Garden City pottery sale and health clinic details
Garden City Community College art students offer a Mother's Day pottery sale from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 9 in the Pauline Joyce Fine Arts Building lobby featuring hundreds of ceramic pieces. Health services include kindergarten and day-care physicals for $25, hearing and vision screenings for $5, immunizations, and tuberculosis testing at Finney County Health Dept, plus a Better Kid Care teleconference on child transitions with a $2 registration. Pre-register by calling 272-3670.
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Zerr Road
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S. Ninth St
Ex Future Beef plant resumes operations
Creekstone Farms Premium Beef resumes cattle slaughter at the Future Beef plant in Arkansas City nine months after bankruptcy shutdown. About 80 workers return on day one with plans to reach 500 staff by Monday and process 800 animals daily next week, rising to 1,000 in three to four weeks.
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Creekstone Farms Premium Beef
Kevin Pentz
Creekstone
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Future Beef
Southwest Kansas jobless rates steady with few swings
Kansas and national unemployment trends show steady rates in March across counties. Kearny County down 0.5 percent while Wichita County up 1.1 percent. Wichita metro rose to 6.1 percent amid manufacturing losses. Statewide rate fell to 4.9 percent as nonfarm payroll rose 4,500 jobs.
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Senate OKs delay in school payment
The Senate approved delaying the 213 million dollar state aid payment to school districts from June to July while striking a Johnson County backed provision. The bill renews the 20 mill property tax levy for two years, endorsed by Gov. Sebelius, to trim current year expenses.
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Rleawood
Christine Downey
D-Newton
Anthony Hensley
D-Topeka
Holcomb Names New Superintendent Landis In Two Year Deal
The USD 363 Board approved a two year contract with WS. Skip Landis as Holcomb’s new superintendent. Landis will be paid 110000 annually with benefits and vacation, personal and sick leave, plus a district vehicle. He is the first outside hire in 25 years, succeeding Daryl Prater. Landis plans to relocate to Holcomb by late June.
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Secretary Polansky vows rural revival push in Kansas
TOPEKA Secretary of Agriculture Adrian Polansky pledged at his confirmation hearing to push rural revival and curb depopulation in farm country. After the Senate Agriculture Committee approved him the full Senate unanimously backed the Belleville farmer. Polansky, ex chief of the Farm Service Agency in Kansas, said a rural life task force will be named later this year to convert studies into action with Gov Sebelius' cabinet.
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Wellsville
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Garden City Hall of Fame adds Cruz and Gomez inductees
Tim Cruz former Garden City mayor and Albert J. Gomez Jr. of Boise Idaho will join the Garden City High School Hall of Fame with a May 16 ceremony at the GCHS Cafeteria starting at 7 30 p m Cruz a 1977 GCHS graduate served as a city commissioner and twice as mayor and is a Sears Community Hero Award recipient Gomez a 1974 GCHS graduate earned West Point and serves as Idaho National Guard Inspector General He and their spouses have five children and will address the GCHS Class of 2003 at graduation May 17 at Memorial Stadium Reservations for dinner May 16 are $10 per person by calling Janice Stephens.
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al III
Audrey
University of Florida
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Joshua
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