Pierceville Plymell School Site Council Meeting
The Pierceville Plymell Elementary School Site Council meets at 7 p.m. Thursday in the school gym alongside the parent teacher organization meeting. The school is located at 20 W Plymell Road. The site council aids in school quality performance accreditation.
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Pierceville-Plymell Elementary
W. Plymell Road
Gift market at St Dominic School features global crafts
A craft and international gift market is planned for Friday evening and Saturday to offer nativity sets, Christmas items, gift baskets, stone boxes and baked goods. Proceeds will benefit local, national and international charities. Local vendors from around the world will participate at 615 JC St in the gymnasium.
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St. Dominic School
Finney County USDA commodities distributed Thursday
Commodities will be handed out Thursday from 10 a.m. to noon at the Senior Center of Finney County and 1 to 3 p.m. at the Salvation Army. Items include sweet potatoes peaches trail mix almonds instant milk juice and pears. Each household member must have a 2003 commodity card plus a Social Security card proof of income and proof of Finney County residence. Contact the Senior Center at 272-3620 for details.
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USDA
Finney County
10Th St
Salvation Army
Ninth St
Drawing classes begin Saturday at ArtsCENTER
The Southwest Arts and Humanities Council offers drawing classes for high school students starting Saturday and on November 15 and 22. Each session runs 10 to 11:30 a.m. at 318 N Main St ArtsCENTER. Instructor Mary Gere, USC 457 art teacher, teaches coal, pencil, pen and ink on paper for $12 for all three sessions or $5 per session. Materials provided. Future sessions planned January and February. Registration by phone 260-9700 or in person.
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Southwest Arts & Humanities Council
Artscenter
Main
N. Main St
USC
Mary Gere
Western Kansas Community Foundation
The
Kansas Arts Commission
CPR and first aid classes set for Saturday
CPR and first aid training offered by the Garden City Red Cross at 210 Fulton Terrace covers adult child and infant CPR and basic first aid. CPR starts 8:30 a.m. first aid at 1 p.m. Fees are 25 15 or 40 for both. Courses run 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Pre registration due by 5 p.m. Thursday. Call 276 2762 for more information.
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Garden City
The
American Red Cross
Fulton Terrace
Fiddlers and Pickers Meet Sunday in Lakin
Western Plains Chapter of Kansas Old Time Fiddlers Pickers and Singers holds its monthly program Sunday at the Memorial Building in Lakin. Sign up to perform at 1 30 p m and program starts at 2 p m. All area musicians welcome. Free admission. Call Elmer Grubbs or Curtis Younng for details. Road condition hotline provided.
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Western Plains
Kansas
Memorial Building
Lakin
Elmer Grubbs
Curtis Younng
Arts and Inspiration Center opens in Garden City for Alzheimer's
An open house at St Mary Catholic Church kicks off Garden City’s first Arts and Inspiration Center for people with Alzheimer's and related dementias. The month’s event previews a Nov 18 start with monthly sessions on the third Tuesday, featuring music poetry and drama to stimulate cognition and encourage self expression, with a modest 10 dollar fee and volunteer support.
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Garden City
St. Mary Catholic Church
St. John St
Rhonda Riedel
Alzheimer’s Association of the Great Plains
Riedel
Doreen McDonald
The
Presbyterian Church
McDonald
Canada
University of Kansas Medical Center
Center On Aging
Finney County
Marsha Hills
AAGP
Moran seeks 2004 congressional internship applicants
U S Rep Jerry Moran R Hays seeks applications for 2004 internships in Washington D C Hays and Hutchinson offices. Spring applications due Nov 15 summer by March 1 and fall by July 1 2004. Submit completed form cover letter resume college transcript three references.
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Jerry Moran
R-Hays
Washington, D.C
Hays
Hutchinson
House.gov
Moran
N. Main St
River Habitat Plan Discussed for Arkansas River Rehab
Garden City and Finney County officials heard plans from the U S Army Corps of Engineers to restore river habitat from near Jennie Barker Road to Holcomb. Proposals range in scope with four viable options under a federal cap of five million dollars, 75 percent funded federally and 25 percent locally.
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Arkansas River
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Garden City
Finney
Jennie Barker Road
Holcomb
Richard Belinnski
Bob Halloran
Halloran
Lee Richardson Zoo
Smith
Shawneen O'Neill
O'Neill
Dan Baffa
US Army Corps of Engineers
Inkind
Beliinski
EPA approves Kansas water quality standards
The EPA approved most Kansas standards allowing KDHE to regulate 2200 stream segments for fishing and recreation. About 58 percent are designated under the plan with Oct 31, 2005, deadline. Standards focus on E coli levels with two public use thresholds and a rejected provision would have cost benefit study for low-flow streams. Environmental groups challenged Kansas since 1990s.
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Topeka
Federal Environmental Protection Agency
Kansas Department of Health and Environment
KDHE
Kansas
EPA
Cheryl Crisler
The
Fort Hays State student dies from alcohol poisoning
HAYS AP A Fort Hays State University student Emerson I. Owings 19 died of alcohol poisoning with a blood alcohol level of .385 percent. He was found in his Plainville apartment after a party and friends feared for him as authorities investigate who what when and why.
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Purdy
Owings
Fort Hays
Kansas
Alberto Romero
Wichita
Harper County votes to recall commissioner and Jetmore bond approved
Harper County voters retained Commission Chairman Robert Sharp 527 to 384 amid a recall tied to two other commissioners discussing county business on cell phones. In Jetmore, residents approved a near five million bond to expand and renovate schools, move seventh and eighth graders, and add a high school wing with new classrooms and facilities.
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Harper County
County Commission
Jetmore
Harper County Commission
Robert Sharp
Sharp
Kenneth Williams
Sidney Burkholder
Williams
Hodgeman County
Barbara Smith
Randall Jansonius
Jansonius
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