Firefighting classes open for fall at Garden City CC
Garden City Community College begins a two year Fire Science Program for new and in service professionals. The curriculum aligns with National Professional Firefighters Association standards and leads to an associate degree. Classes start August 13 with enrollment open now. For details contact Judy Crumble or Dennis Elam.
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Garden City Community College
Judy Crumble
GCCC
National Professional Firefighters Association
Dennis Elam
Department of Public Safety
Team T
Crumble
Sixth grade band camp at Garden City High School
The sixth grade summer band camp for Bernadine Sitts and Charles O Stones centers runs Monday through August 8. Students meet 11 a.m. to noon in the high school band room. A pizza party is set for August 1 at Pizza Hut from 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Bring lunch money. A concert for parents is scheduled for August 8 from 11 to 11:30 a.m. Call Bettee Gilkison at 275-1667 for more information.
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Bernadine Sitts and
Charles O. Stones
Brier and Hale Music
N. Main St
Bernadine Sitts
Garden City High School
Yamaha Advantage
Pizza Hut
Bettee Gilkison
Lakin crossing closure for concrete panel replacement
The Main Street railroad crossing in Lakin will close Monday for construction. Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railroad will replace the crossing surface with concrete panels, keeping the crossing shut for four to five days. Kansas Highway 25 traffic will be detoured east two blocks to Buffalo Street.
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Main Street
Lakin
Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railroad
Buffalo Street
Death makes Arena game end in 7 7 tie
A Bakersfield Blitz versus Wichita Stealth game was ruled a 7 7 tie after Julian Yearwood collapsed in the first quarter at the Kansas Coliseum and died about an hour later in a Wichita hospital. Autopsy did not indicate a cause.
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Wichita
Arena Football
Bakersfield Blitz
Wichita Stealth
Julian Yearwood
Bakersfield
Kansas Coliseum
Yearwood
Inmate at large after assault on deputy in Dodge City
Manuel Delavara-Leon, 44, escaped from a deputy's patrol car after attacking him while en route to a doctor. The caravan had no protective cage between seats, and Delavara-Leon is being held on a parole violation. The deputy suffered minor injuries and the incident remains under internal investigation.
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Dodge City
Manuel Delavara-Leon
Ford County
James Lane
Lane
Delawara-Leon
Jose Ricardo Garcia-Lopez
Salazar
Dole Institute Dedication Honors WWII Veterans at KU
On Bob Doles 80th birthday the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas opened with a ceremony led by Tom Brokaw. Jimmy Carter attended as dignitaries praised veterans while the 11 million building funds and 4 000 boxes of Doles papers were highlighted for public service and citizen involvement.
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NBC News
Tom Brokaw
Bob Maxwell
Quinter
Maxwell
U.S
Institute
Dole
Dole Institute Debuts Amid Russell Reunion at KU
Russell longtime friends Del Ary Dee Veecher Bonnie Langdon and Nancy Donaldson joined Bob Dole’s birthday events at the University of Kansas for a three day tribute to World War II veterans. A charter bus tour from Russell brought 34 locals to see the new Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics and its exhibits including the Memory Wall and a six minute video on Dole’s 1945 convalescence.
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Bonnie Langdon
Fairfield
Calif
Nancy Donaldson
Russell
Dole
Robert J. Dole
Bob
Adolph
Italy
Adolph Reisig
Everett Dumler
Cole
Kansas
Banker
Reisig
Dole Institute
Hospital spokesman may take school district post
Roy Cessna, public relations coordinator at St. Catherine Hospital, is favored to become USD 457's public information coordinator pending board approval at the July 28 meeting. If hired, he would start August 18, replacing Janice Stephens who left May 31. Cessna, 34, brings nine years in public relations and crisis communication, with a KU degree in communication and marketing. He would earn 38,450 dollars plus 4,440 for health insurance and 100 monthly for mileage.
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USD 457
St. Catherine Hospital
Roy Cessna
Julie Ford
Cessna
USD 457 Board of Education
Ford
Janice Stephens
St. Catherine’s
Golden Plains Credit Union
University of Kansas
Garden City Area Chamber of Commerce
Finney County
Big Brothers
Big Sisters
Georgia Matthews
Car and foot chase ends in arrest in Garden City
Christopher Moeder, 23, of Colorado Springs, led Garden City police on a speeding chase then fled on foot into a field. He was arrested by Finney County deputies at 6:32 p.m. on Mansfield Road for multiple traffic violations, obstruction, open container, drug paraphernalia and fleeing eluding officers. Moeder, treated for heat exhaustion at St. Catherine Hospital, is jailed.
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Garden City
Finney County Sheriff’s
Christopher Moeder
Colorado Springs
Colo
Mansfield Road
Mike Utz. Moeder
St. Catherine Hospital
Finney County
David Wheet
Jennie Barker
Wheet
Moeder
Utz
Towns Road
Towns Riverview
Nico
Kevin Lampe
Renny
Lampe
Bill seeks Congress oversight of VA CARES restructuring
Rep. Dennis Moore in Overland Park unveiled a bill that would force the Veterans Affairs Department to notify Congress 60 days before approving CARES based service cuts. The measure, with 115 co sponsors, aims to curb hospital closures bed reductions or service downsizing while allowing hearings across the country from August to October.
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Overland Park
Kansas
Department of Veterans Affairs
Congress
Dennis Moore
American Legion
Kansas City
Washington
CARES
Capital Asset Realignment For Enhanced Services
Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Moore
Phil Budahn
Bob Alin
Association of the United States Army
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Sheriff’s Office
Reno County
Bob Dole
Sara Kincaid Sarak
Gctelegram
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