Parenting During Divorce Seminar in Finney County
A workshop titled Parenting During Divorce runs 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Monday at the Finney County Extension Office 501 S Ninth St. Linda Walter and a community team of family professionals facilitate. The $2 program uses Kansas State University Extension research to help divorcing parents manage stress, support children, and improve communication. Call 272-3670 by Friday to register.
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Finney County Extension Office
S. Ninth St
Kansas State University Research and Extension
Linda Walter
Finney County Family and Consumer Sciences
Health Walk Capped to National Women’s Health Week Event
Finney County Health Department teams with partners for a Health Walk at Harold Long Park from 6 30 to 7 15 p m on Thursday as National Women’s Health Week is recognized Donations support the Family Crisis Center with lists of needed items including nightwear T shirts kitchen goods hygiene supplies bedding children’s items and more to start over in a new home Donations may be dropped at 919 Zero Road 8 a m to 5 45 p m Monday through Thursday for details call Donna Marley at 272 3600
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Finney County Health Department
Harold Long Park
Spruce and
Evans Streets
Health Department
Zero Road
Donna Marley
Music concerts on tap next week
Garden City USD 457 schedules several music events for next week. The GCHS band concert Monday at 7 30 p.m. in Clifford Hope Auditorium marks the third annual blue jeans concert. End of year awards will be issued. The GCHS vocal department awards banquet and concert Tuesday starts with a 5 30 p.m. potluck in the cafeteria followed by a 7 30 p.m. choir concert with special performances by the applied music class and original student compositions in Clifford Hope Auditorium. The GCHS jazz band concert is set for May 14 at 5 45 p.m. in Clifford Hope Auditorium. The Kenneth Henderson Middle School choirs perform 7 p.m. May 15 in the school gym.
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Garden City
GCHS
Blue Jeans
Clifford Hope Auditorium
Clifford Hope
Kenneth Henderson
Rural growth report urges Kansas to foster entrepreneurs
A Kansas Senate subcommittee report on rural economic development calls for collaboration with local areas to grow entrepreneurship. It endorses expanding the Enterprise Facilitation program, aims for 10 to 15 new businesses per multi county project, and stresses leadership, tourism, and quality of life alongside manufacturing and agriculture.
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Topeka
Senate
Kansas
Senate Commerce
Karin Brownlee
Rolathe
Department of Commerce
Dave Kerr
Hutchinson
Nick Jordan
Shawnee
Subcommittee
Sen
Janis Lee
D-Kensington
Sebelius
Lee
Economic Development seeks long range plan and local leadership
Economic Development proposes a task force to craft a long range plan, train local leaders, review programs for efficiency and duplication, create a one stop call center for entrepreneurs, expand rural capital access, deploy broadband, enable large project donations, promote downtown purchases and renovations, reduce barriers for entrepreneurs, and improve air transportation policies.
Area Mental Health eyes 250000 grant for Scott City expansion
The Area Mental Health Center Region IV seeks a 250000 grant to expand its Scott City facility at 210 W Fourth St to improve HIPAA compliant security and service in four counties. County officials face budget questions as a 2004 funding request remains unchanged and decisions delay into June.
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Scott City
Area Mental Health Center
Fourth Street
Kent Hill
Greeley
Lane
Scott
Wichita
Scott County
Hill
Region IV
HIPAA
Rick Dalke
Unified Services
Area Mental Health Service
Area Mental Health
Dalke
G C man arrested for alleged rape
Garden City police arrested Raul Monroy Jr 29 of 311 N 10th St Apt 3 after caseworkers alerted officers to a missing 23 year old woman. He was first tagged for intoxicated pedestrian then charged with rape following a home search.
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Raul Monroy, Jr
10Th St
Apt
North 11Th Street
Utz
Sunflower Home Health and
Destiny Day Services
Monroy
North 11Th
St. Catherine Hospital
Adventurer Ray Fort remembered for teaching in Afghanistan
Ray Fort 75, a Ulysses resident and former state department employee, died of cancer April 30. He spent more than 40 years overseas with major foundations and agencies, later teaching Afghan farmers to boost wheat crops while planning trips back to the country. His daughter and nephew recall his cosmopolitan life and lifelong teaching ethic.
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Ray Fort
Fort
Ulysses
State Department
Afghanistan
Middle East
Joan
Kansas
International Fertilizer Development Center
Cindy Fort
Derby
Ford Foundation
Rockefeller Foundation
United Nations
Garden City
Jon Fort
Iran
Egypt
Nepal
India
Pakistan
Everest
Joan Fort
Anwar Sadat
Sadat
Israel
Menachem Begin
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House
Missouri
Edwardsville
Wyandotte County
Wyandotte
Victor Ornelas
Jim Minnix
AMHC
Minnix
Area
G.C
Mike Utz
Ohio
Henry Kissinger
Jimmy Carter
Farm Credit Southwest Kansas
Mark Anderson
Anderson
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