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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 2008
Page
3
The Finney County Historical Museum hosts a temporary exhibition featuring Florence Ciddie Stevens and Price, highlighting their community impact. Also unveiled is The Theatres of Main Street, commemorating their golden years. Fall hours begin Friday 1 to 5 p.m. daily. call 272-3664 for details.
Garden City police begin a summer operation funded by a Kansas Department of Transportation grant with over 100 agencies statewide. The effort runs from today through Labor Day to drastically cut preventable deaths and injuries from alcohol related driving. KDOT notes occupants in alcohol related crashes face eight and a half times higher risk of death and twenty five times higher risk of injury, with six Kansans killed or injured daily.
The 2008 Pond and Garden Tour runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday with maps available at Prairie Wind Aquatics Ward's Garden City Western Kansas Broadcast Wharton's and The Green Halls in Scott City. A Topeka AP item notes Kansas fuel prices have fallen over the past month but stay above year-ago averages with gauge data for other gas grades also declining.
Garden City Community College trustees approved a 1 mill tax increase raising the local levy to 20.20 mills from 19.201, part of a $16.7 million budget funded by state aid tuition federal funds and reserves. The board heard citizen concerns about athletic program behavior and background checks for recruits amid ongoing safety and disciplinary questions linked to GCCC athletes.
The Hunter family traveled to Concordia to pick up Dara a 1 year old black Labrador therapy dog for Kermit a 6 year old autistic boy. Dara will help with his speech social skills and anxiety and may accompany him to school. Dara trained at Ellsworth County Correctional Facility.
The Stevens Park Art in the Park show runs 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday with about 70 vendors featuring pottery, furniture, glass, jewelry, gourds, and paintings. Other activities include a 2008 Pond and Garden Tour Sunday with 11 locations, a YMCA Dive-in Movie Friday, a Finney County BA reunion, a United Way benefit auction, a Babies and Bikers run, a youth hunting program at Lake Scott State Park, and a Garden City Farmers Market Saturday morning at Westlake Ace Hardware.
Cathy McKinley, current human resources director at Garden City Community College, will become dean of continuing education and community services about Sept. 1. She replaces Nancy Harness, who left to become Deerfield High principal. McKinley will lead noncredit life enrichment, Kids’ College, the Business and Industry Institute, Small Business Development Center, Project Destiny, Southwest Kansas Regional Prevention Center, and the Adult Learning Center. She has served as GCCC HR director since 2006 and previously led Garden City Downtown Vision Inc. and worked in marketing, editing, and public relations roles.
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