Area summer events promote charity, tours and car shows
Area counties continue a busy July schedule with art displays from Russian students in Stanton County Library, a Lane County Backyard Pond Tour for families, and a Scott County fishing derby at Lake Scott State Park. Lakin hosts an antique car show with a parade and vision screening, while Hamilton and Lane Counties feature a Peggy Thompson benefit supper and a Cruise-In at Dighton City Park with a Show and Shine and Backyard Bash. Proceeds aid Thompson’s breast cancer treatments and community eye care projects.
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Stanton County
Johnson City
Kansas
Mead
Isabelle Borth
Olga Chernish
Madgnitogorsk
Chernish
Dodge City
Soviet Union
Friends of Kansas Libraries
Lane County
Kansas Wildlife and Parks
Bill’s Outdoor Sports
Call
Kearny County
Lakin Lions Club
U-Pump-It
Commerce Bank
Lakin
Beymer Park
Lions Club
Hamilton County
Peggy Thompson
VFW
North Main Street
Thompson
Julie Parks
Toni Miller
Dighton City Park
Chamber of Commerce
Heat waves grip Garden City as temps hover mid 90s
The National Weather Service warns Garden City will stay in the mid 90s through next Thursday. Residents face heat illness risk, fire danger, and stressed outdoor plants. Elderly people, outdoor workers, and those with certain meds are most at risk. Heat stroke requires emergency care. heat exhaustion is treatable with cool surroundings and fluids. Fire risk rises from dry fields and open burning. Pets need extra water and shade. the animal shelter acts on neglect reports. Zoos and plants require cooling and extra watering.
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National Weather Service
Garden City
Stanford University
Amy Kunihiro
Allen Shelton
Shelton
Finney County Animal Control
Karen Wesley
Animal Shelter
Mes
Sage
Wesley
Friends of Lee Richardson Zoo
Franklin Vincenzi
Zoo
Vincenzi
Mike Ward
Ward
Garden Center
Sharon
Holcomb board weighs drug policy as new year begins
USD 363 board members meet in Holcomb Elementary room 142 at 7 30 p m to decide whether to end or modify the school drug testing policy for athletes in light of a 10th Circuit ruling. New directors Pfeifer McClelland and Komlofske join veteran members to set budget hearing date and elect officers while Wiley and Holcomb High School additions are reviewed.
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USD 363 Board of Education
Holcomb
Holcomb Board
Dean Ryan
10Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Oklahoma
Ryan
Mike Rome
Boyd Funk
Robert Knoll
Daryl Prater
10Th Circuit
Michael Pfeifer
John McClelland
Russell Komlofske
Wiley
Holcomb High School
Boy in critical condition after Gray County crash
A 1-year-old Ingalls boy and his 31-year-old mother are hospitalized after a Thursday morning crash on Gray County Road. Ernie Fehr and Katharina Fehr were taken to St. Catherine Hospital after the 1991 Dodge SUV rolled into a ditch and the child was ejected. Authorities report loss of control on a gravel road and unclear seat belt use.
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Ingalls
Gray County Road
Ernie Fehr
Katharina Fehr
St. Catherine Hospital
Fehr
Kansas Highway Patrol
Gray County
Fehrs
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Brad Nading
U.S. Highway 54
Garden City Regional
Southwest
Graham K. Johns
Debra Judd
Bailey
Main Street
Marie Frans
Keylee
Beaver
Okla
USD
Board of Education
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