Bakers Enjoy Fourth Generation Day at Garden City Pool
Fourth generation Bakers spend a sunny day at the Garden City Big Pool with family groups and friends. The outing highlights generations sharing memories and casual fun in a public recreation setting.
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Garden City
Insurance gap leaves Kansas family with unpaid dental care
Mary Rich and her eight children rely on a health plan that covers medical needs but excludes dental and vision. With two missing fillings and 2,000 dollars in dental charges, the family struggles to afford optional dental coverage while deducting 124 dollars every two weeks from a limited income.
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Mary Rich
Rich
Kansas
Alternatives to health insurance help Garden City families
Dana Ontiveros, mother of five, lacks a family physician in Garden City as few doctors accept new patients. Her children rely on Medicaid, while a few clinics, including United Methodist Mexican American Ministries, offer care for the uninsured with income-based fees. Without this clinic, Ontiveros says she would likely use the ER for her kids.
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Paola Ibarra
Consuelo Sandoval
Sandoval
Lifetime Smiles
MAM
Dana Ontiveros
Garden City
Ontiveros
United Methodist
Cotton may be the crop of the future in Moscow area
In southwest Kansas Moscow area farmers are expanding cotton with 26,000 to 33,000 acres as a new cotton gin facility rises on 46 acres southwest of town off U.S. Highway 50. The Northwest Cotton Growers Cooperative Inc plans to gin its 2002 crop starting in October, with Lummus Corporation building two ginning machines and Gary Moore as gin manager. The initiative aims to save water and diversify crops, supported by Security Savings Bank of Garden City.
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Moscow
Kansas
Northwest Cotton Growers Cooperative Inc
U.S. Highway 50
Lummus Corporation
Savannah
Gary Moore
Tohoka
Texas
NCG
Main St
Texas Tech
Jay Garetson
Gaveston
Security Savings Bank of
Garden City
Regents defer credit card limits on Kansas campuses
Kansas Board of Regents delayed limits on bank solicitations for campus credit cards after Intrust Bank argued the rules would breach existing contracts with the University of Kansas Kansas State University and Wichita State University. Eight years remain on 12 year deals worth about 20 million dollars. The plan would have barred solicitations one week before and two weeks after the semester start.
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Topeka
Kansas Board of Regents
Intrust Bank
University of Kansas
Kansas State University
Wichita State University
White wheat gains favor in Kansas as drought shifts acreage
AP reports Kansas farmers plan more hard white wheat this fall due to better performance than red varieties. The 2002 farm bill offers up to $20 million to promote white wheat on as much as 2 million acres. Kansas State University researchers note demonstrations show white wheat outperforming red, even as overall statewide production falls due to drought.
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Wichita
Kansas
Dusti Fritz
Kansas Wheat Commission
Joe Martin
Kansas State University
Hays
Martin
Tom Redman
Wright
General Mills
American White Wheat Producers Association
Redman
Idaho
Montana
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