Huelskamp to Hold Town Halls in Meade and Satanta
Rep. Tim Huelskamp schedules two area town halls next week. He will speak at 11 a.m. Thursday at Beam Senior Center in Meade 624 W. Carthage St and at 3 p.m. at Dudley Township Library 105 Sequoyah St Satanta.
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Meade and
Satanta
Huelskamp
Beam Senior Center
W. Carthage St
Meade
Dudley Township
Sequoyah St
Clark Reappointed to State Fair Board
Angie Clark, Finney County fairgrounds manager, has been reappointed to a three year term on the Kansas State Fair Board. Gov. Sam Brownback announced the appointment. The board consists of 13 members serving three year terms, with nine appointed by the governor.
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Angie Clark
Finney County Fairgrounds
Kansas State Fair Board
Sam Brownback
State Fair Board
Kansas
Earth Day at Lee Richardson Zoo Draws 1200 Students
Lee Richardson Zoo hosts Earth Day at Finnup Center and grounds from 9 am to 2 pm. Theme Pledge for the Planet highlights reducing carbon footprint and stewardship with 20 plus exhibitors, water games, animal biofacts, talks by keepers, and performer Richard Renner. Public welcome. school reservations encouraged.
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Lee Richardson Zoo
Garden City
Finnup Center For Conservation Education
Finnup Drive
Richard Renner
Wodvill Entertainment
Zoo
Unemployment rate holds at 4.9 percent in Kansas
The seasonally adjusted Kansas unemployment rate for March is 4.9 percent, unchanged from February and down from 5.5 percent a year earlier. Kansans employed rose by 2,500, with construction leading gains. Wichita metro added 1,300 jobs from February, with construction adding about 800 positions.
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Kansas
Kansas Department of Labor
Wichita
Task force outlines mental health care plan for Kansas
A 35 page report from the Governor's Mental Health Task Force urges early access to treatment and an outcome based approach. It advocates funding preschool and early childhood behavioral health, school counseling access, and universal treatment for serious mental illness regardless of ability to pay. It also proposes suspending Medicaid benefits rather than terminating them for inmates to aid transition and reduce recidivism. The governor will review the recommendations and aim to roll out immediate improvements with a May action plan alongside aging and disability services.
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Kansas
Sam Brownback
Kansas Mental Health Coalition
Amy Campbell
Brownback
Governor’s Office
Department For Aging and Disability Services
May
Rainfall trails average as Garden City counts rain shortfall
NWS meteorologist Kelley Sugden reports Garden City remains 2.68 inches below yearly norm and .54 inches under April average. Totals across nearby areas range from .15 to .30 inches with forecasted isolated thunderstorms could push rain up to a quarter inch. weekend temps expected in the high 70s to low 80s.
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Garden City
National Weather Service
Kelley Sugden
NWS
Dodge City
Kendall
Morton County
Kearny County
Lakin
Cimarron
Deerfied
Ulysses
Sugden
Healing service honors victims of Overland Park shooting
Clergy and 1300 attendees at the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park heard US Attorney General Eric Holder condemn the hate crime. He urged unity and healing after a Sunday shooting that killed Bent Underwood 14 and his grandfather Dr. William Corporon 69 and Terri LaManno 58, with suspect Frazier Glenn Cross Jr. in custody. Mindy Corporon offered her son’s tissues for donation as her family seeks meaning and peace.
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Overland Park
Eric Holder
Bent Underwood
Blue Valley High School
William Corporon
Corporon
Teresa “Terri” LaManno
Kansas City
Shalom
Frazier Glenn Cross Jr
F. Glenn Miller Jr
Aurora
Ku Klux Klan
Jewish Community Center
Jacob Schreiber
Arthur Premitoff
Temple
Congregation
B’nai Jehudah
Terri LaManne
Reat Underwood
Nemiroff
Mindy Corporon
Adam Hamilton
United Methodist Church of the Resurrection
Hamilton
Mindy
Stephen Cook
Kan
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