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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 28, 2005
Page
1
Joshua Thomas and Michael Thomas celebrate with happy tears at the end of boot camp in Fort Benning Georgia. Joyce Cole contributes the garden city photo credit.
In Garden City and across the country locals mix English and Spanish in daily speech. Linguist Ana Celia Zentella notes code switching shows bilingual ties to both worlds. Worker Maria Leo describes switching languages at work and with friends as a normal, needed mode of communication.
Finney County veterans describe enduring home front support as crucial while serving in Vietnam and World War II. Larry Brownlee, with the 48th Assault Helicopter Company, recalls letters from family and a Garden City Girl Scout troop lifting morale. Stewart Boone, of the 924th artillery battalion, recounts Belgium’s Bullingen during the 1945 Battle of the Bulge and hopeful end to the war.
Preston Burtis, a Finney County resident and WWII Navy veteran, urges marking graves at Valley View Cemetery with small American flags for all 44 club members from the war. He notes his friends did not return and calls for public acknowledgment, guiding readers to see more on Page AS.
The Kansas Rural Center marks 25 years since its founding by small farm advocates amid farm bankruptcies. Now based in Whit ing, it broadens beyond sustainable farms to connect local farmers with consumers, restaurants, schools, and the Salina Food Council, while promoting family farm values and healthy eating.
A traveling group including Don Blackman and members from Disabled American Veterans American GI Forum American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars will exhibit 30 flags at western Kansas schools over two years. At Garden City Community College the display honors World War II and later conflicts with personal reflections from locals. The exhibit moves to Fort Dodge Cemetery for Memorial Day.
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