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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 2008
Page
1
Grace Juarez of Garden City reports Hailee Near proudly displays her first fish catch. The moment captures a local youth enjoying a summer outing with family and friends.
Incumbent Virginia Beamer leads challenger Don Hineman 1 853 to 1 848 as 69 precincts report. Provisional ballots and canvassing in Gove Lane Logan Rush Trego Wallace and parts of Ness counties will determine the seat with certification possible after deadlines this week.
Garden City residents joined a National Night Out event with a Hazel Street block party featuring face painting karaoke food and conversations with police. The Stevens Park celebration included activities for children McGruff the Crime Prevention Dog the high school drum line and the GCPD K 9 unit as part of crime and drug prevention efforts nationwide.
More than 100 residents and staff gathered at Garden City High School to form a campaign for a November bond issue. Six committees will organize information, voter registration, a vote yes petition, fundraising, media relations, and speaker tours while details await school board approval. Preliminary estimates set the plan at about 97 million dollars with state aid at 37 percent.
In the Republican primary Troy Briggs won 455 votes to incumbent Larry Phoenix 357 with no Democratic candidate. If no write-in challenger emerges Briggs becomes sheriff in November and plans a uniformed workforce, performance based pay, and consistent management. Briggs will name an undersheriff after the election. the office has 16 full-time and one part-time staff.
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