Garden City High School baseball awards and events
A church events listing for next week appears alongside a photo caption noting Skyler Heinz and Alex Bas cue as top defensive and offensive players for Garden City High School baseball 2004. Bas cue is identified with Norma in the caption.
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Skyler Heinz
Alex Bascue
Garden City
Reservoir vision outlines southwest Kansas future park
Horse Thief Reservoir board and Pawnee Watershed District manager Ron Allen surveyed the future site eight miles west of Jetmore to imagine a 1100 acre park with a 450 acre lake. The plan includes camping trails grills fire pits boat ramps and a swimming beach funded by a county sales tax and state lake program. Citizens in Ford Hodgeman Gray and Finney counties will vote in April 2005 on a 0.1 percent tax projected to raise about 6 million over 15 to 17 years toward a 10 million project with annual operating costs around 70000 dollars.
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Greeley County adopts charter school plan for seventh through ninth graders
Greeley County schools will open a new charter school this fall funded by the Kansas Department of Education. The district, cash strapped, will serve seventh through ninth graders without a new building. Superintendent Bill Wilson says the program blends existing methods with individualized approaches, including eighth graders on field studies linking history geography and science. The district reports test scores above the state average.
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Cheyenne County
Rural schools gain reprieve on teacher standards
The Education Department granted rural schools more time to meet federal teacher qualifications, easing pressure for many isolated districts. In the South, few schools received the reprieve, sparking frustration from researchers who say some small, poor districts still do not qualify.
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Ross Frank
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Jeremiah Taylor
Adel Middle School
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Garden City woman receives hospitals 150th heart transplant
Berneda Miller, a Garden City resident and St. Catherine Hospital staffer, traveled to Wichita for care at Kansas Heart Hospital. She underwent the 150th heart transplant at Via Christi St. Francis on June 29, a week marked by two additional transplants setting a hospital record. Miller reports her heart functioning well and expects to be released soon.
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Wichita
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Garden City
St. Catherine Hospital
Kansas Heart Hospital
Via Christi St. Francis Medical Center
Via Christi
Maria Loving
Senate votes for FDA oversight of cigarettes in tax bill
The Senate approved broad powers for the FDA to regulate cigarettes including banning child appealing ads and eliminating harmful ingredients. The plan was tied to a $12 billion buyout of tobacco farmers and passed 78-15 as part of a corporate tax bill sent to a conference committee.
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