Body Venture Exhibit Teaches Nutrition At Florence Wilson
Florence Wilson Elementary hosts Body Venture today with eight to ten students per group exploring the human body through 11 stations. Volunteers guide five minute activities on healthy choices while food items travel through the digestive system. Kansas State Department of Education developed the traveling exhibit and Jill Mayfield is the contact nurse.
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Florence Wilson
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Body Venture
Child Nutrition and Wellness
Kansas State Department of Education
Jill Mayfield
LULAC to Present 19th Annual Scholarship Reception
The League of United Latino American Citizens of Garden City will host a scholarship reception at 6 p.m. Saturday in Garden City High School. National, state and local scholarships will be awarded. graduates families and community members are invited. Contact Joe Gonzales at 276-7207 for details.
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League of United Latino American Citizens
LULAC
Garden City
Garden City High School
Joe Gonzales
Gifts That Give Back grant to be presented at school
The Garden City Public Schools Foundation and Wheatfields on Main will present a check at Georgia Matthews Elementary School at 9 15 a m Wednesday to Wynenna Cessna, music teacher. The money will fund a digital piano for elementary programs she teaches for the district. Wheatfields on Main and Brighton Jewelry launched the Gifts That Give Back program last year featuring 24 independent charm holder bracelets with a percentage of sales supporting the grant.
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Garden City Public Schools Foundation
Wheatfields On Main
Georgia Matthews
Wynenna Cessna
Brighton Jewelry and Accessories
Brighton
Carnival at Jennie Barker Elementary School
Jennie Barker Elementary hosts a family carnival from 6 to 7 30 p m in the school gym at 5585 N Jennie Barker Road with games food prizes and silent auction baskets. USD 457 offers a free screening clinic for Garden City residents children ages 8 to 15 at Garfield Early Childhood Center 121 W Walnut. about 90 minutes with hearing vision and developmental checks. Call 805 7500 to reserve an appointment and inform if you cannot attend.
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Jennie Barker Road
USD 457
Garden City
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W. Walnut
Free 10 week PS MAPP foster care class announced
Saint Francis Community Services begins a free 10 week PS MAPP course in southwest Kansas to help prospective foster parents. The program covers needs in Finney and Seward counties with 38 foster children in Seward and 30 outside Finney. The class runs 6 to 9 p.m. at 1110 JC St with preregistration not required. Interested individuals may call 276 4482 ext 47 or visit the website for registration.
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Kansas
Saint Francis Community Services
JC St
Julie Dinkel
Dinkel
Finney County
Seward
Department of Children Services
Wichita State plans Innovation Campus to grow tech jobs
Wichita State University wins a $2 million appropriation from the Kansas Legislature to back an Innovation Campus on campus through partnerships with firms in four buildings. The plan aims to diversify Wichita’s economy beyond aviation and the legislature grants discretion on fund use.
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Wichita State University
Kansas
Wichita State
Wichita Eagle
Great Bend to host farm and ranch expo
Organizers expect over 500 exhibitors and thousands of spectators at the third annual Great Bend Farm and Ranch Expo to be held Wednesday through Friday at the Great Bend Expo complex two miles west of the city. Admission is free with new attractions including low stress cattle handling demonstrations and horse training. Kansas State University speakers will discuss their research, and demonstrations of combines and sprayers are planned.
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Great Bend
Judge sends citizenship suit back to Kansas court
A federal judge ruled that a Kansas citizenship voting dispute should be resolved in state court. The ACLU challenged Kobach enforcement of the proof of citizenship rule, arguing it oversteps Kansas law and the state constitution. The case returns to Shawnee County District Court, with the issue still alive amid broader voting rights activity.
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Topeka
American Civil Liberties Union
Kansas
Kris Kobach
Kobach
ACLU
U.S
Eric Melgren
Wichita
Shawnee County
Two Voters
Equality Kansas
Melgren
Arizona
Doug Bonney
Bonney
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