Garden City USD 457 Board Meeting Set for Monday
The Garden City USD 457 Board of Education will meet at 7 30 a m Monday at the Educational Support Center 1205 Fleming St Items on the consent agenda include accounts payable personnel actions bids for custodial supplies market and tack boards a consulting agreement with Robert Fanning approval of early graduation for a Garden City High School student a School Improvement Grant from the Kansas State Department of Education and a contract with MEEC Engineering Consultants Wichita for engineering services
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Garden City
USD 457
Board of Education
Fleming St
Robert Fanning
Kansas State Department of Education
Meec Engineering Consultants
Wichita
Bactrian camel calf born at Lee Richardson Zoo
The Lee Richardson Zoo reports the birth of a silver-gray male Bactrian camel calf born Tuesday. The calf stands 4.5 to 5 feet tall and weighed 133 pounds, the seventh offspring for a 14-year-old mother and 15-year-old father. Camels have a 138 month gestation and birth every two years.
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Lee Richardson Zoo
Driver license prep course offered by Garden City CC
Residents seeking their Kansas license for the first time can join a preparation course offered by Garden City Community College, Business and Industry Institute. Sessions run 8 30 a.m. to 12 30 p.m. in Somali on April 10 and 17, Spanish on May 1 and 8, and English on June 5 and 12, with a $135 fee and one week prior registration. Call 276 9647 or email B&I gcccks.edu for details.
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Garden City Community College
Business and Industry Institute
B&i
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Retiring Finney County United Way Director to be Honored
A reception for Margaret Anderson, retiring after 14 years as Finney County United Way Director, will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at the Wheat Lands Convention Center 1408 E Fulton St. Interim director Larilee Josserand will lead until a new director is hired.
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Finney County United Way
Margaret Anderson
Wheat Lands Convention Center
E. Fulton St
Anderson
Larilee Josserand
After-Prom Party At Local Church And Bowling Center
An after-prom party runs from midnight to 6 a.m. Sunday at First Southern Baptist Church 2708 N Third St. The event features inflatables food Guitar Hero and cosmic bowling at 2 a.m. at Hard Rock Lanes. Giveaways include a new 26 inch TV. For more information contact Eric Turner.
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First Southern Baptist Church
N. Third St
Hard Rock
Eric Turner
Jennie Barker Elementary to Host Science Fair
Jennie Barker Elementary School will hold a science fair Monday and Tuesday with fourth and fifth graders setting up at 2 p.m. in the school gym at 5585 N. Jennie Barker Road and projects judged at 3 p.m. that day. Classes may view the exhibits Tuesday as Aimee Brandt from GCHS coordinates the Buff Project.
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Jennie Barker
Aimee Brandt
GCHS
Kansas jobless rate dips as manufacturing gains steady
Kansas added 3,500 manufacturing jobs from January to February bringing total to 160,500. Overall employment rose slightly month to month while unemployment fell to 6.8 percent in February from 7.2 percent in January. Government jobs rose by 5,000 to 266,500, offsetting private sector declines.
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Topeka
Kansas
State Department of Labor
Jim Garner
Department
Annie Flachsbarth
Garner
Eight-year-old Erick Garcia wins state postcard art award
Erick Garcia, a second grader at Buffalo Jones Elementary, earned a Kansas Agriculture Day postcard art contest prize. He drew pumpkins, wheat, flowers, corn, and livestock, learning about crops and planting in a dual language class. His family joined him in Topeka for the award, receiving a $50 bond and touring the Capitol.
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Erick Garcia
Kansas Foundation For Agriculture
Garcia
Buffalo Jones Elementary
Buffalo Jones
Kansas
Sandra Terrazas
Lupe Granillo
Emily Dizmang
Terrazas
Dizmang
Leticia
Joel
Dayana
Topeka
Erick
Kansas State University
Roeder seeks character witnesses at sentencing in Wichita
Roeder, convicted of first degree murder for killing Dr. George Tiller, plans to call character witnesses at his sentencing next week. The case, tied to the abortion debate, will consider life with possible parole after 25 years and whether to impose a harsher 50 year term for aggravating factors.
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Wichita
Scott Roeder
Roeder
Michael Kaye
Washburn University School of Law
Center For
Topeka
George Tiller
Kansas City
Kaye
George W. Bush
Lee Thompson
Tillers
Warren Wilbert
Kansas
Wilbert
Mark Rudy
Rudy
Dave Leach
Des Moines
Iowa
Scott
Leach
Tiller
Eugene Frye
Frye
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