Memorial Day Post Office and Bank Closings Noted
Garden City and Holcomb post offices will be closed on Memorial Day. Express mail delivery continues while first class mail goes to the box. Finney County and city offices, courts, animal shelter, library branches, and several banks will be closed in observance. The Telegram will not publish Monday.
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Garden City
Holcomb
Finney County
Garden City City
Holcomb City
Garden City Animal Shelter
Finney County Public Library
Usda Service Center
Finney County Community Learning Center
Garden City Community College
Saffell Library Bank
Bank of America
Citizens State Bank
Commerce Bank
Commercial Federal Bank Farm Credit of
First National Bank of
Bonilla tops March of Dimes drive at Georgia Matthews
Georgia Matthews Elementary students raise over 784 for March of Dimes, nearly doubling a 400 goal. Janette Bonilla earns a 50 dollar savings bond from Golden Plains Credit Union for leading fund raising. Sally Garcia's kinder class wins a pizza party as top class. Golden Plains Credit Union is the school’s business partner.
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Janette Bonilla
Georgia Matthews Elementary School
Golden Plains Credit Union
Bonilla
Georgia Matthews
Sally Garcia
Christian Music Night in Stevens Park Concert
Melissa Dawn and Just Faith perform contemporary Christian music at 7:30 p.m. in the Stevens Park band shell in downtown Garden City. Dawn hails from Healy and Just Faith is a family band. concerts are free and sponsored by The Arts Program, Garden City Recreation Commission, and the City of Garden City.
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Stevens Park
Melissa Dawn
Just Faith
Shell
Garden City
Dawn
Healy
Garden City Recreation Commission
Dodge City works to align water supply with beef plant growth
Dodge City and National Beef packing plant chart a course for water system expansion to meet rising demand. The city plans to upgrade treatment facilities as population grows while the beef plant expansion over the next three years promises higher water use and investment.
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Dodge City
National Beef Packing Plant
Dallas firms to acquire ConAgra Meats for 1.4 billion
Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst and Booth Creek plan to buy ConAgra Meats Co. in a deal valued at about 1.4 billion, renaming it Swift & Co. John Simons will lead as chief executive of the new entity. The acquisition includes Australia Meat Holdings and U.S. cattle feeding ops, with ConAgra Foods retaining a minority stake. The deal is expected to close in August.
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Dallas
Hicks, Muse
Tate & Furst Inc
Booth Creek Management Corp
ConAgra Meats Co
Hicks
Muse
ConAgra Meats
ConAgra Foods Inc
Hicks, Muse and
Booth Creek
Vail
Colo
Swift & Co
ConAgra Foods
International Home Foods
Booth Creek Management
John R. Muse
ConAgram
Meatpacker Monfort
Colorado
Greeley
United States
Australia
Swift and Co
John Simons
Propane Explosion Injures Blue Rhino Worker in Wichita Area
Finney County deputies respond to similar Blue Rhino incident at 8385 Midstates Drive with no injuries. Alex Cuellar, 32, a Blue Rhino employee, suffered extensive upper body burns and was airlifted to Via Christi St Francis burn center after working with propane and water buckets when a small blast occurred. Israel Ortiz, 30, nearby grinding labels on empty tanks, sustained minor burns and was treated at St Catherine Hospital.
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Finney County Sheriff’s Deputies
Blue Rhino Propane Company
Midstates Drive
Kevin Bascue
Alex Cuellar
Via Christi Medical Center
St. Francis Burn Center
Wichita
Bascue
Cuellar
Blue Rhino
St. Catherine Hospital
Israel Ortiz
Park Lane seeks Scott County funds for upgrades
Scott City nursing home Park Lane seeks financial aid from Scott County to replace aging hot water heaters and a deteriorating monitoring system to meet regulatory standards. Bid options total about 15 000 for heaters and 18 000 to 20 000 for monitoring upgrades as officials review budgets.
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Scott City
Park Lane
Jerry Korbe
Park Lane Nursing Home
Scott County
Korbe
Tatro Plumbing
Garden City
D&d Builders
Gibson
Jack Frick
Holcomb council tables pipeline contract to wait for bids
Holcomb City Council halted action on a Sunflower Electric pipeline agreement to pump lagoon waste to a plant cooling tower. After a 10 minute attorney-client session, the item was postponed for three weeks while bids are sought for a three mile Arkansas River crossing. The city recently raised sewer rates to fund the project and lagoon repairs.
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Holcomb
City of
Sunflower Electric Corp
Arkansas
Jannelle Robins- Gaede
KU faculty tour highlights Kansas diversity in Garden City
About 45 University of Kansas faculty and staff toured 22 communities in six days on the Wheat State Whirlwind Tour. They visited Victor Ornelas Elementary in Garden City and Montezuma wind farm, learning about Kansas economic, cultural and historical diversity.
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University of Kansas
Garden City
Linda Robinson
Robert Hemenway
Hemenway
Robinson
Victor Ornelas
Montezuma
Kansas
Andrea Albright
Office of EU Public Relations
Victor Or
Hieu Nguyen
Nguyen
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