Coldsmith to speak at Brown Bag Lunch
Don Coldsmith Spur Award winner and author of The Spanish Bit Saga will speak at the Finney County Historical Museum during the Brown Bag Lunch. His talk The Circle of Food explores early Great Plains foods and their influence on European agriculture and medicine. The event is free, sponsored by the Kansas Humanities Council, and held at 403 S Fourth St with coffee and dessert.
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Finney County Historical Museum
Don Coldsmith
Coldsmith
Emporia
Edna
Circle of Food
Great Plains
Kansas Humanities Council
America
Smithsonian Institution
Finney County
S. Fourth St
Gcnet
Fifth Annual Run for the Red Poker Run
The Fifth Annual Run for the Red Poker Run to aid the American Red Cross is set for Sunday morning. Registration opens at 7:30 in Stevens Park with the run starting at 8:30. The course visits the Red Cross office Jetmore Dodge City Montezuma Sublette before returning to the park for a barbecue and Bad MoJo entertainment. Door prizes and poker hand winners will be announced with prize money of 500 for first 200 for second and 100 for third. For more information contact the Red Cross at 276 2762.
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American Red Cross
Stevens Park
Red Cross
Jetmore
Dodge City
Montezuma
Sublette
The
Fair workshop on exhibits at Finney County Fair
A workshop on proper exhibition and entry of flowers and vegetables at the Finney County Fair will start at 6 30 p m Monday at the Finney County Extension Office 501 S Ninth St County Agent Whitey Whitehill will cover vegetable exhibits and Garden City Garden Club members will share flower exhibiting guidance.
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Finney County Fair
Finney County Extension Office
S. Ninth St
Whitey Whitehill
Garden City Garden Club
Plant clinic at Farmer's Market offered by Master Gardeners
A Sick Plant Clinic will run with the Farmer's Market from 7 a.m. to noon Saturday in the Westlake parking lot at 1210 Fleming St. Certified Master Gardeners from the Finney County Extension Office will be on hand to help with plant diseases insects and weeds.
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Westlake
Fleming St
Finney County Extension Office
Kansas eScratch game fails to excite players
Hutchinson AP reports that after May relaunch and new ads the Kansas eScratch lottery game shows 89 percent higher sales than last year yet produced only 260000 in the last six weeks. The total l ager revenue lags far behind last year’s 224 million and well under the original daily goal of 20000.
Lawmakers eye revenue in soda tax and gaming debate
Kansas lawmakers in a 12 day special session adjourned with no tax plan and a bleak budget forecast. Advocates like Lou Ann Kibbee urged a nickel soda tax to fund schools while others favored expanded gaming. Governor Sebelius may steer any future tax move as sessions shift to 2006 elections.
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Hns
Hays
Lou Ann Kibbee
Kibbee
Independent Living Council of Kansas
Supreme Court
House
Melvin Neufeld
Ingalls
Kansas Taxpayers Network
Neufeld
David Wysong
Rleawood
Mission Hills
Wysong
Kansas
Mays
Sebelius
Dennis McKinney
Greensburg
Debate over curbing Kansas Supreme Court power to resume in January
In Topeka the debate over a constitutional amendment to check the Kansas Supreme Court’s power will resume in January. Legislators completed a special session to respond to a court order on education funding, approving a $148.4 million increase while defeating an amendment. Leaders said the issue remains central, with plans to study and possibly revisit the matter next session.
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Topeka
Hns
Kansas Supreme Court
Phil Journey
R-Haysville
House
Dennis McKinney
D. Greensburg
High Court
Doug Mays
R-Topeka
Land auction ends Moore estate's century run in Cimarron
About 150 people gathered at the Gray County 4H Building as heirs of the C H Moore Estate sold 2,700 acres in 12 tracts for 1.575 million dollars. Buyers were mainly local farmers with a few outside investors, while CRP land drew notable interest for its 13 year payments.
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Gray County
4-H
Cimarron
Schrader Real Estate
C.H. Moore
Miller
Moore
Hyatt
Easton
Kansas
R.D. Schrader
Schrader Real Estate and Auction
Columbia City
Ind
Schrader Auction Co
Schrader
CRP
Farm Service Agency
FSA
Montezuma
Frank Nichols
Missouri
Greeley County seeks slogans in Slo-Go contest for growth
The Greeley County Welcoming Committee launches a Slo-Go slogan and logo contest to spur economic development. Entries cost 2 dollars each and become county property. winners may adorn promotional materials. Deadline is Sunday with mail to Tribune Kansas.
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Greeley County
Gail Miller
Miller
Tribune
Terry Woodbury
Wichita County
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