Free musical variety set for Tuesday evening
A free musical variety program featuring Billy and Loretta Whitfield of Syracuse and Chester Cline from Anadarko Oklahoma will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Garden Valley Retirement Village 1505 E Spruce St. The public is encouraged to attend and information is available at 275-5036.
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Syracuse
Chester Cline
Anadarko, Okla
Garden Valley Retirement Village
Spruce St
GCCC Offers Painting and Jewelry Classes This Fall
Garden City Community College expands its Community Education Program with three classes covering painting and jewelry making. Painting runs Sept 13 14 20 21 from 6 to 8 pm with all supplies, fee 135 dollars. Jewelry classes on Sept 14 and 15 include basic bead stringing and wire wrapping, fee 65 dollars with materials provided. Enrollment required a week in advance. call 276 9647 or visit gcccks edu or personalenrichmentscccks edu for details.
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Auditions Announced for Garden City Play Bloody Murder
Garden City Recreation invites adults and older teens to audition for Ed Sala’s Bloody Murder at the State Theater October 6 to 8. Auditions run August 22 or 23 at 7 p.m. check-in 6 45 p.m. Attendees need only come one night.
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Ed Sala
State Theater
Garden City Recreation
Sixth St
Gcrec.com
Brian Seagraves
Bseagraves
Garden-City. Org
Moran to visit Lakin on Kansas listening tour
U S Senator Jerry Moran schedules a stop in Lakin Kansas on August 19 as part of a statewide listening tour. He will meet residents on Main Street from 2 to 3 p m that afternoon and aims to visit all 105 counties to discuss issues facing Kansans. Moran's staff notes the talks shape his Washington work.
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Kearny County
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Lakin
Main Street
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Fatal police chase crash near Lyons Kansas
In Rice County a 21 year-old Great Bend man, Ryan L. Byers, was killed when a Great Bend police pursuit on U S 56 nine miles west of Lyons ended in a head on collision with a semi truck. The semi truck driver was treated and released from a hospital.
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Kansas police chases persist despite policy reforms
Kansas drivers continue fleeing officers with crashes averaging over four weekly incidents. KDOT data show 2009 police-pursuit fatalities rose above the decade’s norm, Wichita recording 170 chases in 2010, with about a quarter ending in crashes. Officials urge reform while prison crowding limits crackdown prospects.
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Dale
Joyce Cauthon
Independence
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Gloria Dupree
East Square
Dupree
Friends of Garden City Arts push to buy Triple Eclipse Bouquet sculpture
The group aims to raise 12500 to install a 15 by 6 foot stainless steel and glass sculpture by Jim LaPaso in front of Garden City Arts Center on Main. Funds come from private gifts and grants with two major proposals pending. city support covers the base and lighting.
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Jim LaPaso
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Kinder
Brian Nelson
ArtsCenter
Finnup Foundation
Western Kansas
John Doll
WKCF
Brenda Rome
Garden City Arts Liaison
Kansas City
Rome
Third Street
Kansas Avenue
Mrs. Fulton
Depot Streets
Grant Avenue
Pine Street
Stevens Avenue
KDOT
Rusty Burgardt
Vimeo
Kansas Sees Spike in Snake Bites During Heat
In Kansas hot weather, 38 calls from across the state to the University of Kansas Hospital Poison Control Center report snake bites, up from 31 in 2010. Most bites come from timber rattlesnakes and copperheads, with many calls from the Kansas City metro area.
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Sawyer
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