Free screening for Garden City district 457 children
Garden City USD 457 offers a free screening for 3 to 5 year olds on February 10 at Trinity Lutheran Church 1010 Fleming St. Trained professionals assess hearing vision motor development communication and thinking. Residents only. Call Early Childhood at 276-5149 to schedule. if unable to attend call 271-8847 instead of church.
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GCCC Offers Basic Computer Class at Holcomb Middle School
Garden City Community College Outreach Program sponsors a one credit computer class at Holcomb Middle School from March 7 to April 25. Colleen Lauer teaches. tuition $60 or $21 for seniors with a Finney County waiver. First session 6:30 to 8:30 pm. future times set by students. Registration with Christine Siebert at 276-9647 or christine.siebert geccks.edu.
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Finney County
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Pageant set for Ulysses in Kepley Auditorium
The Miss Southwest Kansas Pageant will be at 7 p.m. February 11 in Ulysses at Kepley Auditorium. Seven area contestants compete with Adrienne Rosel Miss Kansas 2005 as mistress of ceremonies and Galen Pelton Grant County Bank CFO as master of ceremonies. Rosel and Tami Drietz Miss Southwest Kansas 2005 participate in the evening’s entertainment. Tickets available at the door or from Grant County Chamber of Commerce at 620 356 4700.
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Rosel
Tami Drietz
Grant County
Dive-In Movie and Dinner at YMCA Feb 11
The Garden City Family YMCA partners with Superstore and Movie Gallery to sponsor a dive in movie and dinner for children from 6:15 to 8:15 p.m. February 11 at the YMCA located at 1224 Center St. Early registration is required. Call 275-1199 for more information.
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Cimarron Library Quilt Show Adds Colorful Displays
Cimarron City Library hosts a free quilt show with Betty Mae Jantz presenting Color Your World with Quilts at 2 p.m. Sunday. The exhibit runs six days from Sunday to February 11, open to the public, with hours 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. most days, Thursday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. More than 50 quilts by area quilters will be on display.
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Statewide internet access to records in Kansas faces delay
In Kansas a dispute between Johnson County and the Kansas Supreme Court threatens launching a statewide fee based online court records service. Only Johnson and Shawnee counties currently offer free online access, with most counties lacking any online records.
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Coffey
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Sedgwick
Wyandotte
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Ron Thornburgh
Thornburgh
Johnson and
New Exhibit at Mercer Showcases Chinese Artist Yeqiang Wang
The Mercer Gallery at Garden City Community College hosts Yeqiang Wang, a Dodge City Community College art associate professor from China, with about two dozen oil and watercolor works. The exhibit runs Wednesday to February 24, daily noon to 4 pm on weekdays and 2 to 5 pm on Sundays, admission free. Wang, who creates “portals of perception” through windows and doors, has shown in seven solo and roughly 25 group exhibitions since 1997 in Canada, China, England, Mexico and multiple U.S. states.
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Legend Magazine
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Yeqiang Wang
Dodge City Community College
Obama to keynote Kansas Democrats at March convention
Barack Obama, the Illinois senator with Kansas roots, will be keynote speaker for Kansas Democrats at their March 8 convention. Kansas party leaders call him a rising star in high demand and note he will also speak at the Washington Days banquet, with ticket info posted on the party site.
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Jennison Opens Campaign With Four Rallies In Kansas
Former House Speaker Robin Jennison to start his bid for governor with four rallies in Kansas including stops at the Statehouse Lawrence Olathe and Pittsburg as six Republicans seek to challenge Governor Kathleen Sebelius. Johnson County attorney joins the race amid a crowded GOP field.
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Johnson County
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Kathleen Sebelius
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Olathe
Pittsburg
Timothy Pickell
Prairie Village
Jim Barnett
Emporia
Ken Canfield
National Center For Fathering
Dennis Hawver
Richard Rodewald
GOP
Tim Shallenburger
Sebelius
Advocates Seek Tape Records for Closed Local Meetings
Open government supporters in Topeka push a bill requiring all executive sessions by city and county boards to be recorded and kept for a year. They argue tapes would check possible abuses, while opponents warn it could chill candid discussion and raise custody concerns.
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League of Kansas Municipalities
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