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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 2002
Page
3
Residents in southwest Kansas are invited to a Thursday 7:30 p.m. meeting at Wheatland Conference Center to discuss financing a new Garden City to Wichita airline service. If interest grows, expansion is planned. The meeting aims to gauge support and potential routes.
The Lee Richardson Zoo invites the public to a come and go retirement reception for Robert Bubba Becker, a 28 year City Zoo Department employee. The event runs 3 to 5 p.m. Thursday in the Finnup Center classrooms at the zoo. Becker began as a keeper on Sept 28 1973 after city Street service. Refreshments will be served.
Legislative and state board candidates and school leaders will learn about public education issues at a Kansas Association of School Boards forum in Sublette. The Southwest Kansas regional meeting, titled What every candidate needs to know about public education, will be held at the Southwest Plains Regional Service Center at 6 30 p m.
The Kansas Rural Health Options Project announced 376000 in grants to eight rural health networks statewide. KRHOP, a coalition of KDHE, KHA, KS Board of Emergency Services, and KMS, aims to boost rural care and EMS data systems. Southwest Kansas Rural Health Network received 52800, serving Finney through Clark Counties with St. Catherine Hospital as administrator.
A maintenance worker extinguishing a fire in a vacant Wichita unit found a decapitated woman in her 30s. The victim, possibly living alone nearby, was last seen Monday night. Police did not confirm if the head was recovered. Road condition hotline provided.
Kansas expected to name three new justices this year as retiring judges leave the seven member court. Gov Graves will choose among nominees likely to include more women and minorities, with the process beginning as Edward Larson and two others near retirement. The nominating committee will present three names by July 22, and Graves has 60 days to appoint.
The Kansas Sentencing Commission urges a policy shift toward treatment for nonviolent drug offenders. A draft proposal to legislators cites conflicts between medical and criminal justice views, with a preliminary report arguing small possession offenses could free prison space for 400 to 800 inmates. Law enforcement rails at more convicts, while defense lawyers back treatment focused approaches.
A Kansas Sentencing Commission preliminary report recommends shifting from jail to treatment for felony drug possession offenders not involved in violent crime or drug manufacturing. It warns of a looming bed shortage and argues expanded treatment could free 400 to 800 prison beds statewide, though officials like Finney County Attorney John Wheeler doubt practicality and warn of relapse and space limits. Local centers report 42 beds with six to eight weeks waiting lists, needing more capacity to keep addicts in care.
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