Roundup Running events up for approval at meeting
Garden City commissioners will hear three running event presentations at 1 p.m. Tuesday in the City Administration Building. Make It Beautiful 5K on April 9, Outrun Childhood Obesity on April 30, and Relay for Life May 13 14 are on the agenda with requests for rights of way, noise waiver, extra trash services, snow fence, carts, and race routes.
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Garden City
Ryan Steel
Recreation Department
Dacia Stratman
Relay For Life
Steel
Shelter 1
Finnup Park
Finnup Drive
Main Street
Riverside
Recreation Commission
Talley Trail
Lee Street
Mary Street
Deane Wiley Park
Stratman
Garden City Community College
Commission
Campus Drive
Adam Reynolds
Heart Disease Topic on Smoky Hills Public TV Show
The sixth season of Doctors on Call will focus on heart disease with Dr. Jeff Curtis and Dr. Elizabeth Ashworth of the DeBakey Heart Institute at Hays Medical Center answering live viewer questions. The program airs at 7 p.m Tuesday with a 3:30 p.m Sunday repeat where no calls are taken and includes a video on the Heart Catheterization Unit.
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Doctors On Call
Smoky Hills
Jeff Curtis
Elizabeth Ashworth
DeBakey Heart Institute
Hays Medical Center
Counties using new ICE fingerprint tool
Saline County and Sedgwick County in Kansas are using a federal program that electronically transmits fingerprints from jails to ICE to check against FBI and DHS records. ICE will prioritize removal of those convicted of serious offenses, with a nationwide rollout planned by 2013.
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Salina
Saline County
Sedgwick County
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
The
Saline Journal
Saline
Sedgwick
Kansas
ICE
FBI
Department of Homeland Security
United States
Debate over closing agency moves to Senate
TOPEKA AP The debate over abolishing the Kansas Technology Enterprise Corp. moved to the state Senate after the House approved the idea Gov Sam Brownback supports eliminating the agency and transferring its duties to the Department of Commerce. The plan aims to save the state more than 1.7 million dollars annually.
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Topeka
Kansas
State Senate
House
Sam Brownback
Kansas Technology Enterprise Corp
State Department of Commerce
Bill would restrict where sex offenders live in Kansas
A Kansas bill would bar offenders whose victims were under 16 from living within 2,000 feet of a school or licensed day care and would mark their licenses with offender colors. It would also bar access to school property. Proponents cite cases of nearby offenders and seek tools for law enforcement. Hearings continue next week.
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Topeka
Kansas
Kansas City Star
Senate
Michell Prothe
Olathe
California
Larry Campbell
Karin Brownlee
Ohio Sentencing Commission
Ohio
Brownlee
Rob Olson
College Goal Sunday aids area seniors with FAFSA paperwork
Volunteers from Garden City Community College helped high school seniors and families finish the FAFSA at College Goal Sunday. Wendy Thiel and Amanda Whatley, both 17, sought scholarships and college plans at Garden City High School and GCCC, as staff noted grants are rising and FAFSA filing can take up to an hour with help.
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Analice Hernandez
Ulysses
Gloria
Garden City High School
Garden City Community College
Wendy Thiel
Dawn
Carl Thiel
Wendy
Garden City
YMCA
Thiels
Dawn Thiel
Barclay College
Haviland
Kathy Blau
GCCC
Financial Aid
Blau
Deanna Mann
Utes
Amanda Whatley
Debora Whatley
Amanda
Itzel Rodriguez
Serenity Johnson
Rodriguez
KU refines hazing rules after student paralyzed
The University of Kansas tightens hazing policies after Phi Gamma Delta activity left freshman Matt Fritzie paralyzed from a dive into a makeshift pool. The fraternity was placed on two years of probation as investigations shift to a new student conduct officer, with an anti hazing task force urged to build a reporting culture.
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Lawrence Journal-World
Nick Kehrwald
Jane Tuttle
Kansas
Aaron Dollinger
Dollinger
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