KDHE Activates West Nile Hotline Before 2005 Season
Kansas Department of Health and Environment launches toll free line 877 228 2287 and web info to answer West Nile questions. Birds will no longer be tested and no bird information collected. KDHE urges glove use for dead birds and disposal in trash. Surveillance expands with more mosquito testing and larvicide in non drainable water. Protective measures include DEET repellant long sleeves and removing standing water. West Nile mainly affects birds and spreads to humans by mosquitoes. person to person transmission is not typical. In 2004 KDHE reported nine confirmed neuroinvasive West Nile cases and 37 probable cases with two deaths.
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Kansas Department of Health and Environment
KDHE
Westniles.com
Kansas
West Nile
Streets Begin Storm Sewer Work on 10th and Fulton
Lee Construction Inc will start a 151800 storm sewer project on 10th Street from the railroad tracks to Chestnut and on Fulton between 10th and 12th. Four weeks. Detours route Fulton traffic via Ninth and 11th to Santa Fe. Call 276 1130 with questions. Free food today at First Assembly Church 702 Campus Drive from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. via Helping Hands Ministries.
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Lee Construction Inc
10Th Street
Chestnut Street
Fulton Street
10Th
12Th Streets
City Drainage Utility
Ninth
11Th Streets
Santa Fe Street
City Engineering Department
First Assembly of God Church
Campus Drive
Helping Hands Ministries
Kansas City
Dive-In Movie at Garden City Family YMCA
The Garden City Family YMCA hosts a dive in movie from 4 30 to 6 30 PM at 1224 Center St. Members pay 5 and nonmembers 8 while adults enter free with children. viewers float on inner tubes and are offered a post movie treat while watching Racing Stripes.
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Garden City Family
Center St
International host families sought for 2005-06 year
International Cultural Exchange Services Inc seeks families to host high school foreign exchange students for the 2005 06 school year. Hosts can welcome a student for five or ten months. Call Connie Ginest at 620 355 6531 for details.
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International Cultural Exchange Services Inc
Connie Ginest
Pronghorn Move East Into Lane County Kansas Fields
In Lane County Kansas pronghorn antelope are appearing in larger numbers on local farms, a departure from their western range. Farmers like Vance Ehmke and Van Hanks report herds up to 17, with some years seeing more babies. Wildlife biologist Matt Peek says movements are likely isolated, tied to good rains and reproductive success, and they may retreat west again. A hunting season is listed with archery, muzzle loader, and firearm options in several counties including Lane.
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Lane County
Brewster Higley
Kansas
Vance Ehmke
van Hanks
Matt Peek
Kansas Wildlife and Parks
Emporia
Peek
Ehmke
Hanks
Stanton
Grant
Haskell
Gray
Garden City wins streetscape grant for Main Street upgrades
Garden City will spend 414000 dollars in federal funds plus 104000 from local sources to replace sidewalks and build a pedestrian bike path on Main Street from Maple to the Arkansas River. The project adds fencing landscaping irrigation pavement markings and signs with work likely to begin in 2007.
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Garden City
Main Street
Maple Street
Arkansas River
Steve Cottrell
Fulton
Maple Streets
Cottrell
Kansas
Kansas Department of Transportation
Deb Miller
Miller
KDOT
Legislature approves guard family death benefit in Kansas
Kansas legislators quickly pass a bill granting 250000 to families of National Guard members killed in combat and send it to Gov. Kathleen Sebelius who plans to sign. The measure, a temporary fix, faces possible future ideas such as state funded life insurance. Three guardsmen have died in Iraq with over 1400 others there. Sebelius cites Kansas backing those who serve. The plan was pushed on the Legislature's closing day after prior House inaction.
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Topeka
Kansas National Guard
Kathleen Sebelius
Kansas
Iraq
Sebelius
Senate
House
Kansas lawmakers approve guard families payout bill
The Kansas Legislature passed a bill to pay $125,000 to the families of two guardsmen with a third death noted, moving through both chambers in 90 minutes. The measure, expiring in 2007, also exempts the $250,000 from the emergency fund from state taxes. Senate vote 36 to 0 with four absent. Senate President Steve Morris called it the right thing.
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Senate
Steve Morris
Hugoton
Deerfield considers building a nine hole golf course
Deerfield Mayor Lorren Smith said the city is weighing a feasibility study for a nine hole golf course as an economic development tool for the town of about 900 residents. He noted funding would be set after land purchase from Hal Scheuerman, with housing options possibly used to attract families, while residents worry about costs and sustainability.
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Deerfield
Lorren Smith
Smith
Hal Scheuerman
Bob Herrera
Kansas Department of Education
Herrera
Lakin
Frank Soukup
Soukup
Garden City
Kearny County
Lakin City
Dennis Jones
Buffalo Dunes
Golden Locket
Southwind Country Club
Cimarron
Dighton
Hugoton
Montezuma
Syracuse
Tribune
Scots
Scott City
Satanta
Ulysses
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