Musical programs planned at Garden Valley village this week
Two musical programs are planned this week at Garden Valley Retirement Village 1505 E Spruce St. DeAnn Crase and Friends perform at 7 p.m. Tuesday and The Copeland Generation Gap Mennonite Men’s Quartet at 7 p.m. Wednesday. Admission is free. Call 275-5036 for more information.
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Garden Valley Retirement Village
Spruce St
DeAnn Crase & Friends
Copeland Generation Gap Mennonite Men’s Quartet
Huelskamp Schedules 13 Town Hall Meetings Across First District
U S Representative Tim Huelskamp of Kansas announces a schedule of 13 town hall meetings across the First District in coming weeks. Listed sessions include Aug 27 in Finney County at 10 a.m. in the Endowment Room Beth Tedrow Student Center Garden City Community College, Kearny County at noon, Wichita County at 2 p.m. at the Business CARE Center in Scott, and Scott County at 4 p.m. at the Scott County Public Library in Scott City.
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Tim Huelskamp
Akansas
Finney County
Beth Tedrow
Garden City Community College
Kearny County
Deerfield
Wichita County
Scott
Scott County
Scott City
Ethnic Labor and Small Towns on the Rock Island Rail Line
Stauth Memorial Museum Montezuma hosts a 2 p.m. Saturday talk by M. J. Morgan on ethnic railroad crews and rural Kansas culture. Free program in the Community Room 111 N. Aztec St. Contact (620) 846-2527. supported by the Kansas Humanities Council. part of tours on immigration with accompanying exhibits on immigrant caricature, on display through Sept. 1.
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Stauth Memorial Museum
Montezuma
Rock Island
M.J. Morgan
Aztec St
Kansas Humanities Council
Kansas
Morgan
Chapman Center For Rural Studies
Kansas State University
Stauth Museum
United States
Appel
Michigan State University Museum
Hard 50 clash over Kansas special session aims
Kansas officials seek a quick special session to fix the Hard 50 law to allow life without parole for 50 years in future cases while prosecutors urge preserving the law in pending sentences. They argue changes are procedural and retroactive application is likely, with critics warning delays risk justice.
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Topeka
Kansas
Sam Brownback
Senate Judiciary Committee
Jeff King
Brownback
Derek Schmidt
Supreme Court
Schmidt
David Haley
Kansas City
Ray Merrick
Stilwell
Cancer survivor teaches students resilience after leukemia
Casey Bishop a 27 year old second grade teacher at Victor Ornelas Elementary in Garden City survived acute promyelocytic leukemia after a 2009 emergency, extended chemotherapy and a Mayo Clinic stint. She now shares her experience with students and helps raise funds for cancer research including Relay for Life, to show that life can be lived fully after cancer.
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Casey Bishop
Victor Ornelas
Garden City
Bishop
Wichita
Minnesota
Mexico
Alaska
Life
Record rainfall in Kansas shatters daily limits across state
Kansas rainfall shattered 144 daily records in the first nine days of August. Hutchinson saw four records including a 6 inch daily storm on Aug 4, surpassing the prior August day record. Experts note the wet spell eases drought yet cannot fully compensate for weeks without rain and may heighten flooding risk.
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Hutchinson
Kansas
Mary Knapp
Hutchinson News
Knapp
Reno
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E. Mary
Stephanie Bogner
Relay For Life
Brac
Mayo Clinic
U.S. Drought Monitor
Reno County
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