Celebrate Your Faith program to start Wednesday
A public faith program titled Celebrate Your Faith will begin at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Garden Valley Retirement Village located at 1505 E Spruce St. Ron Good of Cimarron will deliver the message. Good is a field agent for the High Plains Journal and Midwest Ag of Dodge City. The public is encouraged to attend. for more information call 275-5036.
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Garden Valley Retirement Village
Spruce St
Ron Good
Cimarron
Good
High Plains Journal
Midwest Ag
Dodge City
Silver Screen Saturday Nights entertains Garden City crowd
The Garden City Recreation Commission offers a free outdoor movie at Stevens Park on Saturdays through August 6. This week shows Clockstoppers at sunset. Bring lawn chairs, blankets, and snacks. Call 276-1202 for weather updates.
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Garden City Recreation Commission
GCRC
Stevens Park
Garden City
Main
Pine Streets
Gcrec.com
Live on Stage annual meeting set for Monday
Southwest Kansas Live on Stage will hold its annual meeting at 6 30 p m Monday at Commerce Bank on Main Street All board members and members are urged to attend Linda Holmquist at 272 9783 for details
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Southwest Kansas
Commerce Bank
Main Street
Linda Holmquist
Freedom Parade entries invited in Garden City
Garden City Downtown Vision sponsors a July 4 Freedom Parade inviting day care centers musical groups antique cars hot rods clowns bicyclists riders and civic floats plus horses. Decorate in red white and blue and vocal soloists may sing before the parade at 10 a.m. Sign up by June 27 at 413 N Main St call 276-0891 or vision godowntown.com.
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Garden City
Downtown Vision
Beverly Schmitz Glass
Glass
Vision
Godowntown
N. Main St
American Flag disposal ceremony set at Valley View Cemetery
American Legion Post 9 and Valley View Cemetery staff will conduct an unserviceable flag disposal ceremony at Valley View Cemetery at 10 a m on June 18. The public is invited. Participants will perform a short ceremony and dispose of all unserviceable flags. Old flags may be turned in at the American Legion post or Valley View Cemetery offices. Contact Don Nevin or James Hahn for details.
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Harry H. Renick
American Legion
Valley View Cemetery
Don Nevin
Valley View
James Hahn
Brownback taps private funds push as arts panel chair named
Gov. Sam Brownback appoints Linda Browning Weis as chair of the Kansas Arts Commission amid its shift from public to private funding. The move follows vetoes of state arts funding, layoffs, and a plan to rely on private dollars through the Kansas Arts Foundation led by Weis. Critics warn of potential losses of federal arts funds.
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Topeka
Sam Brownback
Kansas Arts Commission
Commission
Brownback
Henry Schwaller IV
Hays
Arts Council
Schwaller
Linda Browning Weis
Kansas
Weis
Manhattan
Sherriene Jones-Sontag
Lawrence
National Endowment For the Arts
Kansas Arts Foundation
State Historical Society
Foundation
State Senate
House
Jones-Sontag
Lon Frahm
Colby
Arts Commission
Wheat harvest begins in Kansas amid drought fears
Wheat harvest starts in south central Kansas with good early quality but expected lower yields. Kiowa’s OK Co-op reports about 30 percent of anticipated crop received, test weights around 62 pounds per bushel. Farmers in South Haven and Sumner County begin cutting as heat and wind stress crops. Analysts say harvest may hit many areas within a week, with yields forecast down yet quality holding up.
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Wichita
Kansas
OK Co-op
Kiowa
Ron Hansen
South Haven
Sumner County
Eric Watts
Farmers Co-op Grain Association
Wellington
Justin Gilpin
Kansas Wheat
Salina
Hays
Gilpin
USD 457 Board OKs Administrative Reorganization
USD 457 moves forward with district wide admin reorganization preserving central office salaries while restoring a $500 step for four administrators from 2009-10 and authorizing promotions with raises for 2011-12. The plan includes eliminating the assistant superintendent for personnel position to save about $113,000 annually amid nearly $7 million in lost funding.
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Central Office
Board of Education
Fleming St
USD 457
Rick Atha
Kathleen Whitley
Garden City Community College
Whitley
Fire at Wichita plant burns fifth day with no entry
A three alarm fire at the Trentco dog treat plant in Wichita continues burning on Monday as firefighters wait for it to be safe to enter. Unmanned water streams keep the heavy fat laden pallets burning, with crews stating daily efforts will persist until entry is possible.
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Wichita
KNSS
Trentco
Stuart Bevis
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