Garden City USD 457 offers free child screening clinic
Garden City USD 457 will host a free screening for children ages 3 to 5 at Trinity Lutheran Church on Fleming Street. Trained professionals will assess hearing vision large and small muscle development communication and thinking skills in about 90 minutes per child. Appointments are via the Early Childhood Department at 276-5149. if a cancellation is needed call 271-8847, not the church.
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GCRC Hosts Health and Wellness Fair in March
The Garden City Recreation Commission invites the public to a health and wellness fair from 1 30 to 3 30 p m on March 10 featuring Linda Walter from Finney County Extension Dan Knight from Holcomb Recreation and Fitness and Finney County Health Department staff Learn to make smart food choices to change your life Contact Beverly Bednasek at 316 755 1055 for details
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Linda Walter
Finney County Extension Office
Dan Knight
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Holcomb Recreation and Fitness
Finney County Health Department
Beverly Bednasek
Cimarron Basin Advisory Committee to Meet
The Cimarron Basin Advisory Committee will meet at 9 30 a m Wednesday at the Stauth Memorial Museum in Montezuma 111 N Aztec. Contact Susan Metzger water resource planner with the Kansas Water Office.
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Stauth Memorial Museum
Montezuma
Aztec
Susan Metzger
The
Kansas Water Office
Feist Publications to close Spearville plant after 30 years
Feist Publications will shutter its Spearville production plant by July as Yellow Book USA consolidates into Cedar Rapids Iowa. The firm, once the fifth largest independent telephone directory publisher, employed about 60 at the Spearville site and serves Oklahoma Kansas Missouri and Texas.
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Kansas
Feist Publications
Yellow Book USA
Feist
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Tom
Robert Feist
Dodge City
Ford County
Uniondale
N.Y
Kansas tax-cut split between House and Senate
Rival tax plans aim to ease burdens on seniors and businesses in Kansas, with the House backing an income tax exemption for Social Security and a phased franchise tax cut, while the Senate seeks mixed reductions and broader business relief. Democrats warn fiscal strain, Gov. Sebelius cautions over spending and future clashes loom.
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Tax Committee
Janis Lee
Kensington
Neufeld
Ingalls
Sebelius
AARP
Wisconsin
David Crum
Augusta
Kansas House advances Taxpayer Transparency Act in Web site plan
The Kansas House passed the Taxpayer Transparency Act 102 to 20 paving a path for a state web site exposing expenditures and revenues. The proposal faces Senate scrutiny over privacy fears and would hinge on a $40 million financial management system.
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Hns
Google
State Department of Administration
Kansas
House
Senate
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Rcolby
House Government Efficiency and Technology Committee
Dwayne Umbarger
R-Thayer
Clinton to visit K State Landon Lecture and Dens convention
Former President Bill Clinton traveled to Kansas for two events. He spoke at the Landon Lecture in Bramlage Coliseum on the Kansas State University campus and addressed Kansas Democrats at the Washington Days convention in Topeka. about 9,000 tickets were distributed for the KSU speech and 1,500 were expected at the Topeka event with a $125 per person fee. Clinton’s wife Hillary Rodham Clinton had announced her presidential bid earlier, amid Kansas’ longtime Republican affiliation.
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Loe 46
Bramlage Coliseum
Manhattan
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University of Kansas
New York
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Illinois
Barack Obama
Lyndon Johnson
Kansas panel approves 2 million for 2008 presidential primary
The House Appropriations Committee endorsed a 2 million funding bill for the secretary of state to hold Kansas' presidential primary, likely in February 2008, as lawmakers weigh budget trade offs and the open race featuring GOP candidate Sam Brownback. Thornburgh urged a date but committee did not set one, prompting concerns over timing and cost amid past primaries canceled due to finances.
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Pat Roberts
Kansas
Leavenworth County
Manhattan
Matt Broaddus
Topeka
House Appropriations Committee
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House
Melvin Neufeld
R-Ingalls
Sharon Schwartz
R-Washington
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Thornburgh
Sam Brownback
Senate
House Committee
Neufeld
Iowa
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