Garden City offers late enrollment aid for spring term
Garden City Community College begins spring classes with about 1400 students and extended hours for late enrollment services. Offices in the Student and Community Services Center stay open 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday Monday and Tuesday and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday for enrollment, financial aid, advising, and tuition payments. The Garden City Garden Club sponsors a Smokey Bear and Woodsy Owl Poster Contest for grades 1 through 5 with prizes including round trip to Washington DC and a $100 US Savings Bond for national winners. posters due Monday to Linda Farr with required student details on the back.
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Garden City Community College
Student and Community Services Center
Garden City Garden Club
Garden City
Smokey Bear
Woodsy Owl
Linda Farr
Farr
Washington, D.C
Jessica Spina
GCCC
Woman Rescued From Pipe Faces Charges In Kansas
An overland Park police report shows a Kansas City Missouri woman in her 20s fled from officers by crawling through a 600 foot drainage pipe in Johnson County. She was found wanted on warrants, became unconscious, and was hospitalized with hypothermia after being rescued by Overland Park firefighters.
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Overland Park
Johnson County
Kansas City
Leawood
Overland
Dogs seized from unlicensed pound in Russell County
The Kansas Animal Health Department seized 39 dogs from an unlicensed pound in Russell County. Thirty three adults and six puppies were removed from a facility run by Leroy Pene due to dangerous living conditions. Two dogs were dead and the rest faced mud, no food, and frozen water.
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Topeka
Kansas Animal Health Department
Russell County
Leroy Pene
Debra Duncan
Duncan
Senate leaders push 2010 extension of school financing plan
In Topeka the Senate Republican leadership proposed extending Kansas education funding to 2010 with a 65 million dollar boost. The plan raises spending 2.2 percent to meet CPI-linked mandates, boosting base per pupil aid by 59 dollars and directing 37 million to districts and 28 million to pension contributions for employees.
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Topeka
Senate
Republican
Derek Schmidt
Independence
John Wratil
Leawood
Education Committee
Jean Schodorf
Wichita
Schmidt
Kansas Supreme Court
Melvin Neufeld
Ingalls
Sebelius
House Education Committee
Clay Aurand
Aurand
Courtland
Alexa Posny
December revenue shortfall prompts budget watch in Kansas
Kansas officials report December revenue fell 33.3 million below expectations, about 6 percent, erasing previous surpluses. Lawmakers await Governor Sebelius budget proposals amid calls for multiyear funding for schools and cautious spending as January filings hint at possible rebound in January.
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Topeka
Kansas Legislative Research Department
Senate
Steve Morris
Morris
Duane Goossen
Indicted doctor garners support for clinic in Haysville
In Haysville a candle and petitions surround Dr. Stephen Schneider and wife Linda as they face a 34 count federal indictment for illegally prescribing drugs. The Kansas Board of Healing Arts plans an emergency hearing on license suspension while patients, family members, and the Pain Relief Network campaign to keep the clinic open and challenge the Controlled Substances Act. A protest sign targets U S Attorney Tanya Treadway as another petition urges the board to allow continued operation. Siobhan Reynolds says suspension would close the clinic since physician assistants work under the licensed physician’s clinic.
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Haysville
St. Jude
Stephen Schneider
Linda
Schneiders
Kansas Board of Healing Arts
Pain Relief Network
U.S
Tanya Treadway
Tanya
Board of Healing Arts
Connie Bass
Schneider
Bass
Siobhan Reynolds
New officers bolster Garden City law enforcement staffing
Garden City Police Department adds five officers in under a year bringing sworn staff to 53 of 59 authorized. New hires Jeremy Burns Lana Essink Emily Relph plus two others completed training. officers face probation and a yearlong evaluation before full certification. Kearny County also adds Deputy Ryan Connolly with starting pay 11.15 per hour and a benefits package.
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Garden City
James Hawkins
Mike Utz
Iraq
National Guard
Hawkins
Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center
Jeremy Burns
Lana Essink
Emily Relph
Burns
Salem
Essink
Kearney, Neb
Relph
Field Kindley Memorial High School
Coffeyville
Gibson Auten
United States
Utz
Kansas Police and Fire
Kearny County
Ryan Connolly
Connolly
Gillette, Wyo
Oklahoma Wesleyan University
Bartlesville
Wesleyan Church
Lakin
Ing
Dave Horner
Law Enforcement Academy
James Jarboe
Wilson City fires police chief over beer theft
Wilson Kansas police Chief Brian Hill was fired by the city council after a misdemeanor theft conviction for stealing beer from the fire department refrigerator. Hill, suspended with pay pending appeal, faces hearing options within two weeks, with firing effective Jan. 25. The value of the beer was listed under 1000 dollars.
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Wilson City Council
Hill
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