Salina Symphony Virtuoso Broadcast by Smoky Hills TV
Smoky Hills Public Television will air a taped Salina Symphony concert featuring violinist Itamar Zorman, winner of the 2010 King Award. Filmed in October at the Stiefel Theatre, the program includes Zorman interviews, a classroom visit, and Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto performance.
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Smoky Hills Public Television
Salina Symphony
Itamar Zorman
Stiefel Theatre
Salina
SHPTV
Zorman
Tchaikovsky
Charlotte's Web at GCHS serves community with fundraiser
Garden City High School's Children's Theatre stages an adaptation of Charlotte's Web by E.B. White at 7 p.m. in Clifford Hope Auditorium. Admission is a $1 donation supporting Relay for Life, with daytime shows for elementary students at 9:50 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. Friday. Christopher Mueller directs, and student actors bring to life Wilbur the pig and Charlotte the barn spider.
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Garden City High School
Children’s Theatre
Charlotte’s
E.B. White
Clifford Hope
N. Main St
Relay For Life
Christopher Mueller
GCHS
Charlotte
Wilbur
Garden City High to Honor Seniors at Awards Assembly
Garden City High School will host a Senior Awards Assembly at 7 p.m. Thursday in the GCHS Courtyard at 1412 N Main St. About 120 seniors will be recognized for achievements in academics athletics activities attendance and scholarships.
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Garden City High School
GCHS
N. Main St
SAFE Night Thursday at Kenneth Henderson Middle
Kenneth Henderson Middle School will host a SAFE Night from 5 30 to 7 30 p m on Thursday at 2406 Fleming St run by SADD to promote Seatbelts Are For Everyone. Attendees can learn about distracted driving graduated licenses and drink driving with demonstrations and information from numerous organizations. Pizza will be served to the first 200 participants and drawings for prizes will be held.
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Kenneth Henderson
Fleming St
Garden Valley youth host antique photo fundraiser
Garden Valley Church youth and ABC Pregnancy Care Center stage an antique photo shoot to raise funds for the care center and a Mission Mexico trip. Sales of $10 coupons include a free 10 by 18 portrait. sessions Friday and Saturday at 1701 N Third St in the fellowship hall. Portraits available June 1. Call 271-1330 to reserve.
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Garden Valley Church
ABC Pregnancy Care Center
Mission Mexico
Fellowship Hall
N. Third St
Vintage Unlimited
Kansas pension plan faces lingering legal and policy questions
Kansas lawmakers weigh a compromise to address KPERS funding gaps with a gradual annual rise in state contributions and a potential shift for new hires toward a 401(k)-style plan. The measure, backed by leaders but criticized by 401(k) advocates, faces court challenges and public employee opposition while a mandated study could influence the path to a hybrid or 401(k) option.
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Topeka
Kansas
House
Sam Brownback
Brownback
Kansas Public Employees Retirement System
KPERS
Senate
Anthony Hensley
Study Commission
Mike O’neal
Hutchinson
Hensley
Cowboy poets keep Western traditions alive in Garden City
A Saturday Cowboy poetry night in the Pauline Joyce Fine Arts Building at Garden City Community College featured Partners of the Prairie and The Gildee Gizzers Band. Allen Bailey of Dodge City led the show, raising about 200 for the GCCC women's basketball program while Cody Hammond, 15, shared two poems. The troupe tours Kansas and beyond, preserving ranching and cattle drive stories through verse and song.
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Bob Prewitt
The
Gilded Gizzers
Garden City Community College
Pauline Joyce
Allen Bailey
Dodge City
Bailey
Partners of the Prairie
Gildee Gizzers
Midwest
American West
Leonard Hitz
Hitz
Tom Bodett
Baxter Black
GCCC
Alaura Sharp
Sharp
Cody Hammond
Garden City High School
Kansas
Texas
Nevada
Missouri
Colorado
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Ontario
Germany
Keith Downer
Garden City
Don Eves
Sublette
High Plains
Heat bursts set Kansas records as 99 degree mark ties May 8
In Garden City, 99 degrees at 3:41 p.m. tied the May 8, 1963 record for the date, with a record high of 94 set in 1963 expected to fall today. Dodge City also hit 100, breaking the 1963 99 record, while humidity was unusually low for the region. The NWS noted variable conditions in Finney County as authorities assess whether records will stand.
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Garden City
National Weather Service
Larry Ruthi
Mercury
Ruthi
Finney County
Dodge City
Garden City Regional Airport
NWS
Kansas
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