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KANSAS CITY NEWS TODAY - Monday, April 28, 2008 Community Yard Sale Returns for Another Season of Deals and Treasures KANSAS CITY, (kansascityfrontpage.com), April 28, 2008 - The City Market will kick off its third season hosting the City Market Community Yard Sale on Sunday on May 4, 2008 from 9:00 a.m. 3:00 p.m. The City Market has partnered with the Downtown Neighborhood Association again to provide downtown residents and the metro community an opportunity to clear out their closets, basements and storage units and sell gently used items at the Market. Take advantage of all the bargains and find a treasure or two as it's sure to be a great day full of great deals! "The yard sale has become a successful weekly event at the City Market and continues to build." said Deb Churchill, Property Manager for the City Market. "The City Market Yard Sale is a great way for the community to find environmentally responsible ways to reuse items which might otherwise find their way to local landfills." Stephanie Spatz-Ornburn, Director of Marketing & Events added, "The weekly yard sale is yet another reason to shop the Sunday Market, which has all the elements of the Saturday Market but at a more leisurely pace." While at the yard sale, shoppers will also find over thirty City Market Merchants, offering a variety of specialty food items, flowers, gifts, restaurant options and much more. The Sunday Farmers' Market features a wide selection of produce, food items, artisans, crafters, tasty concessionaires, Art of the Machine Car Series and the Kansas City Public Library Used Book Sale. The Community Yard Sale will continue every Sunday through out the season. Owner of Kansas City Computer Service Companies Engaged in Mail Fraud and Wire Fraud KANSAS CITY, (PRNewswire-USNewswire), April 28, 2008 - The former owner of three Kansas computer service companies and a family member were indicted for participating in a conspiracy to defraud the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) E-Rate program, the Department of Justice has announced. The owner also was charged with making false statements to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to obtain housing assistance. E-Rate, a program authorized by Congress in the Telecommunications Act of 1996, operates under the auspices of the FCC and provides funding to school districts and libraries to connect to and utilize the Internet. Under the E-Rate program, schools can receive money for cabling, Internet backbone equipment (i.e., servers, PBX and switches) and the reimbursement of monthly Internet and telephone connectivity service fees. According to the indictment returned in the U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan., Leonard Douglas "Doug" LaDuron, former owner and president of Serious ISP Inc., Myco Technologies Inc. and Elephantine Corporation, was charged with conspiring with his mother, Mary Jo LaDuron, aka Mary Jo Gault, and others to defraud the E-Rate program. Doug LaDuron carried out the alleged conspiracy by submitting false statements and concealing material facts from the Universal Service Administrative Company, which administers the E-Rate program for the FCC. In some instances, according to the indictment, these false statements were submitted by wire transmission, e-mail and U.S. mail. At least 10 schools from New Jersey to California were affected by the alleged fraudulent scheme. The indictment also alleges that Mary Jo LaDuron fraudulently represented herself as an independent consultant, and steered E-Rate contracts to companies owned by her son as well as to co-conspirators, Benjamin Rowner and Jay H. Soled. Rowner and Soled were charged yesterday for participating in the same scheme, which began in 1999 and ran at least until 2003. Doug LaDuron was also charged with defrauding HUD by knowingly submitting false statements to the Lawrence-Douglas County Housing Authority, which administers HUD's Housing Choice Voucher Program in Lawrence, Kan. The false statements misrepresented his employment status so that he appeared to be eligible for housing assistance. Doug LaDuron is also charged with making false statements to HUD in 2003. "Eligible families in Lawrence, Kan., wait for months - sometimes years - for a Section 8 rental subsidy, so I am happy that the HUD Office of the Inspector General has continued its efforts to prosecute ineligible people to make room for truly deserving families," said HUD Special Agent-in-Charge Phyllis Robinson. City Council Selects Inspection Areas for New Program KANSAS CITY, (kansascityfrontpage.com), April 22, 2008 - The Blue Hills, Hyde Park, Ivanhoe, Pendleton Heights, Scarritt Renaissance, Town Fork Creek and West Plaza neighborhoods will soon be enjoying the benefits of enhanced code enforcement. The City Council selected these neighborhoods as target areas for the City of Kansas City, Mo., Rental Registration and Inspection Program, which will include systematic (for every property), proactive enforcement of housing codes only in these areas. The inspections are scheduled to begin in May. "The Housing Committee received recommendations from City staff about the neighborhood associations that applied for this program and met the criteria to participate," said Councilman John A. Sharp, 6th District, and member of the Housing Committee. "Hopefully, more neighborhoods will apply and be included in this neighborhood revitalization program in future years." To be considered as a potential target area, neighborhoods have to meet these qualifications:
"The goal of the inspections is to improve our neighborhoods - not to be punitive. We will be working with neighborhood associations and residents to help find the resources needed to make improvements as individual circumstances warrant a need," said Dan Schmelzinger, property conservation manager in the Neighborhood and Community Services Department. Schmelzinger oversees the administration of the Rental Registration and Inspection Program.   The Kansas City Front Page is owned and maintained by the Moore Design Group for the sole purpose of disseminating news and information about the Metropolitan Kansas City area. Text or graphics may not be copied, rewritten or distributed in any manner whatsoever without written permission. For more information, contact editor@slfp.com All rights reserved world wide © 2007 - 2008 Moore Design Group. |
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