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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 2008
Page
3
Fire damaged a detached garage on Ponderosa Court with losses over ten thousand dollars after a heat lamp in a doghouse was knocked over by a dog. Firefighters arrived at 1 58 a m to 905 Ponderosa Court. Isaak Fehr, 36, and the dog were not hurt.
The Finney County Senior Citizen Association will host its monthly dinner meeting Friday at the Senior Center on 907 N. 10th St. The covered dish dinner starts at 6 p.m., then a business meeting and entertainment by the Upbeats. All seniors are welcome. bring a guest and a dish. Call Shirley Ball 277-2056 or Norma Nichols 276-3620 for details.
Garden City Community College will host a Martin Luther King Day program on January 21 at 10 a.m. in the Dennis Perryman Athletic Complex main gym. Jim Ellis, founder of the Philadelphia Department of Recreation Swim Team and subject of the film Pride, will speak alongside President Carol Ballantyne and Black Student Union members.
Wichita State University Lieurance Woodwind Quintet will give a 7 30 p m public concert January 30 in the Pauline Joyce Fine Arts Building auditorium at Garden City Community College. The event closes a music clinic for Santa Fe Trail League schools. The five members Nicolas Kuster Suzanne Tirk Nicholas Smith Andrea Banke Frances Shelly will also assist student musicians from Deerfield Dighton Ingalls Moscow Rolla and South Gray high schools. Admission is 5 with advance tickets available January 23 and later from the Fine Arts Division Office.
Kansas faced continuing costs from an ice storm in December 2007 raising total recoverable losses to more than 625 million. The tally includes 144 million for electric cooperatives to rebuild lines and poles, with federal reimbursements at 75 percent. Maj. Gen. Ted Bunting warned final figures would rise and noted four 2007 disasters, including Greensburg tornadoes.
The plan for a seven story Oread Inn near the KU campus draws opposition from preservationists who fear it will change the skyline and disrupt the historic Mount Oread neighborhood. City bodies split, with the Historic Resources Commission rejecting the project over size and design, though commissioners sent it back for revisions.
AP reports Camptown in Frontenac Kansas halted on a 30 million project as a contract stalemate with the Kansas Lottery blocks management terms for slot machine operation. Camptown wants 25 percent of net profits for facility management and 15 percent for operating expenses.
Lee Richardson Zoo invites volunteers to attend a two hour Docent Recruitment Coffee at the Finnup Center 312 Finnup Drive at 10 a.m. Saturday. Andrea Smith says the session shows what being a docent involves with animal ambassadors and discovery carts. Also this weekend the Southwest Barrel Racing Association Jackpot opens at the fairgrounds blue barn Saturday 2 p.m. with a four hour event. entry 20 dollars open 25 dollars non members plus 2 dollar arena fee. Competition free to watch.
Fifth graders at Anderson Elementary School in Wichita will become Kansas’s first students to speak with NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The downlink, part of a NASA Exploration Place program, will be held at Cyberdome Theater in February or March, with viewing possible on the NASA channel.
Kansas lawmaker Vaughn Flora and Operation Rescue president Troy Newman reached a private settlement in Shawnee County District Court for a 2006 altercation at the State Fair. The September 2006 clash during a Sebelius debate drew more than 2000 spectators. Newman called the resolution necessary to condemn hostile conduct by a public figure. Flora did not respond to messages.
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