations at the state wrestling tournament.

Few sports elicit romantic outpourings like baseball - Kevin Costner has made a career professing his love for the leather and the rawhide, the dirt and the grass - but for so many others, the command “go” is all that is needed to trigger an outpouring of testimony.

We here at The Eudora News have self-respect.

Eudora Parks and Recreation will have a Christmas Camp through Friday of this week and No School Play Days today and Friday.

The Douglas County Appraiser’s office will mail the 2008 personal property valuation notices Monday. Those taxpayers who had taxable personal property in 2007 will be sent an assessment form.

Eudora United Methodist Church is accepting enrollments for its 2008 session of Kids’ Day Out.

Weldon Enterprises, the trash disposal company for the city of Eudora, will dispose of additional trash that won’t fit into the 95-gallon trash containers on regular trash pick up days through Dec. 31 only, as long as it is bagged.

The Rev. Michael Tom-DeGreeff will have a sermon series “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Prayer But Were Afraid to Ask” at 9:15 a.m. Sundays during January at its temporary location at Warren-McElwain Mortuary/Eudora Chapel, 1003 John L. Williams Drive, east on 10th Street on Douglas County Road 442.

The Praise Band at Eudora United Methodist Church practices at noon Sundays at the church parsonage, 625 Church St.

The Eudora United Methodist Church Chancel Choir meets for rehearsals at 7 p.m. Wednesdays at the Kruger residence, 826 E. 12th St. Men are especially needed to join.

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