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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 2004
Page
1
Garden City Boxing Club athlete Antonio Orozco heads to Brownsville Texas for the USA Boxing Junior Olympics competition. He will represent the club and aims to advance in junior divisions in a regional national event.
Nina Sanchez of 118 Albert St in Lakin described nearly eight feet of water in her basement after a Saturday dawn flood from an overflowing east ditch. Volunteers from a local church helped carry out clothes and furniture while Sanchez saved four loads of clothing and mourned the loss of dolls and stuffed animals as city officials, the county, and Watershed No 4 discuss flood remedies.
Kansas Rep. Todd Tiahrt urged punishing USDA to allow all animals at Creekstone Farms to be tested for mad cow disease to restore Japanese demand. He dropped the amendment after saying it aimed to force action, citing $800 million in lost sales and warning of $1.5 billion more if USDA delays.
In Greeley County near Tribune farmer Alan Peter says an insurance adjuster found few heads of grain on a freeze damaged field. Harvest yields drop from 30 50 bushels per acre to 3 12. Drought and late freezes hit western Kansas with storms delaying harvest.
The Girl Scouts replace the canceled Zoobalee with a July 3 Children’s Festival at Stevens Park from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Twenty booths feature food games and face painting, with some local businesses and a classic car show. Organizers aim to create a fun community event, growing in future years.
Dan Linton, a former Holcomb volunteer firefighter, told Holcomb City Council that the town of 2,026 faces potential insurance rate hikes of about 50 percent for residents north and south of Holcomb unless more volunteers join the fire service. Fire Chief Allen Shelton said hikes won’t come soon. The ISO rating, last updated in 1996, weighs fire department resources, water, and response times, with the department accounting for half the score.
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