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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1997
Page
1
Local notes report a light hearted rodeo themed event at the oval with participants from town showing off riding skills and humorous stunts. The crowd enjoyed simple exhibition riding and games highlighting rural entertainment values.
Breakdown led the weekend box office with 12.7 million, edging Volcano and Austin Powers as the latter opened strong at 10 million. Volcano dropped to third with 9.5 million, a 35 percent decline, while Volcano ultr a remained a distant third behind Breakdown and Austin Powers.
A weather information line urges callers to use the Telegram Infogram for timely updates. It provides the phone number 276-3366 and instructs pressing 2000 when prompted to access the service. The notice reads like a brief instruction for obtaining weather alerts.
Itzel Stewart reports hundreds joined Garden City's Cinco de Mayo events. A Friday senior dinner at St Marys School cafeteria awarded prizes for oldest senior and longest married couple. A Saturday Main Street parade drew about 250 people. City Commissioner Tim Cruz handed out candy while G I Forum Commander Bob Hernandez noted missing bands from Holcomb, Deerfield, and Garden City high schools.
Luis Terrazaz Ontiveroz 23, a milker at Coolidge Dairy since late November, died when his 1984 Chevrolet left eastbound on Hamilton County road. The vehicle rolled 1 1/2 times, came to rest on its top, and he was not wearing a seat belt. Ontiveroz was ejected and died at the scene. His body to be taken to Chihuahua, Mexico. wife and four children live there. Greene Funeral Home handling arrangements. Authorities responded and are investigating the incident near the K-27 intersection.
Gina Herrmann from the Garden City area pleaded guilty in December to defrauding the USDA. She was sentenced April 17 to 15 months in prison and a 200000 dollar fine. Her lawyers filed a notice with the 10th Circuit in Denver. She was to begin serving Monday as prosecutors had sought home confinement instead. Her father, Dean Gigot, was acquitted January 11.
William Whitesheild, 24, awoke to find his van stolen while his father Cecil stopped for coffee at Coastal Mart in Garden City. Two teenage suspects fled after spotting the sleeping occupant. The pair parked the van and fled, leaving the 1992 Dodge running. William recovered the vehicle and returned it to the store as police were alerted.
Leah Erskin, a 35 year old interpreter from Garden City, balances family and a passion for volleyball with self taught study of natural healing. She battled breast cancer after a healthful life, endured chemotherapy that altered hair and mood, and now remains driven to stay active despite past illness.
Erskin says her four boys gave her purpose during chemotherapy and kept her going. She let her oldest son shave her head as hair fell out and kept a mindset of not accepting the cancer to cope. Her mother is dying of ovarian cancer, contracted four years ago, adding further strain to the family.
A man who tried to steal two rose bushes from Wharton’s For Every Bloomin’ Thing was arrested by Garden City police and later turned over to the FBI. Ignacio Franco-Garcia, 31, was found intoxicated near 9th Street and identified. he was wanted on narcotics trafficking charges. Federal agents picked him up before 7:36 a.m.
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