Garden City Telegram (Newspaper) - August 10, 2007, Garden City, Kansas What's Inside Gearing up to get started in A3 Picture This Aubrey and Kelli watching their beloved New York Photo contributed by Cherie Daly in hunt at Southern FRIDAY August 10, 2007 THE GARDEN CITY Group discusses new high school Facility Group says second option may be difficult to garner support By EMILY BEHLMANN Replacing City High School with a brand new equipped with everything school district staff think is would be almost an ideal solution to overcrowding worries at said members of a study group Thursday the funds and the public votes to pay that price through a bond issue might be too difficult to they A group of about 12 USD 457 students and community members discussed building a new high school in a new location as part of a series of 10 Each examines a possible solution to what administrators have said is an overcrowded high school with inadequate science music locker practice athletic fields and other After the these will meet as a larger study group to report their and the group will choose an option to recommend to the Board of would be responsible for approving a At Thursday's study group Jean Clifford said a new high school would need to exceed the current facility's 101 classrooms because among the group's goals are to eliminate the 11 mobile classrooms housed in seven trailers that were supposed to be and to give classrooms to the 14 traveling teachers who carry their class materials on Achieving both objectives could help the school district recruit and retain Principal James Mireles Those who visit are interested in the appearance of the building whether they will receive their own he The science labs also are See Page A5 Tft for am A return 22 Pages 3 Sections SO CENTS Guard provides assistance Helping Family Program Office helps others cope with military By JULIAN ORTIZ It is the visit every family of a deployed soldier When a soldier is killed in the Kansas Army National Guard will send a chaplain and a casualty assistance officer to notify the spouse in Sharon director of public affairs at the Kansas Adjutant General's said casualty assistance officer continues to work with the family as much as the family she assist Inside Brad Casey follows a Garden City police car north on Main Street past the National Guard Armory He was the lead rider in a processional from Garden City Regional Airport to Garnand Funeral Home for Sgt. 1st Class Travis killed Aug. 1 while serving in was Howard's Howard families wait ends By STEPHANOS FARLEY It was to be about three weeks from the first part of August that Garden City resident Travis stationed in was supposed to come home to his and two He'd told her he couldn't wait to come to spend time with including his 4, and 8-month-old and to be a family On 30, came but not in the way Amber her Tom and Kathy and Rodney and Connie had hoped It wasn't suppose to be like Amber Bachman said she'd flipped her calendar to so excited because it wouldn't be too much longer before she'd be picking him That was shortly before she got the a sergeant first class for the Kansas Brad Sgt. 1st Class Travis Bachman's casket is carried from an airplane to a hearse by a military honor guard Thursday at Garden City Regional Airport for transport to Garnand Funeral serving with the Kansas National Guard 1st 161st Field Artillery was killed Aug. 1 while in National was killed Aug. 1 when an improvised explosive device went off near his according to the Adjutant General's For about a various events led up to Bachman's including workers from his former place of Home showing up at the couple's home to make needed And crimson and cream ribbons Bachman was a fan of the University of Oklahoma - are being displayed throughout the neighborhoods along Sioux Pawnee Apache Drive and Fair and Summit It all led up to the moment Thursday morning when Amber her See Page A5 Morrison to focus on in funeral picketing see Page more at peace knowing he's at - Amber Bachman them with whatever possible to ensure they don't have any issues with insurance or other The department has several chaplains who provide assistance to families and Guard members whenever they are Watson Lt. Col. Larry full-time support chaplain for the Army National works with guardsmen and their providing support when soldiers are the family has a we don't Depending on the we will Parrish the we check in with the family again with another visit or phone It's important that we make ourselves available to the family as much as Shortly after Garden City resident Travis Bachman's death on Aug. 1, Parrish said Adjutant Maj. Gen. Tod Bunting visited the Bachman family along with chaplain Don Davidson to offer their came to my home Amber Bachman were here for me with their It makes me feel good that they haven't forgotten The Family Program which is part of the See Page A5 Moving on up Kayla Lansing begins moving into the dormitories at Garden City Community College Thursday Classes at start Highway Patrol responds to two fatalities By The Telegram The Kansas Highway Patrol responded to two unrelated vehicle fatalities Thursday and this One accident occurred at about 6 a.m. today near Pierceville and involved a and passenger The Kansas Highway Patrol still was working the accident this morning and further information was not available at press A Montezuma man died Thursday after the SUV he was driving rolled along Saddle Road in Ford According to the Highway Douglas L. 54, was headed west along Saddle Road in Ford County in a 2005 Hyundai SUV when the vehicle went into the eastbound The vehicle then went into the south rolled several times and Schmidt was The accident occurred at about 9:14 p.m. a quarter-mile east of 100 Road on Saddle The vehicle came to rest facing southeast in a who was pronounced dead at the was transported to Western Plains Regional According to the Highway he was not wearing a seat Inside Annie's 85 Classified Obituaries TV Listings B4 Opinion Weather Check us out online at Inspiring Minds is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a - George Spanish-born philosopher Saturday's weather Low of 68. sunny and very High of 103, low of 70. 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