Finney County weighs cloud based alert system for residents
Finney County commissioners discussed adopting CivicReady for mass notifications via website social media and text. They noted grants would fund the system with no general fund cost and approved the arrangement pending grant funding. The panel also OK’d two property tax abatements Sleep Inn & Suites 10 years 20 percent and K S LLC 2 years 0 percent, plus 10 year 30 percent for Garden City Co op elevator. They also accepted a Piper Jaffray bond bid for correction services and approved 6.625 million in sales tax bonds for the project aided by a March sales tax extension.
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Finney County
Pat Torres
Paz- Torres
CivicReady
Dave Jones
Paz-Torres
Jones
Pat-Torres
Commission
Sleep Inn & Suites
K&s, LLC
Randy Partington
County Commission
K&s
Reynaldo Mesa
Roman Halbur
Garden City Coop
Plymell
Partington
Kansas Board of Tax Appeals
Piper Jaffray
Correction Services
Police Child Left in Car Spurred Store Response and Investigation
Garden City police and Finney County officials investigated a Sunday incident in which a child was found in a vehicle. A good Samaritan alerted staff at Dillons, the family was located inside the store, and EMS checked the boy who was cleared to go home. No arrests were made as investigators continue to gather facts and decide on possible action by the Finney County Attorney's Office.
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Sheila Lowrie
Dillons
Lowrie
Finney County Ems
St. Catherine Hospital
Department of Children and Family
Garden City
Randy Ralston
DCF
Finney County
Susan Richmeier
Facebook
Richmeier
GCPD
Finney County Attorney’s Office
Finney County Fair kicks off with free hamburger feed
The Finney County Fair opens with a free hamburger feed sponsored by Western State Bank. Highlights include a Demolition Derby Friday at 8 p.m. in the grandstand with $10 admission, a free photo booth 7 to 10 p.m., and a packed Saturday with a sidewalk art contest, pedal tractor pull at 1 p.m., 380 Archery at the horse palace, and a livestock events lineup culminating in a Monster Truck Exhibition and premium auction. The Pride of Texas Carnival runs Wednesday through Sunday, with Hedrick's Exotic Animal Farm visiting Thursday through Saturday outside Nickerson. 4-H activities, crafts, foods, and livestock judging run throughout the week.
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Grandstand Arena
Grandstand Plaza
Horse Palace
Dark Side Archery
Stanton County
Gray County
Gray County Fairgrounds
Last Week of USD 457 Summer Books on the Bus Ends
USD 457 wraps up its Summer Books on the Bus program with the final visit day on Thursday. B.O.B. routes stop at Lee Richardson Zoo Ayala Park and Finnup Park on Mondays and Garden City locations on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with time slots from 10:15 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Kids Meals on Wheels accompanies B.O.B. delivering sack lunches at Charles O. Stones and Horace Good Middle School. Youth meals are free for under 18, adults pay 3.50.
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Lee Richardson Zoo
E. Finnup Drive
Ayala Park
N. Taylor St
Garden City Municipal Pool
Finnup Park
East Garden Village
E. US. Highway 50
Towns Riverview South
Garden City
H&h
Kids Meals On Wheels
B.O.B
Charles O. Stones
Jennie Barker Road
Horace Good
N. Main St
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Education Partnership
Great Plains
United Methodists
Finney County Fair
Western State Bank
Prospect Drilling LLC
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Sun
ABIG
American Implement
Applebees
Golden Plains Credit Union
Keller Leopold
Lewis Motors
Pro-Build
Valley State Bank
Brenda Reeves
Max Miller
Trevor Green
Garden City Noon Lions
The
Finney County Humane Society
Garden City, KS
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