Anthrax drill tests Finney County agencies
Agencies from police and fire to EMS public works and health department joined a Wednesday morning drill at the Finney County Public Works Building. Forty-two students in a class were treated as casualties in a simulated anthrax incident under 100 degree heat. First responders practiced decontamination and rapid transport while noting communication needs and heat-related illness. The exercise cost part of a 34000 grant to the Finney County Health Department.
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Garden City
Public Works
Finney County Health Department
Finney County Public Works
West Maple St
St Catherine Hospital
Michael Paz-Torres
Kansas Division of Emergency Management
Topeka
Ashley Goss
Health Department
Goss
Bureau of Public Health Preparedness
Holcomb Officials Propose Slightly Lower 2012 Mill Levy
Holcomb City Council approved a reduced 2012 mill levy during a special meeting, pledging further cuts if possible before the August public hearing. They worked late to finalize the nearly $3.9 million budget for the upcoming fiscal year, voting unanimously to publish the proposed levy of 52,848, expected to raise about $498,350 in property taxes.
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Holcomb
Dwindling aquifer reshapes western Kansas farming
In Garden City and across western Kansas, long held beliefs about inexhaustible groundwater from the Ogallala Aquifer gave way to a stark realization. Rodger Funk recalls a 1950s meeting where researchers warned the water was finite, changing his life and farming outlook as the aquifer's exhaustion looms.
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Wichita
Rodger Funk
Kansas
Funk
Garden City
Ogallala
Space shuttle ends 30 year NASA program with Atlantis touchdown
Atlantis and crew wrap up a 30 year shuttle era with a triumphant landing at Kennedy Space Center. Commander Christopher Ferguson hailed the mission as America’s job well done while NASA faces uncertain future and job losses as private spaceflight lines up to take the baton.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Atlantis
International Space Station
Triumph
NASA
Kennedy Space Center
Christopher Ferguson
America
Mission Control
USS
Asteroids
Mars
Ferguson
Douglas Hurley
Rex Walheim
Sandra Magnus
Space Shuttle
Weather forecast for tonight and Friday
Tonight partly cloudy with a low around 76 degrees. Friday brings mostly sunny skies with a high near 104 and a low around 74. Details on page A8.
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Laurie
Shea Valerio
Council
Schwieterman Inc
Chicago
Annie
Garden City Co-op
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