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Garden City Telegram in Garden City, Kansas
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Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 2000
Page
1
Weekend Weather Outlook: Cold with Light Snow Chance
Tonight stays very cold with partly cloudy skies and lows from 5 to 15. Saturday brings more clouds and frigid conditions, with highs from near 20 to 40 to the southwest. Saturday night could bring light snow. lows 5 above to around 20 in the northwest.
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ConAgra plant in Garden City shut down indefinitely
ConAgra Beef Co in Garden City is closed indefinitely after a Christmas night fire that destroyed about a third of the plant. Spokesman Bret Fox said damage assessment will begin next week to determine a restoration timeframe. Other ConAgra plants in Dumas Texas Greeley Colorado and Grand Island Nebraska will absorb production, with cattle shipments continuing. Fire officials noted a skeleton crew and possible lack of sprinklers or smoke detectors in the rendering area.
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ConAgra Beef Co
Garden City
Bret Fox
ConAgra
Greeley, Cole
Fox
Dumas
Texas
Greeley
Colo
Grand Island
Neb
Allen Shelton
Shelton
ConAgra plants pitch relocation to workers
ConAgra officials meet workers at fairgrounds in Finney County to offer relocation options after potential plant closures. Seniority and vacation benefits would transfer, with hopes workers can move to nearby facilities in Dumas Texas Grand Island Nebraska and Greeley Colorado to keep experienced staff.
Meetings to file unemployment claims at fairgrounds
Kansas Department of Human Resources representatives will visit January 3 to 5 to take unemployment insurance claims for ConAgra Beef Co employees. Sessions run 8 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. in the Exhibition Building, Finney County Fairgrounds, with 150 to 200 per session, each lasting 1.5 hours, first come first served. Claimants should bring 18 months of employment history including dates for each employer. Resident aliens must present alien cards. Spanish and Vietnamese interpreters available.
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Kansas Department of Human Resources
ConAgra Beef Co
Finney County Fairgrounds
S. Ninth St
ConAgra plant fire disrupts workers and pay status
Jose Munoz and his wife Dora face an uncertain future after a Christmas night fire at the ConAgra plant. Management says work will shift to other plants while on-call employees keep pay promises, with meetings held to explain status and potential transfers. The Munoz family of five grapples with financial strain and personal worry.
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Shandley
Jose Munoz
Dora
Fairgrounds
ConAgra
Jose
Chuck Boner
Fox
City defers decision on employee policies in Garden City
Garden City Commissioners unanimously postponed two proposed city employee policies seeking more clarification. They asked for legal guidance on what employees may say in public versus private settings and discussed adding external representation to a proposed grievance review board. The meeting also noted a Brownback letter praising area firefighters for ConAgra blaze response and recovery support.
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Garden City
Steve Frost
Reynaldo Mesa
Randall Grisell
Grisell
Stan Wodjylak
Wodjylak
Wojdylak
James Hawkins
Bob Halloran
Commission
U.S
Sam Brownback
ConAgra
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