Moran to Visit 12 Southwest Kansas Towns on Listening Tour
U S Representative Jerry Moran will tour 12 southwest Kansas counties next week, opening in Montezuma and ending in Leoti. The stops include Sublette Hugoton Elkhart Johnson City Ulysses Liberal Meade Lakin Syracuse Tribune and Leoti with town hall meetings across the 1st District. Moran’s ninth annual Big First Listening Tour invites area residents to attend.
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Jerry Moran
Rhays
Kansas
Montezuma
Moran
Stauth Memorial Museum
N. Aztec St
Haskell County Historical Museum
N. Fair St
Sublette
Shady Lane Bed and Breakfast
N. Main St
Hugoton
Cimarron National Grassland
Kansas Highway 56
Elkhart
Fort’s
Cedar View
Lakin
Northrup Theatre
North Main St
Syracuse
Barrel Spring Hunt Club
Tribune
Museum of the Great Plains
N. Fourth St
Leoti
Open houses set for USD 457 as school year nears
Garden City schools schedule open houses for students and parents to tour campuses. Events include Pierceville Plymell Elementary 5:30 p.m. Monday and multiple sessions at Finney County centers and elementary schools on Tuesday and Thursday. Aug 22 features Georgia Matthews Elementary at 5:30 p.m. Morning attendance for first through fifth grades plus seventh, ninth graders and new students Wednesday. all students report Thursday for a full day.
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Garden City
Pierceville-Plymell
W. Plymell Road
Finney County Community Learning Center
W. Jones Ave
Bernadine Sitts
Belmont St
Charles O. Stones
Jennie Barker Road
Edith Scheuerman
Wilcox St
Buffalo Jones
Taylor Ave
Alta Brown
East Pine St
Florence Wilson
Labrador Blvd
Georgia Matthews
Johnson St
Bicycles sought for children through Santa Fe RC D
The Santa Fe Trail Resource Conservation and Development Area seeks bicycles needing minor repair. Donated bikes go to Ellsworth Correctional Facility for repair and then to needy children. Drop off at any RC D office, including Lakin at 300 W Santa Fe Trail Blvd. For details contact Susie McBride at (620) 355-4091 or sftrcd@santafetrailred.org.
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Ellsworth Correctional Facility
RC & D
Lakin
Santa Fe Trail Blvd
Santa Fe Trail
RC & Dat
Santafetrailred
Susie McBride
Prairie Wind Band to Perform Tuesday Show
The Garden Valley Retirement Village hosts a free music variety show by the Prairie Wind Band at 7 p.m. Tuesday. The public is invited to attend.
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Prairie Wind Band
Garden Valley
Kansas faces $8 million shortfall in child care subsidies
Kansas legislative panel heard an expected $8 million gap in child care subsidies may force the state to cut aid or raise fees for thousands of low wage parents. Agency officials warn stagnant federal funds and rising demand could shrink hours or remove eligibility, risking parents leaving jobs.
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Topeka
Hns
Kansas
Candy Shively
State Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services
Willa DeCastro
Joint Committee On Children’s
Shively
Garden City program offers hands on field training for students
Garden City police and Garden City Community College will host four police service aides to provide field training for criminal justice students and community members. Aides will train with certified officers, then patrol, earning $9 an hour for up to 30 hours weekly. The program seeks to recruit young people into law enforcement and bridge classroom learning with real duty.
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Garden City Police Department
Garden City Community College
Garden City Police
James Hawkins
Police Service
Police Academy
Hawkins
Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center
Linda Morgan
GCCC
Kansas GOP attacks securities ad as political promotion
Republicans accuse State Securities Commissioner Chris Biggs of using a 400000 ad campaign paid from fines to raise his name ID. Biggs defends the effort as protecting Kansans from fraud as Democrats say the ads inform investors.
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Topeka
Chris Biggs
Kansas
Biggs
Kathleen Sebelius
Wichita
GOP
Tim Shallenburger
Geary County
Phill Kline
Sebelius
Kline-Biggs
Shallenburger
Kline
Securities Commission
Mike Gaughan
Kansas Democratic Party
Guard unit to deploy from Kansas to Iraq
About 500 Kansas Army National Guard soldiers from the 2nd Battalion of the 137th Infantry will head to Fort Sill Oklahoma before deploying to Baghdad. The unit, nicknamed 1st Kansas, traces its history to the Civil War and saw action in World War II including Normandy. Lt. Col. James Trafton said the unit is ready to fulfill its mission in Iraq.
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Topeka
Kansas Army National Guard
Iraq
Adjutant General’s Office
137Th Infantry
Fort Sill
Okla
Baghdad
1St Kansas
1St Infantry Regiment
Kansas Volunteer Militia
Normandy
James Trafton
State seeks videotaped interview for Rader sentencing
Sedgwick County prosecutors ask to see notes reports and tapes from Harvard neuropsychologist Robert Mendoza who interviewed Dennis Rader the BTK killer. The Dateline NBC broadcast promises an exclusive look inside his mind as the judge considers sentencing for Rader who pleaded guilty to 10 Wichita area killings.
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Wichita
Dennis Rader
BTK
Kevin O'Connor
Sedgwick County
Dateline
NBC
Harvard
Robert Mendoza
Mendoza
Cambridge Forensic Consultants
Chestnut Hill Mass
Rader
Sedgwick County District Court
O’connor
O'Connor
Associated Press
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