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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 2004
Page
3
The Finney County Farm Service Agency calls for producer nominations for the district three committee seat in the eastern panhandle. Nomination forms are at the FSA office or online, must be signed, and postmarked by September 3. Elections are by mail with ballots mailed November 8 and due back December 6.
Saint Francis Academy announces free PS-MAPP parenting classes for adults 21 and older interested in foster care. Courses start September 9 in Garden City, meet weekly for 10 weeks, with professional support, tax free pay, and respite care. Call (866) 999-1599 for information.
State Rep Ward Loyd of Garden City will serve as the secretary of corrections appointee on the Kansas Criminal Justice Recodification Rehabilitation and Restoration Project. Loyd, chair of the Joint Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice Oversight, helped author the 2004 legislation establishing the panel which seeks to review statutes and sentencing guidelines and plan rehabilitation and reintegration. The committee will file an interim report to the Legislature by February 2005.
Sylvester Lynn Jones, 20, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the June 13 2003 deaths of April Melholland and Samuel Yanofsky in Caney. He also pleaded guilty to aiding a felon. Sentencing set for Sept. 7 with potential prison terms up to 59 months and eight months respectively.
Kansas Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh estimates about 430000 of 1.58 million registered voters will vote in Tuesday's primary. He notes turnout mirrors 2000 levels but a larger registration base yields about 4500 more voters, driven by advanced voting, contested seats, and county questions. He cites Johnson and Shawnee counties as turnout hot spots and discusses party registration trends and unaffiliated voting rules.
A 21 year old Derby soldier Spc Joseph F Herndon II was killed by gunfire on guard duty in Hawijah Iraq. He served with Battalion 27th Infantry 25th Infantry Division from Schofield Barracks Hawaii. He was twice awarded Purple Heart and leaves a wife Melanie in Hawaii. He was among Kansans killed in Iraq and his burial plans were pending.
Trista Brown, 17, escaped serious injury after a 1973 Cessna flipped in a ditch following a crosswind during her first solo landing at Sublette Airport. She walked away with a cut on a leg and welts, checked by an on-site ambulance, while planning to return to flying after airport time off and Kansas State studies.
US Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman announced emergency grazing of Conservation Reserve Program lands in 21 western Kansas counties affected by drought. Grazing runs until Sept 30 with a 10 percent rental reduction. hay cutting remains prohibited. Counties include Finney, Greeley, Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Lane, Scott, Stanton, Wichita and others in northwest and southwest Kansas. Farmers must contact local Farm Service Agency offices to request grazing and work with NRCS on a forage management plan.
The Finney County Commission will discuss rezoning land north of Koehn Avenue and Third Street from agricultural to suburban estates with four lots amid neighbor opposition. They may also review the final plat if zoning passes and consider drainage funding. Additional items include Community Corrections funding requests, the annual employee picnic site, and district budget updates.
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