Enrollment open now at GCCC
Garden City Community College invites enrollments for fall with daytime and evening classes starting August 17. Early enrollment runs 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday to Thursday and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday at the Administration Building. Registration Day is August 16. Phone enrollment available noon to 8 p.m. Tuesdays to Thursdays through August 11. Campus parking options and mail-in enrollment are noted along with the schedule and online access at www.gceccks.edu. Garden City Public Schools hold a substitute in-service August 9.
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GCCC
Saffell Library
Penka
Pauline Joyce
Kansas
Ialso
Gceccks.edu
Garden City Public
Holiday Inn Express
Kansas Ave
Garden City Public Schools
Office of ‘Instruction
Samie Dupree
Syracuse High School
Sylvia Ramos
Syracuse
Scott City
Healy
Lamar
Colo
First Fair Baby honors at St Catherine Hospital
The first baby born after 442 01 a.m. Thursday at St Catherine Hospital will be named the First Fair Baby. The contest is sponsored by Russell Child Development Center. The family receives baby gifts and the display tour of baskets across locations. Contact Finney County Extension at 272-3670 for details.
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St. Acatherine Hospital
Russell Child Development Center
Finney County
National anti tax figure slams moderates in Kansas
Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform called moderates who back tax increases “rat heads in Coke bottles” at a Statehouse event honoring Sen. Tim Huelskamp for opposing tax hikes. The remark drew mixed reactions from Kansas lawmakers including Senate President Steve Morris and Rep. Bill Light. Huelskamp touted his anti tax stance and his potential run for Congress in Kansas First District.
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Hns
Grover Norquist
Americans For Tax Reform
Norquist
Tim Huelskamp
R-Fowler
Statehouse
Huelskamp
Senate
Steve Morris
Hugoton
Kansas
Morris
Bill Light
R-Rolla
Kathleen Sebelius
Kansas Taxpayers Network
Kansas Supreme Court
High Court
Supreme Court
Congress
Jerry Moran
R-Hays
Light
Republican Party
Fossett plans new 29000 mile world aviation record flight
Steve Fossett and Sir Richard Branson announce a Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer attempt to circumnavigate the globe, likely from Kansas to near London or Kennedy Space Center Florida, aiming to beat the 24987 mile aircraft record and 25361 mile balloon mark. Fossett, 60, trails a history of world records and calls the mission a personal endurance stretch.
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Topeka
Steve Fossett
Sir Richard Branson
Fossett
Globe
Salina
Kansas
London
Wisconsin
C-54 Berlin Airlift Flying Museum Visit at Garden City
Captain Tom Chopp, founder of the Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation, led a restored Spirit of Freedom C-54 to Garden City Regional Airport for a fuel stop en route to Terre Haute Indiana air show. About 50 locals toured the aircraft, learning the Berlin Airlift history and its 1949 end after delivering nearly 1.8 million tons of coal and food.
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Tom Chopp
Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation
Garden City Regional Airport
Toms River
N.J
Garden City
Terre Haute
Ind
Chopp
Carl Millard
Millardair
Toronto
Detroit
Florida
Foundation
Berlin
Tim Chopp
ConAgra recruits for Junction City plant in Garden City visit
Jennifer Whitman led a four hour job fair at the Holiday Inn Express in Garden City for ConAgra’s Junction City sausage processing plant seeking production line workers. Local workers, including Louis Gomez, applied as the company tours Emporia and Dodge City before Garden City. The Garden City plant closed after a 2000 fire and was sold to Swift & Co. in 2002, with no revival announced.
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Garden City
Jennifer Whitman
Holiday Inn Express
Junction City
Whitman
Emporia
Dodge City
Tyson
Holcomb
Louis Gomez
Gomez
Omaha
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Carol Meyer
Garden City Area
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