Garden City YMCA hosts fourth annual School's Out Bash
The Garden City Family YMCA invites youth families and volunteers to a free 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday event at the YMCA featuring free hot dogs chips drinks snacks swimming carnival games tattoos inflatables crafts and more. Attendees can enter a drawing for two bicycles. contact Krystal Richardson at 275-1199 or gckymca.msa gmail.com for details.
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Garden City Family Ymca
Krystal Richardson
Msa
Gmail
Signed Eleven on Top prize at Finney Senior Center
The Senior Center of Finney County offers a chance to win a signed copy of Janet Evanovichs Eleven on Top. Stop by 907 N. 10th St Garden City to register. The drawing is set for 3 30 p.m Thursday May 29 with Emporia State professor Joyce Thierer speaking at 2 p.m. on Fences in Kansas as part of Beef Empire Days festivities. Barbara Jensen at 272-3620 for details.
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Finney County
Janet Evanovich
10Th St
Garden City
Joyce Thierer
Emporia State University
Kansas
Thierer
Barbara Jensen
Storyteller Priscilla Howe Delights Finney Library Audience
Priscilla Howe will perform at Finney County Public Library on May 30 to launch the summer reading program. The free event begins at 10 a.m. Howe offers funny scary serious goofy and sophisticated stories tailored to listeners. Call 272-3680 for more information.
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Priscilla Howe
Finney County Public Library
Howe
Windsor tours set for May 31
The Windsor hotel in Windsor hosts tours on May 31 after the Beef Empire parade from 11 30 a m to 3 30 p m with a five dollar donation. T shirts posters and preservation alliance memberships will be for sale. Public voting for the Eight Wonders of Kansas Architecture runs online until June 15 with top eight announced June 30.
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Finney County Servation Alliance
Windsor
Kansassampler.org
Tornadoes, heavy hail sweep through Kansas towns
Rapid afternoon storms lashed Lane and surrounding counties with two reported tornadoes near Alamota and Pendennis and two inch hail near Pendennis. Dighton reported 60 mph winds while towns like Oberlin Selden Hoxie and Norton saw damage and flooding warnings. No fatalities reported.
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Dighton
Lane County
Larry Ruthi
National Weather Service
Dodge City
Alamota
Pendennis
Shelle Anderson
Finney County
Weather Service
Garden City
Scott County
Haskell
Tice
Gray
Lane
Finney
Ruthi
Holcomb
Friend
Kansas
Oberlin
Decatur County
Patti Skubal
County Emergency Management Department
Sheridan County
Selden and
Hoxie
Jackie Boultinghouse
Scott Mentzer
Goodland
Weather
AG Modifies Demands In Kansas Records Suit
Attorney General Steve Six altered demands in a Kansas records dispute before the state Supreme Court. The case involves a Shawnee County district judge who holds clinic patients’ medical files and is a key witness in a separate Johnson County clinic criminal matter. Six proposed the judge retain the records until all related lawsuits and the criminal case conclude.
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Topeka
Steve Six
Johnson County
Six
Kansas Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Richard Anderson
Shawnee County
District Court
Michael Leitch
Garden City Chamber looks to grow under new president Paul Joseph
In three weeks since taking leadership Paul Joseph has met members and community leaders at a Wheat Lands Hotel reception. He aims to raise membership and revenue by staff quotas and expanded outreach. Don Linville and Interim City Manager Matt Allen stress value and city collaboration. Sperling lauds Joseph as a strong asset and connector.
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Garden City Area
Joseph
Chamber
Don Linville
Linville
Matt Allen
Chamber of Commerce
Allen
City Commission
Garden City
Sperling
Paul Joseph
Judy
Martin Nusser
Wheat Lands Convention Center
Sebelius signs final Kansas budget bill of year
Governor Kathleen Sebelius completed bill signing for 183 measures and vetoed seven, including three permitting coal plants in western Kansas. One bill became law without her signature, expanding gun ownership. The $33 million signed adds to a $13.6 billion budget with a 3 percent increase for the next year, while preserving $750,000 for road work near Parsons Army Ammunition Plant despite criticism over its fate.
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Topeka
Kathleen Sebelius
Kansas
Parsons Army Ammunition
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