Foundation grants seek projects in Western Kansas
WKCF announces a 2004 focus on community betterment and child wellbeing aided by a $10,000 Kansas Health Foundation bonus. Grants run Aug 16 with applications at Western State Bank. Applicants must include a letter of accountability, financial statements, and tax-exempt charity proof. Board members are from Garden City, Copeland, and Ulysses. WKCF marked eight years May 6. last year funded 67 grants totaling $80,531.
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Western Kansas Community Foundation
WKCF
Kansas Health Foundation
Western State Bank
Troy Unruh
Judy Nusser
Pat LeClerc
Garden City
Will Nichols
Copeland
Chris Faulkner
Ulysses
Chamber of Commerce Leadership and Leadership Children’s Fund
Finney County Public Library
Garden City Public Schools Foundation
Kansas
Archeologist Eyes Hopewell Relics in Western Kansas
Archeologist Jim Dougherty seeks evidence of Hopewell culture in the Arkansas River basin in western Kansas. He hopes to find distinctive arrow points, bladelets, and pottery sherds, inviting farmers and ranchers to share finds and contact him. The project may begin June 28 in Oklahoma City, with continued western Kansas searches on his own time.
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Jim Dougherty
Kansas
Dougherty
Arkansas River
Wichita City
Federal Bureau of Reclamation
Oklahoma City
B.C
A.D
United States
Kansas City
University of Kansas Museum of
Wichita
Mary Regan
Finney County
Court hearing set to block open primary in Kansas
A Shawnee County judge will hear a bid by Sedgwick County Republicans to stop the open primary plan for the August 3 election. The suit targets Secretary of State Ron Thornburgh and seeks to bar his plan allowing about 400,000 unaffiliated voters to vote in the Republican primary. A separate Sedgwick County hearing is set for Friday.
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Topeka
Shawnee
Sedgwick
Republicans
Ron Thornburgh
GOP
Dennis Jones
Susan Estes
Republican Committee
4Th
Charles Andrews
Thornburgh
Rich Hayes
Hayes
Phill Kline
Sedgwick County District
Estes
Jones
Secretary of State
Jesse Borton
Kansas
Teens Escape From Kiowa County Detention Center
Two 17 year old Dodge City boys escaped from a transport and the Finney County Juvenile Detention Center grounds around 5 15 p m. Lawrence Zimmerman was recaptured soon after the escape Morales remains at large described as dangerous with a criminal history He was last seen wearing a light blue T shirt gray sweatpants and leg irons A reward line 275 7807 was provided for information and authorities warned not to approach Morales
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Kiowa County
Garden City
Gibson
Auten
Dodge City
Finney County
Santa Fe St
Lawrence Zimmerman
Juan Morales
South 12Th Street
Morales
GCPD
Kiowa
Widow Determined to Keep Farm Going in Drought
Joy Peck, widowed last year when her husband Lyle died of a heart attack, fights to keep the family farm near Dighton afloat amid five years of drought and costly medical debt. She juggles farming, parenting her 5-year-old Alexis, and a church secretary job, hoping insurance and future crops cover costs as hail and weather worsens yields. Meanwhile in Wichita, 200 Kansas parents press the state Supreme Court to force more school funding, arguing the constitutional right to a suitable education is at risk amid a disputed funding formula and rulings.
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Dighton
Joy Peck
Lyle Peck
Lane County Public Works Department
Peck
Alexis
Lyle
Lane County
Speer
Greg
Wichita
Johnson
Douglas
Shawnee
Kansas Supreme Court
Kansas Families United For Public Education
Wichita Eagle
Topeka
Supreme Court
House
Senate
John Martellaro
Lenexa
Kansas
Shawnee County
Terry Bullock
Dan Biles
Kansas State Board of Education
Bullock
Parents’ Group
Salina
Kansas City
Derby
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Montezuma Boe
Montezuma Usd
Junction City
Florence Whitebread
Geary County
Kansas 57
Clark’s ‘Creek
Geary
Dwight
Morris County
Berges
Tke Akulow
Ith
National Weatherrvice
Junction Ity
Brad Nading
Kendra Trimmel
Ashley Brungardt
Scout Park
Eighth
Thompson Streets
Garden City Recreation Commission
Teen
Peck Farm
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