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Construction of the Honors College and International Center will begin in early March.

A&K Construction was awarded an approximate $14.7 million contract to construct the building. The Paducah-based company served as the general contractor for Gary Ransdell Hall as well.

Bryan Russell, director of Planning, Design and Construction, said WKU is happy to work with the company again.

We look forward to another successful partnership on this building, Russell said.

Kerra Ogden, project manager of Capital Construction, said the bids to build the structure were very competitive. While a normal project usually yields five bids, 12 contractors vied for the rights to construct the Honors College and International Center.

Honestly, I dont remember there being that much contractor interest in any other job that Ive ever been involved in, Ogden said.

The company mobilized on Monday. The gravel parking lot has been closed, and Hillcrest Apartments will be removed in early March. In the meantime, the apartment complex will be utilized by Bowling Greens fire and police departments for training.

The three-story building will house the Honors College and its faculty as well as numerous offices, including the Kentucky Institute for International Studies, Study Abroad and Global Learning, and the Office of Scholar Development. The building is projected to be completed by August of next year.

Due to the sinkhole that formed in the Corvette Museum earlier this month, Ogden said testing will be done to further determine if there are any sinkholes in the space where the Honors College and International Center is being built. The process will not hinder the construction progress.

Craig Cobane, executive director of the Honors College and chief international officer, said the building will serve as a gatewayto the rest of the world for students.

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BANGOR, Maine The city will officially take over a pair of abandoned properties in the city with a history of unpaid taxes after the City Council unanimously voted to move ahead with the seizures.

The city will take possession of 147 Court St., an apartment building next to Coe Park covered in graffiti and plywood to board up the entrances, as well as a vacant lot at 91 Larkin St. Both properties have matured tax liens against them and city officials have been unable to contact or identify the owners.

In past years, the city has avoided going after properties with back taxes, but recently councilors have urged city staff to acquire abandoned properties where possible in order to reduce the number of dangerous eyesores in the city.

The blighted apartment building will be torn down, allowing the city to sell off the buildable lot underneath. The city will enter talks with neighbors of 91 Larkin St. to see if they would like to add that plot of land to their property.

Also during Monday nights meeting, the council approved a one-year lease for the Bangor Farmers Markets continued use of the parking lot across the street from Bangor Public Library, at no cost to the market.

The council voted to use this lease proposal to replace one that came out of committee last week, which would have assessed a $25 annual rental fee on the seasonal market. However, that one was a three-year lease. The question of whether to assess a fee on the market sparked a contentious debate among councilors during a meeting last week.

Several councilors said they want to take time to discuss the citys policy on charging fees for use of city space. Right now, there is no written policy, and the city assesses fees on some groups for use of public space, but not others.

The farmers market organizers said they arent opposed to a small fee and want to continue operating near Bangors downtown for the long term. Bangor councilors also said they want to ensure the market continues operating in Bangor, but some want to ensure that the city is fair and equitable in whether and how much it charges groups for use of city space.

They will take up that question during a Government Operations Committee meeting in March.

In other business, the council:

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Its been a busy few months for utility providers in central Indiana. With the recent snowstorms, residents bills have gone up but utility workers have been working hard to help residents save energy and restore any lost power.

Indianapolis Power & Light Company, Duke Energy, Hendricks Power, and Citizens Energy Group have been busy with all of the snow and ice.

January has been a busy month in terms of experiencing extreme temperatures and high winds that left 65,000 of our customers in one of the biggest outages weve had in a long time, Brandi Davis-Handy, director of external communications said. We have had all hands on deck, fully staffed. Weve had linemen working around the clock, doing 16-hour shifts to restore this.

On the big storm from Jan. 5 through 9, IPL had 516 people working around the clock to get customers power restored. Out of those, 330 were employees coming from outside of IPL, such as utility providers from Illinois and Tennessee.

IPL services all of Indianapolis, Carmel and some of Hendricks County.

Duke Energy of Indiana set an all-time mark for winter power use across communities.

The month of January has delivered record cold temperatures across communities served by Duke Energy, Doug Esamann, president of Duke Energy Indiana, said. When temperatures dip especially to historic lows bills are higher. Its important for customers to remember simple steps they can take to save money on their power bills and heat their homes and businesses efficiently.

The company continues to suggest ways to save energy and money on power bills during colder weather.

The thermostat is a real culprit of higher winter bills. To help save energy and money, select the lowest comfortable setting when home, and bump the thermostat down a degree or two when leaving.

During sunny days, leave drapes or blinds open to allow the suns rays to warm the house.

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In February, America celebrates Black History Month. As such, each Monday this month Playboy SFW will re-publish seminal interviews with 1960s civil rights leaders. This week, we feature our November 1969 conversation with Jesse Jackson, who at the time appeared to be the heir apparent to the slain Martin Luther King, Jr. Enjoy the story in its entirety, and to read every article the magazine has ever publishedfrom 1953 until todayvisit the complete archive at iplayboy.com.

