Easter Event at YMCA Brings Family Fun Saturday
The Garden City Family YMCA hosts its seventh annual Easter n Egg stravaganza this Saturday from 7 to 9 p.m. at 1224 Center St. The free event features swimming, snacks, carnival games, crafts, an egg hunt, and egg dyeing. About 700 attended last year. Commerce Bank sponsors. Krystal Richardson, Family and MSA Director, invites families to join. For information call 275-1199 or email gckymca.msa@gmail.com.
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Center St
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MSA
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Juried Christian Art Festival Seeks Entries
Artists must enter by Tuesday to qualify for 725 dollars in cash prizes and seven purchase awards. Two divisions youth and adult. Festival runs 9 to 6 March 29 31 and noon to 6 March 30 at Community Congregational Church UCC Third and Walnut. Opening reception 6 30 to 8 30 p m March 28 with hors d oeuvres desserts live music and judges remarks. For information call 275 5623 or contact Vivian Kinder at 276 6037 or vivk33 hotmail com.
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Ucc
Third
Walnut Streets
Vivian Kinder
Hotmail
Garden City USD 457 Talks Set For Thursday
The Garden City Educators' Association and the USD 457 Board of Education will meet at 4:30 p.m. Thursday in the Educational Support Center board room at 1205 Fleming St. The agenda covers professional dress, forming a committee to review a condensed salary schedule, and exploring possible future additions to teacher contracts.
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USD 457
Board of Education
Educational Support Center
Fleming St
Mystery dinner theater at Garden City High School
Garden City High School hosts a 6:30 PM March 28 interactive mystery show B I N G O Spells Murder in the Courtyard. Johnathan Perkins directs with student volunteers. culinary arts classes prepare a baked steak dinner. Tickets $20 include meal and show. proceeds benefit a special education trip to St. Louis. Reservations to Chris Lampe at 276-5170.
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Garden City High School
GCHS
N. Main St
Johnathan Perkins
St.Louis
Chris Lampe
Kansas House backs budget omits veterans agency
The Kansas House approved three budget bills totaling 13.4 billion for the new fiscal year, but zeroed funding for the Commission on Veterans Affairs amid complaints about its leadership. Executive director George Webb, who resigned effective Nov. 30, criticized the role of politics in funding decisions. Senate plans to weigh its version. full resolution unlikely before early May.
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House
Senate
Veterans
Kathleen Sebelius
Commission On Veterans Affairs
Commission
George Webb
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Webb
Associated Press
Sebelius
Nicole Corcoran
Senate Budget Committee
Dwayne Umbarger
Umbarger
Thayer
Kansas
Corcoran
Bob Bethell
Alden
Bethell
Senate seeks bigger aid for safety net clinics in health plan
Sen. Jim Barnett proposes boosting state aid to 33 medical safety net clinics by 1.5 million for the next fiscal year, a 29 percent rise from 5.1 million. The plan aims to expand care for about 5,200 more patients, while the Senate health bill delays the poor-parent insurance subsidies and expands middle-class child coverage. The biodefense lab bond proposal seeks 105 million in bonds for a Kansas State University Manhattan site, with a 451 million facility replacing Plum Island lab, contingent on winning the project.
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Topeka
Jim Barnett
Barnett
Emporia
Senate
Ways and Means
House
House Appropriations Committee
Kansas
Georgia
Mississippi
North Carolina
Texas
Kansas State University
Manhattan
Plum Island
N.Y
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Ron Trewyn
Alan Cobb
Americans For Prosperity
Kansas House blocks wage hike push amid party split
Democrats pressed to raise Kansas minimum wage from 2.65 to 7.25 over three years to match federal increases, but Republicans sent the measure back to committee 63 to 58, stalling the effort. The current law affects about 19,000 workers in small businesses not covered by federal rules.
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Topeka
House
Mike O'Neal
R-Hutchinson
O’neal
Kansas
Stan Frownfelter
Kansas City
Frownfelter
Dennis McKinney
Greensburg
McKinney
Senate
House Commerce and Labor Committee
Steve Brunk
Deena Horst
R-Salina
Clark Shultz
R-Lindsborg
Bill Otto
R-Leroy
Teen Sentenced in Beating Case at H and H Trailer Park
Garden City teen Carlos Sanchez, 17, was sentenced to two years in a juvenile facility with potential adult prison time for his role in the December beating of 18 year old Adam Rosas. He pleaded no contest to aggravated battery and conspiracy to commit aggravated battery, while accomplices Hinojos Jr., Robles, Diaz, and Leon face separate prosecutions.
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Garden City
Carlos Sanchez
Adam Rosas
H and H
Sanchez
Kansas Department of Corrections
Mike Quint
Finney County
Antonio Hinojos Jr
Hinojos
Luis Robles
Rigoberto Diaz
Lizet Leon
H and H Trailer Park
Robles
Rosas
Diaz
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