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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 2006
Page
1
Bruce Colbary presents a homemade volcano sculpture crafted from Playdough. The playful image captures a creative art project and offers a peek into his imaginative approach to modeling volcanic form.
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius weighs a request from environmentalists to ban new coal fired plants as Sunflower Electric Power seeks a $2.7 billion Finney County project. The health department will decide on an air quality permit with hearings finished and officials awaiting a ruling. The plan would expand capacity sevenfold by 2013 and boost jobs and regional growth, though critics worry about federal standards and interstate power effects.
Snow and ice snarled roads across southwest Kansas with downed limbs and power outages. Hamilton County reported one non injury vehicle rollover after noon Tuesday due to ice while Lane County area outages affected half of Dighton. Stanton and Stevens counties also faced outages with Hugoton as a main outage center. Garden City saw mostly rain with 1.07 inches recorded at the airport. temps near 32 this morning as forecasters expect 2 to 4 more inches of snow through Thursday. City crews worked early to clear slick spots.
Stu Childers stood beside Wal-Mart's automatic doors wearing a Santa hat and jacket as he rang a bell to support The Salvation Army's Red Kettle campaign in Garden City. Dozens of volunteers and workers ring at six locations including Dillons, Wal-Mart, JC Penney, Sears and Walgreens to raise funds for year round aid. public drive runs through mid December.
Salvation Army aims to raise 60,000 in 2006 with 30,000 from bell ringing and 30,000 from mail appeals and other donations. Auxiliary Capt. Craig Lurtz urged participation during the Saturday night event to support bell ringers and red kettles.
President Bush at year end conceded insurgents thwarted U S efforts to establish security in Iraq. He signaled possible changes in strategy including a potential short term troop surge and said the United States will rely more on Iraqi partners in 2007. He waved off questions on Mary Cheney’s pregnancy and praised Mary as a future mother.
Mario Gonzalez Luna a 56 year old Garden City man died at a Wichita hospital from injuries suffered December 12 in an industrial incident at Tyson Fresh Meats Inc plant near Holcomb He was struck on the head by two metal doors while securing them for a forklift to move onto a ramp He was airlifted after EMS responded and died Sunday at Via Christi Regional Medical Center per Sedgwick County Coroner’s office The Finney County Sheriff office did not dispatch to the incident and could not confirm further details.
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