Young Authors Contest Encourages Local Student Writers
The Scott County Library hosts a nine year old Young Author's Contest open to first graders through high school seniors. About 100 entries are judged by three readers with winners at each grade level. all winning works become bound first editions stored in the library. Awards are presented at a reception at El Quartelejo Museum with book signings for attendees.
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Scott County Library
Friends of the Library
Scott Community High School
Nanon Clare
Julie O’brien
O’brien
Pe.o
Marilyn Miller
el Quartelejo Museum
West Fifth Street
Nursing pioneer Sister Aquinata Penka dies at 91
Garden City Community College mourns Sister Aquinata Penka, longtime nursing program director and namesake of the Penka Building, who died Friday in Great Bend at age 91. She helped found GCCC nursing, directing it from 1971 to 1976 and guiding a program that has graduated more than 700 nurses. Penka later tended Dominican Sisters’ shrines in Great Bend before retiring there. Funeral services are set in Great Bend with a wake Sunday and burial Monday. memorials go to the Dominican Sisters Retirement Fund or the Sister Aquinata Penka Endowment Scholarship.
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Aquinata Penka
Garden City Community College
Great Bend
Penka
Dominican Sisters
GCCC
Ed Nicklaus
St. Rose Hospital
Dominican School of
Ellen Mai
Mai
Patsy Ruddick
Riddick
Dominican Chapel of the Plains
Broadway
Gerald Hammeke
Eugene Kenny
Sisters’ Resurrection Cemetery
Dominican Sisters’ Retirement Fund
Sister Aquinata Penka Endowment
Bryant Funeral Home
Regional meeting on Arkansas River restoration and projects
Finney County Commission Garden City City Commission and Holcomb City Council meet at Plaza Hotel to discuss habitat restoration on the Arkansas River and related recreation erosion and education goals. Draft plan funded largely by federal $5 million with local costs. Other topics include asphalt overlay on Jones Avenue Holcomb Bridge sewer updates and road improvements.
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Arkansas River
Finney County
Finney County Commission
Garden City City Commission
Holcomb City Council
Plaza Hotel
Garden City
Army Corps of Engineers
Tulsa
Jones Avenue
Holcomb Bridge
Holcomb City
Jennie Barker Road
Schulman Avenue
Finney County eyes fairgrounds improvement plan
Finney County Commission reviews a multi year master plan for Finney County Fairgrounds with annual revenue directed to facilities and equipment. 2002 items include grandstand gates repainting fire extinguishers and a riding mower with later additions and a 2007 paving project plus other department updates.
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Finney County Fairgrounds
Finney County
Humble Librarian to Leave for Texas Public Library
Todd Humble, director of Finney County Public Library since 1999, leaves May 6 to become director of technical services at North Richland Hills Public Library near Fort Worth Texas. He cites family reasons and aims to maintain pay while noting improvements in accessibility, visitorship up 30 percent, and Kansas No 1 summer reading program with 31,008 children participating in 2001.
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Finney County Public Library
Todd Humble
Humble
Texas
North Richland Hills
Fort Worth
Kansas
New York Public Library
Glasscock recovering after heart artery procedure
TOPEKA AP House Speaker Kent Glasscock was recovering in a Topeka hospital after a balloon angioplasty to clear a partially blocked artery in his heart. The blockage was found during a routine checkup in Manhattan. Glasscock, 49, has regular tests due to family heart and cancer history. Doctors at St Francis Hospital found no heart damage and were pleased with progress.
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Topeka
Kent Glasscock
Manhattan
Glasscock
Scott Holeman
St. Francis Hospital
Scouts seek 25000 for Finney County youth programs
Santa Fe Trail Council of Boy Scouts of America conducts its Friends of Scouting drive to raise 25,000 for Garden City and Holcomb area youth programs in Finney County. Campaign runs April through May 17 led by finance chair Blake Waters, with donations sent to 1513.5 E. Fulton Terrace, Garden City KS 67846.
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Garden City
Holcomb
Santa Fe Trail Council of
Boy Scouts of America
Friends of Scouting
Finney County
Friends of Scouting Campaign Committee
Blake Waters
Santa Fe Trail Council
Fulton Terrace
Mystery bus tour brings secrets to Finney County area
The Finney County Convention and Tourism Bureau hosts Centennial Tours from Fort Collins Colorado Monday through Wednesday. Stops include Northrup Theatre Garden City Zoo Lee Richardson Museum Finney County Historical Museum and more with kaleidoscopes at Parman Brothers shop in Johnson City. Call WenDee LaPlant for details. Also Garden Citys American GI Forum Local Chapter 55 hosts a scholar ship reception at Wheatland Center featuring Janie Perkins Latin Heat and 30 scholarships. Junction City police capture Missouri inmate in stolen sheriff vehicle after jail escape. details pending.
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Finney County Convention & Tourism Bureau
Fort Collins
Colo
Colorado
Syracuse
Northrup Theatre
Garden City
Lee Richardson Zoo
Finney County Historical Museum
Finney Game Refuge
Cimarron
Clark Pharmacy
Kansas
Wheat House
Gray County
Stauth Memorial Museum
Montezuma
Parman Brothers
Johnson City
WenDee LaPlant
American GI Forum
Wheatland’s Convention Center
E. Fulton St
Garden City City
Janie Perkins
Latin Heat
Garden
City Community College
Junction City
Missouri
Bates County
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Kathy Hanks
Hanks
Raymond Coulter
Helena
Okla
Finney County Exhibition Building
Red Henderson
Marilyn Coulter
Loren
Lotus Coulter
Joint Meeting
E. Kansas Ave
Finney County Administrative Center
Ninth St
Sever
Sheriff’s Office
Western Plains Regional Landfill
Public Library
Wis
Boy Scouts
Mystery Bus Tour
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