Garden City Municipal Band to perform twice this week
Garden City audiences will enjoy two concerts this week with the Garden City Municipal Band. The Friday 8 p.m. Stevens Park bandshell show will feature music of the sea including The Unsinkable Molly Brown and Victory at Sea. Bruce Spiller leads the band with community college ties.
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Molly Brown
Meredith Wilson
Richard Rodgers
Bruce Spiller
Garden City Community College
Zoobalee
Garden Valley hosts Child Identification Day Saturday
Garden Valley hosts a community event from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 1505 E Spruce, featuring fingerprinting, photo IDs, a carnival, multifamily garage sale, and visits by a fire truck and police robot. Proceeds fund a courtyard for the Alzheimer's Special Care Unit. free service for residents. Call 275 9651 for details.
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Garden Valley 7 Area Village
E. Sprucer
Finnup Center opens this weekend at Lee Richardson Zoo
The Finnup Center for Conservation Education at Lee Richardson Zoo will be open 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday through the summer with volunteers staffing the building. Interactive displays cover rainforest, recycling, and Kansas weather, plus live animals such as reptiles, amphibians, endangered black footed ferrets, salt-water fish, and invertebrates. The center at 312 E Finnup Drive operates 8 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
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Lee Richardson Zoo
Kansas
E. Finnup Drive
Alzheimer's Support Group Meets Wednesday at Garden Valley
The Alzheimer's Support Group, Sunflower Chapter affiliate, meets 3:45 to 5 p.m. Wednesday in the Garden Valley Retirement Village chapel area at 1505 E. Spruce St. Meetings are on the first Wednesday of each month and offer peer sharing, self-worth support, reduced isolation, and resource information. This month's topic is Finding a Cure: Recent Developments. For details call Richmond Graham at 275-9651.
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Alzheimer’s Support
Sunflower Chapter
The
Alzheimer’s Association
Chapel
Garden Valley Retirement Village
Spruce St
Richmond Graham
Biking Across Kansas visits Garden City this June
BAK will bring more than 300 riders per route to Garden City for an eight day 450 mile tour across Kansas. The event starts at the Colorado border and runs through June 16 with daily legs of 50 to 80 miles. Finney County welcomes riders overnight at Garden City Community Lodge gym. BAK.org provides details.
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Garden City
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Kansas State Line
BAK
Board firm on teacher salary offer and school moves
The district kept its 3.5 percent raise offer for teachers and will not increase beyond $404 on the base salary after executive session talks with the Garden City Educator's Association. The GCEA had proposed 4.9 percent. The board also voted to move Garfield Elementary from Bernadine Sitts to Charles Stones Intermediate Center for future students, with current fifth graders allowed to stay at Garfield for one more year. The meeting covered curriculum projects at Abe Hubert Middle School and Buff Project progress, plus staff meetings and district mission reviews as three veteran members prepare to retire. Rocky Welton, Gail Dunford and Harold Perkins will join the board July 1.
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Garden City
Garfield Elementary
Bernadine Sitts Intermediate
Charles Stones
Garfield
Sitts
Stones
Abe Hubert
Whitney Kinney
Tiffany Hands
Milt Pippenger
Pippenger
Kevin Sterling
Donna Roush
Bill Clement
Rocky Welton
Gail Dunford
Harold Perkins
PerforMix tax break approved by Finney County
Finney County Commissioners approved a 10 year property tax abatement for PerforMix a liquid feed manufacturer on Sherlock Road The deal lowers taxes on new construction and equipment with staged payments through 2011 A $420000 projected county revenue over ten years contrasts with about $110000 in costs and the company plans to hire about 20 workers The public hearing drew only the owner Carol Meyer chamber official Milt Pippenger present The plan also spurred sewer district work and bilingual outreach for Towns Riverview area
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PerforMix
Sherlock Road
Carol Meyer
Garden City Area Chamber of Commerce
Milt Pippenger
USD 457
Irbs
Finney County
Olson
Finney County Conservation District
Riverview
Towns Riverview South
Connie Richmeier
25Th Judicial District
Finney County District Court
U.S. 50
Towns Road
J&r Land
Pierceville Road
McCully and Associates
Liberal
Finney County Administrative Center
Ninth St
Western artist Earl Kuhn to display Taste of the West
Medicine Lodge artist Earl Kuhn brings Taste of the West to Out West at 724 Campus Drive from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday. The show features Kuhn originals and prints centered on ranch life and cowboys with awards and features in national publications.
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Earl Kuhn
Medicine Lodge
Out West
Campus Drive
Plaza Inn
Vaughn Nash
Kuhn
American Royal Western Art Show
Working Ranch Cowboys
Paint Horse Journal
Kansas Stockman
Kansas Horseman
WRCA
Amarillo
Texas
Kearny
Neb
Empire Ranch Foundation
Sonoita
Ariz
Working Ranch Cowboys Association
Wrca Foundation
Sagebrush Gallery of Western Art
Kaye
Handcuffed man steals police car in Wichita chase
A suspected car thief, handcuffed in the back of a Wichita police car, squeezed through a divider to the front seat and stole the cruiser. He led back-to-back chases through east Wichita, drove through front yards, and even struck a deer before police set spikes to flatten the tires and arrest him.
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Wichita
Highway survey approved for US 50 west project
Finney County residents will be surveyed by phone about US 50 400 west of Garden City in a KDOT funded effort costing 14000 dollars. The study aims to gauge highway quality traffic safety congestion access and economic development while county and city officials weigh funding options and future alignment.
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KDOT
Garden City
U.S. 50
Carolyn Jordan
Jordan
Cliff Mayo
Pete Olson
Hamilton
Kearny
Gray
Ford
Kiowa
Dodge City
Mullinville
Matthews
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