Finney County Transit to add buses with stimulus funds
Finney County Transit Director Bonnie Burgardt plans to expand the City Link fixed route fleet within a year using 1.902 million dollars in stimulus money from the Kansas Department of Transportation under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The allocation comes from a 16 million urban and 14 million rural transit pot, with 835 thousand set aside for cost overruns, funding 12 new buses while FIT currently operates 11.
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Finney County
Bonnie Burgarat
Finney County Transit
FIT
Garden City
Kansas Department of Transportation
KDOT
Federal Transit Administration
Topeka
Lawrence
Burgardt
City Link
Senate moves bill to promote renewable power in Kansas
Kansas senators advance a coal plant bill with renewable energy targets and incentives. The measure backs Sunflower Electric’s 895 megawatt Holcomb plant in Finney County and requires utilities to derive 20 percent of electricity from renewables by 2020. The Utilities Committee approved it with minor changes, paving the way for full Senate debate. Sunflower Electric, based in Hays, previously planned two coal plants in southwest Kansas amid air quality permit disputes.
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Topeka
Kansas
Mark Parkinson
Sunflower Electric Power Corp
Holcomb
Finney County
Senate Utilities Committee
Senate
Sunflower Electric
Hays
Kathleen Sebelius
Farm show visitors browse exhibits at Finney County fair
Jamie Meier of Landall Corp. in Marysville talks with potential buyers about farm equipment during the 31 Show at Finney County Fairgrounds. Nearby, 10 year old Claire Weinheimer of Groom Texas rests on a tractor tire rim as she and family browse booths on opening day of the 3i Show.
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Jamie Meier
Landall Corp
Marysville
Finney County Fairgrounds
Claire Weinheimer
Groom
Texas
Farmers Tour 3i Show at Finney County Fairgrounds
At the 55th annual agricultural trade show in Garden City, thousands of visitors from Holly Colorado to locals explore irrigation, implements and industry. Dale Butler and Floyd Barnes tour tractors with 250 horsepower while reminiscing on farming since the 1950s.
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Finney County Fairgrounds
Dale Butler
Holly
Colo
Barnes
Butler
Garden City
ESL students share stories at Garden City College program
Garden City Community College ESL students including Ngoc Nguyen shared their journeys from Vietnam to the United States during an end of year program at the Beth Tedrow Student Center. Nguyen, 19, aims to be a pharmacist and recalls June 12 2006 as her family’s departure date.
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Garden City Community College
Ngoc Nguyen
South Vietnam
Hugoton
Nguyen
Garden City
Beth Tedrow
Vietnam
Hugoton High School
Dong Thap
United States
Mount Rushmore
South Dakota
Jeanie Ferguson
Oralia Trejo
Lorilynn Landgraf
Trejo
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