Doctors on Call Roundup Sets Heart Disease Focus Tonight
Tonight at 7 p.m. Smoky Hills Public Television airs Doctors on Call season six with Dr. Jeff Curtis and Dr. Elizabeth Ashworth from DeBakey Heart Institute at Hays Medical Center answering viewer questions. A Sunday 3 30 p.m. repeat will be silent to calls. A video segment highlights Heart Catheterization Unit. Also at 7 p.m. Garden Valley Retirement Village presents House Blend under Gale Seibert. Free admission.
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Doctors On Call
Smoky Hills
Jeff Curtis
Elizabeth Ashworth
DeBakey Heart Institute
Hays Medical Center
Gale Seibert
Garden Valley Retirement Village
Spruce St
Family movie night at church Friday screening
A family event offers two films in Fellowship Hall Church of the Brethren 505 N Eighth St. Friday 7 to 10 pm. The Second Chance follows two pastors uniting to help a struggling urban church. Jonah Veggie Tales for kids shown downstairs. Free admission. Call 276-7391 for details.
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Fellowship Hall
Church of the Brethren
Eighth St
Jonah
Garden City scholarship auction set for April 1
More than 100 volunteers organize the 38th annual Garden City Community College Endowment Association Scholarship Auction with a 300-item silent auction and live bidding. The event at the Finney County Exhibition Building aims to raise funds for academic and technical scholarships, with wristband admission at 20 dollars and advance purchase through the Endowment Association or local sponsors.
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Pirate Cove
Garden City Community College Endowment Association
Finney County
GCCC
Scott Auction
Garden City
Endowment Association
Keller Leopold Insurance
Fleming St
Kinney Glass
N. Eighth St
Goldworks
N. Main St
Skeeter’s
W. Jones Ave
Lewis Motors
E. U.S. Highway 50
Kansas
Harrington
Lewis Showroom
Holcomb board approves cuts and funding questions
Holcomb USD 3638 board says spending cuts were achieved thanks to ending cash balances for 2009 and 2010 while noting two budget violations. Discussion covers possible use of capital outlay funds for salaries and calls for stronger state budget flexibility with audit pending and upcoming leadership changes.
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Holcomb Usd
Board of Education
Patrick Friess
Kennedy McKee & Co
Friess
Holcomb Recreation Commission
Gary Newman
Garden City
Newman
Steve Morris
Demitry Evancho
Kansas Association of School Boards
United Schools Association
Holcomb
Kansas Department of Education
Evancho
Jarrod Stoppel
Chad Krug
Michael Estes
Dustin Lamb
Paul Martinez
Kansas education officials wary of public forum
Topeka AP Kansas Policy Institute invites state education officials to a public forum on education reform. KPI promotes Florida style changes while critics warn the event may lack balance. Board members weigh attendance as KPI plans an agenda and aims to present diverse viewpoints.
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Kansas
Topeka
Kansas Policy Institute
KPI
Matthew Ladner
Goldwater Institute
Florida
Kansas State Board of Education
Dave Trabert
Topeka Capital-Journal
Dave Dennis
Trabert
Dennis
State Board of Education
Carolyn Campbell
Kansas Education
Diane DeBacker
KNEA
Blake West
Fred Patton
Kansas Association of School Boards
Ken Willard
Kansas doctor agrees not to offer abortions amid suit
In Wichita a Kansas physician agreed not to perform abortions at the space she leases, staving off a landlord suit. Dr. Mila Means says she does not currently perform or intend to perform abortions at the site and will give 30 days notice if she resumes. The move ends a temporary injunction hearing, with six months of stay, while she seeks alternate space and the landlord’s suit remains pending, amid safety and nuisance concerns raised by the building’s owner.
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Wichita
Kansas
Mila Means
Means
Foliage
Sedgwick County
Douglas Roth
Lee Thompson
George Tiller
Scott Roeder
Thompson
Tiller
Operation Rescue
Troy Newman
Newman
Kari Ann Rinker
Kansas National Organization For Women
Kansas considers Community Defense Act to curb adult venues
The Kansas House hears a bill to restrict sexually oriented businesses statewide. It would ban new adult stores within 1,000 feet of existing venues or sensitive sites, ban alcohol in strip clubs, enforce a no touch rule, and require clubs to close from midnight to 6 a.m. Critics warn of underground growth and legal costs. supporters cite safety and property values.
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Topeka
Kansas
House
Federal and State Affairs Committee
Phillip Cosby
Kansas City-area
National Coalition For the Protection of Children and Families
Cosby
Overland Park
Senate
Charles O’hara
Wichita
Amanda Grosserode
Lenexa
John Rubin
Shawnee
Rubin
Scott Bergthold
Chattanooga, Tenn
Missouri
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Retirement
Ayatag
Holcomb Board
Garden City Community College
Matthew Shelley
Beth Tedrow