GCCC Offers Engines and Nail Tech Courses Start Jan 13
Garden City Community College begins small gas engines and nail technology classes on January 13. The evening engine course meets 7 to 10 p.m. Mondays in J D Adams Hall with instructor Doug Douglass, while the nail program runs open entry open exit in the Penka Building. On site enrollment available the first engine night. For info contact Judy Crymble or call 276 9521. Registration hours for spring term extend weekdays.
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J.D. Adams Hall
Garden City High School
Doug Douglass
Automotive Technology Center of Excellence
Finney County
GCCC
Penka
Judy Crymble
Judy
Crymble
Gccecks.edu
Free monthly menus offered by K State Extension
The Kansas State Research and Extension Family Nutrition Program presents a free Month of Menus with weekly dinner plans recipes and shopping lists. Sign up by January 17 with Finney County Extension Office at 272 3670 to receive menus starting January 27 through February.
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Finney County Extension Office
State budget cuts threaten payment to Kansas indigent defense
Kansas attorneys who defend the poor in criminal cases warn that budget cuts may delay fee payments after January without emergency funds from the Legislature. Officials say delays could affect a third of workload and how justice is delivered, with the defense services budget slashed by 1.24 million and the death penalty unit by 550,000.
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Carlson
Public Defender
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Wyandotte
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Preservation Lunch and Learn on antique textiles
Finney County Public Library hosts a 12:05 to 12:55 p.m. Lunch and Learn session sponsored by the Finney County Extension Office. Belinda Oldham from the Wichita County Extension Office will cover displaying storing and cleaning antique textiles. Coffee tea provided. participants bring their own lunch.
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Belinda Oldham
Wichita County Extension Office
Alzheimer’s support group meets Wednesday at Garden Valley
The Alzheimer’s Support Group, Sunflower Chapter affiliate, will meet from 3 45 to 5 p m Wednesday at Garden Valley Retirement Village 1505 E Spruce St The topic is Understanding And Dealing With Behaviors Call Richmond Graham at 275 9651 for details
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Alzheimer’s Association
Garden Valley Retirement Village
Spruce St
Richmond Graham
Moran to talk about session on Smoky Hills TV
US Representative Jerry Moran from Hays discusses the last Congress and the 108th session in a program titled Mid-American Life A Conversation with Jerry Moran airing 8 to 9 p m Thursday on Smoky Hills Public Television cable channel 7.
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Smoky Hills
Girl Scout Cookie Kickoff Saturday at Finnup Center
The annual cookie kickoff runs 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Finnup Center in Finnup Park with four-person teams in stacking and munching contests before cookie sales start Sunday. A second kickoff runs 1 to 4 p.m. at Village Square Mall in Dodge City, with sales ending Jan. 26. cookies include Thin Mints Samoas Do Si Dos Trefoils Tagalongs Aloha Chips and All Abouts. Road condition hotline 1 800 585 7623.
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Dodge City
Deaths of Kansas children could have been prevented
A state report by the Attorney General's Office and the Child Death Review Board says 136 of 521 Kansas children deaths in 2000 could have been prevented with better supervision education and stricter laws. The board urges expanding seat belt use to under 18 and booster seats for under 8 or under 80 pounds, plus higher fines.
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Attorney General's Office
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Kansas Action For Children
Brunk
Paul Feleciano
Wichita center grows from guard site to homeland hub
Congress approved homeland security funds in November and Wichita along with Sedgwick County officials plan to use them for a 14.5 million center. What began as a National Guard readiness site on 24 acres near I 135 and KS 96 could become the first homeland security center of its kind in the country with 25 percent local funding.
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Former G C man dies from injuries in wreck near Oakley
Cody Wilson an 18 year old Garden City area resident died from injuries sustained in a single vehicle wreck on Gove County Road near the Logan line. Blake Pilkington 18 Oakley was driving a 1997 green Grand Prix eastbound when he lost control and rolled into a north ditch. Four passengers including three minors were ejected. none wore seat belts. Wilson moved to Oakley from Garden City six years ago and was a senior at Oakley High School. Obituary details appear on Page A2.
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Gove County
Chet Morris
Oakley Area
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Oakley
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Trustees to revisit revised D and D bid for student center
Garden City Community College trustees will meet at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Endowment Room to decide on a revised D and D Builders bid for a 12,900 square-foot addition to the west end of the student center. All six bids exceeded the 1.2 million budget, lowest at 1,659,000.
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D & D Builders
Tion
Blaine Davis
Davis
Sebelius taps six to cabinet in Kansas administration
Gov-elect Kathleen Sebelius announced six Cabinet appointments in Kansas, naming former House leaders Jim Garner and Joan Wagnon as acting secretaries for special projects. Others include Deb Miller as transportation secretary and Rod Bremby for health and environment. The moves set a path for agency reorganizations ahead of the January 13 inauguration.
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Coffeyville
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