Mary Street bypass traffic routes near Garden City
Excavation on the U.S. Highway 50 400 83 bypass is finished to allow bridge work over Mary Street. Pile driving for bridge piers has begun. Mary Street remains restricted with right turns only onto the bypass and detours advised. traffic through Mary Street east of the bypass is closed. Signs direct Golf USA as new signals at K 156 and ramps operate.
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Garden City
Steve Cottrell
Mary Street
Campus Drive
Cottrell
Kansas Avenue
Golf
USA
Kansas group wins medallion for bilingual voting efforts
The Kansas Advisory Committee on Hispanic Affairs and Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh receive the National Association of Secretaries of State Medallion Award for supporting the bilingual voting project. Based on the 2000 Census, six Kansas counties Finney Ford Grant Haskell Kearny and Seward provided Spanish voting materials and translators for the November election. The award honors service to voter education participation and civic education across states.
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Kansas Advisory Committee On
Kansas Advisory Committee For
Holcomb Teens Eligible for Oratorical Contest
Students in grades nine through 12 may apply for the American Legion district VIII Oratorical Contest set for 2 p.m. February 9 at Garden City Post Home No. 9. The deadline to apply is February 1. The US Constitution will frame the prepared oration on citizen duties.
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American Legion District VIII
Garden City Post Home
W. Pine St
Garden City High School
Groups protest outside Brownback offices
About 70 people picketed outside Republican Sen. Sam Brownback s downtown offices in Wichita to protest a possible war against Iraq. Protesters from the Peace and Social Justice Center and Women s International League for Peace and Freedom delivered food to Brownback s offices, requesting the food be sent to Iraq instead of bombs.
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Wichita
Sam Brownback
Iraq
The
Peace and Social Justice Center
Women’s International League For Peace and Freedom
Brownback
Rodeo legend Otis Jennings laid to rest in Lakin
Funeral services drew about 800 mourners from the tri state area at Lakin Wesleyan Church for rodeo figure Otis Jennings 79 who died Saturday at Kearny County Hospital. His wife Shirley remembered his laughter and community trust while family recalled a life devoted to horses cattle and rodeo events at the Jennings Indoor Arena and in Western Kansas and Colorado. Grandsons rode on horseback as the procession went to Lakin Cemetery with a simple buckboard coffin.
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Lakin
Otis Jennings
Tri-State
Wesleyan
Otis
Shirley Harlich Jennings
Jennings
Kearny County
Lakin, Leaving Behind A Family, Community and Even A Region of Mourners. “Otis
Steve Sparks
Bud Jennings
Kansas
Garden City
Syracuse
Vannatta
Shirley Jennings
River Road
Colorado
Shirley
Bud
Bill
National Little Britches Rodeo Association
Gilliam to speak at Garden City Community College
Washington Post columnist Dorothy Butler Gilliam will speak at Garden City CC on Martin Luther King Jr. Day about The Civil Rights Movement Past and Present from 10 a.m. to noon in the Pauline Joyce Fine Arts Building auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.
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Martin Luther King Jr
Washington Post
Dorothy Butler Gilliam
Garden City Community College
Gilliam
Pauline Joyce
Garden City
Lily Tolbert Robertson
All Nations Pentecostal Church of Liberal
City of
College
GCCC
National Association For Black Journalists
The
King
Post
Metro Desk
Washington, D.C
Wttg TV
Memphis, Tenn
Paul Robeson
New Republic Books
Freedom Forum
New York
Miss Southwest Kansas Pageant Lights Up Ulysses Friday Night
Eight Kansas ladies vie for the Miss Southwest Kansas crown at 7 p.m. Saturday in Kepley Middle School Auditorium Ulysses. Contestants with local ties include Naomi Garza Jessica Henson Ti Trosper Lindsee Wilson Brooke Helton and others from nearby towns. Tickets cost 7 for adults 5 for children 12 and under.
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Kansas
Ulysses High School
Carlos and
Dora Garza
Ulysses
Jessica Deneé Henson
Kansas State University
Carl and
Barb Henson
Ti Trosper
Georg
Ann Trosper
Kansas Area
Lindsee M. Wilson
Fort Hays State University
Robert
Pamela Wilson
Hugoton
Brooke Nicole Helton
Syracuse High School
Jake
Sandy Scholl
Syracuse
John
Annie Helton
Garden City
Renee Lynn Johnson
University of Kansas
Lee and
Janelle Johnson
Overland Park
Renee Nicole Michelle Fischer
Gregg and
Leann Fischer
Great Bend
Cassie Jo Belmear
Bruce
Cindy Belmear
Caldwell
Brom
Bond With Flowers
Russ’ Gift Center
Pro-Am profits dip as community support wanes
The Southwest Kansas Pro-Am fundraiser shows a steady decline from a 1999 peak of 71,000 dollars to 28,500 dollars raised in 2002 for St. Catherine Hospital’s Newborn Intensive Care Unit. Pro-Am coordinator Lynn Schoonover cites fewer sponsors and lower donations amid cautious local spending, with hospital officials planning uses for the funds and future donor outreach.
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Southwest Kansas
St. Catherine Hospital
Lynn Schoonover
Parker
Gayleen Bernal
Maternal and Child Services
St. Catherine
Bernal
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Holcomb Rec Commission
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DJ Flame
DJ Rae Rae
Brownback‘ Offices
Rodeo
Ray Calihan
John Burnside
U.S. Highway 50
Craig Anderson
Lockhart Geophysical Calculating
Denver
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