Arbor Day ceremony at Bernadine Sitts Center
Garden City will host its 24th Arbor Day ceremony at 3 10 p m Friday in front of the Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Center. The Garden City Tree Board sponsors the event to qualify as a Tree City USA for the 24th year and a young box elder tree will be planted on school grounds. The city poster contest for fifth graders will be announced with prizes awarded and an overall winner chosen from Charles O Stones St Dominic and Bernadine Sitts students.
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Garden City
Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Center
Garden City Tree Board
Tree City USA
Allen Geier
Finney County Conservation District
Charles O. Stones
St. Dominic School
Bernadine Sitts
Geier
Bull Blast 2001 at Finney County Fairgrounds Arena
Fr y 7 30 p m Bull Blast 2001 will showcase 40 top professional bull riders from five states at the Finney County Fairgrounds Arena. A PRCA clown entertains as Mid America Ag Network sponsors a hamburger feed for the first 1 000 attendees starting at 6 p m when tickets go on sale. Door price is 12 with 7 discount at Orschel Farm Home Supply or sponsor outlets incl Case IH Monsano Asgrow DeKalb Round-up Ultra Max Crawford Foley and more.
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Finney County Fairgrounds
PRCA
Mid America Ag Network
Fairground Arena
Orschel Farm & Home Supply
Case IH
Monsano
Asgrow Seed
DeKalb
Ultra Max
Crawford Supply
Foley Equipment
B Bar D Livestock Equipment
Kansasland Tire
Crop Quest
Kansas Corn Commission
Vigortone Ag Products
Kansas Association
Kansas Wheat Commission
Hoegemeyer
Neville Built
Kansas Electric Cooperatives
Dia de Celebrar La Salud de La Mujer event reservations open
Reservations due by Monday for a Spanish language breast cancer program hosted by United Methodist Community Health Center Free to Know and The Coalition of Hispanic Women Against Cancer. May 6 4 to 7 p.m. Salvation Army Center 216 N Ninth St. Women only. Free dinner raffle and survivor talk. Call Maria Elena 275-1766 ext 234 to reserve.
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United Methodist ‘Community Health Center
Free To Know
Coalition of Hispanic Women Against Cancer
Salvation Army Center
Ninth St
Maria Elena
Rehearsal Starts Monday for Garden City Chorus
The Garden City Chorus opens rehearsals Monday from 7 to 9 p.m. at First Southern Baptist Church, except Memorial Day. The group will perform June 24 at Stevens Park as part of Garden City Recreation Commission summer concert series. Directors Jane Vanderhoff and Lee Martin lead the choir.
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Garden City Chorus
Stevens Park
Garden City Recreation ‘Commission
First Southern ‘Baptist Church
Jane Vanderhoff
Lee Martin
Girl Scouts Celebrate Day of Child at Lee Richardson Zoo
Garden City Girl Scouts host The Day of the Child at Lee Richardson Zoo. From 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, children can visit booths from various organizations at no charge.
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Garden City
Girl Scouts
Lee ‘Richardson Zoo
Dentists Change Hands at Garden City Practice
Two dentists have taken over practices at Dental Associates in Garden City. On March 1, Ronda McFadden-Wood bought Jared Fortman’s practice. in mid April Jay Keltner purchased Dennis Parsons’s practice, following Parsons’s death last September. The office will retain staff and insurance, with shared patient care between the new dentists and emergency coverage. Keltner and McFadden-Wood, both former veterinarians turned dentists, moved from Utah and Nebraska respectively to continue the local practice. McFadden-Wood has begun seeing patients. Keltner begins May 1.
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Dental Associates
Ronda McFadden-Wood
Jared Fortman
Jay Keltner
Dennis Parsons
Keltner
McFadden-Wood
Holcomb to take bids on patrol car and truck
Holcomb City Council authorized bidding on a patrol car and a maintenance truck due to costs over ten thousand dollars. The truck may be leased with first payment after one year to fit next year’s budget, while the patrol car replaces a 1995 model with 75 323 miles. The council set a Girl Scout clean up for May 5 from 8 30 to 11 a.m. on Railroad Avenue with city provisions. The next meeting is May 9.
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Holcomb
Jeff Sharp
Railroad Avenue
Nunn Drive
Lonnie Baird Park
Funeral for tornado victim Gerald Tauscher at St John church
Funeral services were held for 69 year old Gerald Tauscher, the sole fatality of the weekend tornado. About 300 attended at St. John the Evangelist Catholic church as Pastor Pascal Klein recalled losses from the storm that injured 28 and destroyed nearly 200 homes. Tauscher had stayed upstairs with his wife believing sirens would sound, and his body was found beneath a minivan two hours after the twister struck.
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Hoisington
Neral
St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church
Gerald Tauscher
Pascal Klein
Klein
Tauscher
Joyce
Violinist Hatfield to headline Gala Orchestra May 4
Lenore Hatfield, Garden City native and Camerata Orchestra founder, will perform at the Orchestra Gala 2001 a benefit for civic and high school orchestras and a new Garden City Community College string program. The 7 30 p m concert in Clifford Hope Auditorium features the Garden City Symphony and local school ensembles. Admission is 10 dollars at the door or in advance at Brier and Hale Music.
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Clifford Hope
Garden City
Lenore Hatfield
Hatfield
Garden City Symphony
Garden City High School
Garden City Community College
Brier and Hale Music
Camerata Orchestra
Bloomington
Ind
Igor Stravinsky
William McGlaughlin
St. Paul Orchestra
National Public Radio
St. Paul
Santa Fe Opera Orchestra
Cincinnati Ballet
Wintergreen Music Festival
Orchestra of Illinois
Sarasate
Henri Wieniawski
J.S. Bach
Richard Strauss
Benjamin Britten
Aaron Copland
Hog Wars essay sparks writing career for Kathy Hanks
Kathy Hanks of Pendennis wrote about losing a friend over the Murphy Farms hog issue in an essay titled Hog Wars. Published in the Woven on the Wind anthology, the piece marks her first literary publication aside from the Scott City Record and leads to a May 5 Denver book signing.
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Scott City
Lane County
Kathy Hanks
Pendennis
Murphy Farms
Hanks
Long Island
N.Y
Scott City Record
Kathy
South Dakota
Denver
Hasselstrom
Gaydell Collier
Nancy Curtis
Sagebrush West
Sagebrush Country
United States
Curtis
Mississippi
Manitoba
Dakotas
Texas
GCCC
Bryant Education Center
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Bernadine
Sitts
Ulysses
Ulysses High School
Utah State University
The
Chadron State College
Chadron
Neb
University of Nebraska Medical Center
College of Dentistry
Lincoln
Pratt
McFadden-Woods
Graham K. Johnson
D.D.S
Kansas Ave
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