Endowment auction nets $129 560 for Garden City fund
The 29th Annual Garden City Community College Endowment Auction drew about 1,000 attendees despite a Friday snowstorm at the Finney County Exhibition Building. Live auctions totaled $56,550 and silent auctions $13,964, with top items including an orthodontic service package and a Ford Mustang drawing won by Pat Brown. Overall, $129,560 was raised, up from 2006, as admission, gift income, and special drawings added to the total.
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Garden City Community College Endowment
Finney ‘County Exhibition
Steve Quakenbush
GCCC
Quakenbush
Regan
Garden City Telegram
Pat Brown
Garden City
Tim Hanigan
Age of Aquarius
Endowment Association
State AG to speak at victims rights program in Garden City
Kansas State Attorney General Paul Morrison will address crime and victims rights at a Western Kansas event during National Crimes Victims Rights Week. The program runs 9 to 10:30 a.m. at Garden City Community College Perryman Athletic Complex with booths from 24 victim services groups and speakers including Jeanette C. Stauffer, mother of Shannon L. Martin, who was murdered abroad.
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Mosaic
Kansas
Robert DeLeon
Musaic
DeLeon
Kathleen Sebelius
Garden City
Paul Morrison
Morrison
Perryman
Garden City Community College
Western Kansas
Christy Kirk
Scott City
GCCC
Colby
Kirk
Jeanette C. Stauffer
Shannon L. Martin
The
Stauffer
Martin
Costa Rica
University of Kansas
Feds review lab sites in Kansas for bio defense facility
Federal officials will visit Manhattan and Leavenworth next week as part of a nationwide hunt for a site for the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility. Seventeen locations in 11 states compete for the 450 million high security lab slated to study threats to animal plant and human health.
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Topeka
Kansas
Manhattan
Leavenworth
Homeland Security
Congressional
Nicole Marcson
Marcson
Fort Leavenworth
Kansas State University
Department of Homeland Security
New York
Trial over Wal Mart denial put on hold
LAWRENCE AP A trial over whether city officials illegally denied a Wal Mart permit is delayed five months to allow settlement talks. Judge Malone approved moving the case to Sept 10 after a closed meeting with developers and city officials. Mayor Hack hopes to discuss the proposal at the May 1 commission meeting.
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Wal-Mart
Commission
Competing Wichita casino plans target city center and beyond
In Wichita area proposals diverge from a downtown casino plan using Century II and Hyatt properties to a Park City site near Kansas Coliseum and a southward option in Sumner County. With state approval pending Sedgwick County voters, local leaders warn of crowded, partisan efforts and potential shifts in library relocation and land use.
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Wichita
Sedgwick County
Carl Brewer
George Kolb
Kolb
Bob Knight
Kansas Coliseum
Park City
Brian Hamm
Nova Growth Corp
Hamm
Century II
Wichita Public Library
Tom Docking
Downtown Development Corporation
Convention and Visitors Bureau
Ed Wolverton
Knight
Sumner County
Trucks on Patrol for Safety brings troopers into semi cabs
In Wichita Kansas the Highway Patrol partners with Yellow Transportation and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to place troopers in tractor trailers. Cameras on the rigs record speeding tailgating and reckless driving while officers relay warnings or tickets to approaching motorists. In initial days the effort yielded 53 civilian and 5 commercial vehicle citations along with 67 civilian and 35 commercial vehicle warnings. Kansas 2005 data show heavy trucks caused 3,902 crashes and 68 fatal crashes with 81 fatalities, underscoring big rig road danger.
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Wichita
Kansas Highway Patrol
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Maynard Skarka
Yellow Transportation
Trucks
Kansas
John Eichkorn
Highway Patrol
Kansas Department of Transportation Records
John Hill
U.S. Department of Transportation
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SGLAR
Feds
Mike Houser
Kayden
J.C. Street
Cade Roth
Zane
Kingsbury St
Hack
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