Health care career fair set at Garden City CC
Ten to twenty health care employers and training providers will attend the second annual Garden City Community College Health Care Career Fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on October 12 in the Penka Building and the Erdene Corley Simulation Lab. The event, hosted by the Nursing and Allied Health Department, will connect job seekers with hospitals schools nursing homes and other medical facilities across western Kansas. Attendees can learn about job requirements education and training. prizes and live robotic simulations add to the day.
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Garden City Community College
Penka
Practical Arts and Sciences
Erdene Corley
Gccc Nursing and Allied Health Department
GCCC
Allied Health
Sarah Wells
Garden City
Larned
Tribune
Ulysses
Kansas
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Gccc Allied Health
Seward County Community College
Corley Lab
Grant to support Kansas ICAC task force funding
A 273810 grant from the U S Justice Department will aid Kansas Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force through Sedgwick County Sheriff's Department. The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention funds expand training and local law enforcement collaboration to combat minor sex trafficking and online exploitation.
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Wichita
U.S. Justice Department
Kansas
U.S
Barry Grissom
Sedgwick County
Grissom
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
ICAC
Wichita-Sedgwick County
Office of Justice Program
Office of Communications
GCCC trustees OK faculty contract and bookstore shift
Garden City Community College trustees approved the 2012 13 faculty agreement covering 65 66 instructors with salary and benefit increases and expanded sick leave. They also approved moving bookstore management from Follet to internal GCCC control with MBS Textbook Exchange handling wholesale texts under a five year deal.
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Garden City Community College Board of Trustees
Kansas Public Employee Retirement System
College
GCCC
Broaebuster
Herbert Swender
Follet Higher Education Group
River Grove
Swender
Lawrence artist’s anti Brownback print removed from cafe
Lawrence artist Dave Lowenstein laments removal of his stencil critique of Governor Sam Brownback from the Blue Planet Cafe in Topeka. Owner Greg Ready says action was to protect Liz Brownback, with staff support. curator Michaela Carmen notes anti censorship stance and expected business impact. Other works target Kris Kobach and Virgil Peck in the same exhibit.
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Topeka
Lawrence
Sam Brownback
Kansas
Dave Lowenstein
Brownback
Lowenstein
Greg Ready
Jeff
Liz
Loewenstein
Gizmo
Michaela Carmen
Blue Planet Cafe
Carmen
Kris Kobach
Virgil Peck
Kansas labor secretary faces discrimination case from ex-employer
Lana Gordon, interim labor secretary and former Kansas House member, filed an age and gender discrimination complaint against ISS Facility Services Inc. with the Kansas Human Rights Commission in July. The case, alleging verbal abuse and unfair termination, remains pending as Brownback defends Gordon's role and notes she is performing well at the Department of Labor.
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Topeka
Kansas
Sam Brownback
Lana Gordon
ISS Facility Services Inc
Kansas Human Rights Commission
Department of Labor
Gordon
Kansas House
Brownback
Sherriene Jones-Sontage
State
ISS
Karin Brownlee
Brownlee
Human Rights Commission
Commission
Labor
House
Dorothy's ruby slippers head to London museum
Smithsonian's National Museum of American History loans Dorothy's ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz to London's Victoria and Albert Museum for the Hollywood Costume exhibit opening October 20. The dress from Dorothy's private collection will be shown with the slippers, marking the first time the two key items are displayed together since filming. A departure ceremony is planned in Washington, with a return on November 21.
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Washington
Dorothy
London
Victoria and Albert Museum
Judy Garland
Kansas
Smithsonian
National Museum of American History
Hollywood
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Grant
E. Mary St
Stephanie Bogner
Brad
Nading
Garden City Street Department
Roque Flores
Art Molina
Doug Jacobs
North 11Th Street
London Museum
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