Garden City Waste Facility Awaiting Permit Opening
Garden City announces the household hazardous waste facility at 206 Isabel Ave will not open today due to pending KDHE permit. City funds KDHE and Waste Connections financed construction. once opened it will be state’s first city owned facility accepting Garden City residents free of charge with disposal fees for business waste.
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Garden City
Isabel Ave
Sam Curran
Kansas Department of Health and Environment
KDHE
Garden City Debate Postponed For Weather On Dec Fifteen
The Buffalo Debate Tournament at Garden City High School is delayed to December 15 due to winter weather. Nine schools had registered including Bucklin Colby Dodge City Hays Hoisington Liberal Nickerson Scott City and Thomas More Prep from Hays.
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Garden City
Buffalo
Bucklin
Colby
Dodge City
Hays
Hoisington
Liberal
Nickerson
Scott City
Thomas More Prep
Tuesday Music Program At Garden Valley Village
A Christian program featuring The Copeland Ks Salem Mennonite Singers will be held at 7 30 p m Tuesday at Garden Valley Retirement Village 1505 E Spruce St Time is for this week only and admission is free Public is invited For more information call 275 5036
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Copeland, Ks. Salem
GCCC Band Concert Set for Thursday Night
Garden City Community College will present its 2011 winter concert at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday in the Pauline Joyce Fine Arts Building auditorium. Conducted by Jim McAllister, the program features classical and contemporary works plus holiday selections performed by two dozen musicians from 12 Kansas communities. Admission is free.
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Garden City Community College
Pauline Joyce
Hebrides
Clare Grundman
Ralph Vaughn Williams
McAllister
Eric Whitacre
Steven Reineke
Katherine Davis
Floyd Werle
Leroy Anderson
Kansas
College
College Singers
Garden City Civic Choral Union
J. Clayton Wright
GCCC
Garden City
Commerce Bank
Grant Avenue
Lawsuits slow as Kansas abortion rules face delays
Two challenges to Kansas abortion provider rules advance slowly as federal and state courts maintain injunctions. The Center for Reproductive Rights represents Dr. Herbert Hodes and Dr. Traci Nauser, who operate in Overland Park. hearings shift from July to scheduling conferences and status updates as deadlines are adjusted, with both sides debating the rules’ aims and impacts.
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Topeka
Kansas
Bonnie Scott Jones
New York
State Department of Health and Environment
Hodes
Nauser
Department
Shawnee County
Jones
Franklin Theis
HPRP Helps Kansas Families Face Homelessness Risk
The Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program aids individuals and families in Kansas facing sudden housing loss. KHRC reports $8.4 million in grants to 11 local groups helping 2,992 households and 7,902 people, with specific support for Finney County and western Kansas. Eligibility requires income under 50 percent of area median, imminent homelessness, and documentation. funds are issued biweekly after approval, typically two to six weeks from initial meeting. Pearl Perez, a mother of two, seeks help to cover five months of back rent, with officials optimistic about approval. The program operates through Area Mental Health in Garden City. call 275-9434 for details.
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Kansas
HPRP
Kansas Housing Resources Corporation
AHRC
James Chiselom
Topkea
Chiselom
KHRC
Wyandotte County
Wichita
Topeka
Finney County
Lusi Esquivel
Esquivel
Salvation Army
June Fairbank
Fairbank
Pearl Perez
Perez
Summit ResCare
Pearl
Area Mental Health
Campusview Drive
Garden City
Garden City to discuss 2.50 monthly utility fee for housing growth
Garden City commissioners will revisit a Neighborhood Development Incentive Program proposal next Tuesday. Public Utilities Director Mike Muirhead and Planning Director Kaleb Kentner will outline how a 2.50 monthly charge on utility bills could raise 325000 to 350000 annually to subsidize infrastructure costs for a 30 to 35 lot subdivision and offer cash incentives with a three year sunset. The meeting is at 1 p.m. at the Garden City Administrative Center.
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Garden City
Public Utilities
Mike Muirhead
Kaleb Kentner
County studies upgrades for Finney County Exhibition Building
Finney County commissioners will hold closed sessions Monday with three local architects Bruce Glass Vincent Mancini and Dale Blaine Davis to discuss improvements to the Exhibition Building at the fairgrounds. Sessions cover confidential financial data and trade secrets as bids are prepared. The meeting at 8 30 a m at the Administrative Center is open to the public for the agenda and includes a plan briefing from Emergency Manager Ralph Rojas on a multi jurisdictional mitigation plan.
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Finney County
Fairgrounds
Bruce Glass
Vincent Mancini
GMCN
Dale Blaine Davis
Architecture Plus, LLC
County Commission
Roman Halbur
Halbur
Ralph Rojas
Finney County Administrative Center
Ninth St
Gctelegram.com
Budgeting and homeless definitions at USD 457 board meeting
USD 457 plans to discuss bringing back program budgeting after a hiatus due to funding cuts. Deputy Superintendent Steve Karlin notes the process has run for about 15 years and will involve committees in each area. Kathleen Whitley will present on the plan, with supplemental programs coordinator Janie Perkins and family liaison Vilma Orrantia addressing the federal homeless definition and its district implications. The board will also recognize schools earning the Standard of Excellence Award for 2010 11. The meeting starts at 6 p.m. Monday at the Educational Support Center.
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USD 457 Board of Education
Steve Karlin
USD 457
Kathleen Whitley
Karlin
Janie Perkins
Vilma Orrantia
Perkins and
Orrantia
Fleming St
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U.S
Karen Humphreys
Health Department
Lau
Mike Nuesser
Garden City Administrative Center
Eighth St