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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 2008
Page
1
The Jennie Barker Elementary School fifth graders Eric Maxwell Alexa Hemmert Jensen Strasser Sharne Green and Sam Halvet form the Odyssey of the Mind team. Photo by Jana Strasser. Garden City.
The USD 457 Board of Education, with advisers Rawson Financial Consultants LLC and Piper Jaffray, approves two architectural firms to design a new high school for 2250 pupils with expansion to 2500. The plan includes converting current campuses for a middle and elementary setup, plus building J.D. Adams Hall, aiming for November ballot consideration.
Garden City Community College hosts a week of Earth Day activities led by SGA with about 20 students cleaning up campus, landscaping, and planting. Caleb Miles won the Dirty Sock Contest by driving a socked exhaust for five minutes earning a free Dodge tune up. Devin Carpenter took a Jaguar prize of $25 in chamber gift certificates.
Sunflower Electric Power Corp and four groups spent 61 thousand dollars on lobbying in March to win votes for two coal fired plants in southwest Kansas near Holcomb. Opponents spent 13 thousand, as the campaign to overturn Gov. Sebelius's veto and secure air permits remains costly and contentious.
At the International Food Aid Conference in Kansas City, Usnick of the World Food Programme cites 850 million food insecure people and 25,000 deaths daily. He warns soaring commodity and oil prices, rising fertilizer costs, and biofuel competition amplify hunger, with costs up 55 percent since June.
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