Garden City GCCC Endowment 30th Annual Scholarship Auction
Garden City Community College hosts its 30th annual Endowment Association scholarship auction on April 4 at Finney County Exhibition Building with a Go for the Gold Olympic theme. Doors open 6 p.m. silent bidding 6:30 p.m. live auction 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 after April 2, with proceeds towards academic and technical scholarships and projects. Tickets available next week at local businesses and the Endowment Association office, 801 Campus Drive. For details call 276-9578.
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Garden City Community College Endowment Association
Finney County
GCCC
Endowment Association
Campus Drive
Association
Bilingual college workshop at Garden City Community College
Garden City Community College hosts a bilingual information workshop in English and Spanish for high school juniors and seniors. The Multicultural Student Workshop covers support programs and Fort Hays State transfer degrees. It starts 7 p.m. February 19 at the Beth Tedrow Student Center downstairs theater. Representatives from Student Support Services, HALO, and Black Student Union attend. Fabiola Pinilla of Fort Hays State will discuss minority transfer opportunities. Open to the community. no registration. Information from Julian Ortiz at 276-9537.
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Garden City Community College
GCCC
Fort Hays State University
Beth Tedrow
Julian Ortiz
Snowy themes spark Kearny County library story hour
The Kearny County Public Library in Lakin invites children ages 3 to 5 to a spring story hour titled Snow Is Falling, Books are Calling. The six week program runs March 24 through May 2 with sessions Mondays and Wednesdays 2 to 3 pm or Fridays 10 to 11 am, sign-ups at 101 E Prairie or by phone (620) 355-6674.
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Kearny County
Lakin
E. Prairie
Wichita State to house Parks' papers
Gordon Parks collection of private papers, manuscripts, and personal items valued at 500000 dollars will be housed at Wichita State University. The Gordon Parks Foundation accepted the proposal over offers from the New York Public Library and Library of Congress. The Kansas native died in 2006 at age 93 and left nearly 150 boxes of material.
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Wichita
Gordon Parks
Wichita State University
University
Parks
Garden City man guilty of rape and sodomy
A Garden City man Emilio Zurita-Cruz, 56, was found guilty by a jury of rape and aggravated criminal sodomy of a child after seven hours of deliberation over two days. Two counts were dismissed for lack of evidence while 10 of 12 amended counts resulted in acquittals. Sentencing is set for March 25 at 11 a.m. in Finney County.
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Garden City
Emilio Zurita-Cruz
Zurita-Cruz
Tamara Hicks
Finney County
Science Olympiad at Garden City Community College
About 75 high school students competed in 21 events at the Science Olympiad hosted by Garden City Community College. Dodge City High School won, followed by Wichita County and Pratt high schools, with Greeley County and Sublette also competing.
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Garden City Community College
Fermi
Kay Davis
GCCC
Dodge City High School
Wichita County High School
Pratt High School
Greeley County
Sublette
Sublette High School
Brett Holloway
Mallory Weidner
Erin Gerstberger
C.J. Altman
Fourth graders tour Kansas Capitol for technology fair
Forty three fourth graders from Scott City Elementary School, Finney County, traveled by bus to Topeka for the Kansas State Technology Fair. They showcased iMovie immigrants' journey and a PowerPoint on the three branches of government. Rep Gary Hayzlett sponsored the visit and a Capitol dome tour.
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Topeka
Western Kansas
Capitol Rotunda
Finney County
Scott City
Cheryl Kucharik
United States
Ellis Island
Gary Hayzlett
Rlakin
Capitol
Tonya Koehn
Neufeld forms state energy and environment committee
Kansas House Speaker Melvin Neufeld announces the Select Committee on Energy and Environment for the Future to craft long term environmental and energy policy. Members include Jeff Whitham Jason Watkins Bill Light Richard Proehl Oletha Faust-Goudeau Gene Bardin with Don Myers as chair and Rob Olson as vice chair.
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Sunflower Electric Power Corp
Kansas
Melvin Neufeld
R-Ingalls
Neufeld
Energy and Environment
Jeff Whitham
Garden City
Jason Watkins
Wichita
Bill Light
Rolla
Richard Proehl
R-Parsons
Oletha Faust-Goudeau
D.wichita
Gene Bardin
Doverland Park
Don Myers
Derby
Rob Olson
Olathe
House
Dennis McKinney
Greensburg
Vaughn Flora
Topeka
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Wichita State
Linda Eckelman
Zurita Cruz
Hicks
Eckelman
Mexico
Davis
Grant Bergner
Greeley County High School
Garden City High School
Arminda Ortiz
Bob Sander
Andrea Smith
Lee Richardson Zoo
Smith
Annie Martinez
Brad Nading
Jon Crane
Jill Tucker
Madison Brown
Josh Becker
Bret Haire
Brown
State Energy Committee
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