Parade lights up Main Street with festive holiday floats
A large crowd welcomes Garden City Christmas Parade with floats including Fellowship of Christian Cowboys Santa and a GCHS cheerleaders unit. Residents praise the weather, say the event boosts holiday spirit, and kids collect candy as more floats and Harley riders pass by along Main Street.
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Fellowship of Christian Cowboys
Jim Stephenson
Santa
Wal- Mart
Stephenson
Main St
Marge Ramsey
Leon Ramsey
Mary Kathryn Thyfauld
Paula Thyfauld
Thomasville
Georgia
Garden City
Amanda Shadrick
Kenneth Henderson
Dudley Fryman
Fryman
Arnie Schuetz
Flora May Arnold
Schuetz
Dixie Beery
GCHS
Mas
Beery
Jim Koerperich
Maurita
Devyn Hawley
Main Street
Man returns purse with large cash after found on road
Luz Perez reported a missing purse containing 1700 dollars and 200 checks after leaving it on a car roof near Kansas Avenue. Saunders, a Data Supply technician, found the bag, retrieved cash, and turned it over to police, enabling Perez to recover the money by morning. Police praised Saunders for doing the right thing.
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Finney County
Data Supply
Kansas Plaza
Saunders
Schwaderer
Graves and Kansas Republicans clash over unity after 1994 win
Political writer John Hanna details a long history of GOP rifts from Reconstruction to 1990s Kansas, focusing on gubernatorial terms of Graves. The piece traces factional battles led by conservatives like Miller and Frahm, Graves’ vetoes on abortion gun rights and taxes, and lingering splits as leadership changes unfold.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Alf Landon
Fred Hall
Eisenhower
Senate
Richard Rogers
Sebelius
Graves
David Miller
Eudora
Sheila
U.S. House
Kansas
Mays
Sandy Praeger
John Wratil
Leawood
Kent Glasscock
Manhattan
Glasscock
Man Climbs Houston Tower Then Jumps To Death
A man scaled Williams Tower in Houston using a pick and rosin reaching about the 30th floor before plunging to his death. Police recovered a driver’s license and a political note. identity and details of the note were not released. He had no harness or typical climbing gear, and witnesses watched from below as rescue crews responded.
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Houston
Williams Tower
Jay Evans
Fire Department
Evans
West Loop
Texas
Emmaus House leader Hewson threads service through cooking and faith
Hewson built Emmaus House operations from limited food to daily meals seven days a week and regular food boxes after securing donations and a 14 cent per pound deal with Kansas Food Bank in Wichita. She grew up near Garden City, spent years teaching in western Kansas, then joined Brethren Volunteer Services before guiding the house.
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Emmaus House
Kansas Food Bank
Wichita
Hewson
Garden City
Holcomb
Linda
The
Institute of Logopedics
McPherson College
Kansas
Larned
Brethren Volunteer Services
Ireland
Israel
California
Jesus
Four-lane Highway Project in Jeopardy Over Land Grants
The plan to widen and straighten a 10 mile segment from Towns Road near the airport to Bucklin faces funding risks as right of way costs top 116000 while KDOT offers 95000. State funds cover the project, with bidding set for December 2003 and possible earlier start if land is secured.
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Towns Road
KDOT
Larry Thompson
Thompson
Comprehensive Transportation Pro
Pierceville
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Public Defenders Office
Ms. Perez
Perez
John Hanna
Emma
Robin Marsh
Emmaus
Frankie Anton
Bucklin
Worter’s Flowers
Walnut
Crogeko Ohae dStore
N. Main
TRIE
Dodge City
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