Habitat for Humanity boosts affordable homes in Garden City
The Garden City Habitat for Humanity builds affordable homes to break the cycle of poverty. The eighth house at 202 S First St will be dedicated at 3 p.m. Sunday with donors and volunteers highlighted. Prospective homeowners must meet need criteria, contribute sweat equity, and repay loans, with financial lessons and maintenance training provided. The program relies on land, materials, and volunteer labor from donors and the community.
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Garden City
Habitat For Humanity
First St
Habitat For Humanity Homes
Quotes reflect anxiety over farming shift from family farms to corporations
Online reader comments responding to a GCTelegram story on the Arkansas River flow to Holcomb portray fear that corporate farming replaces family farms, draining resources and risking public livelihoods. FCEDC board member Bob Kreutzer weighs in on funding multiple projects to avoid overburdening volunteers and staff.
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Gctelegram.com
Arkansas River
Holcomb
Finney County Economic Development Corp
Bob Kreutzer
FCEDC
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Debate and policy clash over abortion and contraception
Dana Milbank argues that Republican ambivalence and fights over abortion fuel policy battles with Planned Parenthood. He highlights Colorado’s 2009 13 initiative expanding long acting contraception, cutting teen births and abortions, while GOP lawmakers balk at funding. He calls for pragmatic reform to reduce abortion rates.
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Ashington
Congress
Planned Parenthood
Ross Douthat
New York Times
Douthat
Colorado
John Hickenlooper
Senate
National Review
EPA target: clean power plan harms economy and health
Opinion column argues the EPA under Obama expands government power, raises electricity prices, and harms low income families. It cites IER and Forbes critiques, notes potential premature deaths from higher costs, wood stove bans, and a Wyoming stock pond case, with a conservative defense of individual homeowners and critiques of regulatory overreach.
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Ronald Reagan
Environmental Protection Agency
Obama
EPA
Institute For Energy Research
Colorado
Animas
Gina McCarthy
Charles McConnell
IEA
al Gore
America
Forbes.com
Wyoming
Army Corps of Engineers
Wyoming State Engineer’s
Garden City lauded for hosting Babe Ruth Cal Ripken events
A community letter thanks Garden City and the Garden City Recreation Commission for hosting state tournaments for 9 and 11 year olds and a 12 year old regional in 60 foot divisions. Garden City teams competed well, with 9-year-olds taking second place and fields praised as first rate.
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Kansas
Babe Ruth
Cal Ripken
Garden City
Jared Rutti
Travis Neydig
GCRC
Jared
Pittsburg
Dickinson
N.D
Bemidji
Minn
Convention and Visitors Bureau
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