Flood plain group to meet Monday in Garden City
Garden City resident Duane West says the Knock Out Committee has gathered at least 1500 signatures for a petition drive opposing FEMA flood plain changes. A 5 30 p m meeting at St James Lutheran Church invites more signatures to urge the city and county commissions to reject expansion adding 800 plus properties in Garden City and Finney County.
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Garden City
Duane West
Federal Emergency Management Agency
West
St. James Lutheran Church
Belmont Place
FEMA
Finney County
Garden-City.org
Computer career classes offered at Garden City Community College
Garden City Community College Business and Industry Institute offers short term computer skill courses in June including Photoshop Excel 2007 and QuickBooks with evening and weekend sessions priced from 79 to 149 dollars. The Career and Skills Development series covers Time Management Conflict Proactively and People and Projects. Registrations require two days advance and a 10 percent early registration discount.
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Garden City Community College Business and Industry Institute
Excel
Institute
Jean Warta
Jean.warta
Gceccks
Garden City USD 457 weighs bond sale at 7 p.m. meeting
Garden City USD 457 Board of Education will consider selling the remaining about 90.2 million in bonds from a 97.5 million issue at 7 p.m. Monday at the Educational Support Center 1205 Fleming St. The rate will be set Monday afternoon amid volatile markets. The district projects under 9.56 mill levy and plans high school expansion and school conversions.
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Garden City Usd 457 Board of Education
John Haas
Rawson Financial
Wichita
Board of Education
Fleming St
Gctelegram
Atha, Haas
Atha
Mary Street
Campus Drive
Garfield
Abe Hubert
Skylert Flex
Steve Karlin
Firefighters rehearse rescue drill in simulated tornado house
Eight Garden City firefighters and six from Dodge City work with University of Kansas instructors to shore up a collapsed looking residence at 623 W Olive St in a two week search and rescue course funded by Homeland Security. The exercise uses dummies and staged debris to train for real disasters in the region with small departments.
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Garden City Department
Dodge City
W. Olive St
Rick Deibert
University of Kansas
University of Kansas Fire and Rescue Training Institute
Garden City
Ken Seiren
Seiren
Great Bend
Dodge
Department of Homeland Security
Deibert
KU names Bernadette Gray-Little first female black chancellor
Bernadette Gray-Little, 64, of UNC Chapel Hill, is named by the Kansas Board of Regents to lead the University of Kansas. She will be installed August 15 as the 17th chancellor, becoming Kansas’ first African-American and second woman to hold the post.
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Topeka
Bernadette Gray-Little
University of North Carolina
University of Kansas
Gray-Little
Kansas Board of Regents
Robert Hemenway
Kansas
Kay Schallenkamp
Emporia State University
Regents
Hemenway
Donna Shank
National Cancer Institute
North Carolina
City to seek KLINK funds for 2012 projects in Garden City
Garden City commissioners weigh applying for the 2012 KLINK program from KDOT. City Engineer Steve Cottrell notes funding uncertainties and outlines possible highway segment reconstructions, cost sharing, and revised reprogramming of the 2011 KLINK to adjacent segments. Also up for decision is a $2,173,700 general obligation bond ordinance funding Finnup Center expansion and multiple airport and street reconstruction projects with city cost shares.
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Taylor Avenue
Olive
Campbell Streets
KLINK
Kansas Avenue
Fifth Street
Third Street
Cottrell
Main
Fifth Streets
Third Streets
KDOT
Center Street
Center
Anderson Street
Main Street
Maple Street
Fulton
Finnup Center For Conservation Education
Finnup Foundation
Garden City
Mary Street
Campbell Street
Jenny Avenue
Eighth Street
Fulton Street
Ninth Street
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Rick Atha
Eric Eicher
Finney County Public Library
Eicher
Colby
Brad Nading
Klink Transportation Funding
Commission
Garden City Administrative Center
N. Main St
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