Picture This Paul Karkiainen Befriends Alaska Bear in Ketchikan
Debbie Karkiainen from Garden City notes Paul Karkiainen makes friends with an Alaskan bear during a visit to Ketchikan. The encounter highlights a rare bonding moment between local visitors and wildlife amid Alaska’s coastal scenery.
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Ketchikan
Debbie Karkiainen
Garden City
Milk Journey From Cow To Store On Display At Fair
In a portable dairy exhibit, milk’s path from the cow to the grocery shelf is explored. Ralph Keel notes that most shoppers miss the origin as they pass through supermarket entrances to back-storage areas. Beth Krasovec recalls 46 years of pen pal meetings with Margaret Marshall of Edinburgh.
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Ralph Keel
Southwest Dairy Farmers
Beth Krasovec
Margaret Marshall
Edinburgh
Scotland
Penpal friendship links two girls across the Atlantic
Forty six years ago a 10 year old American girl and an 11 year old Scottish girl were paired as penpals. Beth Krasovec of Garden City and Margaret Marshall of Scotland traded letters two to three times weekly sharing school life and family news. They met in 1980 in Woodland Park Colorado, confirming a deep lifelong bond.
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Beth Krasovec
Garden City
Porter Elementary School
Prairie Village
Scotland
Margaret Marshall
Marshall
Krasovec
Woodland Park
Colo
Margaret
Foods volunteers rise to occasion at Finney County Fair
Molly Staley Leona Kuntzelman and others managed 500 to 600 baked goods in open class foods judging at the Finney County Fair entering entries at 2 p.m. on Thursday and finishing judging by mid afternoon Friday after starting at 9 a.m. Friday. Staley chairs open class foods and took vacation from her Finney County Treasurer's Office job to volunteer.
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Molly Staley
Leona Kuntzelman
Finney County Fair
Kansas
Staley
Finney County Treasurer’s
Finney County set to finalize budget with levy rise
Finney County Commission to finalize a 2008 budget with a 0.83 mill increase bringing the levy to 36.271 mills. The hearing is at 11:30 a.m. after an 8:30 a.m. meeting, with a total budget near $32 million and $17.1 million in property taxes.
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Finney County
Finney County Commission
Holcomb
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