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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 2003
Page
3
Garden City High School hosts junior senior prom on Saturday from 8 p.m. to midnight in the practice gym with a 4 to 6 p.m. decor viewing and 5 p.m. photo start. Grand promenade seen from main gym as couples arrive. north entrance and east side seating advised. Public immunizations offered by Finney County Health Dept Monday.
The Kansas Association for Conservation and Environmental Education will hold its annual spring meeting April 11 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Finnup Center for Conservation Education, Lee Richardson Zoo. An optional bison tour at Finney Game Refuge follows. Registration is $20 and includes lunch. Contact Kathy Sexson or Shari Wilson to register.
A food safety course for beginner food service employees and volunteers is planned from 1 30 to 4 30 p m on April 11 at the Finney County Extension Office 501 S Ninth St The class covers basics of safe food handling including temperatures hygiene and cleaning Instructors are Linda Walter Finney County and Betty LaToush Scott County The $8 fee covers class materials and refreshments Pre registration by Friday at the extension office is required For more information call 272 3670
A federal judge in Kansas ruled that the EPA must enforce stricter water quality standards, requiring redesignation of over 900 streams and lakes as suitable for fishing and swimming or justified changes, impacting KDHE assessments and potential removals from EPA's regulated list. Environmental groups pressed for full Act compliance while farming interests warned of wasted resources.
The Kansas House moved a Sunday liquor sales bill forward with amendments to broaden local option rules statewide. It would allow wine delivery to local stores and pickup with tax paid, while Senate critics urge caution. An emergency vote sent the measure to the Senate 85 to 36.
Elizabeth Mondragon, 23, of 506 N Ninth St Apt 2, was arrested on six counts of endangering a child after police and Social Rehabilitation Services found six children living in a filthy, unsafe apartment. Three sons and two daughters aged 5 years, 18 months, 5 months, 3 years, and 2 years were placed in protective custody. An 18 month old received hospital treatment for a scab condition and Mondragon remains jailed at Finney County.
Freshman Kansas lawmaker Josh Svaty of Ellsworth dissented as the House backed a bill by 121 to 3, enabling regulators to decide electric rates before building new coal plants. Sunflower Electric Power Corp. supports the measure to attract investors for an $800 million coal plant near Garden City, while critics urge stronger emphasis on conservation. The bill also allows pre-approval of rating principles for power purchases and certain transmission lines.
Jose Castrellon, a Buffalo Jones Elementary third grader, won one of eight prizes in the Kansas Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom and Kansas Water Department Postcard Contest. His sunflowers and stream design tied to a lesson on Kansas crops and earned a $50 savings bond and an 8 by 10 inch plaque. Castrellon could not attend the award ceremony in Topeka with Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, so his teacher Emma Handlin accepted the honors.
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