Local band volunteers to play at Legion monthly
Local musicians volunteer for a monthly Legion post event. The group will perform at the Legion Hall and support community activities while offering a preview of upcoming concerts. Organizers hope to attract neighbors and veterans to enjoy live music and socialize.
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Picture This Curtis Near and Flo rence Wilson at her namesake school
Buffs get by Wichita Northwest in a district game as Curtis Near and Flo rence Wilson celebrate Mrs. Wilson with a birthday tribute at her namesake school.
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Florence Wilson
Mrs. Wilson
Wichita Northwest
Moran seeks changes to No Child Left Behind law in Kansas
U S Representative Jerry Moran proposes a bill to modify how progress under No Child Left Behind is measured, aiming for feedback from Kansas amid reauthorization debates. Moran opposed the 2001 act, which set 2014 proficiency targets and generated sanctions for schools not making Adequate Yearly Progress.
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YMCA scholarship program helps Finney County families
Vivian Bulkley enrolled her sons Scott and Collin in Garden City Family YMCA after-school programs and activities through a scholarship fund. Since 2006 the program has awarded about 62,000 dollars in scholarships for memberships and child care, aiding 433 members through June. United Way of Finney County contributed 58,000 dollars in 2006 to support after-school care and child care initiatives.
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Garden City Family Ymca
Scott
Collin
Bulkley
YMCA
Chad Knight
Knight
United Way
Finney County
YMCA to Receive Less United Way Funding
United EW Garden City Family YMCA projects $38,000 in United Way funds for 2007, down from this year's allocation due to elimination of the YMCA United Way Club Day program. After-school care remains the primary use, with about $22,000 planned, says Chad Knight executive director.
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United Way
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Gregg Hendricks
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Holcomb reconsiders school board district boundaries
Holcomb residents may see board of education district changes after a plan by a committee, prompted by a statute limiting population variance to five percent. District 1/4 would be bounded by Nunn Drive Jenny Lane and River Road with 929 people in 2000. District 2/5 lies between River Avenue and Big Lone Road with 997 residents.
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Holcomb
Board of Education
Jon Becker
Jay Powers
Nunn Drive
Jenny Lane
Railroad Avenue
River Road
U.S
Cindy Messenger
Mike Pfeifer
Big Lone Road
Afghanistan five years on shows fragile stability and growing Taliban control
Dashtak village on a rough road has 16 new wells funded by an aid agency yet lacks paved roads running water electricity and a health clinic two hours away by donkey. Five years into the U S led war the Taliban has regrouped while poverty erodes faith in the elected government. 40 000 U S and NATO troops seem farther from victory than three years ago and Osama bin Laden remains at large possibly in the Afghanistan Pakistan border mountains. Analysts warn this is likely to be a long war.
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Afghanistan
Kabul
NATO
Osama bin Laden
Pakistan
Seth Jones
Rand Corp
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