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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 2011
Page
4
A fragment notes Garden City hosts a pool event emphasizing creativity around the Big Pool. The unreadable text limits specifics but implies a community pool gathering showcasing inventive ideas and activities. The brief suggests a local, casual planning and attendance focus.
Garden City's Big Pool hosts a Sunday Cardboard Canoe Race with prizes for best decor and fastest time. Organizers plan more activities including dive-in movies, Lunu Week, and a dog swim to keep the pool a community destination.
Online comment on GCTelegram com urges Garden City to host teams and a tournament to draw statewide participation. Darren Dennis of Garden City USD 457 notes that larger schools face tougher graduation challenges as local efforts to boost events are covered in today’s paper.
The Telegram invites signed letters under 500 words with writer address and phone number. Letters are confirmed before publication and may be edited for libel or length. General thank-you letters are encouraged. form letters, poems, consumer complaints, and business testimonials will not be printed. Write Attn Editor to 310 N Seventh St Garden City KS 67846 or visit www gctelegram com.
Garden City Mayor John Doll spearheads a community conversation with coaches, hoteliers, and officials to attract tournaments and events. The Finney County CTB offers support, with local venues and facilities ready to host baseball, soccer, boxing, and other sports to boost area tourism and commerce.
Local residents express concern that Garden City may lose Great Lakes Airlines service to Dallas and urge the city to preserve Denver connections. Rodney Clews, an employee, argues for shared EAS funding and transparency, while Pat Nieman praises city landscaping improvements and credits Alan Geier.
Leonard Pitts criticizes the War on Drugs on its 40th anniversary, arguing it has failed to curb drug use and disproportionately harms Black communities. He notes sentencing disparities, praises a shift on crack cocaine penalties, and urges President Obama to push public health over criminal justice in reform. He calls for action to prevent a 41st anniversary of this policy.
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