Garden City records low at 48 degrees Tuesday night
The Telegram reports Garden City posted a record low of 48 degrees Tuesday night after a week of highs nationwide. Kansas State University Extension Center farm manager Jeff Elliott notes the previous July 27 record was 54 degrees. National Weather Service projects highs around 81 today, 92 Thursday, and upper 90s Friday to Sunday, with lows in the mid-60s.
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Garden City
Jeff Elliott
Kansas State University Research and Extension Center
National Weather Service
Bread baking contest at Finney County Fair celebrates Kansas 4 H
In honor of 100 years of Kansas 4 H a bread baking contest is held as part of the Great American Foods Contest at the Finney County Fair. Youth and adult divisions offer 35 dollars to winners. Entries are checked in August 4 from 2 to 6 pm at the Exhibition Building.
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Kansas
Finney County Extension Office
Deadline Sunday to sign up for pond tour entries
The Garden City Pond Club invites pond owners to join the annual pond tour on August 21. No pond size or entry fee. call Prairie Wind Aquatics at 276-0700 to participate. Previous tours attracted 700 to 800 attendees.
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Garden City Pond Club
Prairie Wind Aquatics
Summer orchestra program at Garden City High School
Garden City Public Schools offer a summer orchestra for grades six through twelve in the vocal music room at Garden City High School. The program runs until Aug 5 with separate 50 minute sessions for each grade level and high school students urged to attend full day to assist younger players.
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Garden City
Garden ‘City High School
N. Main St
Garden City summer band starts Monday for students
Fifth and sixth grade band students in Garden City will begin summer band on Monday at Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Center 3101 Belmont Place with sessions from 9 to 3. A instrument checkout day Friday allows students to pick up school-owned instruments and try options from Brier & Hale as they explore their choices. The six week program runs through August 11 with detailed daily slots for each instrument group.
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Garden City
Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Center
Belmont Place
Brier & Hale
Bernadine Sitts
First of its kind case in county over shoplifting warning
Felicia Martinez, 19, of Lamar Colorado, received a written shoplifting warning at Wal Mart in Garden City, later charged with burglary in a related event. Finney County court faces awaiting sentencing. program aims to curb theft by banning offenders from entering any Wal Mart store with potential felony charges for recidivists.
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Sharon Webber
Wal-Mart
Finney County
Garden City
Law Enforcement Center
N. Ninth St
Felicia Martinez
Lamar
Colo
Webber
Potatoes Find Niche in Garden City Sand Hills Kansas
In Garden City Kansas farmers tap sand hills for potatoes grown for chips. Western Potato of Alliance Nebraska rents ground near Garden City and ships to Frito Lay plants in Irving Texas or Colorado Springs. Harvest runs July 10 to mid August with irrigation and sandy soil key to quality.
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Garden City
Jim Allen
Western Potato
Alliance
Neb
Allen
Brookover Companies
Nebraska
Colorado
Frito Lay
Irving
Texas
Colorado Springs
Colo
National Agricultural Statistics Service
Kansas
Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service
Potato consumption and history facts summary
The data state that the average American eats over 140 pounds of potatoes yearly, tomatoes about 100 pounds, and among crops only wheat surpasses potatoes in dietary importance. Potatoes bring $3 billion yearly to U.S. farmers. Conquistadors encountered potatoes in 1537 in Peru and Colorado priced 5.40 per hundred pounds in 2005.
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Peru
Colorado
Kansas children in poverty rise 17 percent 2000 to 2008
Kansas saw a 17 percent rise in child poverty from 2000 to 2008 with 14 percent of the state's 685 000 children below the federal poverty level in 2003. Experts link job losses to economic recession and warn of long term harms while Congress debates cuts to health and food programs.
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Topeka
Hns
Kansas
Annie E. Casey Foundation
Baltimore
Congress
Gary Brunk
Kansas Action For Children
Laura Beavers
Kids Count
Beavers
U.S
Brunk
Kansas City
Holcomb USD 363 Board reviews district goals
The Holcomb district examined its goals in three areas climate, academics and fiscal accountability deciding to keep most with few changes. They removed economic development from community relations and discussed a student building enhancement fund while preserving the Holowach Scholarship Fund with a minimum balance of 600000.
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USD
Board of Education
Holcomb
Mike Pfeifer
Garden City
Tim Miller
Skip Landis
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