06 Dec 2003
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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 2003
Page
1
The City Commission will meet at 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Garden City Administrative Center located at 301 N Eighth St. The session covers local governance matters and public input requests. Citizens advised to attend for discussion of city issues.
City officials Tuesday will ask residents to choose among several habitat restoration ideas for the Arkansas River area. City Manager Bob Halloran notes interest in restoring habitat and removing invasive plants along the east edge of Lee Richardson Zoo to the Smith Sandpits, with a possible playa lake in a sandpit.
A Salina classroom scene underscores a statewide push to educate Hispanic students. Oakdale Elementary teacher Anne Fontes demonstrates bilingual methods for reading English to immigrant children as Kansas schools adapt to a 300 percent growth in Hispanic residents since 1980. About 48,000 Hispanic students are now in Kansas schools, shaping language policy and classroom practice statewide.
Garden City officials consider using home-rule authority to create a citywide bed tax in a county that already imposes a tax. The plan aims to fund infrastructure for the Lee Richardson Zoo master plan, despite opposition from the chamber of commerce, the tourism bureau, and some hoteliers. A public meeting with zoo and tourism boards is planned to discuss directing the commission.
Dr Robert Miller of St. Catherine Hospital retires with a Dec 23 last day. A retirement reception drew hundreds as colleagues and patients praised his 28 years of care, with Mayor Reynaldo Mesa proclaiming Robert Earl Miller M.D. Day in Garden City.
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