Summer zoo camps open at Lee Richardson Zoo
Spaces remain for Lee Richardson Zoo camps for elementary and middle school students. Third to fifth graders can join Home is Where the Habitat Is and Wild Kansas July 27 29, with crafts, animal encounters, snacks and tours. Sixth to eighth graders attend Targeting Training and Take Flight July 13 15 and August 3 5, 8 am to noon, $25 without scholarship. scholarships available. pre registration required. call 276 1250 or visit garden city org zoo for forms.
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Lee Richardson Zoo
Kansas
Zookeeper
Zoo Education Division
July Bash at Meade State Park Sponsored by ABA District 10
ABA District 10 sponsors a July Bash July 9 to 11 at Meade State Park. Gates open 5 p.m. July 9 with park access for the public. D J Friday, live band Saturday, bike games, vendors, and food stands. Admission 15 dollars per couple, 10 dollars per single. No firearms or glass bottles. For more information call Angel Brown 276-4960 or Marie Hamill 620-521-1759.
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A.b.a.te
Meade State Park
D.J
Angel Brown
Marie Hamill
Judge Lets Westar Pay Wittig and Lake But Keeps Funds Escrowed
A federal judge ruled Westar Energy may make payments to former CEO David Wittig and ex VP Douglas T. Lake but they must keep the funds in escrow. Wittig and Lake, facing 40 charges in a case alleging asset looting at Westar, had sought to lift restrictions. The April order had halted living expenses and defenses. the new order allows payments while preserving potential asset seizure for prosecutors seeking 25.5 million and 7.5 million respectively.
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Topeka
Westar Energy Inc
David Wittig
Wittig
Douglas T. Lake
Julie Robinson
Westar
Robinson
Lake
New Canaan
Conn
State sues Florida firm over health care cards in Kansas
Kansas Attorney General files suit in Shawnee County District Court against HealthCare Advantage of Plantation Florida seeking more than 2.8 million in civil penalties. The firm allegedly made misleading representations to about 280 Kansas customers and may face 10,000 per violation if elderly or disabled residents were involved. Consumers reportedly received no benefits as no local providers accepted the cards.
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Topeka
Florida
Kansas
Phill Kline
Shawnee County
HealthCare Advantage of
Plantation
Fla
Kline
Sandy Praeger
Citizens Question GCCC Water Use In Garden City
Garden City residents clash over campus irrigation after June rains nearly double the 30 year average. Albert Chappel presses the GCCC board with a letter criticizing water waste while college officials describe plans to link sprinklers to a centralized control system and to upgrade campus utilities to save energy and money.
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Garden City
Garden City Community College
Albert Chappel
Carol Ballantyne
Chappel
Tom Chappel
Kansas State Research Extension Office
Jack Rutherford
GCCC
Rutherford
Penses
Front Door
Intelligence failure across world cited over Iraq WMD claim
Senate Intelligence Committee chair Pat Roberts said the panel found a worldwide intelligence failure that produced an assumption train biasing conclusions Saddam Hussein held weapons of mass destruction. He noted reliance on human intelligence declined after 1998 and post 9 11 pressures increased incomplete findings.
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Fort Leavenworth
U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee
Saddam Hussein
Iraq
Pat Roberts
Roberts
Saddam
Grand Central Station
Washington
House Armed Services Committee
Missouri
Ike Skelton
Skelton
U.S
David Kay
Bush
Kay
Five Die In Tractor Trailer Crash On US 50 Near Marion
Grief and frustration shadow a second fatal crash in the same U S 50 construction zone near Marion County. Shirley and John Cafferty and Chris and Michelle Bogner, plus Bogner’s mother, died when a tractor trailer struck their stopped vehicles. Peabody Mayor Randy Dauke urges measures to prevent repeats as Kansas troopers boost patrols and construction zone warnings remain in place.
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Peabody
Shirley
John Cafferty
Chris
Michelle Bogner
Chris Bogner
U.S. 50
Randy Dauke
Dauke
Kansas Highway Patrol
John Eichkorn
Kansas Department of Transportation
Eichkorn
Marion County
Wichita
Kansas traffic site to add safety measures after fatal tanker crash
Investigations point to sleepy driving in two crashes this week on a Kansas site. A tanker hit a pickup at 64 mph, killing Cornelus Wall and Cornelus Sawatzky. Construction restarts July 7 with rumble strips, a paved shoulder, and two CB radio alert devices to warn drivers.
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John Eichkorn
Scott Proffitt
Cornelus Wall
Canada
Cornelus Sawatzky
Mexico
Stanton County opens senior living center in Johnson City
The Memorial Living Center, a 10 unit facility in Stanton County, is taking residency applications though not yet open. Six units are leased with a Sept move in target. Rent is 1700 dollars plus 500 for a second resident, utilities included, plus daily health checks and transportation. The Callingwood family donated 800000 in memory of Fred and Edna, funding and a 900000 bond repay through the board. Interested residents can call the Senior Center at 620 492 6816 to reserve or tour.
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Memorial Living Center
Stanton County
Patty Wise
Assisted Living Board
Stanton
Wise
Johnson City
Callingwood
Fred
Edna Callingwood
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