YMCA Dive In Event Offers Overnight Mermaid Night
Garden City Family YMCA invites all ages to a June 20 pool event featuring The Little Mermaid on inner tubes with BYO tubes. Members pay five and non members ten dollars for viewing. space limited to 30. Overnight stay for kindergartners through sixth grade includes swimming, snacks, breakfast, and a sleep over.
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Prairie Land Food program sign up Friday at Senior Center
Sign up deadline for the Prairie Land Food program is Friday at the Senior Center of Finney County located at 907 N. 10th St. Distribution runs from 7 to 8:30 a.m. on June 28. Participants may buy a Prairie Pak for 22 dollars with at least five meat items and six to eight fresh fruit and vegetable items and two hours of volunteer service. Additional meat only packs cost 12 dollars for one hour, fruit and vegetable packs 10 dollars for one hour. More specials and the monthly menu are posted at prairie landfood.com. For information call Barbara Jensen at 272-3620, Mary Pedigo at 275-5520, or Sue Knight at 276-7822.
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Finney County
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Area resident named to rural health veterans advisory panel
Dr. Bob Moser of Tribune will serve on the Rural Health Advisory Committee formed by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. The 13 member panel, drawn from federal state local academia and veterans groups, will guide top VA leaders on rural health care issues. Moser, medical chief of staff at Greeley County Hospital, grew up in Tribune and was 2006 Kansas Family Physician of the Year. his wife Dalene and two children accompany him. Moran is a long-time member of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs.
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Tribune
Secretary of Veterans Affairs
James B. Peake
Veterans Affairs
Department of Veterans Affairs
Veterans Service
Peake
Michael J. Kussman
Moser
University of Kansas
Greeley County Hospital
Dalene
Kansas Academy of Family Physicians
Moran
House Committee On Veterans Affairs
Debate over custody affidavits shakes Kansas welfare role
Wichita AP report says Don Jordan, head of Kansas SRS, told a Topeka meeting that Sedgwick County prosecutors bully social workers into including contested information in affidavits used to decide child custody. Prosecutors and judges deny wrongdoing. critics call into question affidavits' validity. Jordan regrets using the word bullied and says staff are pressured by a county ADA.
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Topeka
Citizens For Change
Don Jordan
Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services
Sedgwick County
Jordan
ADA
Wichita Eagle
Garden City Community College Trustees Meet Wednesday
Garden City Community College Board of Trustees will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Endowment Room of the Beth Tedrow Student Center at 801 Campus Drive. The session will cover campus issues and governance matters.
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GCCC revamp plan on agenda
Garden City Community College moves forward with a 4.7 million expansion and remodel focused on health care facilities. The plan includes selling certificates of participation to cover 1.084 million, financed over five years via grants and tax credits, with construction set to begin next month.
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Ranson Financial Consultants
Penka
Warren House
Erdene Corley Trust
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Wigner
General Fund
Ballantyne
Warren House Science & Math
DV Douglass
Garden City
Datatel Software
Fairfax
Actress Jenny McCarthy to headline Kansas autism conference
Pittsburg AP Actress Jenny McCarthy will headline the Kansas Autism Conference at Pittsburg High School next week. Mandy Commons of Pittsburg, whose 12 year old son is autistic, met McCarthy at a prior conference and shares the belief that vaccines caused their sons’ autism. Health officials say no proven link exists. McCarthy will speak June 20 and has authored Louder Than Words.
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Mandy Commons
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Bar owners shocked by concealed carry changes in bars
Lawrence owners learned a 2007 law removed the bar ban on loaded firearms for permit holders. Some posted no gun signs while others avoided it, wary of arming drinkers. Officials say the change aims to clarify enforcement. owners worry about safety and awareness.
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Lawrence
Brad Ziegler
Lawrence Journal- World
Rick Renfro
Chuck Sexson
Kansas
Phil Bradley
Kansas Licenses Beverage Association
Phil Journey
Raysville
Bradley’s
Attorney General's
Kansas Register
Bradley
Renfro
Fuel prices ground historic planes in Wichita wing
The Commemorative Air Force Jayhawk Wing, based in Wichita, cites high fuel costs and rising insurance as factors shrinking air show invitations and family requests for flyovers at funerals. Activities include a fundraiser with 170 motorcyclists, gift certificates for rides, and plans for youth programs and a flight school.
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Wichita
Commemorative
Air Force
Herb Duncan
Duncan
Augusta
Mulvane
Phil Giovanni
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