Garden City Community College Holiday Concerts Planned
Garden City Community College announces two free December performances in the Pauline Joyce Fine Arts Building auditorium. Talent on Parade on December 6 features acting and directing students performing monologues and scenes at 4 pm and 7 pm, while Vespers Concert on December 9 at 3 pm includes the Concert Choir, College Singers, a new string ensemble conducted by Summer May, and other groups. The college art faculty show runs noon to 4 pm weekdays and 2 to 5 pm Sundays in Mercer Gallery.
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Garden City Community College
Pauline Joyce
College Singers Ensemble
Summer May
Garden City High School
GCCC
Lee Martin
Steve Thorson
Mercer Gallery
Fine Arts
Commerce Bank door damaged by firearm on Seventh Street
Police say a door at Commerce Bank at 512 N Seventh was shot sometime between Saturday and today. Investigators noted no robbery occurred and the branch opened after a brief delay. Lt. Capt. Mike Utz indicated few details were available this morning.
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Seventh Street
Commerce Bank
Mike Utz
Lawrence woman 107 thankful to be alive
Lawrence AP reports Loraine Bowling nearing 107 with memories from three centuries. She recalls Teddy Roosevelt, riding to school on a pony, and crossing the Kaw River floods. Despite aging she lives alone, walks daily until 102, and credits life as a privilege.
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Lawrence
Loraine Bowling
Bowling
Warren
DeSoto
Kaw
Teddy Roosevelt
Johnson County
Ranch auction to sell 48 tracts in Flint Hills
The 7835 acre Lindsey Land & Cattle Co. in Riley and Pottawatomie counties, owned since 1995 by Betty Lindsey, will be sold at auction this weekend in 48 tracts ranging from 4.2 to 1074 acres as she exits the cattle business.
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Olsburg
Flint Hills
Riley and
Pottawatomie
Lindsey Land & Cattle Co
Florida
Betty Lindsey
Lindsey
Public meeting in Garden City on Anthem Blue Cross deal
Public meetings statewide allow Kansans to hear facts and share concerns about Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield's 320 million bid to buy Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas and convert it to a stock company. If approved by policyholders and the insurance commissioner, the deal would affect 1.5 million Kansans covered by BCBSKS.
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Garden City
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Kansas
Garden City Plaza
Kathleen Sebelius
Anthem
Blue Cross Blue Shield of
Kansas Insurance Company
Bcbsks
Graham Bailey
Bailey
BCB
SKS
Bcbses
Sebelius
Topeka
Anthem Bcbs
Indiana
Kentucky
Ohio
Connecticut
New Hampshire
Colorado
Nevada
Maine
Christmas Carnival Lights Up Finney County Fairgrounds
Garden City Recreation Commission hosts its 16th annual Santa’s Christmas Carnival at the Expo building drawing about 2000 children ages 2 to 14. Families enjoyed rides such as the Sizzler, games, concessions, and visits with Santa as AmeriCorps volunteers handed out balloons and staff sold tickets at $4 per day.
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Brad Nading
Victoria Rascon
Kristina Ochoa
Finney County Exhibition Building
Garden City
Garden City Recreation Commission
Finney County Fairgrounds
Santa Claus
Tina Hahn
Baylee Glanzer
Glanzer
John H. Washington
The
Recreation Commission
Tabitha Martin
Kendra
Ethan
Martin
Erica Brock
Gabriel Otero Jr
Brock
Santa
Sizzler
Chantel
Janet Villatoro
Americorps
Trina Coast
Washington
Alfonzo Areola
Burnhams Hope Hostages Released After TV Tape
Kansas family rallies behind Martin and Gracia Burnham held hostage by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines for six months. A videotaped interview from Basilan aired via KAKE TV shows the couple looking gaunt. the children watched for the first time. The family's public appearances aim to stir awareness and press for release.
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Rose Hill
Martin
Gracia Burnham
Kake-Tv
Philippines
Paul Burnham
Burnham
Jeffrey
Melinda
Zachary
Arlyn de la Cruz
de la Cruz
Net 25
Basilan
Martin Burnham
Jeffrey Burnham
CBS
Bryant Gumbel
Greta Burnham
CNN
Olson Honored with Carnegie Medal for Heroic Rescue
Dighton farmer Dennis Olson was honored with a Carnegie Medal at a Saturday banquet for saving 11 year old Josh York from suffocation in a grain hopper on June 15 2000. York and Olson’s family attended as Olson also received a trophy for his role.
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Dighton
Dennis Olson
Olson
Josh York
York
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
Randy Jellison-Knock
Dustin
Healy
Jellison-Knock
Dustin Olson
Daren
Jennifer York
Carnegie Hero Fund
Daren York
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie
Sheldon Kelly
Kelly
Vance Shay
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