New Year holiday closings affecting Garden City Holcomb area
Many government offices banks and facilities will close for New Year’s Day with Garden City and Holcomb post offices closing Thursday and certain offices shutting noon Wednesday. Some express mail may still be delivered and some first class mail stored in boxes. A fatal two vehicle crash in Lane County left a Dighton man dead and a Sharon Springs woman injured after a Wednesday crash on Kansas Highway 96 near Dighton. Betty Pettigrew 78 and husband John L. Pettigrew 82 were hospitalized after the crash while driver Ryan K. Sturgeon 29 of Dighton died at the scene. Finney County Senior Citizens Association dinner set for Friday at 6 p.m. at the Senior Center with Mennonite Singers to perform.
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Garden City
Holcomb
Garden City City
Holcomb City
Finney County
Finney County Courts
Finney County Historical Museum
Finney County Health Department
Garden City Animal Shelter
Lee Richardson Zoo
Finney County Public Library
Garden City Community College
Saffell
Finnup Center For Conservation Education
Finney County Community Learning Center
Garden City Usda Service Center
United Methodist Mexican-American Ministries
Garden City Usd 457
Holcomb Usd
Sharon Springs
Lane County
Dighton
Via Christi Hospital St. Francis
Wichita
Kansas Highway Patrol
Betty Pettigrew
John L. Pettigrew
Ryan K. Sturgeon
Kansas Highway 96
Sturgeon
Pettigrews
RHP
Senior Citizens Association
10Th St
Mennonite Singers
Dorman Diller
Norma Nichols
St. Catherine Hospital
Finney County Sheriff's Deputies
Lincoln Road
Lot
Kevin Bascue
Jose Escobar
Burnside
Escobar
Frien
David Sanchez- Vargas
Burnside Drive
Eulosio Ayala
Bascue
Ayala
Sanchez-Vargas
First human West Nile vaccine tests begin in Kansas City
Sixty young adults in the Kansas City area join trials for Acambis West Nile vaccine. Three dose groups plus a yellow fever control study immune responses over a year. Development started in 1999 with monkeys showing protection. The project could cost up to 100 million dollars.
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Lenexa
Kansas City
United States
Acambis
PRA International Clinic
Monath
New Year’s Eve options in Garden City offer live entertainment
Fiesta Courtyard hosts its first New Year’s Eve party headlined by Trickstar Jimmy Fingers with Bobby Wild as emcee. Timeout Sports Bar offers a 10 PM bash with a chance to win two 20 inch TVs. Widow McGee’s at the Plaza Hotel hosts a room to sleep it off, with Karizma and prime rib at a $65 room rate. Police plan saturation patrols for DUIs as venues run lively celebrations into 2004.
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Garden City
Dick Clark
Fiesta Courtyard
Buffalo Jones Ave
Gilbert Cruz
Cruz
Jimmy Fingers
Houston
Q-97
Bobby Wild
Timeout Sports Bar
N. Taylor Ave
Lee Gallegos
Gallegos
Widow McGee
Plaza Hotel
E. Kansas Ave
Scott Miller
Miller
David Slaughter
Slaughter
Felip Orozco
Tabor’s
W. Mary
Zebra mussels surge at El Dorado Lake first in Kansas
Kansas biologist Tom Mosher warns El Dorado Lake zebra mussels are spreading with exposure from a 3.5 foot draw-down killing some but leaving many thriving. Surveys show 200 mussels per square meter in many areas, up from 55 in summer, with larvae up to 100,000 per adult. Officials plan chlorine dioxide treatment if needed and educate boaters to prevent spread.
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EL Dorado
el Dorado Lake
Tom Mosher
Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks
Mosher
Kansas
Oklahoma
Great Lakes
Walnut River
Wildlife and Parks Department
Minnesota
Kurt Bookout
Public Utilities
Bookout
First Kansas case moves murder charge for elder neglect
LAWRENCE AP A 44 year old window washer Timothy Harrell is charged with second degree murder in the 2002 death of his 84 year old father Henry F Harrell. The elder Harrell died in hospital from pneumonia linked to infected bed sores.
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Lawrence
Kansas
Timothy D. Harrell
Henry F Harrell
Harrell
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Timothy Harrell
Greg Robinson
Christine Kenney
Robinson
Kenney
Franklin County
Berdella Harrell
Douglas County
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Garden City State Bank
Home National Bank
Landmark National Bank Security Savings Bank
Stockgrowers State Bank
State Bank
St. Francis Hospital
Lane County Hospital
West Nile
Thomas Monath
Orozco
Grain bin
E. Fulton St
The
American Legion
W. Pine St
the Eagle’s Lodge
Taylor Ave
Jonas Cruz