Karen residents celebrate Karen New Year in Garden City
Nearly 300 celebrants filled Georgia Matthews Elementary School to mark the Karen New Year with dances songs and speeches. The event drew a diverse crowd, heard remarks from coordinator Albert Ryan and translator Crucie Balbhin, and noted the Karen diaspora from Myanmar and political struggle for freedom.
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Georgia Matthews
Garden City
Myanmar
Burma
Southeast Asia
United States
Albert Ryan
Denver
Crucie Balbhin
Colorado Rangers
Spring Institute For Intercultural Learning
Karen New Year celebration honors Karen community
A Saturday event at Georgia Matthews Elementary School in Garden City featured Balthin leading a tribute to U S and Karen flags. La Pa Taw welcomed attendees, Mayor James Behan praised Garden City’s diversity, and Colorado Youth performed in Karen costume with a song in Karen blending rock and roll.
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Lay Pa Taw
Georgia Matthes
Garden City
Balthin
United States
la Pa Taw
Colorado
U.S.A
James Behan
Shar
Mu Ta
Aurora
Colo
Center
Georgia Matthews Elementary School
Gunmen on watch lists not warned of danger
The gunman in the Giffords shooting and others like Jared Lee Loughner, Joseph Stack, and John Patrick Bedell were not on any government watch list. There is no national list for such dangerous loners, nor a Preventive alert leading to gun sales restrictions or police probes.
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Washington
Arizona
Gabrielle Giffords
Jared Lee Loughner
United States
Loughner
Joseph Stack
IRS
Austin
Texas
Stack
John Patrick Bedell
Pentagon
Young King inspired by time in Connecticut
Martin Luther King Jr. spent a summer as a tobacco farm worker in Simsbury Connecticut in 1944. He wrote his father about reduced discrimination after leaving the segregated South and noted residents were friendly. The experience helped shape his path to ministry and deepened his view on segregation.
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New Haven
Hartford
Simsbury
Biera serves community as official and trooper
Kansas wrestling official Josh Biera began officiating in college for extra money and now after 18 years remains on mats across the state. A Kansas Highway Patrol lieutenant, he views officiating as service more than enforcement, aiming to keep wrestlers and citizens safe while staying involved with the sport he loves. Biera has also worked as Norton police officer and Northwest Kansas Community Corrections probation officer, and he continually learns from athletes and coaches to adapt to wrestling’s evolving rules. He previously served as Norton High School assistant wrestling coach. see Neighbors, Page A5.
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Josh Biera
Biera
State of
Kansas
Kansas Highway Patrol
Norton
Northwest Kansas Community Corrections
Hays
Norton High School
Stu
Garden City
Market Prices Grain and Soybeans at Garden City Co op
Grain prices at Garden City Co op show Milo 748 and Soybeans at 13.18 with bids around 5.66 and futures noted. Prices listed for corn and related grains appear in compact market shorthand.
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Garden City
Weather Forecast Tonight and Tuesday Update
Tonight partly cloudy and cold with a low around 28. Tuesday sees mostly sunny skies with a high near 51 and a low around 25. Details continue on page Ag.
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