Community calls for help after fire destroys home
Mark Lucero collects donations at Garden City businesses to aid Carlos Jimenez and family after a fire Friday destroyed their mobile home at 340 S Farmland Rd Lot 7.Jimenez was not home. his 4-year-old son Randall was playing with a lighter in the bedroom. Donations can be dropped at local businesses or sent to Plaza Inn. Separately, Kansas park permits go on sale at discounted rates before April 1.
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Mark Lucero
Lucero
Garden City
Carlos Jimenez
Jimenez
S. Farmland Road
Randall
Allen Shelton
Plaza Inn
E. Kansas Plaza
Free fiddlers concert in Scott City Sunday afternoon
The White Woman Basin Chapter of the Old Time Fiddlers Pickers and Singers performs from 2 to 4 30 p m Sunday at the VIP Building 300 Church St Scott CityAdmission is free and the public is invited to attend.
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White Woman Basin
Old Time Fiddlers, Pickers and Singers
Church St
Scott City
Medication education sessions for nurses in Dodge City and Wichita
Two continuing education programs for nurses will run 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on March 20 at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Dodge City and March 25 at the Southwest Kansas Area Health Education Center 1501 Fulton Terrace Suite 1. Each offers six contact hours. Details at University of Kansas Medical Center Southwest Kansas AHEC 275 0259.
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Knights of Columbus
Dodge City
Southwest Kansas Area Health Education Center
Fulton Terrace
University of Kansas Medical Center
Cardiac Arrest Fund-Raiser AHA Event Planned
The American Heart Association will hold its Cardiac Arrest fundraiser from 11 30 a m to 1 p m on March 25 at the Finnup Center in Lee Richardson Zoo. Volunteers seek to raise about 10 000 for cardiovascular disease and stroke research, including projects in Kansas.
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American Heart Association
Lee Richardson Zoo
Finnup Center For Conservation Education
AHA
Ken Killion
Kansas
Panel OKs KDOT budget deferrals
A Senate Ways and Means panel endorsed Gov. Sebelius’s 1.45 billion transportation budget that defers major highway program decisions. The plan trims KDOT next year by 41 million, 2.8 percent, while concerns over a 13.6 billion 10 year program persist amid past diversions of sales tax revenue. Miller warned of real cuts if revenue remains diverted. House members noted no tax increase plans this year.
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Topeka
Senate
Kathleen Sebelius
Ways and Means
Transportation
Deb Miller
Department of Transportation
David Adkins
Rleawood
KDOT
Sebelius
Miller
Kansas Legislature Highlights Tuesday Actions
The Senate panel backed the governor's 1.45 billion transportation budget deferring highway program decisions. Internet content filters on public library computers were deemed costly ineffective and unnecessary. Supporters urged in state tuition for unauthorized immigrants while critics warned of rewards for crime. Gov Sebelius trooper pay boost faced criticism as the 58th of 90 session days passed.
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House Transportation Committee
Gary Hayzlett
R-Lakin
Larry Salmans
R Hanston
Ways and Means Committee
House
Kansas
Senate
Sebelius
Kansas Highway Patrol
Farmers named to Kansas commodity commissions
Area farmers from Wichita and Grant counties join state four commodity commissions. Gregg Graff rehired District 2 on the Grain Sorghum Commission and Ron Suppes elected District 2 on the Wheat Commission. Donnie Young and Larry Kepley win District 3 seats on the Corn and Wheat panels. Votes were counted after a January to March 1 ballot window under a 2000 privatization law.
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Kansas
Kansas Department of Agriculture
Gregg Graff
Wichita County
Kansas Grain Sorghum Commission
Ron Suppes
Scott County
Kansas Wheat Commission
Donnie Young
Grant County
Santa Fe Trail Dairy LLC
Kansas Corn Commission
Larry Kepley
Wheat Commission
Commission
US Grain Council
Graff
Suppes
Gove
Greeley
Lane
Logan
Ness
Scott
Trego
Wallace
Wichita Counties
Bruce Wilkens
Wilkens
Finney
Clark
Ford
Grant
Gray
Hamilton
Haskell
Hodgeman
Kearny
Meade
Morton
Seward
Stanton
Stevens
Department of Agriculture
Jails absorb more mentally ill after Topeka hospital closure
The move to close the Topeka State Hospital and treat mentally ill individuals in their home communities has increased the number of mentally ill in Kansas jails. Kansas Department of Corrections spokesman Bill Miskell notes a rise mostly at county jails, not state prisons. Steve Feinstein of NAMI Kansas links it to a nationwide trend.
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Topeka
Topeka State Hospital
Kansas Department of Corrections
Bill Miskell
Miskell
Steve Feinstein
Kansas
The
National Alliance For the Mentally Ill
Food Pyramid Debate Persists Over Nutrition Clarity
The article argues the USDA Food Guide Pyramid is not the sole cause of rising obesity. It notes mixed critiques from Newsweek and Scientific American and urges balanced portions, more whole grains, and reduced sugars. It references multiple pyramids including Mayo Clinic and Tufts models and highlights National Nutrition Month guidance.
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USDA
Newsweek
Scientific American
Atkins
Usda Food Guide
Food Guide
US Department of Agriculture
Usda Center For Nutrition Policy and Promotion
Park Center Drive
Room
Alexandria
Usda Food and Nutrition Information Center
Tufts
Nutrition
Tufts.edu
Pyramid
Nutrition Science
Tufts University
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Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks
State
U.S. Highway 50
Cimarron
RHP
Kansas Legislature
Associated Press
America
Linda K. Walter
Family and Consumer Sciences
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