Valentine's Day fundraisers and QUEST retreat planned
Garden City High School hosts a Valentine Dinner February 13 at Moody Hall First Assembly of God Church with a steak dinner live show and optional portrait sittings. Valentines singing numbers February 14 run 9 am to 5 pm with $25 option. QUEST 2007 retreat February 16 to 18 at Dodge City Community College invites scouts 11 and up for religious emblems, Olympic Games, Mass, and awards with a February Saturday early bird deadline.
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Garden City
Moody Hall
First Assembly of God Church
Campus Drive
Jan Kennedy
Deb Stout
Jane Vanderhoff
QUEST
Dodge City Community College
Catholic Committee On Scouting
Dodge City
Kansas
Rose Mary Stein
Cathedral
Ted Stoecklein
Ronald Gilmore
Area Council Service Center
Dave Geist
Music lessons offered at GCCC
Southwest Kansas Music Academy affiliated with Garden City Community offers several programs. The Southwest Kansas Children’s Choir for grades four to eight meets 5:30 to 7 p.m. Tuesdays through April 26 with a free concert on April 29. Private lessons include violin for ages 4 to 6 and beginning violin for fourth grade to adult, advanced guitar, voice, wind instruments, and chamber music. Individual instruction costs 150 for 12 half hour lessons. group lessons 100 per person for 12 lessons of 45 minutes. Adult piano runs 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Thursdays. Kindermusik for groups up to 12 parents and children from infant to age 7. Information from Amy McAllister at 276-0437.
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Southwest Kansas Music Academy
Garden City Community College
Southwest Kansas Children’s Choir
Amy McAllister
Lawmaker with small firm pushes for business relief
Rep. Tom Holland of Baldwin City co owns Holland Technologies an IT consulting firm that employs five. He urges bills to cut the state corporation franchise tax and unemployment tax while seeking affordable health insurance solutions for small businesses including a pilot state plan. He notes ongoing debate over adding uninsured workers to the plan and concerns about public officials having health coverage.
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Topeka
Hns
Tom Holland
Baldwin City Democrat
Barbara
Holland Technologies
Kansas City
Holland
Franklin County
Ottawa
House
Fly Now! Aviation Posters at Stauth Museum Exhibit
Montezuma's Stauth Memorial Museum opens a new exhibit "Fly Now! Aviation Posters" with 40 digital reproductions spanning from the 1860s to the 1980s, reflecting six decades of aviation history and the Stauths travels. The display includes Japanese and Imperial Airways posters, Braniff designs, and a closing black and white piece featuring Russell Thayer. A related exhibit "Amelia Earhart: Taking Flight in Kansas" runs alongside, with videos on Earhart and Wichita aviation history. The museum invites tours and notes hours, location, and contact details.
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Montezuma
Kim Legleiter
Claude
Donalda
Donnie
Stauth
Stauth Museum
Smithsonian Institution
National Air and Space Museum
Stauths
Stauth Memorial Museum
Stauts
Legleiter
Seiichi
New York Times
Japan
Japan Air Transport Co., Ltd
Fokker
Mancchuria
Imperial Airways
Braniff International
Russell Thayer
Thayer
Alexander Girard
Emilio Pucci
Amelia Earhart
Kansas
Earhart
Atchison
Wichita
Clarice Hayden
Hayden
Boeing
Lindbergh
Don Westfall
National Air & Space Museum
Fort Riley soldiers offered free laser eye surgery to drop glasses
Fort Riley hosts the Warfighter Refractive Eye Surgery program as Irwin Army Community Hospital gains laser equipment. Up to 2000 soldiers, including units from the 1st Infantry Division, may receive the procedure to reduce dependence on glasses or contacts amid deployments. Eligible active duty personnel must have at least 12 months left and surgeons cite readiness benefits.
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Fort Riley
U.S. Army Medical Command
Irwin
1St Infantry Division
Carter) Ham
Richard Hoyt
Nicholas Pefkaros
Irwin’ Army Community Hospital
Iraq
1St Armored Division
Roberts urges Kansas bid for national biodefense facility
Senator Pat Roberts told a Kansas Legislature joint session that the state is well suited to host the $451 million National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility near Leavenworth or Manhattan. He asked officials to show strong local cost share to attract the project, which would replace Plum Island, N.Y. and compete with eighteen sites in eleven states.
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Topeka
Pat Roberts
Roberts
Kansas
Leavenworth
Manhattan
Plum Island
N.Y
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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