Garden City DUI Saturation Patrol Planned This Weekend
Garden City police set a DUI saturation patrol from 11 p.m. Saturday to 3 a.m. Sunday within city limits. Officers will monitor traffic for impaired driving and emphasize speeding safety belts and alcohol violations. Funded by the Impaired Driving Deterrence Program grant from Kansas Department of Transportation.
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Garden City
Kansas Department of Transportation
Animal shelter offers free vaccines at clinics
The Garden City Finney County Animal Shelter and the Finney County Humane Society will hold vaccine clinics at 124 Fleming St providing parvovirus and distemper shots at 1 to 3 pm on March 27, April 24, and May 22. For information call 272-5651.
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Garden City
Finney County
Finney County Humane Society
Fleming St
the Humane Society
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Garden City Police Academy Seeks Student Applicants
The Garden City Police Department opens applications for a Student Police Academy open to middle and high school students who live or study in Garden City. The program runs at the police department starting March 27 with a March 19 deadline. For questions call 276-1300 or contact a school resource officer.
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Judge Vieux sits with state Supreme Court in three appeals
Philip C. Vieux district judge and chief of the 25th Judicial District joined the state Supreme Court on Monday to hear three criminal appeals due to Chief Justice Robert E. Davis's medical leave. Vieux, in his 28th year on the bench and chief since 1992, will take part in deliberations and opinion drafting. He has previously served as an assigned judge for the Kansas Court of Appeals.
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Philip C. Vieux
25Th Judicial District
State Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Vieux
Robert E. Davis
High Court
Kansas Court of Appeals
Dust Suppressant Program Offered by Finney County
Finney County Board of Commissioners approves a dust suppressant program for rural residents. Magnesium chloride or calcium chloride will be applied based on bids. A fee applies. information and applications available at Public Works or by calling (620) 272-3564. Deadline April 16.
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Finney County Board of Commissioners
Public Works Department
Greensburg opens LEED Platinum hospital after tornado
Greensburg unveils Kiowa County Memorial Hospital a 25 million facility built to LEED Platinum standards aiming for energy efficiency and lower operating costs. The 50,000 square foot building houses 15 beds, 75 staff, on site wind power, FEMA safe room, and aims to set a prototype for critical access hospitals.
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Kiowa County Memorial Hospital
Wichita’s
Health Facilities Group
Mary Sweet
Tim Dudie
Dudie
FEMA
Murray Co
Overland Park
Sweet
Educators press Senate panel to raise Kansas taxes
Two education groups and a school superintendent urged a Senate committee to raise state revenue through higher sales and tobacco taxes. The bill would lift the sales tax from 5.3 to 6.3 percent for three years and increase cigarette taxes, while altering other tobacco levies. Lawmakers plan a vote next week on the measure amid ongoing shifts in special education funding and catastrophic aid rules.
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Topeka
Kansas
Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee
Mike Mathes
Seaman
Mathes
Kansas Association of School Boards
Kansas National Education Association
KNEA
Mark
Desetti
Les Donovan
Wichita
House
Johnson County
Growing recall list expands over flavor ingredient contamination
A broad voluntary recall cites hydrolyzed vegetable protein from Basic Food Flavors Inc. of Las Vegas as possibly Salmonella contaminated. Items include Kroger Onion Soup Mix and Beefy Onion Soup Mix, Quaker Snack Mix Baked Cheddar, seven Dean’s Dip products by Ventura Foods, Mrs. Gerry's Kitchen and Old Home Spinach Dips, and Frontier and Whole Foods brand seasonings and blends in various sizes and sell by dates.
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Basic Food Flavors Inc
Las Vegas
Dean’s
Ventura Foods LLC
Mrs
Gerry
Frontier Natural Products Co-op
Judge urged to dismiss grandparents’ suit over child death
SRS asks federal judge to deny a lawsuit by Larry and Mary Crosette alleging social worker Linda Gillen failed to protect Brooklyn, a 23 month old Coffeyville girl who died after abuse by her father's girlfriend. The agency seeks immunity and says Gillen had no duty to intervene after an abuse report.
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Wichita
Kansas Child Welfare Agency
Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services
Linda Gillen
Coffeyville
Randall Rathbun
Danny Baumgartner
Gillen
Larry
Mary Crosette
Brooklyn
Crosettes
Angela Crosette Coons
Rathbun
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