Builders of Hope seeks cancer survivors mentors
The Builders of Hope mentoring program seeks cancer survivors and ongoing patients to share experiences. A July 29 monthly meeting at 1 p.m. in Classroom 1 at St. Catherine Hospital invites interested individuals. A two-evening workshop runs 6 to 10 p.m. at the hospital home health building with dinner provided. call Kriz Hughes at 272-2526 to reserve space.
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Builders of Hope
St. Catherine Hospital
St. Catherine Hospital Home Health
N. 6Th St
Kriz Hughes
Music composition workshop at Garden City CC
Garden City Community College offers a two day music composition workshop on basics of composing arranging and sheet music use of Finale. Instructors Carolyn Klassen and Jim McAllister lead July 14 9 am to 4 30 pm and July 15 9 am to 4 pm in the Pauline Joyce Fine Arts Building with a 60 credit fee 10 seats. Participants need music reading ability and instructor permission. The course provides one college credit and recertification CEU. Registration via 620 276 9545 or Carolyn.Klassen gcccks.edu.
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Garden City Community College
Carolyn Klassen
GCCC
Jim McAllister
Pauline Joyce
Angus tour kickoff marks 2006 Kansas event in Scott City
The American Angus Association hosts the Kansas Angus Tour starting August 11 at Scott County Fairgrounds with noon registration. Stops include Royal Beef Feed Yard Zanobia Angus Lundgren Angus Ranch Kaiser Ranch and Boots and Beef Social at Logan County Fairgrounds. Weekend events feature Lamb Angus Ranch and Sharon Springs stops with theme Out West. For registration visit kansasangus.org by August 1 and contact Anne Lampe for details.
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Logan County Fairgrounds
Lamb Angus Ranch
Wallace
Larson Angus Ranch
Sharon Springs
JMB Angus
West
Kansasangus.org
Anne Lampe
Kansasangus
Wbsnet.org
Seniors meeting set for Friday
The Finney County Senior Citizen Association hosts its monthly dinner meeting Friday at the Senior Center 907 N. 10th St. Finney County residents 55 and older and guests are invited. A covered-dish dinner at 6 p.m. precedes a business meeting with Humdinger Band entertainment. call Dorman Diller 276-6962 or Norma Nichols 276-3620 for details.
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Finney County Senior Citizen Association
10Th St
Finney County
Humdinger Band
Call Dorman Diller
Norma Nichols
Senators refuse to testify in Kansas school finance probe
Four Kansas senators decline to testify to a House committee examining talks between lawmakers and Supreme Court Justice Lawton Nuss about a pending school finance lawsuit. Senate leaders Morris Brungardt Hensley Pine Schmidt Findley Sebelius could keyly influence the inquiry. The panel, citing current rules, may subpoena witnesses but has little concrete evidence of beyond a single lunch.
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Pine
Attorney General’s Office
Statehouse
Senate
Derek Schmidt
R-Independence
Kathleen Sebelius
Troy Findley
Findley
Sebelius
Hensley
Schmidt
Morris
Supreme Court
Ing
House
Mike O'Neal
Nuss
Brungarat
O'Neal
R-Hutchinson
Commission On
Brungardt
O’neal
O'Neall
Kansas
Sen
John Wratil
R-Leawood
House Committee
Wratil
Journey of Hope cyclists visit Garden City in cross country ride
Twenty one Pi Kappa Phi riders stop at the Big Pool in Garden City during the Journey of Hope. The 105 mile leg from Lamar Colorado highlights PUSH America fundraising for disabilities awareness. Three teams totaling 71 riders cover four thousand miles to reunite near Washington, D.C.
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Big Pool
S. 4Th St
Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity
Garden City
Lamar
Colo
Journey of Hope
PUSH
America
Kyle Thomas
Thomas
Bruce Rogers
Pi Kappa Phi
Golden Corral
E. Kansas Plaza
Trans-America
Washington, D.C
Dirt car racing and dancing on tap for the weekend
Southwest Kansas gears up for a lively weekend with the Airport Raceway Rebein-Bangerter PA Shootout on Friday and Saturday along Highway 50 eleven miles east of Garden City. Gates open at 5:30 p.m. with hot laps at 6 and races at 8, drawing out-of-town riders for a two-night purse event. Also Saturday the Plaza Inn Ballroom hosts the Eighth Annual Walk & Whoa Ball to benefit Miles of Smiles, featuring auctions, themed riding-class baskets, live music by the Smokin Hott Band, a $500 gas raffle, and tickets from area outlets. admission is $10 in advance or $15 at the door. Additional weekend events include a spine seminar at Garden City Community College, a Garden City Farmer’s Market, and a Garden City Municipal Band concert at Stevens Park followed by a Sweetheart Swing performance.
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Airport Raceway
Kirchoff
Highway 50
Garden City
Plaza Inn Ballroom
Sara Brown
Brown
Smokin Hott Band
Cimarron
Garden True Value
Taylor
Out West
Campus Drive
Crazy House
Southwest Kansas
Garden City Community College
Beth Tedrow
Sandhill Orthopedic
Farmer's Market
Westlake Hardware
Fleming
Stevens Park
Pine and
Main Streets
Judicial candidate free speech limits face legal challenge
A Wichita based political action committee Kansas Judicial Watch has filed suit in Topeka arguing Kansas rules restricting judicial candidates from public political statements violate free speech rights. The suit seeks to set aside the rules, citing a 2002 Supreme Court decision. Plaintiffs include Sedgwick County judge candidate Robb Rumsey and Butler County judge Charles Hart who faces a separate ballot access challenge.
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Wichita
Kansas
Kansas Judicial Watch
U.S. Supreme Court
Minnesota
Topeka
Sedgwick
Butler County
Andover
Richard Peckham
Wichita Eagle
Ron Keefover
Kansas Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Judicial Ethics Advisory Panel
Peckham
Sedgwick County
Robb Rumsey
Charles Hart
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