Ground broken for Great Bend transload facility
Groundbreaking occurred Wednesday for the Great Bend Transload Facility west of the Great Bend airport. A $6.8 million rail shipping hub will connect rail and truck traffic in a public private partnership, with $3 million from the Department of Transportation and operations by Sherwood Cos of Oklahoma City.
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Great Bend
Mike King
Kansas Transportation
Department of Transportation
Sherwood Cos
Oklahoma City
Community events in Finney County Kansas and Lee Richardson Zoo
About 60 vendors from 19 Kansas and Oklahoma communities offer antiques crafts and foods at the zoo fundraiser with car show scavenger hunt duck races and train rides. Proceeds support a new primate exhibit at Lee Richardson Zoo. Pre registration for the car show is 25 dollars, 30 dollars day of. Also featured are home grown produce, crafts and tools sales, a garden show at Stevens Park, a farewell party for two lion cubs at the zoo, and a historical society tour of the 1884 William Fulton House. A music program at the Harmons County Building in Lakin welcomes local performers. Contact details provided.
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Kansas
Oklahoma
Finney County Historic Museum
Lee Richardson
Friends of
Lee Richardson Zoo
Tvern
West Green
Folizcom
Amal
Denver
Zookeeper
Whitney Buchary
Whitney Buchman Garden City
The
Finney County Historical Society
William Fulton
Lee Fichardson Zoo
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By Bryan Horwath
INS
Translad
Kansas City
Stephanie Bogner
Orfa Dunlap
Garden City Farmers Market
Westlake Hardware
Fleming St
Garden City Recreation Commissio
Richie Rich
Stevens Park
N-Main St
Fulton House Tours
Fiddlers
Wenat
Ionthyy
High Pains
Wernorial Bulding
of Lee Richard
Eon Z
Clinique
Vatabe
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