In the 19 months since the murder of Martin Luther King, only one man has emerged as a likely heir to the slain leader's pre-eminent position in the civil rights movement: Jesse Louis Jackson, the 27-year-old economic director of King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The Reverend Jackson's first national exposure, in fact, came as a result of his closeness to Dr. King. He was talking to King on the porch of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis when the fatal shot was fired and cradled the dying man in his arms. The very next day, at a Chicago City Council meeting, Mayor Richard Daley read a eulogy that pledged a "commitment to the goals for which Dr. King stood." The Reverend Jackson had flown in from Memphis without sleep to attend the ceremony; he stood up in a sweater stained with Dr. King's blood and shouted to the assembled Chicago political establishment, "His blood is on the hands of you who would not have welcomed him here yesterday."

That gesture demonstrated both the militant indignation and the dramatic flair that mark Jackson's charismatic style. The New York Times has written that he "sounds a little like the late Reverend Martin Luther King and a little like a Black Panther." It added that "almost everyone who has seen Mr. Jackson in operation acknowledges that he is probably the most persuasive black leader on the national scene."

Jackson's personality is possibly even more in tune with the present black mood than Dr. King's was, because, as Richard Levine pointed out in Harper's, "Dr. King was middle-class Atlanta, but Jesse Jackson was born in poverty in Greenville, South Carolina." Jackson calls himself a "Country preacher," but he combines his down-home style with a sharp intellect. He attended the University of Illinois for one year but dropped out in 1960 to attend the Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina in Greensboro, where the first black sit-in had taken place earlier that year. He was an honor student, quarterbacked the football team and organized civil rights demonstrations. After graduation, Jackson went North to study at the Chicago Theological Seminary, where he devoted most of his extracurricular time to local civil rights work.

It was Dr. King himself who originally spotted Jackson's leadership potential during a massive civil rights drive in Chicago in the summer of 1966 and appointed him to head all of SCLC's economic projects in the North. In the three years since that appointment, Jackson has concentrated most of his efforts on the Chicago-based project called Operation Breadbasket and made that pilot program the most impressive demonstration of black economic and political power in the United States. Breadbasket's organizational methods are now being applied under Jackson's guidance in 15 cities ranging from Los Angeles to Brooklyn.

The project's primary goals are to create jobs for blacks and to encourage them to own and operate businesses. Boycotting, or the threat of it, is Breadbasket's most potent weapon. The effectiveness of this technique was most evident in a breakthrough victory over the huge Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, which operates 40 stores in Chicago's black ghetto. To avoid the financial loss that a boycott would have caused, the A & P signed a pact guaranteeing jobs for blacks and the distribution of black products on A & P shelves. As Business Week reported in a story about Operation Breadbasket, "Nationally, the organization's efforts have resulted in about 5000 jobs and $40,000,000 in annual salaries to Negroes. But the Chicago campaign [against A & P] represents Breadbasket's most significant victory, for it is the biggest settlement with a chain, in a single city, and set a precedent for other food chain negotiations across the country."

The A & P pact was especially significant becausein addition to a guarantee of over 700 jobs for blacks and marketing more black businessmen's productsthe company also agreed to use black owned janitorial and exterminating companies in its ghetto stores, to bank in black-owned banks, to advertise in black media and to have black construction firms build its ghetto stores. Monthly meetings between representatives of A & P and Breadbasket are designed to assure that the company is not shirking. On the personal level, sensitivity seminars attended by A & P executives attempt to awaken management to the existence and effects of prejudice. Similar agreements have been signed with more than half of all the major food distributors in the ghetto.

The Reverend Jackson created an even more far-reaching program last spring, when he initiated the Illinois Hunger Campaign. Believing that hunger is the one issue that could unite the black and white poor, Jackson led a caravan to all of the poverty areas of Illinois, ending with demonstrations at the state capital in Springfield. The pressure this exerted on the Illinois legislature was so great that a planned cut of $125,000,000 in welfare funds was restored at a time when New York and California were making sizable cuts in their welfare payments. An impassioned appeal by Jackson, from the steps of the capitol building, inspired a bill to provide school lunches for all of the needy children in the state. Jackson also extracted a promise from the state legislature to prevail on Washington for special surplus-food allotments for the poor. The Illinois Hunger Campaign was conceived by Jackson as an extension of the Poor Peoples' Campaign begun by Dr. King, and there are plans for similar efforts in other states next year.

No matter what his other commitments may be, Jackson always attends the Saturday-morning meeting of Operation Breadbasket. The location has been changed three times this year, because the congregation continually outgrows its premises, and Breadbasket presently resides in a 6000-seat movie theater on Chicago's South Side. The lobby of the theater is filled with tables displaying black merchandise, and the auditorium itself is hung with signs that exhort the gathering to BUY BLACK PRODUCTS and USE BLACK SERVICES. The first hour of the meeting is devoted to Gospel music by the Operation Breadbasket orchestra and choir, interspersed with the business for the weekeither boycotts or special "buyins." PLAYBOY's Associate Articles Editor, Arthur Kretchmer, who conducted this interview with Jackson, describes the remainder of a recent meeting.

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