Garden City Band Opens Friday Concert Series
Garden City Municipal Band begins a series of Friday concerts at Stevens Park at 8 p.m. featuring British Isles music and works by Holst Elgar Vaughan Williams Lloyd Webber and Lennon. Each week honors a birthday month and invites children to join a flag waving parade. Bruce Spiller directs.
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Garden City
British Isles
Stevens Park
Gustav Holst
Edward Elgar
R. Vaughan Williams
Andrew Lloyd Webber
John Lennon
Bruce Spiller
Garden City Community College
Finney County Photo Contest Seeks Entries for $50 Prize
Finney County Historical Society Museum hosts a historic building photography contest offering a $50 prize for the winner and $25 for second place. Entries are due by Friday and will be shown in a special exhibit opening reception on July 4. Eligible subjects include historic buildings, one room schools, bridges, cemeteries, markers, grain silos and depots.
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Finney County
Library Free Classes Start Saturday At Finney County
Finney County Public Library offers two free classes this Saturday from 9 to 10:30 a.m. on using the Internet and 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on beginning Microsoft Word. Space is limited. sign up at the library or call 272-3680 for details.
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Finney County
Electrical fire claims Wichita man in mobile home
A Wichita man identified as Landon Willis, 24, died in an early morning mobile home fire likely caused by smoke inhalation. Reported near 2:15 a.m. by a motorist on Interstate 135, the fire is believed to have started about 15 minutes earlier. Willis had no working smoke detector, according to Lt. Stuart Bevis of the Wichita Fire Department.
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Wichita
Landon Willis
Willis
Stuart Bevis
Suspect in Topeka woman's killing arrested
In Topeka Destiny L Hutcherson, 20, was found dead after relatives reported she vanished for days. An 18-year-old Topeka man living with Hutcherson was arrested in Kansas City Missouri on second-degree murder and felony theft charges. He awaits extradition as detectives linked him to the missing car and the home where the infant son was unharmed.
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Topeka
Missouri
Kansas City
Jackson County
Kansas
Destiny L. Hutcherson
Hutcherson
Two injured as jet crashes at Salina airport
AP reports two people injured at Salina Municipal Airport after a business jet crash near the runway end around 1 p.m. Witnesses say injuries do not appear life threatening. origin and cause of the crash are not yet known.
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Salina
Ward echoes in song of a long way home from gold to family
Barry Ward’s second album inspired by his great grandfather Woodrow Wilson Ward’s Colorado gold rush years. The project blends acoustic and gospel influences with family stories, featuring Stu Stewart, Jim Farrell, Marco Alvarez, Sierra Ward, and engineer Bill Van Wyhe. Ward plans touring and a third album Passing Through while performing for causes like the Dodge City Relay for Life.
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Woodrow Wilson Ward
Illinois
Colorado
Ward
Barry Ward
Barry
Victoria
Mexico
Stu Stewart
Jim Farrell
Prairie Rose
Sierra
Bill van Wyhe
Gray County
American Cancer Society
Relay For Life
Dodge City
High Plains Revival
Kansas
Grammy winner Jody Miller to perform benefit concert
Grammy winner Jody Miller appears at Stevens Park this Saturday at 7 30 p m in a free community concert to raise funds for Emmaus House. The event, sponsored by local churches and businesses, features a mix of pop country and gospel with donation tickets at 2 each and intermission gifts drawing. Proceeds beyond Miller’s costs go to Emmaus House.
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Jody Miller
Emmaus House
Miller
Stevens Park
First Christian Church
Kadee’s Coffee Break
Western Kansas Broadcasting
Brier & Hale
Credit Bureau of Garden City
Burtis Motors
Crazy House
Evans Piano Service
Tatro Plumbing
N. Seventh St
Don Carter
Carter
Applebee’s
Ron’s Market
Blanchard
Oklo
Hollywood
M Yours
Bob Hope
Don Rickels
Red Skelton
the Beach Boys
Ronnie Milsa
Trinity Lutheran youths lead Servant Week home repairs
Youth from Trinity Lutheran Church and 30 to 35 volunteers from Emporia and Illinois churches spend hot days painting and repairing four homes. Leland Jackson, youth director, says they help elderly or financially unable residents, part of the Missouri Synod program now in its fourth year with about 60 groups nationwide.
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Trinity Lutheran
Garden City
Illinois
Kansas
Lauren Theas
Beth Krueger
Americus
Lindsey Bach
Meridan
Ill
Jonathan Grotefendt
Edwardsville
North 12Th Street
Trinity Lutheran Church
Leland Jackson
Emporia
Jackson
Servant Week
Missouri Synod
Harvest crews cut first wheat amid Karnal bunt fears in Kansas
Custom harvester David Hermesch directs a crew cutting 1200 acres of wheat for a Kansas farmer in Anthony as Karnal bunt spreads fears through the region. Regulators expand quarantine to Throckmorton and Young counties Texas while industry leaders warn of lost export markets and potential domestic impact. Hermesch, vice president of the U S Custom Harvesters Association, says the group coordinated with Oklahoma officials to track harvesters near infested zones.
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Wichita
David Hermesch
Anthony
Hermesch
Kansas
Texas
Karnal Hunt
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Throckmorton
Young Counties
Lisa Taylor
Kansas Department of Agriculture
Oklahoma
Taylor
Coweta
Okla
U.S. Custom Harvesters Association
Oklahoma Agriculture
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