Night of Science at GCHS Tuesday program
The Garden City High School science department hosts a Night of Science Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Clifford Hope Auditorium with student demonstrations and lab experiments open to the public. An informational meeting on tamarisk control along the Arkansas River is set for March 25 at the Kearny County Fairgrounds with KS Department of Agriculture, landowners, reps, and officials. contact the Noxious Weed Department at (620) 355-6402.
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Garden City
Clifford Hope
Kearny County Fairgrounds
Arkansas River
Kansas Department of Agriculture
Kearny County
Mark Branstine
Mercer Gallery
Branstine
Mercer
Garden City Community College
Pauline Joyce
Carnegie Center For the Arts
Dodge City
Hays Arts Center
Liberal’s
Baker Arts ‘Center
Strecker
David Kinder
Lydia Smith
GCCC
Kinder
Halsted
James ‘Caldwell
Sandhills Art Association
Mark ‘Flake
Raff dies at 95 famed for green beret origin story
Retired Army Col. Edson D. Raff, who helped outfit Special Forces with the green beret, died Tuesday at the Anderson County Long-Term Care Center. A World War II paratroop commander, Raff led key early assaults in Europe, including in North Africa during the Torch landings. His beret initiative boosted morale and later became a standard headgear for all soldiers.
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Europe
West Point
503Rd Parachute Infantry Regiment
French North Africa
U.S
Garden City hosts largest Kansas Scholastic Chess Championship
The Kansas Scholastic Chess Championship brought 442 students from 84 schools to Garden City High School for a six round event. Teams from Derby, Wichita Northeast, Blue Valley Northwest and others competed across elementary to high school divisions with Garden City finishing 3rd in 6A.
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Stride
GCHS
Ryan Thompson
Thompson
Buffaloes
Erie
Thayer
Galesburg
Garden City
Victor Yanez
Michael Yanez
Yanez
Michael Yanes
Kissimee
Fla
Lela Allen
Daniel Allen
Charles Kraft
Kansas
Garden City High School
Quail Run
Lawrence
Wakarusa Valley
Washington
Olathe
Country View
Winfield
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
Wichita
Jed Borovik
John Stang
Great Bend
Anjali Datta
Derby
Santa Fe Trail Junior High
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Middle School
Pleasant Valley Middle School
Maxx Coleman
Justin Jewett
Wichita Northeast Magnet High School
Blue Valley Northwest
Duc Nguyen
Kenyon Fryman
Nathan O’brate
Jaron Lucero
Vinny Ortiz
Deepyaman Datta
Ben Pettijohn
Mikhail Kats
Blue Valley
Ulysses
Belle Plaine
Pittsburg-Colgan High School
Ulysses High School
Adam Dees
Ryan Hall
Jorge Alvarado
Tim Newman
Brian McGoohan
Sarah Sullivan
Marcus Newport
Dustin Newport
Kyle Johnson
Kansas Scholastic Chess Association
Kcrcc.org
Former actor leads Kansas prison chief by accident
Roger Werholtz, once an aspiring actor with a theater degree, rose from Washburn University to become Kansas's top prison official. His path moved through mental health work, community corrections, and the Department of Corrections, with Gov. Sebelius appointing him as secretary after overseeing a federal court reform era. He now manages nearly 8,900 inmates and contemplates acting only modestly in the future.
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Topeka
Washburn University
Roger Werholtz
McMurphy
Jack Nicholson
Werholtz
Kansas
Department of Corrections
Bill Graves
Corrections
Charles Simmons
Sebelius
Emporia
Washburn
Topeka Civic Theatre
University of Michigan
Children’s Hospital
Menninger
Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services
University of Kansas
SRS
Kansas City
Kan
Wyandot
Wyandotte
Corrections Department
Verholtz
Jim Barone
Barone
D-Frontenac
Secretary of Corrections
Kathleen Sebelius
Crist seeks another term amid district budget concerns
Board member Crist faces a re election amid worries over financing and No Child Left Behind compliance. He notes a 2 percent budget cut may not hurt education but hints deeper cuts could affect programs like extracurriculars as district budgeting favors 98 percent funding for most programs. He advocates returning to a larger community budgeting process and sees a turf project at Memorial Stadium as a community issue with multiple partners. Four of six seats are open in the April 1 vote, with incumbents seeking re election and voter registration closing soon.
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Crist
Gail Dunford
Milt Pippenger
Jim Lentz
Kathleen Whitley
Bob Kreutzer
ESEA
Memorial Stadium
Garden City Community College
City of
Garden City
Bruce Reichmuth
Mike Utz
Bethphage
Ken Rishel
Wal-Mart
Conrad Rodriguez
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Col. Edson D. Raff
Kevin Nyberg
Nyberg
Annie Burke
Burke
Blessed Sacrament School
C.J. Acosta
Blessed Sacrament
Acosta
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