Garden City hosts Extreme Challenge cancer aid fundraiser
Garden City Community College Criminal Justice program invites teams to join the third annual Extreme Challenge at 9 a.m. April 9 on the Challenge Course. Teams of six compete in Fear Factor style tasks to raise funds for local beneficiaries including Detective Bill Powers and Deputy David Beasley, with a $50 entry and Tuesday registration.
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Garden City Community College Criminal Justice
Garden City Police
Bill Powers
Finney County
David Beasley
Gccc Department of Public Safety
Brooke Mahnken
Brooke.mahnken
Gcccks
Literacy Night At VC to Feature Western Theme and Guest
Victor Ornelas Elementary School at 3401 E Spruce St hosts a literacy night with a western theme starting at 6 30 Tuesday evening. The program includes literacy games stories free books door prizes and a featured guest Barry Ward a Copeland cowboy who sings and plays guitar and was a top three finalist for the Western Music Association male performer of the year in 2003.
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Victor Ornelas
E. Spruce St
Barry Ward
Ward
Copeland
Western Music Association
Computer class starts Tuesday at Holcomb
Garden City Community College offers a senior citizen computer class in Holcomb starting Tuesday. Instructor Colleen Lauer teaches from 7 to 9 p.m. on Tuesdays through May 3 at Holcomb Middle School. The Basic Computer Skills class costs about $58 and is connected to GCCC’s Senior Citizen Computer Lab program affiliated with the Frederick Finnup Computer Lab. Contact Mary Olson at marv.orson geccks.edu or 276-9535 to enroll.
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Garden City Community College
Holcomb
Colleen Lauer
Mary Olson
GCCC
Holcomb Middle School
Frederick Finnup
Olson
Marv
Son
Geccks
Organization class begins Tuesday at Community College
Community College offers a one night course titled Organize This from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday for $19 per person. Instructor Summer Proffer guides personalized organizational methods, clutter identification, and overcoming roadblocks with room-by-room plans. Register with Christine Siebert or visit the Continuing Education office in Collins Technical.
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Garden City Community College ‘Community Services Division
Christine Siebert
Christine.siebert
GCCC
Collins Technical
Garden City CC Combines Spring And Easter Break
Garden City Community College merges spring and Easter breaks into a single period from Friday to March 28. Spring break runs to March 24 with no classes. Easter break covers March 25 to 28. Most offices stay open through March 24, then campus closes for the Easter period. Classes resume and offices reopen with scheduling changes after March 28.
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Garden City Community College
GCCC
Federal agents join Fort Scott fire investigation
A 15 member ATF National Response Team arrives to probe the downtown Fort Scott blaze that destroyed nine buildings and damaged four others, with an estimated $10 million in losses. Officials say arson is not indicated, and the team will assess safety, structural integrity, and potential causes over several days.
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Fort Scott
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
Main Street
ATF
Paul Marquardt
Marquardt
Ings
Williams
NRT
Marino Vidoli
Kansas City Field
Hamish the Great Pyrenees headlines big Garden City show
Hamish McPup, a 2-year-old Great Pyrenees, wins attention at the 16th annual Garden City Kennel Club event with grooming by Sue Cole. About 850 entrants per AKC dog show drew roughly 1,000 spectators for confirmation, obedience and agility as handlers from multiple states praised the friendly, compact venue and the chance to showcase diverse breeds.
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Hamish McPup
Pyrenees
Sue Cole
Hamish
Cole
Littleton
Colo
Tessa
American Kennel Club
Finney County Fairgrounds
Becky Welch
Ulysses
Denver
Welch
Barbara Margiel
Barbara Lipsky
Houston
Margiel
Fairgrounds
Horse Palace
Stephanie Clinesmith
Garden City
Kennel Club
Clinesmith
Mark Ouska
Minnesota
Ouska
Krista Burdick
Loraine Boutwell
Zoom
Garden City Kennel Club
Finney County Exhibition Building
Burdick
Kansas breast feeding bill faces wording dispute in legislature
Amy Swan recalls being shamed for nursing in a public health club day care area in Lawrence. The Kansas bill to clarify rights for public breastfeeding has been altered to include the word discreet, a change that could complicate passage and raise questions about how nursing is defined in law.
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Topeka
Amy Swan
Lawrence
Swan
Kansas
Melissa Vance
Moorestown
N.J
la Leche
House
Deena Horst
Missouri
Horst
Salina
Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee
Jim Barnett
Barnett
Remporia
Missionary Deacon Don Kostecki Shot Dead in Belize
In Belize, 64 year old Don Kostecki, a retired Kansas hydrologist turned lay deacon at St. Matthew's Topeka, was killed Friday while in his pickup in St. Ignacio. Police detained a suspect. authorities suspect cross border involvement from Guatemala.
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Topeka
Belize
Don Kostecki
St. Matthew’s Catholic Church
St. Ignacio
Netti Kostecki
Kostecki
G. Michael Reid
Reid
Guatemala
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