12 Jan 2006
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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 2006
Page
1
Second cousins Mayree Corrigan of Hoyt and Morgan Landgraf of Garden City share a family pheasant hunt annual event, enjoying time together in the countryside.
Bonnie Talley 77, Garden City's first female commissioner and four term mayor, died at Park West Plaza in Wichita. A trailblazer and advocate born April 12, 1928 in Cimarron, she served 16 years on the city commission from 1984 to 1999 including mayoral stints in 1984 1989 1992 and 1997. Dennis Mesa recalled her as a selfless community cheerleader and trailblazer whose impact includes the Talley Trail bicycle path dedicated in 1999.
Holcomb Middle School hosts Health Week activities with music and dancing as students use pedometers to track activity. Coca Cola sponsors the nationwide program offering a $5000 prize for the best school combining exercise and health education. Principal learned of it via a mailed information packet.
Construction manager Gary Dick updated the GCCC Board of Trustees as the two story three level campus building takes shape. Exterior walls are up and interior work begins on the lower level with wall studding electrical and mechanical systems underway. Unseasonably mild weather aided scheduling with minimal weather-related losses. Exterior masonry and finishing will start in three to four weeks.
A federal program approved for Garden City offers half-price HUD homes to law enforcement officers firefighters EMTs and teachers who commit to living there at least three years. Applicants must not own another home at closing and can purchase repossessed single family properties through the Officer and Teacher Next Door Program run by HUD.
In Topeka AP report bipartisan support grows for exempting new business machinery and equipment from property taxes. Gov Sebelius argues the measure would attract and retain business, but some lawmakers fear local revenue losses after 2007.
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