Big Pool to screen Dive In Movie
The Garden City Recreation Commission will feature a Dive In Movie at the Big Pool Friday night. The family friendly film Shark Tale will start at dusk with admission five dollars for adults two dollars for youth and free for children five and younger. Slides will not be open during the movie.
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Garden City Recreation Commission
Emmaus House
Garden City Transition Council
DJ Flame
Mobile Music Masters
GCRC
Luau Week at the Big Pool Next Week
The Big Pool hosts Luau Week with daily activities and a limbo contest plus fruit drinks at the concession shack. On July 15, visitors wearing Hawaiian attire will be admitted free.
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Garden City Recreation Commission
Luau
Watermain Work Begins on Sixth Street
Dick Construction Inc. starts an 8 inch watermain project on Sixth Street from Walnut to Kansas Avenue replacing a 4 inch line with multiple breaks. City Engineer Steve Cottrell notes most work will be behind curbs with partial lane closures and directional drilling to limit open excavations. The $170,448 project funded by the water department should finish in four to six weeks depending on weather.
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Dick Construction Inc
Garden City
Sixth Street
Walnut Street
Kansas Avenue
Steve Cottrell
Cottrell
Farmers workers to receive $1.5 million in back pay
Farmers Insurance will pay just over 1.5 million dollars in back overtime wages to nearly 3,500 workers at 11 customer service call centers in Texas and five other states after a U.S. Labor Department investigation found significant and systemic violations of federal wage hour laws. Centers cited include Austin and Overland Park sites, with others in Olathe, Oklahoma City, Lake Mary, Grand Rapids, Hillsboro and more.
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Farmers Insurance
Texas
Kansas
U.S. Labor Department
Labor Department
Austin
Olathe
Oklahoma City
Lake Mary, Fla
Grand Rapids, Mich
Overland Park
Hillsboro
Ore
Mark Toohey
Los Angeles
Anthony grows plan for downtown redevelopment tax district
In Anthony Kansas the city commission voted to create a special sales tax district to fund downtown rebuilding after a July 2009 fire damaged Main Street. Local businesses would add a 2 percent sales tax for up to 22 years to raise funds, with state permission needed next.
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Anthony
Kansas
Main Street
Ksnw-Tv
Wichita
Deerfield Texaco gas station restored to 1920s glory
Deerfield’s Tudor Texaco station, now on the National Register, has been fully restored to its 1920s appearance and will reopen July 23 during the town’s Summer Celebration. The site features 10 gallon glass dome pumps once used for gravity fed fuel and hosts a concurrent car show.
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Texaco
High Plains
Harold Smith
Kearny County
John Campbell
James Doyle
Garden City
Smith
The
Historical Society
Merle Baublits
la Junta
Colo
Kansas
Zookeeper film ties to Lee Richardson Zoo education night
The Lee Richardson Zoo in Garden City teams with Mitchell Theatres Sequoyah 8 to host an educational opening night for the film Zookeeper starring Kevin James. Docents offer discovery carts 4:15 to 6 p.m. and 6:15 to 7:15 p.m. before showtime, showcasing skulls horns pelts and animal foods to highlight real zookeeper work and care.
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Lee Richardson Zoo
Garden City
Mary Palmer
Kevin James
Mitchell Theatres
Palmer
Sequoyah 8
Sony
Association of Zoos and Aquariums
Stauffer’s
AZA
Target
Stauffers.net
Movie Times
Sequoyahs. Com
Zookeeper
Garden-City.org
Zoo
Dream Your Dreams Buffalo Jones Story debuts in Garden City
Duane West presents Dream Your Dreams The Buffalo Jones Story a new musical premiering at 7 30 pm Friday at Pauline Joyce Fine Arts Building Garden City Community College The show chronicles Charles Jesse Jones one of Garden City s four founding fathers who saved the buffalo from extinction with local and regional artists led by Philip Hoke as director Bruce Spiller as musical director Carolyn Klassen and Linda Adams provide accompaniment All proceeds benefit Finney County United Way Tickets 20 suggested donation available at United Way or by contact 275 1425 Other weekend events include dog wash fundraisers and Red Cross Run for the Red Poker Run with a $1000 best hand prize and Emmaus House Cruise In at Western State Bank
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Buffalo Jones
Garden City
Duane West
Pauline Joyce
Garden City Community College
Charles Jesse Jones
Philip Hoke
Bruce Spiller
GCCC
Carolyn Klassen
Linda Adams
Finney County United Way
Community College
West
Orvileta
United Way
E. Fulton Terrace
Finney County Humane Society
Finney County
Fleming St
Garden City Area
American Red Cross
Samy
E. Kansas Ave
Carolyn Henry
Red Cross
Hhenry
Kscoxmail.com
Emmaus House
Western State Bank
Kansas Ave
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