Family Weekend Begins At Fort Hays State Feb 4 6
Fort Hays State University hosts family weekend February 4 to 6 with events across campus. MAD Talent Show at 7 30 p.m. February 4 in Beach Schmidt Performing Arts Center, tickets $3 at the door. Tiger Generations Breakfast February 5 at 10 a.m. Alumni RSVP required. Tigers host Washburn Ichabods with women at 1 p.m. and men at 3 p.m. February 6. For details visit fhsu edu family weekend.
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Fort Hays State University
Beach/Schmidt
Tiger Generations
FHSA
FHSU
Memorial Union
Edward H. Hammond
Fhsu. Edu
Tiger
Fhsu Tigers
Washburn Ichabods
Fhsu.edu
Kids Dance Clinic at Alta Brown in Garden City
Garden City High School dance team hosts a Kid s Clinic for kindergarten through fourth grade from 4 15 to 6 pm Tuesday to Thursday at Alta Brown Elementary School 1110 E Pine St Participants receive a Tshirt snacks provided and a halftime routine at the Feb 4 GCHS boys basketball game Clinic cost 20 for the first child 15 for each additional child Proceeds go to the GCHS dance team Registration deadline is today Dar cy Pendry 8057253 for info and registration Show Choir Valentine serenades offered Feb 14 25 and Feb 11 12 before and during school hours to benefit the GCHS Modern Show Choir contact 8058179 mbaldwin gckschools com first come first served.
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Garden City High School
Alta Brown
E. Pine St
GCHS
Darcy Pendry
Valetine
Music Department
Mbaldwin
Gckschools
Gchs Modern Show Choir
Kansas to Open Free Tax Help Sites Nationwide
Kansas will open free locations starting Monday to assist residents in filing state and federal tax returns. The Kansas Department of Revenue partners with the IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program to aid low and moderate income filers earning about 49000 dollars or less. Taxpayers should bring last year’s return photo IDs birth dates Social Security numbers and wage information for all household members.
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Topeka
Kansas
Kansas Department of Revenue
Internal Revenue Service
King Speech Rediscovered At Kansas State University
Kansas State University unveiled a full length audio recording of Martin Luther King Jr speech delivered January 19 1968 at Ahearn Field House to over 7000 people. The event titled The Dreamer Speaks Again drew about 300 attendees and featured participants Homer Floyd George Haley and William Boyer. The decades old reel to reel tape was found after a Wichita man saved it from a radio station archive and could be posted online pending legal review.
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Martin Luther King Jr
Kansas State University
King
Ahearn Field House
Anthony Crawford
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Wichita
Pat Patton
Patton
Kansas State
Lyndon Johnson
University Press of Kansas
Homer Floyd
Kansas Human Relations Commission
George Haley
William Boyer
James McCain
Kansas Day celebrates statehood in Finney County exhibit
Finney County Museum marks Kansas Day with Lego symbols show and a weekend birthday event at the Senior Center. Mary Regan notes the Lego display is permanent as history reenactors entertain from 4 to 7 pm with Ken Weidner Kirk Shaplan and Keith Foster. The program highlights Kansas history from statehood in 1861 through the Civil War, railroad expansion, homestead act and agricultural growth.
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Mary Regan
Finney County
Regan
Kansas
N. 10Th St
Ken Weidner
Kirk Shaplan
Keith Foster
Missouri
Colorado
Texas
New Mexico
Statehouse Debates Over Kansas Official Fossil
Kansas lawmakers debate naming the Xiphactinus audax as the official state fossil while acknowledging the Pteranodon longiceps might be a stronger symbol. Reps Sloan and Hineman introduced the bill, citing local interest and paleontology expert Mike Everhart of Sternberg Museum in Hays. The issue centers on which fossil best represents Kansas, with fossils found from Alabama to Wyoming and Pteranodon chiefly linked to Kansas.
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Tom Sloan
R-Lawrence
Don Hineman
R-Dighton
State of
Kansas
Bill
Sloan
Hineman
Sternberg Museum of Natural History
Hays
Mike Everhart
Sternberg Museum
Alabama
Wyoming
Everhart
Bill stiffens penalties for hit and runs in Kansas
A Kansas House committee advanced House Bill 2044 to stiffen penalties for hit and run crashes, making fatalities or major injuries felonies with presumptive prison time, while clarifying post accident duties. The measure targets DUI linked escapes and aims to curb drivers who flee, with testimony from victims’ families and lawmakers noting rising statewide hit and run figures. The bill was sent back for rewrite to resolve ambiguities about prosecuting minor property damage crashes.
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Topeka
Douglas County
Charles Branson
Branson
Transportation Department
Lawrence
House
Paul Davis
D-Lawrence
Rachel Leek
Jeffrey Stolz
Kansas
House Committee On Corrections and Criminal Justice
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Kid’s
Garden City
K-State
Rachael Gray
Kansas State Historical Society
Statehouse
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