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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 2008
Page
1
Kansas delegates join a charity event at the Raffles Hotel in Singapore to raise funds and awareness. Local organizers coordinate between state representatives and international guests to support the cause.
Barack Obama begins a pivotal campaign stretch after clinching the Democratic nomination in Denver, while John McCain counters by selecting Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Obama heads to Pittsburgh for a bus tour through Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan with Joe Biden, aiming to sustain convention energy and appeal to swing voters.
The Kansas Department of Transportation filed an eminent domain petition to acquire the remaining land for the U.S. Highway 50 four lane project. KDOT has been unable to settle with 25 to 30 landowners and emphasizes a willingness to purchase the land if possible.
The Garden City fire, about 1:40 a.m. on August 22 at 710 Pennsylvania Ave, is blamed on a combination of pure oxygen given to the elderly resident and a cigarette flame. Fire investigators warn against open flames near oxygen.
Kansas farmers and researchers at the K State Southwest Research Extension Center held 2008 Field Day activities with field tours and seminars on biofuel, sorghum weed control, irrigated corn herbicides, and biological control of bindweed. Afternoon sessions covered beef cattle research and deficit irrigation. Participants noted global grain demand rising amid droughts in Australia and high Chinese demand, with water scarcity a key concern.
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