Aviation safety seminar at Garden City airport
Aviation safety will be the topic Tuesday at Garden City Regional Airport. Bruce Allred of the FAA will present the aviation safety education seminar at the Flight Deck restaurant starting at 7 p.m. The public is invited. Topics include First Responders When Seconds Count Shoulder Harnesses and Your Life and Sectional Mapping presented by Wayne Neese. Attendance earns credit toward the WINGS program. For more information contact Allred or Shortridge. GCHS seniors to perform tonight.
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Garden City
Bruce Allred
Federal Aviation Association
Wayne Neese
Allred
Mary Shortridge
GCHS
GCHS Senior Choir Performs Tonight at Presbyterian Church
Garden City High School senior choir will entertain the public at 7 p.m. at 1719 Texas Street. Choir director Pam O'Donnell notes students have four to six years of music study and will sing pieces from current and past contests.
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Garden City High School
Presbyterian Church
Texas St
GCHS
Pam O'Donnell
Wichita sextuplets show rapid postbirth progress
AP reports Kansas sextuplets improved swiftly after birth in Wichita area. One infant fed via tube while four remain on respirators. doctors expect weaning within 24 to 48 hours. Mother Sondra Headrick 33 and Eldon 32 live in Rage. The six babies Ethan Roy Melissa Sue Grant Douglas Sean Edward Jayde Linette Danielle Patrice were carried 31 weeks, longest US sextuplet pregnancy. They will stay hospitalized four to six weeks. mother to be discharged soon.
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Wichita
Kansas
Katherine Schooley
Sondra Headrick
Eldon
Rage
Headrick
United States
van R. Bohman
Ethan Roy
Melissa Sue
Grant Douglas
Sean Edward
Jayde Linette
Danielle Patrice
Regents research centers eyed to stabilize Kansas economy
At a Garden City legislative coffee, Senator Steve Morris and Representatives Lloyd Hayzlett and Powell discussed a $700 million budget deficit and a proposal to fund three research centers through revenue bonds. State universities would host a food safety center at Kansas State, a cancer research center at KU Med, and an aviation program at Wichita State, while lawmakers also touched on redistricting and a no call database.
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Regent Universities
Senate
Ways and Means
Steve Morris
Morris
Regents Research Project
Kansas State University
University of Kansas Medical School
Wichita State University
U.S
Pat Roberts
KU Med Center
Wichita State
Kansas
Loyd
State Supreme Court
Carla Stovall
Lloyd
Garden City
State Board of Education
House
Judiciary Committee
Pressure to raise taxes as Kansas eyes budget gap
As the Kansas legislative session nears its close, lawmakers feel pressure to raise taxes to close a 700 million gap while resisting cuts to public school aid. Public education consumes about 2.3 billion of 4.54 billion in general tax dollars, shaping the debate amid rising costs and potential teacher layoffs.
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Topeka
Stan Clark
Oakley
Wichita
Christine Downey
D-Newton
Kay O’connor
Kansas National Education Association
O'Connor
Rolathe
Bob Tomlinson
R-Roeland Park
Garden City auction raises over 95000 for scholarships
The 24th Annual Garden City Community College Scholarship Auction raised an estimated 95 700 with over 1 000 attendees bidding on 450 items at Finney County Exhibition Building. Top item was a complete orthodontic treatment selling for 3 500. Proceeds included live and silent auctions, ticket sales and donations.
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Garden City Community College
GCCC
Shea Sinclair
Gccc Endowment Association
Finney County Exhibition
Henry Palacios
Steve Quakenbush
Scott Auction
Garden City
Sinclair
Southwind Country Club
Scott
Kansas
Endowment Association
Burglary ring ties two men to Jan. 8 break in Garden City
Garden City police say burglary task force linked 20-year-old Jeffrey Rigdon and 21-year-old Scott Brown to a Jan. 8 residential burglary worth 3300 dollars in electronic equipment and guns. A 17-year-old male is also allegedly involved. Affidavits seek felony theft, burglary and firearm charges. a third suspect Bobby Jones is noted.
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Garden City
Jeffrey Rigdon
Scott Brown
Mike Utz
Brown
Rigdon
Utz
Fice
Bobby Jones
Jones
Bonuses Drawn by Kansas State Employees Stir Legislation
Two Kansas lawmakers allege annual bonuses as high as 14000 were given to hundreds of state workers over five years totaling 12.4 million. Amid a 700 million budget shortfall, Rep. Doug Spangler and Rep. Alan Goering circulated a 20 page list of those earning more than 7000. The House voted 122 to 2 to end all bonuses for fiscal 2008 beginning July 1.
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Topeka
State of Kansas
Doug Spangler
Kansas City
Alan Goering
Medicine Lodge
House
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Marilyn Maye
Duke Ellington
Tim Huelskamp
R-Fowler
Ways and Means Committee
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