AVID Meeting Planned for Monday at Garden City High
Garden City High School will host an AVID parent and family meeting from 6 30 to 8 p m in the GCHS Commons Area 2720 Buffalo Way Blvd A meal will be provided at the start. Students will present informational sessions from 7 to 7 45 p m about ACT prep tutorial prep and college visits advancing college readiness.
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Garden City High School
GCHS
Buffalo Way Blvd
African American Read-In at Garden City CC in Beth Tedrow Center
Public invites students and community members to the sixth annual African American Read-In from 8 30 a m to 4 p m Monday in the Beth Tedrow Student Center portico. Volunteers will read prose and poetry by African American writers. Books are provided. attendees may bring selections. In memoriam of Kevin Wilson. No reservations. call 276 0355 for more information.
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Garden City Community College
Beth Tedrow
Kevin Wilson
GCCC
Valdosta
Mennonite Singers to Perform Tuesday at Homestead Assisted Living
A musical program featuring the Mennonite Singers begins at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Homestead Assisted Living located at 2014 N Henderson St. The public may attend free of charge. Next week, Lee Richardson Zoo Zoomobile visits at 3 p.m. Thursday.
Kansas chief justice forms advisory council for district judges
Kansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Lawton Nuss signs an order creating a seven member advisory council of state district court chief judges to advise on court procedures funding and administration. David Ricke will chair with two one year terms and five two year terms. The move comes as Nuss and the Legislature grapple with an $8.25 million budget shortfall and potential furloughs and courthouse closures.
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Topeka
Kansas Supreme Court
Lawton Nuss
Nuss
Kansas
Supreme Court
David Ricke
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Butler, Elk
Greenwood
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Judicial Branch
Senate
Jeff King
Senate Judiciary Committee
King
Noise level probe to be reviewed at Finney County meeting
Kaleb Kentner will present results of a noise investigation into a Garden City area night club after December neighbor complaints. Tests around Christmas found a compliant sound level. Commissioners will decide if further action is needed while also weighing billboard rules wellness incentives and permit fee changes.
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Finney County Commission
Kaleb Kentner
Kentner
Garden City to discuss dog ordinance and rate credits
City Commission will consider removing breed specific language from the vicious dog ordinance affecting pit bulls and whether water customers should receive credits for Wheatland Electric rate increases not yet approved by the KCC. Other agenda items cover parking and zoning tweaks, signs rules, Arts Grant funding, renewable energy rules, free zoo admission days, golf cart fleet replacement, and a Downtown Vision report.
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Garden City Commission
Luci Douglass
Wheatland Electric
Kansas Corporation Commission
KCC
Lee Richardson Zoo
Buffalo Dunes
Vision
Kansas groups awarded funds to aid trafficking victims
Five Kansas groups received nearly 70,000 in grants from the attorney general's office to support victims of human trafficking in Lawrence Kansas City Topeka and Wichita. The programs have identified more than 200 trafficking victims for services since 2013 legislation passage.
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Topeka
Kansas
Attorney General’s Office
Attorney General’s
Lawrence
Kansas City
Wichita
Kansas posts $17 million January tax surplus
Kansas revenue data show January tax receipts totaling 546 million, above the forecast of 529 million by 17 million or 3.2 percent. Since July, total tax revenues reach 3.3 billion, about 21 million, or 0.6 percent, above projected.
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Topeka
Kansas
Department of Revenue
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