Garden City offers children theater classes at GCRC
The Garden City Recreation Commission schedules six week musical theater sessions for children. Ages four through kindergarten meet Mondays 4 15 to 5 pm at 310 N Sixth St. First through fourth graders meet Tuesdays 4 15 to 5 pm. Cost is 18 dollars per student for six weeks with a final performance for parents. For information call 276 1200 or visit the GCRC office.
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Garden City Recreation Commission
N. Sixth St
GCRC
Family Math Night at Garfield Elementary School
Garfield Elementary School hosts Family Math Night from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at 121 W. Walnut St. Students complete St. Jude's Mathathon booklets while parents assist. Refreshments and door prizes will be available during the event.
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Garfield Elementary School
W. Walnut St
St. Jude’s
Church pancake supper planned by Cimarron UMC Men
The Cimarron United Methodist Men's group will host a pancake and sausage supper for donations to the church from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at 108 N. Second St. in Cimarron. For more information call 620-855-3363.
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Cimarron United Methodist Men’s
Cimarron United Methodist Church
N. Second St
Cimarron
Garden City hosts family literacy nights January 31
Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Center invites families for a 6 p.m. taco salad dinner and 6:30 to 8 p.m. literacy activities including a silent auction from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Edith Scheuerman Elementary presents a pirate themed night from 6:30 to 8 p.m. with Walk the Plank Book Walk and photos with Bob the Tiger.
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Garden City
Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Center
Belmont Place
Edith Scheuerman
Wilcox
Bob
Bob the Tiger
Cheer and dance camps planned for February 16
Garden City Community College teams will host two four hour camps for southwest Kansas youths ages 4 to 12 on February 16 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Dennis Perryman Athletic Complex lobby. The $25 fee covers a T shirt snack instruction and clinic activities.
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Garden City Community College
GCCC
Southwest Kansas
Dennis Perryman
Windsor group eyes Windsor Hotel comeback as Garden City rallys
Norma Nolte and the Finney County Preservation Alliance push for Windsor Hotel renovation with a $10 million plan. Developer Tom Klein has drafted a business plan to lure investors and fund pre construction costs aimed at rebuilding the four story landmark opened in 1889. The group seeks $350,000 in private fundraising and hopes to secure foundation support in early 2008.
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Garden City
Norma Nolte
Vision Inc
Windsor Hotel
Finney County Preservation Alliance
Windsor
Nolte
The
Preservation Alliance
Eric Keller
Alliance
Vision
Tom Klein
New Communities, LLC
Denver
Klein
Keller
Don Harness
Harness
Kandee Klein
Former officer bound over for trial in Jones killing
Former Dodge City police officer Chris Tahah faces first degree murder charges for the May 5 shooting of Erin Jones. He was bound over for trial after a preliminary hearing as prosecutors also pursue criminal discharge of a firearm at an occupied dwelling. Jones, a bank teller and Homestead Theater performer, left two children.
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Dodge City
Ford County
John Sauer
Chris Tahah
Erin Jones
Tahah
Jones
Peter John Orsi
Colorado
Denver
Sauer
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Mark Kendrick
Hugo
Colo
Homestead Theater
Kansas Reads to revisit In Cold Blood across state
State residents will read Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood as Kansas Reads kicks off in Finney County. The program, a one book state-wide effort, encourages discussions at libraries and schools with scholar talks and exhibits about Capote’s murder tale and its Kansas connections.
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Garden City Telegram
Truman Capote
Kansas
Holcomb
Clutter
Kansas Center For
Finney County
Center For the Book
Library of Congress
Kansas Center For the Book
Gordon Parks
Roy Bird
Seattle
Bird
Parks
Fort Scott
Galarraga
Kansas Humanities Council
Finney County Public Library
Walnut St
Capote
Sara Jane Richter
Liberal Arts
Oklahoma Panhandle State University
Garden City
Clifford
Dolores Hope
Herb Clutter
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