Garden City Telegram (Newspaper) - November 29, 2007, Garden City, Kansas What's inside Ceremony offers ornamental A3 Picture This Randy Nichols with a record-setting catfish at Swan Lake in Neb. Photo contributed by Louise Garden KU welcomes back B1 THURSDAY November 29, 2007 THE GARDEN CITY Telegram Volume 78, No. 281 18 Pages 3 Sections 50 CENTS Phillipses a poster family for local effort Laurie The Phillips from the 5, 4, 6, and 8, enjoy a book together on Wednesday night in their Garden City By GWEN TIETGEN If foster care and adoption had a Robert and Joy Phillips could be on the poster They started foster care in 2000. out of a string of foster they've adopted 6, 5, 4 and 3. The children play and laugh and do the things 6,5,4 and 3-year-olds are supposed to But they have to work harder than most children their age because each are victims of neonatal drug Programs like Head through the Kansas Children's Fourth annual Red Stocking breakfast 7:30 to 10:30 a.m. Saturday Lone Star 2306 E. Kansas Ave. in tor children Service help them catch developing the skills that take a little longer for them to whether it's play or social they've helped my better prepare them for transition into school as well as socialization Joy Phillips For a complete list of weekend see Page Phillips said she was looking for a place to help Noah get ready for kindergarten when she found the Kansas Children's Service Head Start A mom caring for seven children at the she said she was grateful when she found busing was available am I going to do Phillips See Red Page A5 Authority would shoot to reverse trends By SARAH KESSINGER TOPEKA - The last major census showed just nine Kansas counties gained population over the previous Most of the others lost That trend may well continue in the next major count set for 2010. But not if Kansas Farm Bureau and others can help it. The statewide group plans to try and convince the Kansas Legislature this winter to get behind an effort to link public and private entities to create a new Rural Policy Authority The organization would seek to oversee new efforts to encourage people to move to rural communities and convince young residents to return there after It's unclear how it would be but some well-known national foundations might having expressed recent interest in supporting rural said Kansas Farm Bureau President Steve The steady rural population decline demonstrates that federal and state turnaround efforts haven't he pretty evident that government has struggled to have a major impact on said a Minneapolis He and other group leaders are working with Senate President Steve who has developed a introducing the See Page A5 Docking Building should be reconstructed i TOPEKA - The state should million to gut the Docking State Office Building across the street from the and reconstruct it from the the Department of Administration But administrators and legislators have about the cost and where to put aout 1,500 state workers who would be by the The 1956 building was rated as poor on $ standardized The building's lighting and fan systems are at least 20 years past their normal operational according to testimony given to the state buildings committee last month by Marilyn the finance and facilities management None of those systems has been replaced since they were installed in 1955. Senate President Steve said he was disappointed in how the building has held Hidden GEMS Laurie Abe Hubert Middle School and Dianda build a structure to test the effects of wind on architectural structures on Wednesday afternoon at the Girls in Math and Science event at St. Dominic Parish Event promotes careers for girls Laurie Kristi of the Finney County Health Department assists Abe Hubert Olivia and Gretchen Stone on Wednesday afternoon during a nursing workshop at the Girls in Math and Science event at St. Dominic Parish By EMILY BEHLMANN The response from about 150 girls reverberated in the room of St. Dominic Parish Center Wednesday they shouted to the question from Judy Garden City Community College dean of technical Crymble had asked whether men should be the only ones to work in careers in math and Wednesday's Girls in Math and Science was designed to give about 280 southwest Kansas girls a look at career opportunities in which women typically have been A similar event for the other Guys in Math and is scheduled for today The event was a chance for the female youth to try activities like preparing a prescription for someone with nausea and In the led by pharmacist Kristi Cofer of St. Catherine the girls used Skittles to represent the pills they would pour into bottles and Cofer said she got involved in pharmacy with encouragement from her regardless of can succeed by taking a lot of math and science courses and attending pharmacy school at a place like alma the See GEMS Page A5 Inside Annie's Obituaries State TV Listings Comics Sports Check us out online at conference is a meeting t0 decide where the next meeting will take Friday's weather partly low 20. mostly high 44, low 39. 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