Big Pool season opens despite chilly, rainy start
Garden City opened the Big Pool as a cold drizzle lingered from Thursday night into Friday morning, bringing 0.53 inches of rain. Aquatics director Monica Colborn said many families still arrived Saturday, with local mother Kendra Barker noting 60 to 65 degree water and a new policy allowing free slides for swimmers.
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Kaitlynn Clymer
Garden City
Monica Colborn
Garden City Recreational Commission
Kendra Barker
Teana
Davina
Davona
Barker
Drought weighs on Kansas wheat farmer as rain falters
Joe Hanks, 92, on the Kansas High Plains, recalls drought since 2010 that left pastures bare and cattle sold. He and his family continue farming after seven decades, noting wheat is living on 3 inches of rain from August and hoping for rain to fill the head. The drought compares to the 1930s in severity but farming practices have improved.
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Dighton
Joe Hanks
California
Colorado
Hanks
Kansas High Plains
Kansas
Full steam ahead for Fry family tradition
Fry family carries on a steam tractor heritage in Garden City. Melvin Fry Jr and his three brothers Dennis Gary and Steve learned from relatives including a great uncle grandfather and father. They operate teach and pass on the steam powered workhorse craft to the next generation.
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Melvin Fry Jr
Fry
Garden City
Dennis
Gary
Steve
Local neighbor builds steam tractor yard ornament
Fry, a longtime tinkerer, completed a month long project crafting a green, red, and black yard ornament modeled after antique steam tractors. He owns a coal powered 1913 60 horse machine, a 1960 two fifths scale tractor, and the ornament inspired by a 1907 prototype and a mailbox image his mother found after his father’s 2008 passing.
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Fry
Pokey
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Brad Nading
Telegran
Anthony Jiminez
Ares Specia
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Mel Fry Jr
Schwieterman Inc
Chicago
Annie
Garden City Co-op
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