Garden City Loses 3i Show to Dodge City Start
The 3i Show, a long running agricultural trade exhibition held in Garden City and Great Bend in alternating years, will move to Dodge City as a permanent site starting next July and run July 12 to 14, 2012. WKMA president Eddie Estes could not comment. An email to exhibitors cites new show days and dates chosen to better ensure exhibitor success.
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Great Bend
Dodge City
Western Kansas Manufacturers Association
WKMA
Eddie Estes
Estes
Conside
USD 457 proposes small mill levy rise for 2011-12 budget
Garden City USD 457 plans a tax rate increase of under a quarter mill in the 2011-12 budget, below the previously discussed two-mill rise. Financial officer Kathleen Whitley cited a 9 percent rise in district property valuations and enrollment surpassing 7,000 as factors, noting higher state revenue could offset nearly seven million dollars in funding losses over three years.
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Board of Education
Kathleen Whitley
Garden City Public Schools
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Whitley
Newly seated USD 457 board takes first steps
Gloria Hopkins was elected president and Jean Clifford vice president of the USD 457 Board of Education at the first meeting of the newly seated board on Monday night. Five new members Mark Rude Thomas Blackburn Tim Cruz Alex Wallace Lara Bors joined the seven member body, replacing four former members and one resigning member. Hopkins and Clifford, both in their third year, led the reorganizing steps as Clerk Joanne Nelson Deputy Clerk Theresa Meng and Treasurer Stephanie Matheson also kept posts, with Randall Grisell the attorney. The Garden City Telegram was named the district's official newspaper. Commerce Bank and American State Bank were designated des- See Education, Page A5.
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Gloria Hopkins
Jean Clifford
USD 457
Board of Education
Hopkins
Clifford
Garden City Public Schools
Fleming St
Mark Rude
Thomas Blackburn
Tim Cruz
Alex Wallace
Lara Bors
Mike Utz
Gail Dunford
Bruce Reichmuth
Jeff Crist
John Scheppner
Bors
Scheopner
Rick Atha
Tom Blackburn
Airport in Garden City wins $250K KAAP grant
The Garden City Regional Airport received a $250000 grant from the Kansas Affordable Airfares Program KAAP to bolster efforts for regional jet service. REAP officials said this marks the first KAAP award outside Wichita Mid-Continent and follows Wichita receiving the remaining annual KAAP funds after Garden City had historically earned the full $5 million.
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Regional Economic Area Partnership of
South Central Kansas
Kansas Affordable Airfares Program
KAAP
Wichita
Mid-Continent
Central Kansas
KEAP
REAP
County cuts funding as mill levy lowered for 2012
Finney County commissioners set a new county tax mill levy about one third of a mill lower than last year. The 36,898 levy is expected to generate about $17.9 million for a $31 million budget in 2012. Departments and outside agencies faced funding cuts and some programs were eliminated during the day long budget session.
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Finney County
County Commission
Weather forecast summary for tonight and Wednesday
Tonight partly cloudy with a thunderstorm. Low 74. Wednesday mostly sunny and breezy with a high of 98 and a low of 70. Details on page A8.
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