Garden City GCHS Band Boosters Meet Monday Night
Garden City High School Band Boosters set a 7 p.m. meeting in the band room to discuss uniform samples the 2003 band trip destinations and items from the parent letter. Also, Area seniors can get free aid help Sunday at Garden City High School with College Goal Sunday sponsored by Lumina USA Group and Kauffman Foundation.
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Garden City
GCHS
Area
Garden City High School
N. Main St
Lumina Foundation For Education, USA Group
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
College Goal
Allegegoal.org
Senate approves keg tracking bill in Kansas
TOPEKA AP A bill requiring retailers to tag beer kegs holding at least four gallons and record buyers for six months or until return advances to final Senate vote. A misde meanor for possessing an unregistered keg or removing a tag would be enforced if enacted.
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Topeka
Senate
House
Fire victim died from smoke inhalation in bed
LAWRENCE AP A Lawrence apartment blaze victim died of smoke inhalation after her bed caught fire. Janet Dixson Murphy 59 of Lawrence had been smoking in bed per autopsy. Alarm at the Coachlight Apartment complex about 1 30 a m Monday. Fire under control in about an hour. About two dozen evacuated from the 18 unit building. No other injuries.
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Lawrence
Mark Bradford
Janet Dixson Murphy
Coachlight
Bradford
Bill would limit riders with young drivers in Kansas
TOPEKA AP Senate Judiciary Committee endorsed a bill restricting how many passengers 16 to 18 year old drivers may have in a car. The measure, approved 6-5, moves to the full Senate. The rule allows only one other minor nonrelative unless commuting to school or school activities.
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Topeka
Senate Judiciary Committee
Senate
Holcomb Mourns Loss of City Clerk Carolyn Matheson
Holcomb mourns the death of longtime City Clerk Carolyn Matheson 58 who died Monday of cancer. The city will close Friday for her funeral with police and maintenance staff as pallbearers. Matheson served 21 years at city hall and was praised as the backbone of the offices. Citizens and officials remember her humor, knowledge, and community ties as a trusted administrator who knew every detail of city finances and residents. Funeral services are Friday at Garland Funeral Home in Garden City, with burial at Valley View Cemetery. Memorials may be sent to the Carolyn L. Matheson Memorial Fund.
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Carolyn
Jannelle Robins-Gaede
Matheson
Holcomb
Robins- Goods
Jeff Sharp
Jarnagin
Lisa Staab
Robins-Gaede
Staab
Sharp
Ron Conway
Conway
Garland Funeral Home
Garden City
Charles West
Valley View Cemetery
Carolyn L. Matheson
N. Seventh St
Wheat Lands Restaurant
Burtis Motors
Hutchinson
Harold W
Laurene Ruth (Snowbarger) Thompson
Sylvia
Burdett
Burdett High School
Fort Hays State University
Garden City Community College
Kansas legislatures endorse proposed budget cuts
The Kansas Senate Ways and Means Committee backed Gov Graves proposed reductions in higher education and social services while awaiting a clearer budget picture. The House Appropriations Committee approved $27 million in higher education cuts as both chambers plan to finalize a fiscal 2003 budget by April after budget negotiations.
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Topeka
Senate
Dave Kerr
R-Hutchinson
Chamber
Ways and Means
Bill Graves
Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services
Graves
SRS
House Appropriations Committee
K State irrigation workshop shows future of SDI use
Kansas State University researchers and industry speakers at a Garden City workshop outlined subsurface drip irrigation as a water saving method. The event, part of a three day program in Finney County, Hugoton and Colby, highlighted SDI using at least 25 percent less water than center pivots and about 50 percent less than flood irrigation. Farmers like Wendell Nicholas cited 800 acres of SDI over five years cutting water use to well under flood levels.
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Kansas
Kansas State University
SDI
Chris Arnold
Wendell Nicholas
Johnson
Kansans back law to license crematoriums after Georgia atrocity
Kansas lawmakers anticipate licensing all crematoriums by June 1 after a Georgia case exposed unregulated facilities. State officials say the 2001 bill strengthens oversight, with 17 crematoriums in Kansas and 16 tied to funeral homes.
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Topeka
Georgia
Kansas
Post Office Launches Dinero Seguro to Mexico
Garden City Post Office offers Dinero Seguro enabling fast secure electronic money transfers to Mexico. transfers up to 2000 dollars per transaction with fees from twenty dollars, with identification required for amounts over 1000. The service connects USPS to Bancomer network and is available at 870 offices in CA TX and Chicago area.
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Garden City
Dinero Seguro
Mexico
Nick Bratkovich
Kansas
Nebraska
Bratkovich
Italy
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Danny Rogers
Finney County Exhibition Building
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Noble
Mack Smith
State Board of Mortuary Arts
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Graham K. Johnson
Jessica Myers
Nathan Hands
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