Three Men and A Melody to Work with Garden City Students
International barbershop quartet Three Men and A Melody will conduct interactive sessions with Garden City High School vocal students Monday. The group will share techniques, lead singalongs, answer questions, and perform a 1 15 p.m. concert in Clifford Hope Auditorium for music students.
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Garden City High School
Clifford Hope
Judge to rethink jury selection in abortion case
Wichita awaits a media access hearing as the Kansas Supreme Court orders Sedgwick County Judge Warren Wilbert to reopen the process for jury selection in the Scott Roeder trial. Roeder admits killing Dr. George Tiller and faces first degree murder, with potential manslaughter defenses debated. The court’s ruling demands timely responses from media outlets and scrutiny of secrecy around the juror questionnaire.
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Wichita
Kansas Supreme Court
Sedgwick
Warren Wilbert
Scott Roeder
Kansas City
George Tiller
Supreme Court
Wilbert
Associated Press
Roeder
Tiller
Reformation Lutheran Church
Kansas
National Organization For Women
Garden City Corporate Meltdown aims for healthier totals
More than 200 Garden City workers join Corporate Meltdown with 47 five person teams weighing in at the Garden City Recreation Commission. Participants track weight and health metrics and gain access to local fitness centers while competing in two prize categories for most pounds lost and highest percent lost. The program runs through March with wellness talks and lipid profiling offered at local facilities.
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Garden City
Garden City Recreation Commission
Finney County Research and Extension Center
Southwest Kansas Diabetes Control Program
Garden City Community College
Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Gerstner
Debbie McDaniel
Golden Plains Credit Union
McDaniel
St. Catherine Hospital
Bob Tempel
Wind River
Tempel
Diana Machotka
Doug Dillingham
Dodge City plant union vote cancelled after petition withdrawal
In Dodge City the National Beef plant election to decide unionization was halted after the Dodge City chapter of the United Food and Commercial Workers withdrew its petition. The NLRB canceled the January 21 22 vote with no reason given for the withdrawal or indication of a future petition. In Wichita a separate government report notes winter wheat plantings at 37.1 million acres for 2010, the lowest since 1913, due to bad weather, low prices, and late harvest.
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Dodge City
National Beef
United Food and Commercial Workers Union
National Labor Relation Board
Daniel Hubbel
Naomi Stuart
NLRB
Agriculture Department
Regulators get time for casino in Kansas City
Kansas regulators now have until March 8 to complete a background check on the selected developer of a state owned casino in Kansas City Kansas. Gov. Mark Parkinson set the new deadline at the request of the Racing and Gaming Commission. The commission's original deadline was last week. Commission spokesman Mike Devies says there is no serious issue, just a need for more time.
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Topeka
Kansas
Kansas City
Kan
Mark Parkinson
Racing and Gaming Commission
Commission
Mike Devies
Preservation Alliance Finney County Annual Meeting Set
Preservation Alliance Finney County invites all interested parties to attend a six o clock January twentieth gathering at Downtown Vision 413 North Main Street. Members will review the year s accomplishments the Windsor Hotel project state and direction and officers and board members will be elected. Coffee and cookies will be served.
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Finney County Preservation Alliance
Vision
N. Main St
Alliance
Windsor
USD 457 Board approves retirements and bids at meeting
USD 457 board accepted the retirement of Bill Weatherly after 22 years with the district. It approved transfers and resignations, awarded bids for projectors and band instruments, and recognized schools for excellence. New hires included Erica Edmondson and Eh Ker at Georgia Matthews Elementary. A Skyward data management software purchase of 19650 dollars was approved after bid waiver.
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USD 457 Board of Education
Bill Weatherly
Garden City High School
Elizabeth Moser
Kenneth Henderson
Abe Hubert
Carol Blackburn
Yolanda Varela
Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Center
Twotrees Technologies
Wichita
Elmos
Saied Music Co
Tulsa
Okla
Sound Bend
Ind
USD 457
Board of Education
Edith Scheuerman
Jennie Wilson
Plymell
Charles O. Stones
Mentary
Rick Atha
Georgia Matthews
Erica Edmondson
Cimarron
Eh Ker
Skyward
Stevens Point
Wis
Kathleen Whitley
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Garden City Community College Drama Department
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Ryan Peterson
Baker’s Plays of
Hollywood
Calif
Pauline Joyce Fine Arts
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GCHS
Tony Hill
Mark Rudy
GCRC
Dillingham
Brad Nading
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Preservation Alliance
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