School board hires EEI to cut district utility costs
The Garden City USD 457 board approved a four year contract with Energy Education Inc of Wichita Falls Texas to reduce utility bills. EEI guarantees savings at least equal to their fees or refunds the difference, with potential total savings of over 1.8 million across seven years. The plan includes hiring an energy educator from the district to work full time on campus energy use.
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Garden City
USD 457
Energy Education Inc
Wichita Falls
Texas
EEI
Eddy Roehner
Boehner
Milt Pippenger
Pippenger
Topeka
Leavenworth
Olathe
Orange County
Fla
Las Vegas
California
USD 457 Board weighs middle school aging fixes
The board reviews options to ease overcrowding including converting Abe Hubert Middle School to a ninth grade center and building a new middle school or intermediate center on the west side. Sitts option may cost less. Abe Hubert offers after school activity proximity. Board aims to decide by February with bond election hoped for November.
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Milt Pippenger
Bernadine Sitts
Abe Hubert
Pippenger
John Schoepner
Jeff Crist
Perkins
Gibson
Bruce Reichmuth
Crist
Weatherly
Kansas
Kansas Association of Second
Carol Wethington
Georgia Matthews
Buffalo Jones Project
Wheat group eyes Farm Bill amid post 9 11 policy shift
Kansas wheat leaders and growers gathered under the Kansas Association of Wheat Growers to discuss policy shifts and the looming 2002 Farm Bill. Speakers urged skepticism toward proposals, emphasized use of U S produced commodities for Afghanistan aid, and noted September 11 altered Washington priorities. Bruce Wilkens highlighted a mission to boost producer profitability through research education and market development as drought prices linger in the background.
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Jerry
Hixson
Washington
Arlington National Cemetery
Kansas
Moran
Pentagon
Bruce Wilkens
Kansas Wheat Commission
Scott County
Father faces felony murder charge in infant death
Torres, Leoti resident, is held on $100,000 bond after prosecutors say Tianna Rodriguez died from sustained abuse. New details from investigators show he allegedly admitted to swinging the child and squeezing her to quiet her, with the death linked to the alleged abuse.
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Torres
Kansas Bureau of Investigation Special
Kelly Robbins
Tianna
Robbins
Susan Rodriguez
Tianna Rodriguez
Wichita County
Greeley
Wade Dixon
Scott County
Scott C. Dixon
Rodriguez
Leoti
Winfield man receives WWII medals at ceremony
Clemente Montoya, a Winfield resident wounded in World War II, was awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star at a Friday afternoon ceremony at the Kansas Veterans Home in Winfield. Montoya enlisted in December 1943, served as a rifleman in the European Theater, and was wounded by shrapnel in Luxembourg on January 10, 1945.
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Winfield
Clemente Montoya
Kansas Veterans Home
Montoya
U.S. Army
Luxembourg
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Santa
PRP
Bey
Russell Staver
Candie
Garden City Community College
America
Terry Lee
GCCC
Community College
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