KU K State Fans Lead Food Drive for Emmaus House
Garden City USD 457 Educational Support Center hosts a friendly KU versus K State food drive for Emmaus House. Fans bring nonperishable items to 1205 Fleming St to fill bus loads labeled for KU or K State. The winning team is announced at 1 p.m. Friday.
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Garden City
Emmaus House
FCCLC to unveil local survey results at public meeting
Finney County Community Learning Center staff will present findings from a May June door to door survey of 980 residents in 217 of 607 East Garden Village Mobile Home units. The study focuses on health care social services and education needs.
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Finney County Community Learning Center
FCCLC
GCCC
East Garden Village
East Highway 50
AmeriCorps Vista
Nora Salazar
Marina Hernandez
East Garden Village Mobile Home Park
Garden City CC Fall Break Schedule and Events
Garden City Community College students enjoy a fall break October 13 and 14 with a faculty work day on the 13 and a faculty holiday on the 14. Classes resume October 17. Most offices stay open daytime hours. Saffell Library and Mary Jo Williams Center stay open until 4 30 p m October 13 and reopen October 17. Aerobic Circuit closes 8 p m October 13 to October 17. Finney County Community Learning Center unaffected. A public covered dish lunch and show Tales from Pawnee Bill and May Lillies Wild West Show is at 11 30 a m October 17 at the Kearney County Senior Center in Lakin call 620 355 6674.
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Garden City Community College
Saffell
Mary Jo Williams
Finney County
Pawnee
Bill and
May Lillie
Kearney County Senior Center
Lakin
Wigner named dean of administrative services at GCCC
Dee Wigner named new dean of administrative services at Garden City Community College replacing Bill Hammond who resigned to join Dodge City school district. Wigner, CPA and SHRM‑CP, has prior roles in payroll and human resources and will oversee budgeting, finance, maintenance, and operations while continuing some HR duties.
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Garden City Community College
Dee Wigner
GCCC
Wigner
Bill Hammond
Dodge City
Wes Wigner
Administrative Services
Ballantyne
Kansas
Wigner’s
Dee
Garden City
St. Mary of the Plains College
Friends University
Wichita
Big Brothers
Big Sisters
Keller and Miller
Cpas
Everything Nice
Wheatfields
Main
Grant funds bolster BBBS youth outreach program
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Finney County receives 51 655 from Gov Sebelius linked federal Safe and Drug Free Schools grant. The money funds case managers and a school based mentoring effort to prevent violence and substance abuse while engaging volunteers in local schools.
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Big Brothers Big Sisters
Finney County
Kathleen Sebelius
Tammy Davis
SER Corp
Davis
Four Kansas counties test synthetic blood in trauma trial
Four Kansas counties Douglas Johnson Wyandotte and Leavenworth join a national FDA study testing PolyHeme, an oxygen carrying synthetic blood, on severely injured trauma victims. KU Medical Center researchers lead volunteers across 21 hospitals with half receiving PolyHeme and half saline, under an emergency consent waiver.
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Lawrence
Kansas
University of Kansas Medical Center
Food and Drug Administration
Douglas
Johnson
Wyandotte
Leavenworth
Michael Monicure
University of Kansas
FDA
Mark Bradford
Lawrence-Douglas
Corkins chosen Kansas education commissioner in surprise vote
Bob Corkins 44 of Lawrence was named by the State Board of Education as Kansas education commissioner on a 6-4 conservative majority vote. He lacks school administration experience but leads two conservative think tanks and supports vouchers. The appointment, opposed by moderates and several legislators, aims to heal board and Legislature rifts amid a $3.05 billion education budget.
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Topeka
State Board of Education
Bob Corkins
Lawrence
Senate
Corkins
Kansas
New Mexico
Steve Abrams
Abrams
Alan Rupe
Wichita
Dodge City
Salina
Freestate Center For Liberty Studies
Kansas Legislative Education
Andy Tompkins
University of Kansas
State of Kansas
Janet Waugh
Kansas City
Bill Wagnon
State Department of Education
Wagnon
Derek Schmidt
Independence
Bob
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