GCCC Endowment to Honor Fundraising Success at 2011 Meeting
Garden City Community College Endowment Association will celebrate a year of fundraising and award winners at the 2011 annual meeting at 6:30 p.m. on November 15 at the Clarion Inn. New board officers will be elected and honors given including Outstanding Service Awards to Lloyd and the late Pauline Joyce, and to Lewis Hooper and Dick, LLC. Jessica Dirks will receive the Robert A. Whippo Award for Outstanding Board Service. A social hour precedes dinner and the program featuring GCCC drama students. The group notes more than 447,000 in academic and technical scholarships to 1,207 students plus 44,196 in grant funds. reservations by November 11 cost 22 per person.
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Garden City Community College Endowment Association
Clarion Inn
Lloyd
Pauline Joyce
Garden City
Lewis, Hooper and Dick, LLC
Robert A. Whippo
Jessica Dirks
GCCC
Area native competes on CMT reality series Sweet Home Alabama
Cassie Rupp of Dighton remains among 16 bachelorettes on CMT’s Sweet Home Alabama season two. Tribble Reese, ex Clemson QB, hosts as 22 women live in one house and compete for his affections. The third episode airs Friday at 9 p.m. ETPT with romantic moments, eliminations, and new dates including a honky tonk bar and bi plane ride. Rupp, a farmer’s daughter who studied journalism at the University of Kansas, enjoys farm life and lakeside leisure.
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Cassie Rupp
Dighton
CMT
Sweet Home Alabama
Tribble Reese
Clemson
Birmingham
Tribble
Rupp
University of Kansas
Cancer Support Group Meets Sunday at Downtown Vision Office
The Builders of Hope Cancer Support Group will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday at 413 North Main Street Downtown Vision Office. For more information call Remy Ekweariri at 2722518.
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Builders of Hope Cancer Support Group
Vision
N. Main St
Remy Ekweariri
Wichita Theater Troupe Sets Satanta Shows for Children
The Wichita Children’s Theater Professional Touring Company presents Chicken Little at Satanta High School Auditorium on Tuesday and Tom Sawyer on Wednesday. Showings occur at 9:30 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. Reservations via Dena Whisler at 620 649 2782. No charge but seating is limited.
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Wichita Children’s Theater Professional Touring Company
Satanta High School
Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Missouri billionaire funds Kansas anti income tax push
Kansas group Kansans for No Income Tax receives funds from Rex Sinquefield of Missouri, aiding efforts to end state income tax. Let Voters Decide and Gov Brownback side view tax cuts as Kansas lawmakers show rising interest. Sinquefield, Show-Me Institute head, has contributed to Missouri campaigns to repeal city earnings taxes and push broader tax changes.
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Kansas City, Mo
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Rex Sinquefield
Kansas City Star
Brown
Sinquefield
St. Louis
Associated Press
Topeka
Sam Brownback
Kansas City
the Star
Ashley McMillan
Kansas Republican Party
Show-Me Institute
Missouri Research and Policy Group
Kansans For No Income Tax
Joan Wagnon
Kansas Democratic Party
Weekend events in southwest Kansas include Pupp y Up Walk for canine cancer in Garden City
A packed weekend features 2 Million Dogs Puppy Up Walk in Garden City to fund canine cancer research with human benefits. Registration at the door is 25 dollars, online is 20 dollars, 12:30 p.m. at the Masonic Lodge. A K 9 demo, a speech by Virginia Macphail, silent auction, and a dog bandana with the motto Cancer can't keep a good dog down accompany the event. Also planned are a riverbed trash cleanup, Syracuse Christmas Fair, Downtown Vision Art Auction, Christmas Angels Toy Run, and Mobile Music Masters performances with toy and cash donations benefiting local groups.
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2 Million Dogs
Garden City
Jorinda Juno
2Milliondogs.org
Juno
Virginia Macphail
Cimarron
Arkansas River
Main Street
Addison Morgan
Amorgan
Gckschools
Syracuse
Syracuse High School
Downtown Vision Design Committee
Vision
Godowntown
Walmart
Kansas Ave
American Legion
Pine St
Marie Hamill
Remembered Kansas grain inspector among seventh explosion victims
Darrek Klahr 43 of Wetmore died at Bartlett Grain Co elevator in Atchison along with six others after a northeast Kansas blast. Klahr, an on site inspector since 2004 for Kansas Grain Inspection Service, was a devoted father and husband and elder at Immanuel Lutheran Church. Funeral plans and school counseling services followed as the community offered support.
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Wetmore
Kansas
Darrek Klahr
Bartlett Grain Co
Atchison
Kansas City
Klahr
Travis Keil
Topeka
Bartlett
Curtis Field
Chad Roberts
Ryan Federinko
John Burke
Kansas Grain Inspection Service
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Colorado
Nebraska
Topeka Capital- Journal
Tom Tunnell
Kansas Grain and Feed Association
Tunnell
Union Pacific
USDA
Jackson Heights High School
Kansas State University
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Netawaka
Martin Schlossman Sr
Adrianne McDaniel
Jackson Heights Unified School District
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Erica Otero
Masonic Lodge
Walnut St
Trevor
Garrett
Jackson Heights
McDaniel
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