CULT To Project Destiny orientation for HEP students
CULT To Project Destiny hosts a Wednesday noon orientation at Garden City Community College for new GED students. Classes run 1 to 4 p.m. Mondays and 1 to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Thursdays or 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Fridays. Participants must attend five hours weekly to qualify for the program offering GED, stipends, and child care. Call Itzel Rodriguez at 275-3284 for details.
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Greensburg relief fundraiser by Garden City GCHS volleyball
The Garden City High School girls volleyball team partners with C and D World on Wheels to raise funds for Greensburg tornado relief. Donations target 8,000 dollars to buy letter jackets for Greensburg High students and aid the community. Cash drop-off at RT Sporting Goods. World on Wheels skating Thursday night contributes half its income to the effort. GCHS coach Melissa Savolt and events run 5 to 9 p.m. Thursday. call 271-9969 for details.
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World On Wheels
Get a Clue Summer Reading Sign Up At Kearny Library
Sign up for the Get a Clue summer reading program begins Monday at Kearny County Library. Running June 4 to July 14, it welcomes kindergartners through adults with games prizes and a T shirt for reading required amounts. Information at Main and Prairie intersection in Lakin or call 620 355 6674.
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Lakin
Greensburg tornado claims 10th life
The May 4 Greensburg tornado killed Harold Schmidt, 77, at Pratt Regional Medical Center. The storm also claimed eight other Greensburg residents and a New Mexico man, with two additional deaths in Macksville and Hopewell bringing total fatalities to 12.
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Pratt Regional Medical Center
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Macksville
Hopewell
Kansas Adjutant General's Department
Wichita
Donations urged over goods for Greensburg relief effort
Officials ask donors to send money rather than items as Greensburg stores nowhere to warehouse clothing furniture and other donations. Trailers divert to Wichita due to limited space with trucks routed to Kansas Foodbank Warehouse. Salvation Army urges garage sales and monetary gifts to maximize impact.
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Pratt
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Brown
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Salvation Army
Kansas Joins Climate Registry Voluntary Emission Tracker
Kansas becomes one of 30 states in a new Climate Registry to gather data on carbon dioxide emissions. The non profit platform will record gas outputs, enabling apples to apples comparisons across states and potentially shaping future limits or goals. Kansas officials say data will help assess climate change impacts while some worry voluntary reporting may understate total emissions. The roster includes Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri.
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Colorado
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Holcomb School may add kinder teacher and class
Holcomb Wiley Elementary could add a fourth kindergarten teacher if enrollment grows beyond 60. As of Monday 51 students enrolled, with expectations of 67 if all pre-school and kinder prep enroll. Board discussed data backup, concessions limits, snow day schedule, mural project pay, and purchasing 57 computer work stations plus two suburbans.
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Phil Keidel
Board of Education
Keidel
Holcomb High School
Archie Oliver
Oliver
Dell
Brent Magouirk
Chevrolet-Cadillac Inc
Dodge City
Gov Sebelius signs university repairs plan in Kansas
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius signed a five year maintenance plan to tackle a $663 million backlog in repairs across Kansas regents universities and state buildings. The $380 million package blends House and Senate proposals and uses $90 million general revenue, $100 million bonds and $120 million in private gifts with 50 to 60 percent donor tax credits. The measure, along with creation of the Postsecondary Technical Education Authority and Kansas Technical College and Technical School Commission, takes effect May 24. Regents warn it is only a first step and urge broader funding next year.
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Senate
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Reggie Robinson
Ways and Means
Dwayne Umbarger
Umbarger
R-Thayer
Washburn University
Washburn
Kip Peterson
Morrison weighs legal challenge to expanded Kansas gambling law
Attorney General Paul Morrison is crafting a constitutional challenge to Kansas expanded gambling, with a ruling possible in nine months to a year. Gov. Sebelius urged action to reassure investors while rules for operating casinos are awaited from the Kansas Lottery.
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Kathleen Sebelius
Kansas Supreme Court
Sebelius
Kansas Lottery
Ed van Petten
Lottery
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