[CPEO-IRF] Sunflower Ammo Plant (KS) transfer

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

With a song in their heart, land changes hands

By FINN BULLERS
The Kansas City Star
October 14, 2005

As the morning fog lifted, the De Soto Wildcats marching band played 
"Smoke on the Water" at what was once the largest rocket propellant 
plant in the world.

Music filled the air Thursday at the former Sunflower Army Ammunition 
Plant as about 200 people, including representatives of 13 governmental 
agencies, marked a milestone when the defunct plant transferred hands 
from the federal government to a private developer.

Johnson County Chairwoman Annabeth Surbaugh said it was hard to find the 
words to describe what the day signified.

So U.S. Rep. Dennis Moore, a Lenexa Democrat, broke out in a moment of 
unscripted song.

Moore — joined by Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, a Democrat, and U.S. 
Sen. Pat Roberts, a Republican — grabbed a guitar and led a rousing 
early morning rendition of Woody Guthrie’s "This Land is Your Land."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/12896718.htm
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org

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