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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 2008
Page
1
Joe Rivas and his child Al Rivas enjoy Halloween festivities with carved pumpkins and playful antics captured in a cheerful street scene. Local residents admire the family’s festive display and community spirit.
Garden City USD 457 voters approved a 97.5 million bond to fund a new high school building and improvements at multiple facilities. Principal James Mireles said the vote signals progress and a shift toward modernization after years of rejections and ongoing overcrowding.
The Brookover family sells Southwind Country Club to Craig Boomhower of Garden City. Boomhower plans to take over operations the first week of January, with Brookover continuing ownership of Southwind Development Co. The sale includes 208 irrigated acres and additional land. price not disclosed though 2008 appraisals value the property at $973,000. Boomhower is a Garland Funeral Home partner and founder of Boomhower Funeral Home in Dighton.
In Finney and Grant counties two people died after being struck by vehicles. A 4 year old boy, Ethan Rodenburg, was hit by a northbound semitrailer driven by Hobart Emberton near Colorado Street and San Jacinto Avenue in Ulysses and died at the scene. In a second incident Don Martinez, 49, was fatally struck by a pickup on U.S. Highway 50 about three miles east of Jennie Barker Road. the driver Julio Cano Palma, 35, was not injured. Both incidents are under investigation by the Kansas Highway Patrol.
Greeley County and Tribune shift to a unified government on Thursday replacing county commissioners and city council members with five supervisors. Two will be elected by county residents, two by Tribune residents, and one at large. The new board includes Mike Thon, Jack Arnold, Tom Farmer, Mary Wright, and Kirby Kleymann. The move, long discussed in community conversations, required a state statute to enable unification and will operate three budgets for the city, county, and unified entity.
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