Kansas poster contest for kids on braking fatalities
Kansas Department of Transportation sponsors a poster contest for children aged 5 to 14 with the theme Put the Brakes on Fatalities Day. Regional winners receive bicycles and helmets. statewide winners earn family packages and museum passes. Entries due Sept 9 to AAA Kansas in Topeka. Garden City police also announce heightened impaired driving enforcement under You Drink and Drive You Lose.
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Kansas
Kansas Department of Transportation
Wal-Mart
Garden City
Topeka
Salina
Chanute
Hays
Hutchinson
Safekids Kansas
Troy Davis
Davis
Federal Bureau of Investigation
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Tumbleweed Festival Touts Run Walk and Buttons
Tumbleweed Festival set for Aug 27 28 at Lee Richardson Zoo with 6 adult 7 gate 1 child admission. Events run 10am 8pm Saturday and noon 6pm Sunday. Includes 5K 10K Family Ramble Run and T shirt with early entry. Sign up at Garden City Family YMCA by Wednesday. Buttons sold at local merchants and banks.
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Lee Richardson Zoo
Garden City Family Ymca
Dillons
Kansas Ave
W. Buffalo Jones Ave
Western State Bank
E. Kansas Ave
Finney County Historical Society Museum
S. Fourth St
Commerce Bank
N. Main St
Golden Plains Credit Union
Safari
Finnup Park
United Way kick off lunch set for Aug 29
The Finney County United Way fundraiser starts with a noon lunch on August 29 at the Knights of Columbus 205 N Eighth St. The public is invited to a free meal and pacesetters will be recognized. Funds raised support United Way agencies in 2006.
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Finney County
United Way
Knights of Columbus
N. Eighth St
Sebelius urges linking databases to track sex offenders
Governor Kathleen Sebelius asked the Kansas Bureau of Investigation to connect its databases with the Department of Corrections to locate absconders on the Kansas Offender Registry. The move aims to prevent offenders from slipping through gaps as law enforcement tightens penalties and uses better technology.
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Topeka
Kathleen Sebelius
Sebelius
Statehouse
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Department of Corrections
Kansas
Whitney Watson
Kline
KBI
Securities ad defended amid Kansas campaign talk
Kansas Securities Commissioner official defends a $400,000 television ad campaign featuring Chris Biggs, aimed at warning Kansans about investment scams. Critics claim timing boosts a potential statewide bid. party leaders debate use of fines rather than tax dollars and adherence to campaign ethics.
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Topeka
HNS
Kansas Securities Commissioner's Office
Chris Biggs
Kathleen Sebelius
Biggs
Phill Kline
Kansas
Leonard R Allen
Investor Education
Allen
Republican Party
Tim Shallenburger
Tim Shallenburger Remained Skeptical. “Time Will Tell,” Shallenburger
Shallenburger
Democratic Party
Larry Gates
Gates
Lynn Jenkins
Former congressional candidate accused of wire fraud
Adam Taft and John D. Myers were indicted in Kansas City for alleged bank fraud tied to a $300,000 down payment on a Lake Quivira house and for converting about $175 in campaign donations to personal use. Taft faces wire and campaign finance counts. Myers faces mail fraud. If convicted Taft could face up to 30 years on wire fraud and five years on the finance violation.
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Kansas City
Kan
Adam Taft
Kansas 3Rd District
John D. Myers
Leawood
Taff
Myers
Overland Park Mortgage Company
Kansas City, Mo
Lake Quivira
Associated Press
Weekend arts and cars fill Garden City events
A packed weekend features the Living Room Concert Series at High Plains Public Radio on Friday night, Art in the Park with about 120 vendors on Saturday, and the Sandhill Vaqueros Saddle Club Horse Show. Scott City hosts the 26th Lake Scott Red Run and Big Buck Poker Run Saturday, with pond tours Sunday drawing 700 to 800 viewers.
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High Plains Public Radio
N. Seventh St
Living Room
Deb Stout
Stout
Valarie Smith
Smith
Pete Seeger
Cara Dillon
Arlo Guthrie
Garden City
Sandhill Vaqueros Saddle Club
Grandstand
Finney County Fairgrounds
Garden City Area Chamber of Commerce
Fulton Terrace
Solar Ave
Garden True Value Hardware Store
N. Taylor Ave
Buffalo Jones Ave
Kadee's
E. Spruce St
Prairie Wind Aquatics
W. Mary St
Tropical Arena
N. Ninth St
Dodge City
Bill's Water Garden
Dighton
Green Halls
Ora St
Scott City
Blooming Fields Florist
W. U.S. Highway 50
TallyAnn Klitzke
Spangler
Kabredlo’s
South Main Street
Melvin Murphy
Lake Scott Car Club
Scott County Fair
Japan
Marie Osterbuhr
S. Fourth St
Lee Richardson Zoo
Aviary
Bernice Ave
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National Offender Registry
Watson
Securities
Diego Rodriguez
George Mendoza
Williams Stadium
Palmer Tank and Manufacturing
Panhandle Steel Erectors Inc
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