Lunch and Learn: making gifts from discarded containers
Finney County Extension hosts a Thursday Lunch and Learn at the Finney County Public Library in Garden City. Presenters Marla Fisher and Cindy Jervis show easy patterns to turn everyday containers into holiday gifts with recipes and ideas. The session runs 12 05 to 12 55 p m on the first Thursday of each month, coffee and tea provided, bring your lunch. For details contact Linda Walter at 272 3670.
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Marla Fisher
Cindy Jervis
Finney County Extension Office
Finney County Public Library
Walnut Street
Garden City
Christmas Carnival at Finney County Fairgrounds
Santa’s Christmas Carnival runs 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 6 p.m. Sunday at the Exhibition Building. Ride passes are 4 per day with a free balloon and bike raffle ticket. Games cost 25 cents per ticket. rides include scrambler swings and a carousel. Information line 276-1200.
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Finney County Fairgrounds
Garden City
KHMS Concert Schedule For Thursday Night
The Kenneth Henderson Middle School band and orchestra concerts are Thursday. The orchestra begins at 6 15 p m and the band at 7 30 p m. Both concerts are in the gym.
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Kenneth Henderson
Trail City art show opens in Coolidge Saturday
The Trail City Art Gallery in Coolidge invites all to a Saturday event from 9 a.m. to 3 30 p.m. featuring an art show and open house. Santa helpers will pass out door prizes and serve cookies and punch while artwork, cakes, cookies, candy, cheese balls, jellies, breads and handcrafted items including Longaberger baskets are offered for sale.
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Trail City
Coolidge
Santa Claus
Southwest Arts & Humanities Council Arts Center
N. Main St
Curtis Perez
Wanda Stallings
Garden City
Jean Ann Larson
Holcomb
Artscenter
Cimarron Library Hosts Quilt Show Weekend
Cimarron City Library hosts a free quilt show titled Kansas Quilts Past and Present. More than 50 quilts from the area will be on display across Saturday and Sunday with a 2:30 p.m. Sunday program by Chris Sidebottom on Quilts in History.
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Cimarron City Library
Kansas
Chris ‘Sidebottom
Price crowns Miss Kansas Teen USA after Wichita pageant
Megan Price, 17, of Garden City, won the 2003 Miss Kansas Teen USA title after a three day Wichita pageant. She has previously failed to reach the top 15, but impressed judges with live interviews. Price plans to study broadcast journalism at KU and promote anti eating disorder awareness.
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Megan Price
Wichita
Price
Garden City
Jud Price
Megan
University of Kansas
Adam
Ann Price
New York City
Sunflower reshapes as SEP Corp restructuring to cut debt
Sunflower Electric Power Corp undergoes a name and structure change to SEP Corp with new debt of 366 million and aims to be debt free by 2020. The move preserves service to six cooperatives, keeps assets and customers, and enables Holcomb Unit 2 funding while awaiting water approvals and investor participation.
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Sunflower Electric Power Corp
Western Kansas Power
Steve Miller
Sunflower
SEP Corp
Miller
Holcomb 2
SEP
Wheatland Electric Co-op
Garden City
Scott City
Rural Utilities Service
Finney County
Holcomb
Chris Hauck
Kansas
Police logs recount a wave of local thefts
Between Saturday and Sunday, windows were broken and electronic equipment stolen from a vehicle on East Kansas Avenue, bikes vanished on North Ninth Street, and a front door break in on Taylor Avenue led to multiple items missing. Other incidents include wallet losses on North Third Street and Fleming Street vehicle break ins with stereos stolen, plus a PlayStation and DVDs from North Fourth Street residence.
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East Kansas Avenue
North Ninth Street
Taylor Avenue
East
Kansas Avenue
West Buffalo
Fleming Street
North Third Street
Jennie Barker Road
North Eighth Street
North Fourth Street
Laurel Street
North Taylor Avenue
Fulton Terrace
Ridgewood Drive
Lawyers seek new trial for Torres in infant death case
Abel Torres of Scott is jailed awaiting trial for the 2001 death of his 21 month old daughter Tianna Rodriguez. After a first degree murder conviction in August, sentencing was set for Oct 10. Public defenders seek post trial motions and a new trial citing medical evidence and a lengthy transcript preparation process. Teleconferences will update judge Wade Dixon and Leffingwell on the case. The infant died after sustaining head injuries from being thrown toward pillows on a bed.
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Abel Torres
Scott
Scott County
Torres
David Leffingwell
Western Kansas Public Defense Office
Liberal
Leffingwell
Greeley County
Wade Dixon
Dixon
Wichita County
Finney County
Thomas Richardson
Richardson
Tianna Rodriguez
Wichita
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KHMS
Cimarron Library
Shelby Koehn
Ellie Kennedy
Katie Brown
Earlene Warren
Pierceville
Target
Jennie Barker
Jones Avenue
Eugene Place
Conkling Avenue
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