Bike rodeo set for Saturday at Finnup Park
The Garden City Recreation Commission sponsors a bike rodeo at 3:30 p.m. Saturday in the Fansler Field parking lot, Finnup Park. Younger riders learn traffic laws and bike safety with an obstacle course from Garden City Police bike cops. free helmets available. Contact GCRC at 276-1200 for details. Later, Lakin hosts Santa Fe Trail Days June 17 with arts and crafts, wagon rides, duck races, costume contest, and demonstrations at the Lakin Historical Museum. Lori Smith and Sharon Steinle available for information.
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Garden City Recreation Commission
Fansler Field
Downey Drive
Finnup Park
Garden City Police Department
GCRC
Lakin
Lakin Historical Museum
Lori Smith
Sharon Steinle
Kansas bars marriage under fifteen age statewide
Kansas legislators approved a bill banning marriage for anyone under 15, with a path for 15 to marry only if a district court deems it in the person’s best interest. Seventeen or younger can wed with parental or guardian consent and judicial approval, while 16 and 17 require both. The measure, at governor Sebelius’s request, follows a case of a 22-year-old man who married a 14-year-old girl after pregnancy in Nebraska. Meade clerk pleads no contest in theft case
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Topeka
Kathleen Sebelius
Kansas
House
Senate
Sebelius
Falls City
Neb
Hiawatha
Nebraska
Senate ties tax breaks to new equipment credit
In Topeka the Senate approved a measure linking a broad investment tax credit for hundreds of Kansas businesses to Gov. Sebelius s plan to phase out property taxes on machinery and equipment. The package could exceed 740 million over six years, with cities and counties bearing much of the cost while hoped to spur investment and job growth.
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Topeka
Senate
Kathleen Sebelius
House
Phil Journey
R-Haysville
Sebelius
Pete Brungardt
Salina
Kansas
Sen
John Wratil
Rleawood
Kansas records first measles cases in five years in Harvey County
AP reports Kansas health officials confirm four measles cases in Harvey County affecting people under 21, the first since 2000. KDHE notes measles is highly contagious and vaccination rates in Kansas remain low, with concerns about future cases amid an ongoing mumps outbreak and questions about vaccine coverage.
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Topeka
Kansas
Department of Health and Environment
Harvey County
KDHE
Sharon Watson
Front Door project at GCCC advances with boards meeting
Garden City Community College boards preview the Front Door addition to the administration building adding eight classrooms and 26 offices over three levels. The project began in August 2005 and targets a September 1 deadline with full use planned for spring 2007.
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Kinney Glass
Scott Riedel
Brett Powell
Garden City Community College
College
Endowment Association Board
Stewart Nelson
GCCC
Shea Sinclair
Gccc Endowment Association Board
Nelson
Finney County
Sinclair
Local women set for Uganda missionary trip from Garden City
Rev Lenoir Newman leads 10 Word of Life Church members from Garden City on a May 13 to May 24 mission to Uganda. Each woman raises 2050 dollars to worship with villagers, assist pastors wives, and work at an Kampala orphanage.
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Uganda
Lenoir Newman
Word of Life
Garden City
Word of God
Newman
Mel Allen
Barb Nuzum
Cheryl Moshier
Chris Schroeder
Joyce Marsh
Cora McCartney
Jennifer Kyler
Helena Gossett
Rosie Gallardo
Nici Faulconer
Kampala
United States
Africa
Gary Don
Yoweri Museveni
Museveni
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Paic
Endowment Association
Oliver and Hazel Shriver Trust
Hazel Shriver
Shriver
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