Groundbreaking set for Garden City dorms Wednesday
Garden City Community College will host a public groundbreaking at 9 a.m. Wednesday outside the East Lounge between current residence halls. Lee Construction of Garden City will build three two story apartment style blocks, adding 72 beds for a total housing capacity of 306, the first expansion in 23 years to support rising enrollment, with completion planned for August 5.
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Garden City Community College
Lee Construction
Garden City
Spruce Street
GCCC
St Catherine Hospital Expansion Requires Traffic Route Change
Construction of St Catherine Hospital's new addition will require traffic route changes from Monday through March 18. Fourth Street between Spruce and Walnut streets will be closed to lay pipe under the street to the building site. Traffic will be detoured starting at Spruce and Fourth. Parking for hospital employees and visitors will not be affected.
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St. Catherine Hospital
Dave McNeal
Fourth Street
Spruce and
Walnut Streets
Fourth
McNeal
Texas teen critically hurt in single car wreck
A 16 year old Timmy Ortegon of Plain View Texas was critically injured Monday afternoon in a single car crash south of Garden City. He was life watched to Via Christi Medical Center in Wichita in critical condition. His father Baldomero Ortegon 59 of Plain View was northbound on Old Highway 83 when he overcorrected after leaving a ditch and lost control. The 1984 Dodge pickup rolled four to six times and Timmy Ortegon was ejected. Both were wearing seat belts though Baldomero was not seriously injured.
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Texas
Garden City
Timmy Ortegon
Plain View
Via Christi
Wichita
Finney County Sheriff’s Office
Baldomero Ortegon
Lunch and Learn session at Finney County Library
Finney County Public Library hosts a Lunch and Learn on Thursday titled Convenience Products to Simplify Family Meals. The session runs 12:05 to 12:55 p.m. with Steve Avila Bea Ledesma and Dillons West staff sharing tips on frozen packaged and ready to eat foods. Sponsored by Finney County Extension Service. Bring a lunch. coffee and tea provided. The eight part home horticulture series begins at the Extension Office with Establishing a New Lawn presented by Whitey Whitehill 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday. For details call 272-3670. USDA commodities distributed at Senior Center Wednesday 10 a.m. to noon. Salvation Army distribution 1 to 3 p.m. Items include beans peas macaroni instant milk tomato sauce juice and corn cereal. 2002 commodity card required or proof of total monthly Social Security numbers for all members or residency in Finney County. Details call 272-3620. Road Condition Hotline 1-800-585-7623.
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Finney County Public Library
Walnut St
Steve Avila
Bea Ledesma
Dillons West
Finney County Extension Service
Finney County
S. Ninth St
Whitey Whitehill
USDA
Inney County
N. 10Th St
Salvation Army
Finneyunty
Gracie the wounded rescue dog seeks new home
Amazing Gracie, a four year old cocker spaniel mix, was found mangled and cold after a car strike. She is recovering at the Garden City Finney County animal shelter and is available for adoption with a $10 adoption fee plus vet costs.
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Gracie
Garden City
Finney County
Animal Shelter
Isabel
Karen Casanova
Casanova
Finney County Humane Society
Plan to boost Kansas EMS funding faces fire marshal opposition
Sen Steve Morris proposes a $1 million boost by reallocating licensing fees and a 0.25 point fire insurance levy to the State EMS agency. The plan would let EMS retain fees and fund operations, but the Fire Marshal’s office warns it could shrink its own funding while expanding EMS service statewide. Local EMS leaders cite stretched resources and enforcement gaps as motivation.
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Topeka
Jason White
Kansas City
Kansas Ems Association
White
State Board of Ems
Kansas
Senate
Ways and Means Committee
Steve Morris
Hugoton
Morris
EMS
Dale Haag
County lends support to museum master plan in Finney County
Finney County Commissioners unanimously approved using 16000 from the general fund to back a 104000 Fulton House project that moves the historic home to the zop grounds and funds the museum master plan. Mary Regan said the effort has been four to five years in the making, prompted by a failed state grant.
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Finney County Historical Society
Fulton House
Zop
Mary Regan
Cliff Mayo
Regan
Kansas
Garden City City Commission
State officials study tracking bioterrorism in Kansas
Kansas health officials join a Wichita software developer to create a program tracking cough syrup sales and school absences to detect bioterrorism. The effort, part of 1.1 billion federal funding, aims to start this spring with Kansas receiving 12.2 million dollars and counties needing 1 to 2 million each for software and support.
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Wichita
Kansas
Pete Kitch
Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
Charley Magruder
Sedgwick County Department of Health
Kitch
Kansas Department of Health and Environment
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