Miss Rodeo Kansas and Miss Teen Rodeo pageant entries opened
Applications are open for the 2007 Miss Rodeo Kansas and Miss Teen Rodeo pageants held with Dodge City Days Round-up Rodeo from August 1 to 3. Eligible contestants ages 18 to 24 for Miss Rodeo and 14 to 18 for Miss Teen Rodeo will compete in horsemanship knowledge poise public speaking and interviews. Deadline is June 1 with contact Shelia Croft at 620 668 5574 or croft ucom.net and online at missrodeokansas.com
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Kansas
Dodge City Days
United States
Canada
Shelia Croft
Croft
Ucom
Missrodeokansas
Seniors group to meet Friday at Finney Center
The Finney County Senior Citizen Association will hold its monthly dinner meeting Friday at the Senior Center, 907 N. 10th St. All Finney County residents age 55 and older and guests are invited. The gathering starts at 6 p.m. with a business meeting to follow. House Blend Music Company from Kadee's coffee break will provide entertainment. For more information, call Dorman Diller or Norma Nichols.
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Finney County Senior Citizen Association
10Th St
Finney County
House Blend Music Company
Kadee
Rec Center to host kids theater show in March
Garden City Recreation Community Theatre presents Show Biz Kids classes blending Broadway tunes with live-theater skills. Eight week program starts Monday March 14 and Tuesday March 15 with Act I for preschoolers and Act II for grades one through four. Fees are $20 with Arts Angel Patrons scholarships. Community Theatre Director Mark Hays at 276-1200.
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Garden City Recreation Community Theatre
Arts Angel
Call ‘Community Theatre
Mark Hays
Public Affairs Spotlight Features Senator Pat Roberts
Sen Pat Roberts discusses budget cuts to farm programs rural health care and the Medicare prescription drug program ethics in government and lobbying during Smoky Hills Public Television’s interview program A Conversation with Pat Roberts The broadcast includes parts of his Ellsworth Kansas speech at the 58th Chamber of Commerce meeting and covers seaport sale concerns involving a state owned UAE company plus national security topics
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Bunker Hill
Kansas
Pat Roberts
Smoky Hills
Kansas Senate denounces funeral picketing by Phelps group
A Kansas Senate panel seeks to send a strong message that Rev. Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church do not reflect Kansans. The Senate endorsed a nonbinding resolution condemning their funeral protests as lawmakers push a bill restricting such demonstrations. The House panel will decide on a hearing.
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Topeka
Senate
Fred Phelps
U.S
House Federal and State Affairs Committee
John Edmonds
Edmonds
Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee
Anti gay group to challenge Missouri funeral law
Kansas based Westboro Baptist Church plans to protest the funeral of Army Pfc. Christopher L. Marion in Anderson Missouri this weekend claiming the new state law banning protests at funerals is impotent. Shirley Roper-Phelps said they will protest from a respectful distance across or down the street while citing constitutional oath violations. The law makes violations a misdemeanor with fines and possible jail time for repeat offenders.
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Phelps
WBC
U.S
America
God
Kansas
National Conference of State Legislatures
Anderson, Mo
Missouri
Army
Christopher L. Marion
Iraq
Anderson
Joplin
Westboro
Shirley Roper- Phelps
Fred Phelps
United States
Roper-Phelps
Supreme Court
Phelps-Roper
Independent Church
Afghanistan
St. Joseph
Spe
Edward Myers
Michael Gibbons
Matt Blunt
Peter Kinder
Blunt
Spence Jackson
Phelps Group
Weekend offers music drama and rodeo in Garden City
Garden City hosts a benefit soup dinner and silent auction for Tammy Bunney at First United Methodist Church Friday 5 to 8 p.m. Proceeds aid medical expenses. Garden City Community College Drama presents The Importance of Being Earnest at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday with limited tickets. Also, Army Jazz Ambassadors perform Saturday at Garden City High School Clifford Hope Auditorium. Rodeo action runs 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday at Finney County Fairgrounds Horse Palace with a Sunday final. A model train show, Evolution talk, and local events fill the weekend city roster with admission varying by event.
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Cole Thompson
Cimarron
Thomas
Raven Rhodes
Johnson City
Fiesta Courtyard
Buffalo Jones Ave
Garden City
Tammy Bunney
Garden City High School
First United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall
N. Main St
Bunney
Garden City Community College
Oscar Wilde
Kyra Fief
Fief
College
Army Jazz Ambassadors
Washington, D.C
Clifford Hope
Garden City Telegram
N. Seventh St
Jazz Ambassadors
Jim Boy Hash
GCCC
Kansas
Oklahoma
Finney County Fairgrounds Horse Palace
Gary Parker
GCHS
Clifford Hope Auditorium
Bible Christian Church Family Life Center
E. Mary St
Family Bookhouse
Great Plains Christian Radio
Judge blocks hospital from pulling life support in toddler case
In Wichita, District Judge Timothy Lahey ordered Wesley Medical Center to continue care for 2-year-old Brett Shively Jr and barred removal of life support until at least March 21. The judge rejected hospital requests for a brain viability study and other tests to prove brain death.
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Wichita
Timothy Lahey
Wesley Medical Center
Brett Shively Jr
Kansas Senators unveil 660 million school funding plan
Senate leaders roll out a plan to boost Kansas school funding by 660 million over three years to satisfy a 2005 Kansas Supreme Court order. The plan adds 180 million in year one and allows property tax changes to push total aid past 250 million, with targeted funds for districts serving high poverty.
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Topeka
Senate
Kansas Supreme Court
House
Kathleen Sebelius
Senate Education Committee
Derek Schmidt
Independence
Mark Tallman
Kansas Association of School Boards
Legislative Division of Post
Dodge City
Kansas City
Liberal
Wichita
Hutchinson
Leavenworth
Piper
Children of
Kansas
Anthony Hensley
Dtopeka
State Supreme Court
In-state tuition debate returns to Kansas House
The Kansas House will again debate allowing undocumented immigrants to pay in state college tuition after a committee cleared a bill to kill the current policy. Supporters say votes exist to pass it to the Senate, amid federal court challenges to the 2004 law. Representative Becky Hutchins says the discussion is needed as states face federal action.
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Topeka
Kansas
Senate
Becky Hutchins
R-Holton
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Westboro Baptist
Judge Bars Hospital
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