EduKan Summer Courses Open for Online Enrollment
Enrollment for EduKan summer sessions is under way. The six Kansas community colleges including Garden City, Barton, Colby, Dodge City, Pratt, and Seward offer online general education and associate degree courses. Courses start after traditional terms with sessions running July 6 to Aug 18. fall terms run Aug 23 to Dec 10 and other dates. Credits transfer to other institutions. cost is $125 per credit hour.
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EduKan
Kansas Community Colleges
Garden City Community College
Barton County
Colby
Dodge City
Pratt
Seward County
Edukan.org
GCCC
Free Summer Meals for Children at Stones Center
Free breakfasts and lunches are offered to children 18 and under as part of the Summer Food Service Program at Charles O Stones Intermediate Center 401 Jennie Barker Road. The program runs Tuesday through July 1 with breakfast 7:45 to 9:15 a.m. and lunch 11:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Adults may purchase lunch for $3. No reservations or guidelines. Sponsored by Kansas State Department of Education and USDA. For more information call USD 457 Nutrition Services at 805-7080.
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Charles O. Stones
Jennie Barker Road
Kansas State Department of Education
U.S. Department of Agriculture
USD
Contingency to Play Sunday at Stevens Park Concert
The Stevens Park concert series presents Contingency this Sunday at 7:30 p.m. The Kansas band formed in 2009 and has performed across southwest Kansas including Rock & Racefest 2009. Members include James Rittenhouse, Spence Byer, Luke Reed, and Mitch Chalkley. The Garden City Recreation Commission and city sponsor the free event. Full summer lineup at gcrec.com.
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Stevens Park
Contingency
Kansas
James Rittenhouse
Spence Byer
Luke Reed
Mitch Chalkley
Garden City
Brownback to name running mate next week in Kansas governor bid
AP reports Republican Sam Brownback plans eight campaign rallies across Kansas to name a running mate for the governor race, with speculation centered on Leawood Mayor Peggy Dunn and former state senator Nick Jordan. Dunn denies being the choice as Brownback files to secure a spot on the August primary ballot.
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Topeka
Sam Brownback
Kansas
Kansas City
Brownback
U.S. Senate
Overland Park
Leawood
Peggy Dunn
Nick Jordan
Shawnee
Jordan
Dunn
Sam
David Kensinger
Kensinger
Secretary of State
Pittsburg
Wichita
Hutchinson
Garden City
Hays
Salina
Derby
Joan Heffington
Mark Holick
Spirit One Christian Center
Tom Holland
Baldwin City
Kansas Senate
GOP
Dennis Moore
Terry
JE Dunn Construction Co
Animal Crackers in My ZOOP musical aids Cat Canyon fund
The Friends of the Lee Richardson Zoo stage a musical menagerie June 3–5 and 8–12 with two Sunday matinees June 6 and 13 to raise funds for Cat Canyon. Ticket sales near sold out on June 5. proceeds support a new jaguar puma bobcat exhibit with expanded yards and safer viewing. Tickets are $15. a postshow dessert and music event follows each performance.
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Friends of the
Lee Richardson Zoo
Mary Palmer
FORLZ
Palmer
Sexson
Skip Mancini
Folrz
Mancini
Garden City Community College Music Department
Folrz.com
Lawsuit alleges N M police racially profiled
Portillo and his cousin from Liberal Kansas sue Tucumcari city and state officers for racial profiling after a May 2 traffic stop on U S 54 near Tucumcari. They claim officers seized clothing boots the car and most of $59 000 in cash with no speeding ticket issued. The suit filed May 14 seeks return of all seized property and undisclosed damages. Tucumcari sits about 40 miles from the Texas border on Interstate 40.
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Albuquerque
N.M
Kansas
New Mexico
Carlos Portillo
State District
Santa Fe
Tucumcari
el Paso
Texas
Scott Weaver
Portillo
Stephen Aarons
Interstate 40
Wasinger Opposes Huelskamp Greenhouse Gas Measure
Kansas politics heated as Rep. Rob Wasinger defeats a Huelskamp bid by securing Gov. Mark Parkinson’s veto of a greenhouse gas funding measure. The veto blocks language that would bar state funds from plans to enforce federal rules, drawing praise from Sunflower Electric and Westar while Huelskamp defends his amendment. Barnett, another 1st District candidate, previously backed a similar proposal.
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Cottonwood Falls
Rob Wasinger
Tim Huelskamp
R- Fowler
Mark Parkinson
Huelskamp
US Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Kansas
Sunflower Electric Power’ Corp
L. Earl Watkins Jr
Parkinson
Westar Energy Inc
Wasinger
Kansans
Obama
Jeff Glendening
Kansas Chamber of Commerce
Jim Barnett
R-Emporia
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Laurie Sisk
Sam Geier
Finnup Center For Conservation Education
Geier
FOLAZ
Cat Canyon
Kathy Sexson
Nurie Sisk
al Miller
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