GCHS Senior Seeks Donations for Family Fun Night
Garden City High School senior Bailey Roth plans a Family Fun Night at Jennie Wilson Elementary School on April 11 from 5 30 to 8 30 p m at 1401 E Harding. The event supports the Buff Project graduation requirement and seeks money and prize donations. Contact 276 1554 for details.
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GCHS
Garden City High School
Bailey Roth
Jennie Wilson
E. Harding
Roth
Open House Showcases Southwest Kansas Fire Training Center
The Southwest Kansas Fire Training Center, a joint project of Garden City Community College and the city, hosts a Sunday open house from 2 to 4 p.m. at 801 Campus Drive on the GCCC campus. A ribbon cutting by the Garden City Area Chamber of Commerce begins a day of self-guided tours and demonstrations of rapelling, pumper drafting, and forced entry. The facility, opened in January, serves city, GCCC, and area departments with a two-story barn and a four-story training tower topped by a fifth-level deck. For details contact Fire Science instructor Larry Pander at 275 3251.
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Southwest Kansas Fire Training Center
Garden City Community College
Garden City
GCCC
Larry Pander
Potato chili supper planned at Trinity Lutheran Church
A baked potato bar and chili supper will run from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday at Trinity Lutheran Church 1010 Fleming St. The event costs $5 per person and is sponsored by the Girl Scouts of Kansas Heartland Europe Patrol. Bazaar gifts and Girl Scout cookies will be for sale. for more information contact Donna Blake at 620-384-7869.
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Trinity Lutheran Church
Fleming St
Girl Scouts of Kansas Heartland
Europe Patrol
Donna Blake
Copper Creations course registration opens at GCCC
Garden City Community College Continuing Education offers a Copper Creations course on April 17 from 6 30 to 9 p m. The $30 fee supports healing and balance properties of copper. Register with Tara Keasler at tara.keasler gceccks.edu or call 276 9647, or enroll in person at the Continuing Education Center on the upper level of the Student and Community Services Center.
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Garden City Community College Continuing Education
Tara Keasler
Tara.keasler
Gceccks
GCCC
Across the Border workshop on Hispanic culture at GCCC
Culture class sponsored by culture class offers a non credit workshop titled Across the Border about Hispanic and Mexican culture. Slated 6 to 8 p m on April 21 and 28 at the Student and Community Services Center GCCC, taught by Joel Tuchet tor at Primera Iglesia del azareno. Fee is 20 dollars. Registration and information from Tara Keasler at 2769647 or tara.keasler gcccks.edu.
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Garden City Community College Continuing Education and
GCCC
Kansas
Joel Tuchet
Tor
Primera Iglesia del Azareno
Tara Keasler
Tara. Keasler
Health bill heads to negotiators in Kansas
The House 103-20 approved a year of state aid to help poor parents buy private insurance, potentially helping about 8,500 uninsured Kansans. The Senate favored expanding a federal- funded program for children's medical care, aiding about 5,500 more middle-class children, while rejecting subsidies. Three senators and three House members will draft the final version amid broader debates over a 330 million five year plan and tobacco tax hikes.
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Topeka
House
Senate
Derek Schmidt
Kansas
Health Policy Authority
Kathleen Sebelius
Dennis McKinney
Greensburg
GOP
Jim Morrison
Colby
Funeral-picketing bill advances to final vote in Kansas House
Kansas House approves first reading to reinstate a funeral-picketing law after a Supreme Court ruling voided its trigger. The measure bars protests within 150 feet of services and near sidewalks, aiming to shield families of fallen soldiers. Gov. Sebelius expressed support for swift enactment.
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Topeka
Kathleen Sebelius
House
Kansas Supreme Court
Ray Goyle
Wichita
Melvin Neufeld
Ingalls
Fred Phelps
Senate
Derek Schmidt
Sebelius
Phelps
Westboro
Shirley Phelps-Roper
Westboro Baptist
Baltimore
Iraq
Phelps Group
Tourism agency plan stalls in Kansas House committee
A House Economic Development and Tourism Committee shelved a bid to create a semi independent tourism agency funded by reallocating growth in travel related taxes. The plan would have boosted the state tourism budget from 4 million to about 6 million next year and potentially over 10 million by 2013, but the panel voted for an off session study instead citing time and revenue concerns.
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Topeka
House
House Economic Development and Tourism Committee
Senate
Lana Gordon
Kansas
Gordon
State Department of Commerce
Marci Penner
Kansas Sampler Foundation
Inman
Victoria
Cathedral of Plains
David Kerr
Wyandotte County residents sue to block casino near speedway
Four Wyandotte County residents filed a Shawnee County suit against the Lottery, Lottery Commission, Gaming Facility Review Board and Racing and Gaming Commission to stop a casino project near Kansas Speedway, arguing public funding would violate state law and raise illegal taxes. The suit targets a specific proposal while other bids remain unaffected.
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Topeka
Wyandotte County
Kansas Speedway
Speedway
Americans For Prosperity
Kansas City
Caleb Stegall
Perry
Mary Ann Flander
Thomas Gordon
Domingo Soto
Calvin Vick
Shawnee County
Kansas Lottery
The
Lottery Commission
Gaming Facility Review Board
Racing and Gaming Commission
Lottery
Review Board
Alan Cobb
Kansas City, Kan
Cobb
Kaw
Mike Taylor
Mike Devies
Ed van Petten
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