RV Show fuels early start for Harper & Camperland
Harper & Camperland LLC of Great Bend reports a record-setting kickoff to the year selling recreational vehicles at the annual RV Sport and Travel Festival. Vendors note strong sales of motor homes as families plan trips close to home amid higher airline costs and rising fuel prices.
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Mattreit
Dan Leer
Harper & Camperland LLC
Great Bend
Leer
Breit
Finney County Exhibition
Lear
Brett
Associated Press
Southwest Airlines
United Airlines
Southwest
Gary Kelly
Lear and
Finney County Fairgrounds
Cindy Landgraf
Landgraf
Center for Independent Living closes in Garden City
Garden City CIL offices abruptly shut this morning with interim CEO Victor Otero uncertain about permanence or return of services. Police arrived as staff and clients were told to leave within 10 minutes. closures also reported in Liberal and Dodge City. The board president cited state action for mismanagement of funds. The centers reportedly serve about 500 clients across 35 counties, including 200 in Finney County.
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Garden City
Center For Independent Living
Southwest
Kansas
Victor Otero
Otero
Spruce St
Roberta Lackey
Liberal
Dodge City
Roberta
Cancer victim shares journey to raise disease awareness
Phil Kemp learned in spring that a mouth sore was cancer stage four that had spread to bone. After a October 2010 surgery and ongoing chemo and radiation, he is on the mend, though his daughter Jennifer Kemp-Espinosa says the recovery has been hardest on the family.
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Phil Kemp
Kemp
Jennifer Kemp-Espinosa
Kemp- Espinosa
Tiffany Guerrero
Lisa Gonzales
Neighbors push mouth cancer awareness after ordeal
Kemp and his sisters Tiffany Guerrero and Lisa Gonzales recount a severe mouth cancer battle that required bone and skin grafts from his leg to repair his jaw. The family aims to raise awareness of how tobacco and alcohol contribute to head and neck cancers, per EverydayHealth.com.
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Kemp
Kemp-Espinosa
Tiffany Guerrero
Lisa Gonzales
EverydayHealth.com
Winter Weather Forecast Tonight Through Tuesday
Tonight the region will see snow with a low around 32. Tuesday brings snow and rain with a high near 36 and a low of 22. Details appear on page A8.
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Eles Ko
Gary Blake
Garden City PowerSports LLC
Larry Barricklow
Ness City
Finney County
Western Kansas
Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks
Parks and Recreation
Tammy
Lonnie Vaden
Ulysses
Brailey
Braden
Fun Valley
South Fork
Colo
Tammy Vaden
Vaden
Schwieterman Inc
Chicago
Annie’s
Auy
Garden City Co-op
Ysisassiere
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