Garden City hosts piano festival and art exhibit
Southwest Kansans can hear emerging pianists during two back to back concerts at the Garden City Piano Festival at Garden City Community College. Programs start 7 30 p.m. Friday and Saturday in Pauline Joyce Fine Arts Building auditorium. Free admission, seating limited. An exhibition by Joseph Rincones of Manhattan and Manuel Gomez of Wichita runs at Mercer Gallery through April 25 with public hours noon to 4 Mon-Fri and 2 to 5 Sundays. A reception with the artists is set 1 to 3 p.m. April 25.
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Garden City
Kansas
Garden City Community College
Pauline Joyce
Mercer Gallery
GCCC Forensics Team to present award speeches
Garden City Community College forensics team members Joann Gonzalez Dora Herrera Noemi Herrera Janet Huerta and Gabby Stout will give award winning speeches from 6 30 to 8 30 p m Tuesday in the Pauline Joyce Fine Arts auditorium. Refreshments provided.
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Garden City Community College
Pauline Joyce
Spanish Driver License Prep Course at Garden City CC
In Spanish, Garden City Community College's Business and Industry Institute offers a driver’s license preparation course for Spanish speaking residents. The class runs 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on May 1 with a $135 fee and potential scholarships. For registration call 276-9647 or email B&I gcccks edu.
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Garden City Community College
Business and Industry Institute
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Wasinger Opts Out Of Debate For Tea Party Rally
A second 1st District candidate Rob Wasinger pulls from a Salina debate to attend a Hutchinson tea party rally. Tim Huelskamp has already withdrawn citing overbooking. Wasinger cites concerns over Maggie Hemmer’s role in planning and organizers’ handling. Hutchinson event expects thousands. Wasinger to speak at Salina and then door-knock before 6 p.m. rally. Attendees include Barnett Boldra Cobb Mann Shadwick.
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Salina
Hutchinson
Michelle Martin
Rob Wasinger
Cottonwood Falls
Tim Huelskamp
Rowler
Wasinger
Huelskamp
Maggie Hemmer
Tracey Mann
Tom Hemmer
Paign
Billy Valentine
Hemmer
Goodland
Great Bend
Martin
Saline County
Republican Women
Bicentennial Center
Jim Barnett
Sue Boldra
Marek Cobb
Monte Shadwick
Legislators planned for Saturday coffee in Garden City
Representatives Steve Morris Jeff Whitham and Larry Powell will attend a 10 a.m. legislative coffee Saturday at Clifford Hope Auditorium on Garden City High School campus 1412 N Main St AT T sponsors the event. A $1000 CLASS grant and local funds fund a major makeover of Garden City Community College Early Childhood Education Center set to begin with 9 a.m. volunteers and campus groups helping paint renovate and upgrade the 20 seat lab in the Penka Building.
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N. Eighth St
Garden City Community College
Clifford Hope Auditorium
Garden City High School
N. Main St
At&t
Clifford Hope
Chamber of Commerce
Steve Morris
Ingoton
Kansas Senate
Jeff Whitham
Garden City
Larry Powell
National Education Association
GCCC
Penka
Kansas National Education Association
Learning Products, Inc
U.S
KNEA
Holcomb Council OKs freeing funds for local road use
Holcomb City Council passed a motion to remove a restriction on a 150000 dollar Finney County allotment that could fund county roads serving Holcomb. Finney County earlier approved the move. No spending decisions were made yet and funds remain in the road and bridge account for Holcomb use.
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Holcomb
Finney County
Kansas Department of Transportation
City of Holcomb
City of
Curt Nemechek
Ron Schreibvogel
Julie Chamberlain
Holcomb Board of Zoning Appeals
Brandon Wolf
Henderson Street
Pete Earles
Earles
Kansas court workers to receive unemployment aid for furlough days
Kansas court workers facing four unpaid furlough Fridays in April and May will get unemployment benefits from the state's fund. The Labor Department says the fund is depleted and Kansas is borrowing from the federal government to replenish it. Payments, to be issued via debit card or direct deposit, vary by hourly rate and cap, with a clerk at 13 dollars an hour earning about 57.46 per Friday and a 20 dollar hour officer about 88.40 per day, capped at 87.20.
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Topeka
Kansas
State Department of Labor
State Supreme Court
Labor Department
Department
Kathy Toelkes
Toelkes
Ron Keefover
Topeka Capital- Journal
Keefover
Don Troth
Shawnee County
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