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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 2008
Page
3
Smoky Hills Public Television will air Kansas Spotlight at 7 tonight featuring Garden City Hot Air Balloon Classic with an encore at 6 30 p m Sunday. Balloons launch all weekend Aug 22 to 24 at Finney County Fairgrounds with public rides and launches.
A recruitment workshop scheduled for April 4 at Garden City Community College will cover board recruitment strategies and development. Attendees pay 25 dollars, box lunches provided, with speakers Scott Wituk and Heidi Brandenburger. Registration ends Monday. forms are at Western Kansas Community Foundation, 1500 E Kansas Ave, or call 271-9484.
Garden City Recreation Commission starts Monday with youth theater classes for ages 4 to kindergarten and older groups through 12th grade. Sessions run 4 15 to 5 p m at the Activity Center 310 N Sixth St, six weeks, 18 dollars. Call 276 1200 or visit the center to register.
The Garden City Jamboree starts Saturday at 4 p.m. at the Senior Center of Finney County located at 907 North Tenth Street. A covered dish supper follows at 6:30 p.m. Musicians are welcome and for more information call Jerry Miller at 620-355-4264.
Greensburg residents urged the House Appropriations panel to advance a bill offering 4 million dollars yearly in grants for disaster housing projects over three years. The Senate already approved the measure, but the House faces budget hurdles as officials weigh how to fund the aid and infrastructure grants for rebuilding in Greensburg and other disaster areas.
Kansas 4-H and FFA members ages 7 to 18 begin their show season at the Finney County Fairgrounds with the Spring Beef Livestock Show and NLBRA Rodeo doubling the attractors. The event, beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday, features breeding heifers, bucket calves, and market beef classes, plus halter breaking and temperament training as 65 to 80 entries are expected. Concessions benefit the 4-H Junior Leaders and Relay for Life.
Garden City hosts a mystery dinner theater at GCHS with a 6 30 p.m. showing in the courtyard, tickets 20, call Chris Lampe for reservations. The 2008 Garden City Piano Festival concludes with concerts at GCCC Pauline Joyce Fine Arts Building on campus, free admission, plus a free ceramics workshop led by Fort Hays State University students. Sunday features the Southwest Kansas Fire Training Center open house with demonstrations, a Copeland Legion Riders fundraiser, and the Garden City Little Britches Rodeo with events from barrel racing to bull riding drawing participants from several states.
Ness City 36 year old Rory McFarren was arrested Sunday on lewd and lascivious behavior charges after allegedly exposing himself to a neighbor’s teen daughter and friends. He bonded out after a night in jail with no charges filed yet. Police also say his girlfriend Pam Babcock, 35, was found stuck to a toilet for months.
The City Commission approved a temporary closure of Heroes Way for a April 26 youth fundraiser for the Church of the Brethren and a May 25 car show waiver for Crooked Concepts Car Club at Golden Plains Credit Union to support Emmaus House. It also accepted bids for a covert camera system for the Garden City Police Department at 5045 dollars and for concrete replacement on Kansas Avenue at 674,899 dollars with 297,728 funded by the state. April was declared National Child Abuse Prevention Month as Finney County records showed 866 abuse cases in 2007 with 22 substantiated per Lisa Russell Knoll and CASA observer.
WaKeeney in Trego County reports unhealthy ozone levels amid sparse population and possible transport from Texas Oklahoma and perhaps Colorado. Environmentalists and officials debate sources and whether federal standards are approaching, as Sunflower Electric seeks two coal plants nearby and lawmakers weigh continued construction. Laborers and residents express surprise at pollution in a rural area.
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