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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 2000
Page
4
Established 1906 telegram staff listing shows Steve Delaney as Editor and Publisher and Bill Draper as Managing Editor with contact references to gctelegram.com.
The Telegram notes Finney County trails southwestern Kansas with 57 percent turnout while counties there top 63 percent. Readers vent frustrations about education funding high school needs, the Law Enforcement Center, and anti-expansion sentiment, urging fellow voters to value rights and local leadership.
A collage of political comments spans courting roses to a Senate seat, a Florida recount, and calls for orderly transition. Personal anecdotes mix with election chatter as Karen Livingston invites help on schoolboard initiatives and civic action.
A reader suggests moving fifth graders to elementary schools and reallocating grade groups across centers to avoid new construction. The proposal would place sixth and seventh graders at Charles O. Stones and Bernadine Sitts Centers, and eighth and ninth at Kenneth Henderson and Abe Hubert centers, with pay raises and more supplies. The note recalls personal school history and honors veterans, then shifts to nostalgia about Garden City China Restaurant under new ownership, recalling lessons, dates, and a long local attachment.
Garden City motorists pay a premium at the pump as prices fall across Kansas. On Friday a gallon of unleaded cost 1.569 in Garden City, while Wichita residents paid 1.3803 and Kansas City metro about 1.3521. Prices have declined weekly elsewhere, with Garden City remaining steady for over a month.
A Garden City taxpayer urges building a ninth grade center and expanding facilities while criticizing current district leadership. Proposals include moving seventh and eighth graders to a new KH site, using Hubert land, staggering departures, extending the day, and merging districts.
Marjorie Vanderweide urges school officials to consider cheaper options and smarter planning after voters rejected the high school proposal. She notes overcrowding will worsen and calls for staggered schedules, a ninth grade center, cheaper buildings, and better leadership to listen to taxpayers.
Aimed at those who voted against the second high school bond this note calls for unity to raise the average knowledge level of students. It critiques the selling of the idea as blue sky and urges idea gathering to focus on constructive action.
The piece laments partisan combat and gridlock as the United States tilts into political disorder. It traces the rise of ideological labeling from the Bush era onward, notes the spread of talk radio, and warns that Washington’s reach now affects everyday life nationwide and globally.
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