Garden City Telegram (Newspaper) - May 5, 2007, Garden City, Kansas What's inside World heads into crucial climate change A6 Picture This Daniel and Isaac build a snowman with their Gabe Photo contributed by Amber Garden King shines spring D1 SATURDAY May 5, 2007 THE GARDEN CITY Telegram Volume 78, No. 107 44 Pages 5 Sections ONE DOLLAR FINNEY COUNTY County to look at consolidation Combing administrative law enforcement has come up By SCOTT BERSHOF The possibility of consolidating the administrative duties of three separate law enforcement agencies will be one of the main topics the Finney County Commission will address during a commission meeting scheduled for 8:30 a.m. Monday Earlier in the Finney County Administrator Pete Olson brought up the idea of combining administrative offices for Community which serves and Youth Services and the Juvenile Detention which both serve those under 18 years Community Corrections Services provide Base seling while the detention center serves as a holding area for those yet to go through the court Because the state grants fund most of each the move would not save county taxpayers any money but could still make some of the services more Olson concept is if you consolidate administration you can save Olson savings realized could be brought into other programs or hiring another It wouldn't really save dollars per Neal vice chairman of the Juvenile Corrections Advisory in a letter to said the board is against the idea of consolidating any of the three agencies administrative See County Page A5 Some betting on casino for Dodge City DODGE CITY faro table and dice tumbler on display behind glass at the Long Branch Saloon are authentic Wild West But the wooden wheel of painted white and is a just like the Front Street buildings and where the wheel waiting to be spun by tour guides or loaned out for charity casino Dodge City's past - and the past people think they know from ing - draws thousands of tourists each That history helped civic and business leaders as they successfully lobbied legislators this year to allow a casino in Ford County as a way to boost the economy One company has picked a visible from the Boot Hill Museum and its Front was our and now it's our said Thomas a tour guide KANSAS NEWS at the museum after giving the wheel a While supporters bet a casino will attract tourists - and state government is betting on new revenues - there are A report last year by a University of Las Vegas professor suggested a casino would hurt the local economy more than it would RELAY FOR LIFE wild times in the 1870s and early 1880s led to a backlash among Dodge City residents and a more sedate community These at least a few worry about gambling creating crime and other social problems in this southwest Kansas community of 26,000 that they've always considered a good place to raise don't think wild is said Wesley a retired businessman who echoes concerns about gambling broken families and cash-strapped gamblers who might turn to The new state law also permits casinos in the Kansas City the Wichita area and the state's southeast The Kansas Lottery will own the and the state hopes eventually to reap See Page A5 reast f. c ft iu .ad jj 1 nj Cancer survivors and their families walk a lap around the track at Garden City Community College Friday to kick off the night of walking for the annual Finney County Relay for Walk for survival By SCOTT BERSHOF With a wooden cane in a slight limp wasn't going to prevent Ted Doyle from making his single survivor lap around Garden City Community College's track to kick-off Friday night's 14th annual Relay for Life An prostate cancer 78, of Garden strolled along with about 85 other cancer 14th annual Relay for Life event has participants raising funds for cancer research survivors as the living embodiments of a simple just want to let everyone know that I'm a Doyle Friday's which is held as a fundraiser for cancer was estimated to have 700 to 800 participants and is expected to bring in said Roni the event's Both cancer Stacey and her 10-year-old adopted made the initial lap The pair are a perfect example that cancer can strike those of all ages or Stacey Stump think God brought us both said Stacey in her sixth year recovering from ovarian cancer and her first year officially caring for The first and the event in not only serve as a means of raising funds with the eventual goal of finding a cure for the disease but also as a visible source of comfort and strength for said Ciara can fight for other said Ciara a four-year neuroblastoma other people and knowing we're all not See Page A5 Greeley County students get real-life lessons Emily Greeley County science teacher Greg Brown explains to Leah Houston and Isaac Wilson the mining procedures used at Cresson Mine near Cripple on Workers blast out rock one layer at a time and leach the rock with sodium cyanide which adheres to the gold particles so they can be collected at the Students receive science instruction at Colorado By EMILY BEHLMANN CRIPPLE Colo. - The sound of the old metal elevator descending 1,000feet into the the feel of the temperature dropping 10 the sight of light bulbs illuminating an 1890s mine shaft - those are experiences a textbook in a classroom in Greeley County can't you were you would have no said Greg a math teacher at Greeley County High Brown was referring to the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine in Cripple Creek where USD 200 traveled as part of a three-day field study in Tour guides Profiles Education like Charlie Caldwell led the group through the winding mine demonstrating the technology that emerged through the ages and the dangers miners have During the the students also visited the Cement Plant in the Mount Shavano Fish Hatchery in and the Cresson Mine in Cripple They camped at night and even had time for some like river swimming in hot springs and a snowball For the past three Greeley County Junior High which the Kansas State Department of Education approved as a charter school in 2004, has been taking the through on these field Recent trips have been to New Oklahoma and other Kansas The trips have been funded primarily with federal funds from the charter school grant that the state USD 200 Superintendent Wilson said the idea behind the charter school and field studies was to See Page A5 On the web For video of student during their field trip to Cripple go to our Web site at Inside Annie's advice B7 Business Chicken Soup Opinion Southwest TV Listings What's Check us out online at we call reality is an tnat nave at to make life more - 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