Garden City workshop on Work Plan Training set
Assistant State Coordinator Jean Warta will lead a 6 to 9 p.m. session Tuesday at the Finnup Center for Conservation, Lee Richardson Zoo, Garden City. The event, part of Kansas Main Street education for new cities, covers integrating the Downtown Economic Enhancement Strategy into Downtown Vision plans for fiscal years 2005 and 2006.
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Kansas Main Street
Jean Warta
Garden City
Finnup Center For Conservation
Lee Richardson Zoo
Kansas
Garden City Downtown Vision
Camp Falcon Begins Tuesday in Liberal for 8 to 12
Camp Falcon offers two weekly sessions for children ages 8 to 12 at the Mid America Air Museum in Liberal. Sessions run Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to noon or 2 to 4 p.m. through July 21, costing $7 per week. Activities include experiments and model work on kites balloons gliders powered flight rockets and space. Contact Donald Westfall at 620 624 5263 or alib alcityamdswko.net for details.
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Falcon
Mid- America Air Museum
Second St
Liberal
Donald Westfall
Swko
SAHC hosts wine and food event at private home
The Southwest Arts and Humanities Council presents The Fine Art of Food and Wine on June 18 from 8 to 11 p.m. at Bob and Mary Beth Williams home, 2115 Buffalo Heights Drive. Attendees will hear wine tips from a collector, watch a chef competition, sample wines, and meet sculptor Kivel Yankey from Leon. Tickets are a $50 donation to the SAHC Sculpture Fund, benefiting the Main Street/Depot sculpture project. call 276-6037.
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Southwest Arts and Humanities Council
Bob and Mary ' Beth Williams
Buffalo Heights Drive
Kivel Yankey
Leon
SAHC
Main Street
Depot
City expands rent-a-truck and sidewalk aid programs
The city offers $25 dump truck rentals April through September to help residents haul yard waste with trucks dropped off at 5 p.m. on weekdays and returned next day. weekend options exist. Sidewalk repair grants reimburse half the cost up to 750 dollars, with city funding around 20,000 yearly.
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Sam Curran
Public Works
Curran
City Street Department
City Public Works Department
Board to hear request to use Friend School for home
Organizers seek to repurpose the former Friend School building, about 20 miles north of Garden City, as a residential youth home after failing to take over Theoni School. Marcie Heady and Karin Good plan a sale, lease, or donation decision by the school board the district owns the property. They cite a larger, out-of-town site to reduce outside influences for special needs children. County commissioners previously denied Theoni due to agricultural zoning and water sewer concerns.
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Theoni School
Friend School
Marcie Heady
Karin Good
Montezuma
Friend
Heady
Garden City
Theoni
Garden City USD 457 Board Faces School Sale Question
Garden City USD 457 Board of Education meets at 7 30 p m Monday in the board room 1205 Fleming St. to discuss selling or repurposing a building after concerns about residential group home suitability. The board will vote on a security services agreement with the city to share extra middle school resource officer salaries post school hours and hear Tony Faulkner’s energy usage update noting costs have fallen in recent years.
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Jim Lentz
Theoni
Lentz
Garden City
Tony Faulkner
Ballantyne
Finney County
USD 457
Economic Development Committee
Bill Fruth
Finney County Economic Development Corp
GCCC
First Kansan sex predator released to rural group home
Leroy Hendricks aged 70 has been released from Larned State Hospital to a rural group home near Lawrence in Leavenworth County under 24 hour supervision. SRS officials declined to reveal the exact location. A petition drive collected about 4,500 signatures opposing his residence in the area.
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Lawrence
Leroy Hendricks
Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services
Leavenworth County
Mike Devies
SRS
Hendricks
Larned State Hospital
Charlotte Hastings
Hastings
Front Door project advances at Garden City Community College
Garden City Community College trustees meet Tuesday to receive a $3.12 million Front Door Project update including site work bids due by July 6 and groundbreaking set for July 10. The plan adds student services and classroom space, aiming to create a central campus focal point.
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Garden City Community College
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Pittsburg
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Carol Ballantyne
Garden City Community College Board of Trustees
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