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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 11, 2002
Page
4
Tata G Foods urges readers to help Emmaus House and area charities by placing nonperishable items by their mailboxes for postal carriers to pick up. The appeal highlights hunger across wealth and calls for community generosity to restock food banks during the annual Stamp Out Hunger event.
A Holcomb High School After-Prom Party is praised for a safe successful event with lots of prizes and memories. Gratitude is expressed to local businesses and individual contributors for cash and gift donations and to volunteers who organized and staffed the event.
Highlights include 1858 Minnesota becoming the 32nd state and 1946 the first CARE packages arriving in Le Havre. Other entries note Irving Berlin's birth in Temun, Glacier National Park's establishment, Attu Island's WWII battle, Israel joining the UN, Siam becoming Thailand, and the 1985 Bradford stadium fire tragedy.
Burdett Loomis analyzes the Kansas Legislature's Democratic minority, contrasting it with national party opposition. He notes Kansas Democrats are a small minority in both chambers and struggle to present a credible opposition while national Democrats, led by Gephardt and Daschle, wield greater leverage. Loomis argues real opposition may come from within the GOP and that fiscal deficits complicate future power shifts.
A reader poll shows 15 percent more fear traveling to public places after September 11, 24 percent remain not worried, and 69 percent feel about the same as before the attacks. The data reflects public sentiment during the summer travel season.
Local election coverage notes a decision on an $18 million ninth grade center in Garden City. Voter contact options include email and phone extension 304, with undecided status cited and a numeric contact line 216-66.
A daughter pays tribute to her mother for daily care and selfless sacrifices from childhood through adulthood, noting meals, clothing, warmth, and support while acknowledging her influence on future life and values. She hopes her mom is proud and reflects on the strength shown in family devotion.
Noreen Jaeger urges Telegram readers to consider organ donation to help her brother David Appel of Scott City who awaits a liver transplant. She notes friendship with Richard Spencer and asks readers to decide now, easing survivors' burden and giving others a chance at life.
A memoir recounts a drum corps trip near Dubuque Iowa in July 1972. An 11yearold forgets his cymbals and endures punishment until his mother Locates the missing instrument and drives to rejoin the marching group. The piece argues mothers deserve ongoing recognition beyond one day.
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