4 H offers local leadership and community service programs
The article describes 4 H opportunities for youth ages 5 to 19 to build citizenship and leadership through clubs, meetings, and community service projects guided by volunteers. It highlights life skills, teamwork, and personal growth within a democratic, participatory framework, and notes a separate obesity fitness event, Meltdown 4 Life, from Jan 15 to March 12 with Dr Mary Meek Higgins as kickoff speaker.
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4-H
Mary Meek Higgins
Department of Human Nutrition
Kansas State University
Higgins
Community health and leasing workshops highlight Kansas state programs
Multiple Kansas State University and extension events offer guidance on healthy eating weight loss and fitness with prizes and door prizes. A rental lease workshop in Scott City covers cash share and flex rent, with lunch included. The Women Managing the Farm Conference in Manhattan Feb 7-8 features speakers and 24 breakout sessions and costs 145 to 170. Sponsors include USDA Farm Service Agency, Farm Credit, Kansas Wheat, Dairy Commission and others.
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Garden City Recreation
Kansas State Research & Extension
Finney County
Garden City Community College Community Services Program
United Methodist Mexican- American Ministries
Kansas State University
Fairgrounds
Scott City
Scott County Extension Office
John Beckman
Emailsbeckman
Ksu.edu
Finney County Extension Office
S. Ninth St
Finney.ksu
K-State Research and Extension
Troy Dumler
Mykel Taylor
AgManager.info
Manhattan
Hilton Garden Inn
Ksuconferences
Usda Farm Service Agency
Kansas Farm
Police testifies on Holmes arrest at Colorado theater shooting
CENTENNIAL AP officers described James Holmes as unusually relaxed yet fidgety as they arrested him behind the Aurora theater. He volunteered his apartment was booby trapped as a preliminary hearing opened to determine if prosecutors will pursue a trial in the Batman movie massacre that left 12 dead and many wounded.
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Centennial
Colo
James Holmes
Colorado
Holmes
Neuroscience
Jason Oviatt
Oviatt
Aaron Blue
Justin Grizzle
Gerald Jonsgaard
Veronica Moser-Sullivan
Grizzle
Sandy Hook
Newtown
Conn
Aurora Theater
Fewer gun buyers seen in U S mass shooting states
An Associated Press analysis of FBI data shows residents in the states hit hardest by 2012 mass shootings bought fewer guns late in the year while nationwide background checks surged. After Obama’s re election and the Newtown school shooting, checks spiked especially in the South and West, though Connecticut and Colorado showed smaller increases.
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Washington
U.S
Associated Press
FBI
Barack Obama
Connecticut
Obama
Georgia
Alabama
Thomas Wright
Hoover
Tactical Firearms
Birmingham
Ala
Wright
Newtown
Conn
Colorado
New Jersey
Maryland
Michael Lawlor
Adam Lanza
Lanza
Lawlor
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Rich Llewelyn
Ksu
AgManager
Garden City Community College
Facebook
Gcccks.edu
Garden City
MUN Tty College
Gcccc
Family Ministries, Inc
N. Main
Elder Services
CNA
HHA
Agenc
Tricia Hodge
Child and Adult Protective Services
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