GCCC Band Concert and Sonatina Recitals Planned
The Garden City Community College Concert Band performs a free 7 30 p m concert March 11 in the Pauline Joyce Fine Arts Building auditorium. Also March 11 the Sonatina Experience at Garden City Presbyterian Church features student recitals starting at 1 p m with pieces played with a small instrumental ensemble after preaudition by tape.
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Chamber program to begin midweek in Garden City
The Garden City Area Chamber of Commerce Foundation launches the Every Voice Spring 2006 class on Wednesday. The leadership program, normally 350, runs 175 this session and includes lunch, breaks, and a graduation dinner. It spans five and a half days with a six month review on November 9. Contact the chamber at 276 3264 for details.
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Garden City Area Chamber of Commerce Foundation
Every Voice
GCHS Dance Team to Perform Thursday
Garden City High School dance team showcases set for 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the GCHS gym at 1412 N Main featuring varsity and junior varsity routines from the 2005-06 year. Admission is one can of food for Emmaus House. organized by senior Chelsey Skipton for her Buff Project.
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GCHS
N. Main St
Emmaus House
Chelsey Skipton
Talk About Literature in Kansas program canceled
The Talk About Literature in Kansas program at Finney County Public Library was canceled because presenter Sharon K. Wilson cannot attend due to a back injury. The TALK discussion series will resume in the fall.
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Kansas
Finney County Public Library
Sharon K. Wilson
Western Kansas art vandalized along routes into Mullinville
AP reports Mullinville near Dodge City sees ten spray painted vandalism acts on M T Liggett's roadside paintings since December. A sign reading Support gay marriage had the word gay blacked out. Kiowa County sheriff's office investigates. Liggett criticizes the violators as behaving dirty.
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Mullinville
Dodge City
M.T. Liggett
U.S. 54
US. 56
Kiowa County
Kansans debate gambling tied to school funding plan
Kansas Senate leaders unveiled a plan to boost school funding by 660 million dollars over three years without tax increases, funded partly by expanded gambling. The proposal contemplates two casinos and 7,000 slot machines across tracks in Frontenac Kansas City Wichita and Dodge City, with annual state revenue of 200 to 300 million once full operation begins, and 75 percent allocated to education. debate centers on whether gambling can pass to cover shortfalls and fund local tax relief.
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Kansas
Senate
Kansas Supreme Court
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Morris
Hugoton
Wyandotte County
Frontenac
Kansas City
Wichita
Dodge City
Phil Journey
R-Hayville
Doug Mays
Mays
Jordan
St. Joseph
Oklahoma
Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee
Volunteer to appear on charge of helping inmate escape
AP reports Toby Young, 48, a prison volunteer, appeared in Leavenworth County Court amid charges of helping convicted murderer John Manard escape Lansing Correctional Facility on February 12. She is held on 100000 dollars bond. A March 17 hearing set a date for a possible preliminary hearing as she returns to Kansas near family.
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Leavenworth
Kansas
Toby Young
John Manard
Lansing
Tennessee
Young
Jim Yoakum
Yoakum
Kansas woman faces probation possible in plea case
In a Kansas case, Young may receive probation if she enters a plea or is convicted. Family members attended court and backed Young, saying she is safe and near family. Prosecutors allege she aided an escape and concealed a felon, with potential sentences from probation to 32 months. Manard, linked to the escape, was an inmate trainer for a prison dog program Young led.
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Kansas
Yoakum
Manard
East Tennessee
Chattanooga
Knoxville
Johnson County
Safe Harbor
Kansas principal arrested on suspicion of sexual assault
Kansas elementary school principal Scott Habegger 33 is detained in Johnson County on charges of sexually assaulting a fourth grader he befriended during a student teaching stint at Norris Elementary in 1995 near Lincoln. The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office pursuing a governor’s warrant if needed. Habegger is on administrative leave from Prairie Center Elementary in Olathe.
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Neb
Kansas
Lancaster County
Habegger
Johnson County
Ing
Jarrett
Sheriff’s Department
Prairie Center
Olathe
Olathe Public Schools
Patricia Ali
Kansas earns F for mental health care services
Wichita AP The National Alliance on Mental Illness gave Kansas an F for public mental health care for low income and severely mentally ill residents. The report cites access to hospitalization and workforce development as weak areas while praising nonrestricted medications and recovery supports.
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National Alliance On Mental Illness
Kansas
Gerry Lichti
The
Alliance
Lichti
Arlan
Linda Kaufman
Newton
Tom Pletcher
Comcare
Sedgwick County
NAMI
Mike Hammond
Association of Community Mental Health Centers of
Hammond
Photographer Pamela Stewart brings passion to Mercer Gallery exhibit
Local physician Pamela Stewart opens a photography show at Mercer Gallery in Garden City Sunday with a 2 to 4 p.m. reception. The exhibit features more than a dozen images from landscapes to portraits, including scenes from Honduras, reflecting Stewart’s emotional connection to space and beauty. The exhibit runs March 5 to 19 with gallery hours noon to 4 p.m. weekdays and 2 to 5 p.m. Sundays, closing during spring break.
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Mercer Gallery
Pamela Stewart
Garden City Community College
Pauline Joyce
Stewart
Independence
Garden City
Kansas State University
University of Kansas
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