Bilingual outreach grows for Latino businesses in Kansas and Nebraska
Garden City marketing director Angelica Castillo leads outreach to 180 Latino owned firms in southwest Kansas and nearby Nebraska, urging better access to programs and more inclusive chamber involvement. The piece highlights El Remedio owner Juan Andrade, Rural Enterprise Assistance Project in Lyons, and calls for Spanish language outreach and regional collaboration to support immigrant entrepreneurs.
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Garden City
Hns
Angelica Castillo
Buenos Dias
Castillo
Kansas
Garden City Area
Chamber of Commerce
el Remedio
Mexico
Juan Andrade
Kansas Department of Commerce
Nebraska
Jeff Reynolds
Lyons
Neb
Happy Birthday Happy Meal Birth of McDonald’s Icon
Bob Bernstein, an advertising executive, noticed his 9 year old son’s fixation on a cereal box and devised the Happy Meal concept. Twenty five years after its national release, the meal defines childhood dining and drives about 20 percent of McDonald’s sales, totaling around 3.4 billion dollars last year.
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Kansas City, Mo
Bob Bernstein
Bernstein
Bernstein-Rein Advertising Inc
McDonald's
McDonald’s
Bernstein Rein Agency
Kansas City
County seeks new review of nuisance resolution plan
Finney County commissioners plan to again review a county nuisance resolution after about eight months of talks. A March public meeting drew over 100 residents and a citizen committee formed to study the measure. The revised draft eliminates county entry rights, tightens vehicle definitions, and adds an appeals process for violators.
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Finney County
Sedgwick County
Ninth St
Don Blackman
Greeley County Sheriff Resigns After Run Unopposed
Sheriff Brad Clark presented his resignation to county commissioners noting low pay and recruitment difficulties as the reason. He will depart September 8 2004 after three years in office, having run unopposed in the primary and faced no Democratic challenger in the general election. The budget in 2004 allocated 2652 dollars monthly for the sheriff plus lower hourly pay for undersheriff deputies and dispatchers.
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Greeley County
Brad Clark
Clark
Mary Hornbaker
Roberts to lead after August recess hearings on 9-11 report
Senate Intelligence Committee chair Kansas Senator Pat Roberts plans hearings after the August recess as the 9-11 commission, created nearly 20 months ago, follows up on its July report with 37 recommendations to strengthen anti-terror safeguards. Roberts stresses urgency to get it right.
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Commission
Capitol Hill
Kansas
Pat Roberts
Senate Intelligence Committee
Roberts
House
Senate
Congress
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