Picture This: Local rider tackles camel in Kuwait
Codi Baker-Bowman, a skilled horsewoman from Dixie Baker in Garden City, tries camel riding during a season abroad in Kuwait, showcasing versatile riding talent and noting cultural novelty of the experience.
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Codi Baker-Bowman
Kuwait
Y Dixie Baker
Garden City
Downtown residents seek Main Street vitality by 2010
About 50 to 60 attendees debated goals for Main Street in Garden City, with the top wish to fill empty buildings by 2010. The grassroots group Garden City Downtown Vision Inc. highlighted 18 priorities, including Windsor Hotel reopening, more restaurants, evening entertainment, a bridal shop, renovated store fronts, and public art, as consultants from Doyle Hyett and Dolores Palma of Alexandria met Monday.
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Main Street
Garden City Downtown Vision Inc
Alexandria
Doyle Hyett
Dolores Palma
Windsor Hotel
Kendall Kepley
Kep’s Men’s Wear
Grant Avenue
Hispanic business outreach falls short in Garden City
Consultants Doyle Hyett and Do lores Palma led a four day Garden City visit to survey downtown market potential inviting Hispanic owners to a 7 30 a m meeting at Commerce Bank 215 N Main St Only two Hispanic business representatives Mario Lopez and Lizeth Gonzales attended the session with eight participants discussing strategies to attract more Spanish speaking businesses to the downtown district See Downtown page AS
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Doyle Hyett
Dolores Palma
Garden City
Alexandria
Commerce Bank
N. Main St
Mario Lopez
Farmer’s Union Insurance
Lizeth Gonzales
Better Buy Jewelry
Kansas officials launch year long drive to cut crash toll
Kansas Transportation Secretary Deb Miller told the House Health and Human Services Committee that hundreds die or suffer permanent injuries on state roads every year. She cited 400 to 500 deaths and 2000 disabling injuries annually, noting 76 percent of fatalities involved no seatbelt use. Public forums in Colby Wichita Pittsburg and Lawrence will outline trends as leaders from KDHE and KHP join the effort.
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Topeka
Hns
Kansas
Deb Miller
Miller
House Health and Human Services Committee
Colby
Wichita
Pittsburg
Lawrence
Transportation Department
Kansas Highway Patrol
William Leck
Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Rod Bremby
Garden City man bound over on murder for hire charges
Naab 38 bound over on two counts of solicitation to commit murder and related charges after a preliminary hearing in Finney County District Court Judge Thomas Richardson found enough evidence for trial. He was released on 500000 bond and placed on house arrest with an ankle monitor.
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Garden City
Finney County
Thomas Richardson
James Dean Naab
16 Mile Road
Naab
Washington Ave
Apt
Kansas State Fire Marshal's Office
Garden City Fire Department
Finney County Drug Task Force
Naah
Christopher
Tabitha Russell
C St
Mike Utz
Utz
Russells
Board rejects tuck-point bid on KHMS exterior bricks
The USD 457 Board of Education rejected an $11,137 tuck-pointing bid for Kenneth Henderson Middle School’s exterior and directed architect Stewart Nelson to draft a phased plan to replace deteriorating brick sections. Directors debated options from full brick replacement to stucco facades and questioned the long term effects of moisture and hairline fractures.
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Kenneth Henderson Middle School
USD 457 Board of Education
Stewart Nelson
Harold Perkins
Mid-Continental Restoration Co
Fort Scott
Jeff Crist
John Scheppner
Mike Utz
Nelson
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