Atoe High prepares early for district forensics tourney
Atoe High School will dismiss at 3 p m Tuesday to host a forensics tournament from 4 to 9 30 p m The event draws eighteen western Kansas schools including Ashland Cimarron Deerfield Fowler Holcomb Hugoton Jetmore Kinsley Lakin Liberal Meade Minneola Rolla Satanta Scott City Southwestern Heights Spearville and Weskan.
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In Harmony: Music for Life on Smoky Hills TV
Smoky Hills Public Television will air In Harmony Music for Life a Kansas Music Educators Association special at 7 p m Thursday featuring top elementary middle and high school groups including Garden City High School Jazz. An encore follows at 930 a m March 25 with hosts in studios discussing music education and fundraising. Supporting supporters include Manning Music Topeka Chamber Music at the Barn Baker University Fruhauf Senseney Southwestern College Bethany College Pittsburg State and the IAJE.
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Kansas
SHPT
Manning Music
Topeka
the Barn
Wichita
Baker University
Baldwin City
Fruhauf
Senseney Music
Southwestern College
Winfield
Bethany College
Lindsborg
Pittsburg State University
Pittsburg
International Association of Jazz Educators
Jennie Barker Elementary to Mark 50th Anniversary
Jennie Barker Elementary School will celebrate its 50th anniversary with a day long event at 5585 Jennie Barker Road. Morning activities include Sophomore Girls Choir at 10 a.m. and Pat Fishback at 10:20 a.m. Afternoon features a balloon launch, GCHS dance team, and drumline. Former teacher Florence Wilson will speak to primary grades, with additional talks and a PowerPoint on school history. Evening Literacy Night includes Humdinger Band, potluck, Bernadine Sitts speech, and a fourth grade history presentation. The book fair, memorabilia displays, cake walk, and sales run through the evening. all visitors welcome.
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Jennie Barker
Garden City High School
Pat Fishback
GCHS
Florence Wilson
Humdinger
Finney County Senior Center
Bernadine Sitts
Bobcat
Garden City State Bank
Medicaid cuts push Lakemary children toward discharge
Eight Lakemary Center residents have already left with 22 more slated to depart by month’s end as Kansas curtails Medicaid funding for group homes. Rep. Bethell warns about 500 statewide affected. federal CMS requires stops on long stays, risking the state covering full costs.
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Lakemary Center
Bill Craig
Lakemary
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Craig
Bob Bethell
Alden
Bethell
Federal Center For Medicare and Medicaid Services
Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services
SRS
Gary Daniels
Daniels
Unidentified man accused of attempted kidnapping at Garden City business
Garden City police report an unidentified Hispanic man, 5 feet 7, 135 pounds, grabbed a 17 year old Dillons West employee from a business parking lot at about 10 p.m. Sunday. The teen escaped and sought help. The suspect fled in a burgundy four door sedan with Iowa plates. Police seek tips at 276-1300 or Crime Stoppers 275-7807.
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Garden City
Dillons West
Mike Utz
Utz
Iowa
Police Department
Goodwill
Schulman Ave
Supreme Court declines to hear Washburn statue dispute
U S Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to Washburn University's sculpture Holier Than Thou, paving way for a 10th Circuit ruling that the campus display did not violate religious rights. The suit, brought by Biology Professor Thomas O Connor and student Andrew Strobl, argued it endorsed anti Catholic sentiment. The artwork by Jerry Boyle depicted a clergyman in a miter and sparked accusations of a phallic resemblance.
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Topeka
Washburn University
U.S. Supreme Court
Municipal University
US. Circuit Court of Appeals
Washburn
Thomas O'Connor
Andrew Strobl
10Th Circuit
Westboro group skips Missouri soldier funeral protest
In Anderson Missouri the Westboro Baptist Church did not attend the funeral for Army Pfc. Christopher L. Marion 20 of Pineville. A Missouri law banning funeral protests faces potential legal challenge based on a prosecutor's letter.
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Southwest Missouri
Westboro
Army Pfc
Christopher L. Marion
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Anderson
Marion
Pineville
Jane Cemetery
Shirley Phelps-Roper
Fred Phelps
Westboro Baptist
Missouri
Springfield News-Leader
Phelps-Roper
Supreme Court
United States
Stephen Geeding
Salina weighs benefits from Fossett GlobalFlyer show
Salina has not yet gained direct profits from hosting Steve Fossett's 2005 GlobalFlyer milestone mission control. Still, leaders cite intangible gains and regional exposure valued at up to 100 million dollars, plus stronger aviation interest and potential future business in Salina.
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Salina
Steve Fossett
Dennis Kuhlman
Kansas State University
Mission Control
Fossett
Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer
Washington
D.C
NASA
Kansas State
Virgin Atlantic
Glitz
K-State
Patrick Rinearson
Olathe
Rinearson
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Washington, D.C
Salina Area
Chamber
Cook
Wichita woman launches Prison Expressions greeting cards
Brenda Guiden, 44, of Wichita, started Prison Expressions to provide greeting cards for inmates and their families after finding existing cards lacking. The business, begun in December, offers English and Spanish cards sold mainly by word of mouth and fliers, with recipients in El Dorado, Hutchinson, and Lansing. Some messages mix humor and serious notes about crime and family impact.
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Wichita
Brenda Guiden
Guiden
Prison Expressions
el Dorado
Hutchinson
Lansing
Group seeks recall over casino donations to lawmakers
A Kansas recall bid targets several south central legislators who oppose gambling and accepted casino campaign funds. Citizens 4 Recall says officials acted misconductly by taking money from northern Kansas Indian casinos, despite opposing gambling and urging Sedgwick County to reject a gambling referendum.
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Wichita
Kansas
The
Wichita Eagle
Sedgwick County
Kelley Edgar
Wellington
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