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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 2001
Page
3
Area children write letters to Santa and will see them in The Garden City Telegram before they are sent to the North Pole. The Telegram plans to publish Santa letters on December 22 and asks parents to have letters received by December 20 to allow time for printing before forwarding to Santa.
After a decade on the run Nick Serraon a Finney County fugitive born in Guam was captured in Dublin California. He faced a March 1991 cocaine possession arraignment and was on the Kansas Most Wanted list since 1991. Transport costs to return him from Amarillo to Garden City totaled about 1200 dollars.
At the Holcomb City Council meeting the lagoon repairs and wall and floor needs were debated with more questions than answers. Options exceed one million dollars and a $2 monthly sewer rate increase to $9 is planned for 2002. KDHE meeting results and bids on street crack sealing were on the agenda.
Hugoton Recreation Commission reports 75 to 100 daily visitors at its 211 S Madison gym since Nov 2000. The $600000 facility, opened Nov 13 after a one mill increase funded space for Pee Wee to adult basketball, ceramics, and summer leagues alongside new amenities.
The Kansas Supreme Court ruled the Court of Appeals erred in reversing a Lane County District Court ruling, finding Farmer's Cooperative Elevator director Floyd Barber not liable for the retaliatory discharge of former employee Larry Rebarchek. The case returns to district court for a jury trial.
Finney County commissioners appointed new members to several advisory boards while calling for three additions to the Finney County Fair Board. They named Jim Douglass to the Airport Advisory Board and Chuck Rousch to the planning commission, with Dennis Smith joining the Finney County Economic Development Corp. The fair board openings include at large Ivanhoe Township and Sherlock Township seats.
A 49-year-old Garden City man is accused of extorting money via a murder-for-hire hoax. Police say Jorge Borjas received threats from an unknown caller who claimed a hit had been hired. The suspect Eddy Wilkins was arrested after missing a Friday money drop, held on a $10,000 bond for attempted robbery.
The United States Air Force will open a new recruiting office in Garden City with a grand opening event from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday at 2214 E Kansas Ave co sponsored by the local Air Force Association chapter. Tech Sgt Doug Ford leads the office serving several southwest Kansas and Colorado counties and highlighting education programs including automatic college enrollment and up to full tuition assistance through the Montgomery GI Bill, currently worth over $23,000.
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