VFW and Auxiliary Call for Patriotism Essays
The Veterans of Foreign Wars and its Ladies Auxiliary invite seventh and eighth graders to write 300 to 400 words on Is Freedom Really Free. Entrants submit through school counselors. a local winner earns a savings bond and advances to district state and national contests.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
Ladies Auxiliary
VFW
Red Cross and YMCA Offer Lifeguard and WSI Training
The Garden City Red Cross and YMCA list lifeguard training from December 26 to 29 and WSI instructor training from January 2 to 5. For details call 276-2762 at the Red Cross or 275-1199 for Beth Delaney at the YMCA.
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Garden City American Red Cross
YMCA
WSI
American Red Cross
Beth Delaney
Moore breaks ranks in global trade vote
Kansas Congressman Dennis Moore crossed party lines with 20 fellow Democrats to back a Bush backed push on global trade. The 215 to 214 vote included all three Kansas Republicans and would empower the president to negotiate trade pacts and submit them to Congress on a take it or leave it basis once passed by the Senate.
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Washington
Kansas
Dennis Moore
Bush
Congress
GOP
Jerry Moran
Jim Ryan
Todd Tiahrt
Moore
United States
Senate
Community fights teen pregnancy with RRISK in Grant County
Grant County shows a dramatic drop in teen pregnancy rates after a three year RRISK program aided by a 450000 grant from the Kansas Health Foundation. The effort, led by Anita Mason, mobilized schools families churches and businesses to offer abstinence messaging and alternate activities for youths.
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Ulysses
Grant County
Kansas
Kansas Health Foundation
RRISK
Anita Mason
Murray Vincent
South Carolina
Vincent
Mason
Sullivan
Luis Salas
Tony Anthony
Wise Guys
Kansas Action For Children
Southwest Kansas Teen Pregnancy Rates For Ages Ten to Seventeen
A brief report lists teen pregnancy rates across Southwest Kansas counties including Greeley Wichita Scott Lane Gray Finney Kearny Hamilton Stanton Grant Haskell and others. Data highlights regional variation among ten to seventeen year olds with emphasis on local health indicators and demographic context.
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Southwest Kansas
Captive elk in Kansas tests positive for chronic wasting disease
ANTHONY AP A captive elk near Anthony Kansas tested positive marking the disease's first appearance in the state. The elk, bought from a Colorado ranch, belongs to a herd quarantined as officials test 13 animals while two more are slated for slaughter and testing. State officials say the disease spreads among elk and deer but not to cattle sheep or goats, and there is no live animal test for CWD.
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Barry Durkee
First Baptist Church
Ulysses
New York Times
Robert Blum
Division of General Pediatrics
University of Minnesota
Anthony
Kansas
Colorado
George Teagarden
Teagarden
Don
Gayle Bartel
Butler County
Traffic at KCI declines again after September 11
Kansas City International Airport traffic fell 13.9 percent in October to 902,697 passengers, continuing a October drop after the September 11 attacks. The airport was closed two days that month. 2001 ten month total totals showed 9,902,961 passengers, about 0.65 percent below 2000. Projections estimate about 11.5 million for 2001.
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Kansas City, Mo
Kansas City International Airport
KCI
Kansas City Aviation
Joe McBride
McBride
Utilities seize chance to collect bad debt in warm spell
Kansas utilities Western Resources and Kansas Gas Service used mild weather to warn customers to pay up or face shutoffs if temperatures stay above 35 degrees for 48 hours. Western Resources aims to collect 6.5 million year to date, up from 3.1 million in 2000.
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Topeka
Kansas Gas Service
Western Resources
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