Education Board Approves New Positions and Hires
The USD 457 Board of Education approved creating a Burmese translator role at $10.75 per hour to start January 5 and a Learn and Play Project Director funded by a grant in January. Anthony Ortiz named a Discovery Program teacher at Abe Hubert Middle School and Haydee Carabantes-Orellana as nutrition assistant at Victor Ornelas Elementary. Melinda Porras resigns as special education para at Edith Scheuerman and Stacy Rosse is terminated as para at Abe Hubert Middle. Backup software for technology programs from CDW Government at Vernon Hills, IL, costs $25,930.24.
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Anthony Ortiz
Abe Hubert
Haydee Carabantes-Orellana
Victor Ornelas
Melinda Porras
Edith Scheuerman
Stacy Rosse
Schools and colleges close for winter holidays
Students will be off for winter vacation from Monday through January 5 with USD 457 facilities remaining open through Tuesday and closing Wednesday to January 5. Faculty resume January 5 for a work day. classes resume January 6. Holcomb schools close January 5 with classes back January 6. Garden City Community College campus facilities closed through January 4. most offices reopen January 5. Spring enrollment begins January 14. enrollment guide and schedule mailed next week and available online at gcccks.edu.
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USD 457
Holcomb
Garden City Community College
Southwest
Kansas
Gcccks.edu
KBUF to Broadcast Local Holiday Performances
KBUF Radio will air a one hour holiday program featuring recordings from TubaChristmas and Vespers Concert. TubaChristmas is directed by Jim McAllister of Garden City Community College with local tuba and euphonium players. Vespers is directed by Gray Wright and Doug Ler of GCCC with student ensembles. The program airs 8 p.m. Sunday and noon Thursday.
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Kbuf Radio
Jim McAllister
Garden City Community College
Gray Wright
GCCC
Dougler
BSIC Students Donate $331 to Emmaus House
The Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Center Student Council collected change for two weeks and presented a check for $331 to the Emmaus House food pantry and homeless shelter this week.
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Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Center
Emmaus House
Food Pantry
Lawmakers urge quicker ruling on Kansas high voltage lines
In Topeka lawmakers protest a year delay by regulators on ITC Great Plains and Prairie Wind Transmission line projects. The plans would place up to 6 times current capacity across southern Kansas, linking wind farms to consumers with routes totaling 180 to 230 miles at about 2.2 million per mile. The Kansas Corporation Commission targets 2009 qualification and 2010 selection, amid calls for expedited timelines to avoid wind generation moving to Oklahoma.
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Topeka
House
Senate Utilities
Annie Kuether
Kansas Corporation Commission
Kansas
ITC Great Plains
Westar Energy Inc
Ohio Energy Company
Iowa
Warren Buffett
Senate
Jay Emler
Lindsborg
ECC
Commission
KCC
Tom Wright
Nicole Corcoran
Kathleen Sebelius
David Springe
Springe
ITC
Prairie Wind
Oklahoma
Carl Dean Holmes
Liberal
House Committee
Great Plains
ITC Holdings Corp
Novi
Mich
Michigan
Illinois
Minnesota
Missouri
Wichita
Medicine Lodge
Dodge City
Westar
Kansas jobless claims rise again in November
Topeka AP reports Kansans filed about 16,000 initial unemployment claims in November, up from 9,600 a year earlier. Unemployment averaged 4.8 percent, with government hiring driving a 0.5 percent year over year jobs gain to 1.4 million, aided by school districts and local agencies.
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Topeka
Department of Labor
Department
Inayat Noormahmad
Kansas
Kansas unemployment claims rise on layoffs and deficits
Kansas faces a $141 million budget gap for the current year with projections exceeding $1 billion by mid-2010. Wichita area layoffs at Boeing Hawker Beechcraft and Cessna and seasonal construction cuts boost initial unemployment claims, with a surge from November to December 2006 and 2007. The labor department notes high call volumes and online filing options for claims.
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Kansas
Topeka
Wichita
Kansas City
Tyler Tenbrink
Boeing Co
Hawker Beechcraft
Cessna
Department of Labor
Broken pipe floods Kansas Cosmosphere in Hutchinson
A water pipe burst early Friday flooding about a third of the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center in Hutchinson. No artifacts were damaged but several exhibits closed as water reached 8 to 12 inches in some areas. The break occurred at a Hutchinson Community College construction site connected to the Cosmosphere. The German Gallery sustained nearly a foot of water while other sections had 1 to 3 inches.
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Hutchinson
Kan
Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center
Cosmosphere
Chris Orwell
Hutchinson Community College
Hutchinson News
Space Museum
Valero hosts Christmas gifts for children with Santa draw
At Valero on 11th and Kansas Avenue shoppers donated gifts and money for a Santa event. Children registered at 4 p.m. and gift drawings began at 5:30 p.m. Prizes included a bike, stuffed animals, games, bath items. Photos with Santa were offered free to parents.
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Valero’s
11Th and
Kansas Avenue
Santa Claus
Deneen Aguirre
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Aguirre
Melissa Smith
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Kaylia Colbert
Courtney Colbert
Emma Smith
Mashayla McDowell
Deandre Smith
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