Local items up on SHPTV auction
Finney County donors highlight Signature Auction to air Friday through Sunday on channel 7. Over 300 pieces including works by Crowley Mathews Powell Shrader Stallings Erskin Kinder Schultz Gorman and others from SHPTV volunteers. viewing at The Mall in Hays with live telecast times and contact info provided.
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Finney County
Smoky Hills Public Television
Channel 7
Margaret Crowley
Jim Mathews
Jean Powell
Evelyn Wayne Shrader
Wanda Stallings
Dick Erskin
David Kinder
Alvin Schultz
R. C. Gorman
Beulah Weber
Methvyn Sheehy
Randal Spangler
Mauritia Adams
Hays
Jayne Heller
Debra Dreamer
SHPTV
Smoky Hills Public TV
Wwwshptvorg
Kansas
Nebraska
Directv
Ask A Principal Hotline Opens For 16th Year
The National Association of Elementary School Principals hosts its 16th annual Ask A Principal Hotline from Sunday to April 19. Call toll free at 800 944 1601 to anonymously speak with a school principal or psychologist. Service runs in English and Spanish from noon to 6 p.m. Sunday, 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, and 6 a.m. to noon on April 19.
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National Association of Elementary School Principals
2005 Congressional Arts Competition Opens for Kansas Students
Entries are being accepted for the 2005 Congressional Arts Competition in Kansas First District. High school students may submit artwork to St. John's Military School Salina, with a 5 p.m. Thursday delivery deadline. The winner’s piece will hang in the US Capitol for one year and the student may receive a cash award. the ceremony to announce results runs 4 to 6 p.m. April 22 at Banes Gym on the St. John’s campus. Contact Scott Wiedeman at (785) 823-7231 ext. 7765 or wwwsjms.org/artcomp/ for guidelines. Also, the Eagles Auxiliary Club hosts a CPR class tonight at 7 at the Eagles Lodge, 2601 N. Taylor Ave, Garden City. free and open to all.
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Kansas
St. John’s Military School
Salina
St. John’s
US Capitol
Banes Gymnasium
Scott Wiedeman
Amish Cook editor to visit Finney County Library
The Finney County Library will host Kevin Williams at 3 p.m. April 20 to discuss his book The Amish Cook Recollections and Recipes from an Old Order Amish Family. The work features 75 recipes plus gardening tips and Amish history linked to Williams’s grandmother and her daughter. The book, based on the syndicated Amish Cook column started in 1991, will be for sale at the event.
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Finney County Library
Walnut St
Kevin Williams
Elizabeth Coblentz
Leadership Kansas selects 2005 class includes Garden City leaders
Jeff Whitham Garden City mayor and Paula Van Norden join 34 others in the 27th Leadership Kansas class chosen from about 350 nominees. The 35 members will train in Colby Hutchinson Wichita Pittsburg Topeka Garden City and Kansas City Kansas over three day sessions beginning May 13 with a July 27 29 Garden City presentation on business education and public policy connected to the statewide program.
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Colby
Hutchinson
Wichita
Pittsburg
Topeka
Garden City
Kansas City
Kan
Western State Bank Chain
Whitham
Kansas
van Norden
Russ Jennings
Leadership Kansas
State Board of Trustees
Jennings
Lakin
Wheat crop thriving in Kansas amid rain
Kansas farmers face slow fieldwork as rain holds the spring planting pace. Winter wheat shows 22 percent in excellent condition, 54 percent good, 20 percent fair, and 4 percent poor to very poor per the Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service. Oats planting at 69 percent, corn 11 percent, with pastures and ranges recovering from drought.
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Wichita
Kansas
Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service
KASS
Chickadee Checkoff marks 25th year in Kansas wildlife study
The Chickadee Checkoff, funded by voluntary Kansas tax donations, reaches 25 years aiding non game wildlife. Funds support bluebirds mussels lesser prairie chickens and more through studies and reintroductions such as fresh water mussels in the Neosho basin and bald eagle surveys, while leveraging federal grants.
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Topeka
Hns
Sternberg Museum of Natural History
Hays
Kansas
Joe Collins
The
Kansas Biological Survey
Collins
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Neosho River
Neosho Basin
Red Hills
Barber
Comanche
Ken Brunson
Kansas Society of Cpas
Brunson
Finney County considers paying half fence replacement
The Finney County Commission discussed funding half the cost of a roughly mile long fence between county land and Brookover Co property after an inspection showed needed repairs. County Engineer Ellermann noted cattle trespass and suggested confirming Estrada’s share, while Commissioner Doll urged scrutiny of the $1,250 estimate.
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Finney County Commissioners
John Ellermann
Tom Burgardt
County
Brookover Co
Ellermann
Raceway Road
A.J. Estrada
Brookover
Burgardt
Estrada
Don Doll
Doll
Farmland Road
Moran to kick off ninth annual listening tour in Kansas
Congressman Jerry Moran announces the Rediscovering Kansas Listening Tour spanning 69 counties in the First District. The five month schedule covers multiple towns including Garden City Dighton Scott City Montezuma Sublette Hugoton Johnson City Ulysses Lakin Syracuse Horace and Leoti with 5000 miles of travel and public events. Moran invites Kansans to share concerns and guidance for his work in Congress.
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Jerry Moran
Moran
Kansas
R. Hays
Congress
Finney County
Garden City
KBUF
Finney County Fairgrounds
Lane County
Dighton
Lane County Historical Museum
N. Main St
Scott County
Scott City
el Quarterejo Museum
W. Fifth St
Gray County
Montezuma
Stauth Memorial Museum
N. Aztec St
Haskell County
Sublette
Haskell
North Fair St
Stevens County
Hugoton
Shady Lane
Stanton County
Johnson City
E. Highland Ave
Grant County
Ulysses
Fort
Cedar View
W. Patterson Ave
Kearny County
Lakin
S. Buffalo St
Hamilton County
Syracuse
Northrup
Greeley County
Horace
Barrel Springs
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Amish Cook
Garden City Commission
Wind River Grain LLC
Garden City Street Department
Jose Rodriguez
Evans Street
Clude
Commission
County Commission
Emergency Medical Services
Bob Prewitt
EMS
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