Garden City USD 457 to discuss goals for new year
Garden City USD 457 board of education meets at 6 p.m. at the Educational Support Center to discuss board goals for the coming year. They will consider a memorandum with Garden City Community College on the Migrant Family Literacy Project, an easement for a drain and storm sewer near Abe Hubert Middle School, a policy revision on administration of medications, and bids for district furniture and staff and student handbooks.
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Gertrude Walker
Kenneth Henderson
GCCC Names Two Endowed Scholarship Funds
Garden City Community College announces the Cecil and Catherine Davis Endowed Scholarship and the Allen and Nancy Leiker Endowed Scholarship for business majors. Funds are endowed and will generate awards each fall through the Dean of Institutional Effectiveness and Enrollment Services with the Business and Information Systems Division. Interested students should contact the Student Financial Aid Office and donors may contribute to the Endowment Association.
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AT&T completes high speed network in western Kansas
AT&T says it has finished a mobile broadband network across 43 western Kansas counties with 90 cell sites covering about 37,000 square miles. The Wichita Eagle notes the project is part of its Kansas investment, totaling more than 575 million dollars in wireless and wire line networks between 2008 and 2010.
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Willie Nelson to be inducted into National Agricultural Hall of Fame
Farm Aid founder Willie Nelson will be inducted into the National Agricultural Hall of Fame in Bonner Springs. The Aug. 12 ceremony precedes the 26th Farm Aid concert at Livestrong Sporting Park in Kansas City Kansas. Nelson helped organize Farm Aid in 1985 with John Mellencamp and Neil Young to aid family farmers.
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Area agencies win state domestic violence grants
Two area agencies receive state funds to fight domestic violence. Family Crisis Services in Garden City gets 128 072 and Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center in Scott City receives 44 890 from a 5.7 million statewide pool. Scott City agency serves 29 western counties with RA VOCA support from DoJ.
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Garden City summer programs wrap up with final stops
USD 457 concludes the Summer Books on the Bus and Kids Meals on Wheels programs this week with final visits across Garden City. Bookmobile schedules cover Lee Richardson Zoo Ayala Park Big Pool and other sites Monday through Thursday with times and locations listed on the Garden City Public Schools website.
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Kansas taps stimulus funds for renewable energy projects
Kansas seeks federal approval to shift more than 20 million in stimulus from the Efficiency Kansas energy efficiency loan program to three renewable energy projects in Wichita Oakley and across the state. If approved the program would be left with only 1 to 2 million to operate for weeks.
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Study panel begins work on changes to Kansas pension plan
A 13 member panel of Kansas legislators lawyers and financial planners began work on changes to the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System KPERS to keep it solvent The panel will study long term funding and a possible new 401 k style plan as lawmakers consider raising state contributions and options for employees to sacrifice future benefits to stabilize finances KPERS faces a growing shortfall and the panel includes Senate President Steve Morris and co chairs Sen Jeff King Rep Mitch Holmes.
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