Iowa Author Peter Davidson Leads One Day Writing Seminar
Iowa based author Peter Davidson will lead a July 24 writing seminar at Garden City Community College from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The session covers manuscript ideas copyrighting publisher queries contracts and career steps for fiction nonfiction children and adult works. Advance registration costs 49 with payment due July 17. contact Mary Olson at the GCCC Administration Building 276 9535.
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Peter Davidson
Garden City Community College
Davidson
McGraw-Hill Book Co
Perigee
Putnam Publishers
Hawthorne Press
Mary Olson
GCCC
Garden City school board weighs facility plans Monday
Garden City school board members meet at 6 p.m. Monday at the Educational Support Center to discuss district facilities and consider converting intermediate center and associate principal positions from half to full time. The session includes a planning meeting with a board self evaluation vision statement review and next year’s objectives.
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Garden City
Fleming
Grants to add officers on Kansas streets
A Justice Department COPS grant funds nine new full time officers across six Kansas agencies. Towanda DPS and Jackson County Sheriff receive 135,126 and 124,440 dollars respectively, Kickapoo Tribe 111,196 dollars, Beloit Police 70,000 dollars, Bourbon County Sheriff 69,471 dollars, and Brown County Sheriff 49,460 dollars. Grants cover 75 percent of salary and benefits for three years with remaining cost paid locally.
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Wichita
Aus
Department of Justice
Kansas
Towanda Department of Public Safety
Jackson County Sheriff’s Department
Kickapoo Tribe of Kansas
Beloit
Police sergeant dies stopping stolen vehicle in Kansas City
Police sergeant 46, Richard Asten, was struck and dragged about 250 feet by a stolen car as he attempted to halt it with street spikes. He died at KU Medical Center after being flown from the scene. Suspects Tracy Markee, 26, and Michael Turckes, 20, are held on $1 million bonds in Wyandotte County Jail.
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Kansas City, Kan
Tracy Markee
Michael Turckes
Kansas City
Kan
Wyandotte
Richard Asten
Asten
University of Kansas Medical Center
Grain prices at Garden City Co-op
Wheat price 2.32 per bushel Milo price 3.40 per bushel Soybeans price 5.70 per bushel located at Garden City Co-op with commodity quotes for nearby futures and odds and ends text.
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Garden City Co-op
Local dentists support kids through DAFFY program
CHC staff coordinate case management for DAFFY referrals via Head Start, WIC, and health agencies. Home visits verify family insurance, make dental appointments, and enforce attendance. Dentists reimburse at Medicaid rates. families contributing as able. Dental care linked to overall child health, with emergency same-day slots. Dentists Kandee Klein, Michael Harris, Randall McVey, Grant Larkin, Kenneth Bean, and Brian Jenkins participate.
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CHC
DAFF
WIC
Schiffelbein
Community Health Center
Daffy
Kandee Klein
Michael] P Harris
Randall McVey
Grant Larkin
Kenneth Bean
Brian Jenkins
Jenkins
Scott City
Garden City
Woman Walks 700 Miles to Spotlight Poverty in Kansas
Julie Russell, 41, begins the 700 mile Witness to Poverty Walk across Kansas from Kansas City to Topeka to raise awareness of poverty issues. She plans to stop seven miles from the State House July 21 and continue to the Legislature the next day, inviting public participation and support from workers amid welfare reform concerns.
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Julie Russell
Kansas City
Kan
Topeka
Lawrence
Russell
Kansas
Finney County
Garden City
Kansans Respond
Congress
University of Missouri-Kansas City
State House
Wheat crop forecast raised in Kansas for 1998
Kansas Agricultural Statistics boosted its 1998 wheat crop forecast to 393.9 million bushels, up from 377.4 million in May, but still 22 percent below the 1997 record of 506 million. Harvested area is expected at 10.1 million acres, with the crop ranking about tenth in state history.
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Topeka
Kansas Agricultural Statistics
KAS
Garage sale funds aid infant Logan Koester walk
Logan Koester, born with one club foot and one outward turned foot, may need four surgeries totaling about 25 000. A weekend benefit garage sale and can drive fund-raiser, with city support, runs locally at 304 Center Street from 2 to 7 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. Sunday.
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Wendy’s
Logan Koester
Logan
Diane Koester
Koester
Center Street
Weather outlook for Kansas this weekend with storms possible
Outside TOPEKA Kansas windy conditions and chances for thunderstorms are forecast. Today partly cloudy and windy in the west with highs in the 90s and 85 to 95 central and east. Lows mid 50s northwest to upper 60s southeast. Sunday partly cloudy and windy in the west with mostly cloudy skies and a storm chance east.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Update for Garden City Today and Tonight
The forecast calls for hot winds and partly sunny skies with a 20 percent thunderstorm chance daytime. Highs in the mid to upper 90s followed by a breezy 20 to 30 mph south wind. Tonight remains partly cloudy with a 20 percent evening storm chance and a low around 55 to 60.
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