GCCC spring art sale set for Thursday
Creations by southwest Kansas artists will be available 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday at the Garden City Community College Potters Guild spring art sale in Pauline Joyce Fine Arts Building. The guild, students in Brian McCallum taught classes, offers hundreds of ceramic and sculptural pieces priced from 3 to 100 dollars.
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Southwest Kansas
Garden City Community College
Potters Guild
Pauline Joyce
Brian McCallum
Stuents
GCCC
Mercer Gallery
Deerfield
Scott City
Syracuse
Ulysses
Holcomb
Garden City
East Garden Village Becomes Site for New Tech Center
GCITC plans a public technology center in East Garden Village with eight computers and a four-person volunteer staff in a donated trailer. The center aims to improve local access to computers and basic instruction as the cooperative explores two more centers and seeks grants, including nearly five thousand dollars from Finnup Foundation.
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Garden City Information Technology Cooperative
GCITC
Kent Sinclair
Finney County Commission
East Garden Village
Sinclair
Rob Martin
Garden City
Finnup Foundation
Finney County
Legislature votes to send Jessica’s Law to governor
Kansas lawmakers advanced Jessica’s Law, tougher penalties for sex offenders, sending the bill to Gov. Kathleen Sebelius after a negotiated deal separating it from a private prisons measure. The House approved 122-0 and the Senate 36-2, with bond funding and prison capacity concerns shaping the pact.
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Topeka
Jessica
House
Senate
Kansas
Kathleen Sebelius
Department of Corrections
Jan Pauls
Hutchinson
Pauls
Virgil Peck
R-Tyro
Derek Schmidt
Independence
Wheat crop deteriorates in Kansas despite rains
Kansas winter wheat shows 39 percent in very poor to poor condition, a 1 point drop from last week, with 38 percent in fair, 22 percent good, and 1 percent excellent. Crop is maturing early, 72 percent headed, and drought plus freezes reduce forecast to about 319 million bushels for 2006.
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Wichita
Kansas
Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service
KASS
Wheat Quality Council
Probable Mumps Case Reported in Finney County
Finney County records one probable mumps case in a child, with isolation for treatment. Kansas reports 487 confirmed or probable cases across 49 counties, plus 89 with symptoms under review. Iowa has 1,552 mumps cases as of today.
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Finney County
Kansas
Grant
Scott
Megan Speer
Finney County Health Department
Speer
Sharon Watson
Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Douglas County
Allen, Anderson
Atchison
Barton
Bourbon
Butler
Chase, Clay
Cowley
Crawford
Dickinson
Ellis
Finney
Franklin
Geary
Gove
Greenwood
Harvey
Jackson
Jefferson
Johnson
Labette
Leavenworth
Lyon
Marshall
McPherson
Miami
Mitchell
Montgomery
Nemaha
Norton
Osage
Phillips
Pottawatomie
Pratt
Reno
Riley
Rooks
Saline
Sedgwick
Seward
Shawnee
Sheridan, Thomas, Wabaunsee
Wyandotte Counties
Iowa
Trustees to hear Front Door and chiller project updates
Garden City Community College trustees will hear an update on the Front Door Project and financing for an air conditioning chiller. John Haas of Rawson Financial Consultants will present lease purchase options for a second phase adding a third chiller, funded from the capital outlaw budget. The meeting covers progress on the Front Door Project, policy review, and reports from trustees on local economic groups.
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Garden City Community College
Gccc Board of Trustees
John Haas
Rawson Financial Consultants
Ject
Haas
Garden City
Wichita
Kansas City Area
Topeka
Capital Outlaw
GCCC
Carol Ballantyne
Territors
Garden City Informational Technology Corp
Ron Schwartz
Finney County Economic Development Corp
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