Head Start Roundup Enrollment Offered Next Week
The Kansas Children’s Service League will host a Head Start Roundup at Primavera Salon in Garden City from 9 am to 7 pm on Monday and 9 am to 3 pm on Tuesday. Parents may enroll children ages 0 through 4 by bringing the child, birth certificate and income proof. The program supports health, nutrition, education and social development to give kids a healthy start.
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Kansas Children’s Service League
KCSL
Primavera Salon
Prairie Ave
Garden City
Julie Wright
West Region
Finney County
Grant
Haskell
Kearney
Kingman
Pratt
Scott
Seward
Stafford
Stanton
Stevens
Wichita
kcsLorg
Doctors on Call Hosts Dermatology Topic Tuesday
Smoky Hills Public Television invites viewers to a live Doctors on Call session focusing on dermatology. Pediatrician Dr Kristie Clark and family physician Dr Robert Clark Jr of WaKeeney Family Care Clinic will answer skin disorder questions during the 7 p.m. Tuesday airing, with a 3 30 p.m. rebroadcast on April 3 when calls are not accepted.
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Doctors On Call
Smoky Hills
Kristie Clark
Robert Clark Jr
WaKeeney Family Care Clinic
Classic Car Crawl and Poker Run Event Details
A Classic Car Crawl and Poker Run is set for 8 a.m. on April 30 in Garden City to raise support for Emmaus House and a Movie Day for nursing home residents. The route travels past local facilities and collects canned goods, followed by a public Classic Car Show from noon to 3 p.m. with admission of $1 or one canned good. For poker run info call Carol or Barbara at the senior center 272-3620.
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Emmaus House
Nursing Home
Garden City
Carol
Barbara
Virtual public school info session set in Garden City
A late April information session promotes the tuition free Kansas Connections Academy virtual public school for grades K through 12 statewide. Enrollment for 2011 12 starts April 1 with sessions 6 30 to 8 pm on April 28 at the Hampton Inn Garden City.
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Kansas Connections Academy
Connections Academy
Hampton Inn
Crestway Drive
Garden City
ConnectionsAcademy.com
Pressure mounts for Kansas lawmaker to resign over hogs remark
Immigrant rights groups and Hispanic advocates delivered petitions signed by about 58,000 people to Governor Brownback's staff and House Speaker O'Neal, urging the resignation of Rep. Virgil Peck after he called for shooting illegal immigrants like feral hogs. Peck has not said he will quit, while leaders say the apology remains insufficient for some.
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Topeka
Kansas
House
Virgil Peck
Tyro
GOP
Sam Brownback
Mike O’neal
Hutchinson
Latino Informational Network of
Wichita-area
American GI Forum
League of United Latin American Citizens
Presente.org
National People’s Action
Brownback
O’neal
Peck
Emira Palacios
Sunflower Community Action
Virgil
Sherriene Jones
Sontag
Florentino Camacho Jr
LULAC
Statehouse
Lalo Munoz
Kansas Informational Network
GOP Pushes Photo ID At Polls Across States
Across the country Republicans push voter photo ID laws in about half the states, arguing fraud prevention while Democrats warn of disenfranchising poor and minority voters. Several states advance measures, with costs estimated in the millions, and long history of voting rights concerns cited by NAACP leader and former North Carolina justice Henry Frye.
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GOP
Raleigh
N.C
Tennessee
Tre Hargett
Hargett
Alabama
Arkansas
Kansas
Ohio
Texas
National Conference of State Legislatures
Georgia
Indiana
South
Justice Department
William Barber
North Carolina
NAACP
Henry Frye
Air Force
Frye
Supreme Court
Assembly
Brian Kemp
Kemp
Missouri
South Carolina
Mississippi
Medal of Honor recipient Donald K Ross Memorial Highway
Gov. Brownback signed a bill designating a stretch of Kansas 18 as the Medal of Honor Recipient Donald K Ross Memorial Highway. Ross, a Beverly, Kansas native, earned the Medal of Honor for his actions aboard the USS Nevada at Pearl Harbor, later serving until 1956 and dying in 1992. Kansas lawmakers and supporters highlighted his heroism and long-awaited tribute.
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Topeka
Kansas
Donald K. Ross
Nevada
Pearl Harbor
Ross
Sam Brownback
Kansas 18
Brownback
Normandy
Beverly
Lincoln County
Joe Cassell
Jack Meili
Elaine Bowers
Concordia
Bowers
Chester Nimitz
U.S. Pacific Fleet
Bremerton
Wash
Navy
Navy Yard
Ford Island
Edwin Joseph Hill
Philadelphia
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Home and Living
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Jay D. Coen
Jay D
Elkhart
University of Kansas
Western Kansas Broadcast Center
Finney County Fairgrounds
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