Exhibition opens at Mercer Gallery in Garden City
A national touring print show titled Art About Art opens at Mercer Gallery in the Pauline Joyce Fine Arts Building at Garden City Community College. The exhibit features 30 works by 20 plus contemporary printmakers across lithographs intaglio linocuts woodcuts engravings etchings and mezzotints with free hours noon to 4 Monday through Friday and 2 to 5 Sunday through March 28.
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Mercer Gallery
Garden City Community College
Print Consortium
Kansas City
Pauline Joyce Fine Arts
Alzheimer's Support Group Meets Wednesday at Garden Valley
The Alzheimer's Support Group, affiliate of the Sunflower Chapter, meets 3:45 to 5 p.m. Wednesday in the chapel area at Garden Valley Retirement Village, 1505 E Spruce St. This group, meeting first Wednesdays monthly, offers sharing, boosts self worth, reduces isolation, and shares resources. This month focuses on Caregiving in the Home. Call Richmond Graham at 275-9651 for details.
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Alzheimer’s Support
Sunflower Chapter
The
Alzheimer’s Association
Chapel
Garden Valley Retirement Village
Spruce St
Richmond Graham
One dead in Ottawa area mobile home fire
A Sunday afternoon blaze four miles east of Ottawa killed one person, believed to be a woman, whose identity will be released after death is determined. The Franklin County Undersheriff said firefighters found the body in a camper attached to the mobile home. Cause of the fire was not available.
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Ottawa
Franklin County
Craig Davis
Man killed when car hits school bus in Kansas
Baldwin AP reports 58 year old Robert D Cronin of Eudora died Saturday when his sport utility vehicle struck an eastbound school bus carrying high school debaters near County Road 1061 and Kansas 56. No bus passengers were injured.
Man ordered to stand trial in beating death
OTTAWA AP A man charged in the beating death of an 86 year old woman has been ordered to stand trial. Raymond Eugene Fuller 23 of Gardner and his friend Joseph Andrew Hayden of Olathe are accused of breaking into the home of Howard and Vivian Johnson last fall and beating them with a shovel. Vivian Johnson died. Fuller and Hayden are each charged with one count of first degree murder attempted first degree murder and aggravated burglary. Both are jailed on 1 million dollar bonds. Arraignments are set for Monday.
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Ottawa
Raymond Eugene Fuller
Gardner
Joseph Andrew Hayden
Olathe
Howard
Vivian Johnson
Fuller
Hayden
Franklin County
Brad Gilges
Bryan Hastert
Revised KDOT estimates boost Garden City highway costs
KDOT officials say a cost estimate revision and limited funding increased the Taylor Avenue widening to 1.7 million dollars from 1.3 million, with the local share rising to 1 million dollars from 550 thousand. Garden City officials criticized the contract wording for US 50 400 study costs, noting the city would not pay 1.1 million as implied.
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Marty Matthews
Kansas Department of Transportation
Taylor Avenue
Mary Street
KDOT
Matthews
Garden City
Highway Commission
Mullinville
Finney County
Vince DiPiazza
Bowl for Kids' Sake fundraiser grows after ConAgra fire
In Garden City the Big Brothers Big Sisters Bowl for Kids Sake fundraiser aims to surpass its typical $40,000 take as the ConAgra Beef Co fire doubles the urgency. Tammy Herlan notes a waiting list has doubled. last year the group served 1,400 in Finney County. Businesses, schools, and local clinics rally teams to fund mentoring programs for children ages 5 to 17.
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Big Brothers
Big Sisters
ConAgra Beef Co
Tammy Herlan
Finney County
Big Brothers Big Sisters
Herlan
ConAgra
Blanca Alarcon
Garden City
la Familia Club
Alarcon
Garden Bowl
N. Taylor Ave
Ex-lottery worker gets probation for theft in Kansas
Richard Lee Knowlton, 56, of Topeka, was sentenced in Shawnee County District Court to three years on probation and a $25,000 fine for stealing from the Kansas Lottery. He must serve 55 days in jail during probation and complete 200 hours of community service after repaying about $63,000. He pleaded guilty to 80 of 268 charges including computer crime and theft. He will have no contact with the lottery or its employees during probation.
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Topeka
Kansas Lottery
Richard Lee Knowlton
Shawnee County
Marla Luckert
Knowlton
Attorney General’s
Kansas
Luckett
Stephen Maxwell
Lottery
Salina Receives 500000 From Tobacco Lawsuit Grant
Salina received 500000 from Kansas tobacco settlement funds to curb youth smoking and fund health programs. The Saline County plan includes data surveys, advertising for smoke free indoor air, and a possible restaurant smoking ban. About 70000 supports anti-tobacco marketing and 70000 aids youth cessation efforts. Local law enforcement will boost illegal cigarette sales enforcement with 25000.
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Salina
Kansas
Saline County
Julia Francisco
Bureau of Health Promotions
Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Francisco
Salina Social Welfare
County City Health Board
Larry Mathews
The
Health Board
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Alzheimer’s Support Group
Bult
DiPiazza
Big Brothers Big Sisters’ ‘Bowl For Kids’ Sake
Diane Lewis
Ing
HALO
Marsha Golay
Commerce Bank
Golay
Commerce Bank Bowl
Merilyn Douglass
Garden Medical Clinic
Douglass
Graham K. Johnson
Telegram
Carly Dale
GCHS
Telegra
Maxwell
Ed van Petten
Luckert
van Petten
Mike Marshall
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