Handgun and driving courses offered at Garden City CC
Garden City Community College offers an eight hour concealed carry course approved by the Kansas Attorney General's Office and a separate defensive driving course. Dates include Aug 22 Sep 12 Oct 10 Nov 14 Dec 12 with 7:30 am to 5 pm and 8 am to 5 pm sessions. Fees are 125 and 50 dollars. Registration through Lita Paulson at 276-9629 or lita.paulson gcccks.edu.
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Garden City Community College Department of Publicity
Kansas
National Safety Council
Kansas Attorney General’s Office
GCCC
John Collins Vocational
Sand and Sage Rifle and Pistol Club
Lita Paulson
Collins
Lita. Paulson
CASA seeks school supplies drive for abused children
Spirit of the Plains CASA requests donations of backpacks gift cards to Wal Mart Target or Sam s Club and monetary gifts to provide school supplies for abused and neglected children in the program. In 2008 they helped over 90 children and aim to do so again this year. Contact CASA at 271 6197 or casa wbsnet.org.
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Spirit of the Plains
CASA
Wal-Mart
Target
Sam’s Club
Wbsnet.org
Whitfields Concert at Garden Valley Village Tonight
The Whitfields from Syracuse perform a potpourri of music at Garden Valley Retirement Village. Billy Whitfield features fiddle and guitar while Lorretta Whitfield plays piano. admission is free and the public is welcome.
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Whitfields
Syracuse
Garden Valley Retirement Village
Spruce St
Billy Whitfield
Lorretta Whitfield
Trustees approve 0.76 mill tax hike for GCCC budget
Finney County's Great Plains Community College trustees back a 0.76 mill increase for 2009-10 raising the levy to 19.12 mills and the capital outlay to 1.06 mills. The general fund tops 9.5 million with higher utility and other costs.
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Garden City Community College Board of Trustees
GCCC
Finney County
Carol Ballantyne
Ballantyne
Della Brandenburger
Clifford
Ron Schwartz
Kansas Association of Community College Trustees
Finney County Economic Development Corp
Stanton County Fair celebrates Pioneer Days in Johnson City
Fair events drew families for a two mile fun run, tractor pull, turtle race, and parade Saturday morning. A lunch in the park with bean bag toss and water balloon dodge ball followed, with Interact volunteers assisting. Local residents from Johnson City and visitors from Flagstaff joined the activities as cool weather boosted attendance. The weekend closed with a street dance and an ice cream social on Sunday.
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Johnson City
Stanton County
Masonic Lodge
Chamber of Commerce
Karla Dimitt
Dimitt
Chamber
Interact
Stanton County High School
Mendoza
Marisol Mendoza
Rural Kansas towns seek revival through a shared tourism drive
Kansas Sampler Foundation director Marci Penner leads a $50,000 Department of Commerce grant program to teach communities the explorer mindset and how to market their towns via social media. Free two day classes will help towns develop collective promotion and create a presence on the Rural Kansas portal, highlighting architecture, history, and local assets.
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Marci Penner
Kansas
Penner
Kansas Sampler Foundation
Kansas Department of Commerce
Foundation
Facebook
Twitter
Lynda Fort
Grant County
Fort
Cedar View
Manhattan
Lea Anne Seiler
Hodgeman County
Seiler
Hodgeman
Kansas tightens cemetery oversight after prepaid scandal
Kansas has strengthened cemetery regulation after the Westlawn Memorial Gardens fraud, requiring all 71 cemeteries under the secretary of state's authority to file annual financial reports and allowing full audits. The scandal led Shawnee County to warn 1,300 Westlawn customers that prepaid merchandise and services may not be honored, with partial refunds possible.
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Topeka
Kansas
Kansas Attorney General's Office
Westlawn Memorial Gardens
Michael Graham
Secretary of State
Missouri
Jesse Borton
Graham
Shawnee County
Bob Fells
The
International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association
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