Preparations Begin for Garden City Project Graduation
Garden City High School organizes a 7 p.m. Tuesday meeting in the GCHS Courtyard to plan the May 21 2011 Project Graduation a drug alcohol and tobacco free all night event at the YMCA 1224 Center St from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. The event offers music games swimming food prizes and more for the 2011 senior class. Donations and questions go to Adel Parr apart gckschools.com or 276-1456 or Jina Arellano jarellano gckschools.com or 805-1914. Mail checks to 1412 N Main St Garden City KS 67846.
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Garden City High School
GCHS
YMCA
Center St
Adel Parr
Apart
Gckschools
Jina Arellano
Jarellano
N. Main St
Garden City
Free Music Program With Garden City Humdinger Band
A free musical program featuring the Garden City Humdinger Band will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Garden Valley Retirement Village located at 1505 E. Spruce St. The public is invited at no charge and can call 275.5086 for more information.
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Garden City
Garden Valley Retirement Village
Spruce St
Lent concert at GCCC to perform Rutter Requiem
Garden City Community College and the Garden City Civic Choral Union and Symphony combine for a public Easter season concert featuring John Rutter's Requiem with about 60 voices. Soloist Melissa Fulton of Garden City leads a program including Moses Hogan spirituals and Barber Agnus Dei. Admission is 5 dollars at the door, free for students and children 12 and under. Seating is limited.
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Garden City Community College
Garden City Civic Choral Union
Symphony
John Rutter
Kansas
Pauline Joyce
Civic
GCCC
Melissa Fulton
Garden City
Rutter
Church of England
J. Clayton Wright
Carolyn Klassen
Moses Hogan
Elijah Rock
King Jesus
Hogan
Samuel Barber
Wright
Wichita man charged in stabbing death
A Wichita man, 55-year-old Loren E. Hall Jr., is charged with voluntary manslaughter in Sedgwick County for the stabbing death of 44-year-old Leonard Hecox. Bond set at $250,000, preliminary hearing scheduled for April 7 after Hecox was found dead in the front yard of his house.
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Wichita
Loren E. Hall Jr
Sedgwick County
Leonard Hecox
Hall
Hecox
Kansas lawmakers split on solving pension gaps in KS
AP reports sharp policy divergence between Kansas House and Senate on KPERS unfunded liability. Senate plan raises annual state contributions by 23 million and increases employee contributions, while creating a study on 401k style plans. House plan lifts state contributions about 10 million and enacts mandatory 401k features for new hires, drawing union opposition and court-risk concerns.
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Topeka
Kansas
House
Senate
Kansas Public Employees
EPERS
KPERS
Illinois
Mike O’neal
Hutchinson
Glenn Deck
GOP
Steve Morris
Kansas Organization of State Employees
Study Commission
Paul Davis
Lawrence
O’neal
Garden City prom turns gym into New York dream
Garden City High School students staged a Broadway themed prom transforming the auxiliary gym into Central Park style scenes with a giant tree structure, Empire State Building silhouettes, Statue of Liberty, and blue foil representing streams. Organizers say hundreds helped, with funds from ticket sales and magazine fundraisers totaling about 5 000 to 6 000 dollars.
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Enjoli Stasser
Garden City High School
Central Park
Broadway Avenue
United States
GCHS
Anna Silva
Silva
Big Apple
New York City
Empire State Building
Anna Robinson
Cyndi Kuhlman
Robinson
Kansas teachers brace for looming budget cuts
Kansas teachers and administrators warn that 2011 legislative cuts to public schools may deepen. Governor Brownback aims to reduce per student funding by 232 dollars as part of a 493 million shortfall solution for 2012, with districts already trimming staff and delaying programs while districts differ in response.
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Topeka
Kansas
Mark Desetti
Kansas National Education Association
House
Sam Brownback
Senate
Brownback
Desetti
Mark Farr
Nickerson
Farr
Dale Dennis
Dennis
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