I Live in the Region I Cover in Kansas
Reporter Kathy Hanks describes a 50 mile drive from Garden City to the surrounding counties in southwest Kansas. She emphasizes local ties, community pride, and the effort to tell stories from Lane to the Colorado border and beyond.
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Everal
Kansas
Garden City
Lakewood
New Jersey
New York City
Highway 23
Finney County
Lane County
Colorado
Stanton, Grant
Haskell
Gray
Copeland
Shallow Water
Long Island
Town
View of Garden City drive tests United Way mood
Our View notes Garden City Community College phonathon raises over 70000 while United Way campaign trails its 550000 goal with 158000 raised, 29 percent. Four weeks left, past extensions possible. Officials worry about Sept 11 impact and a softer economy hurting donations to agencies aiding the underprivileged.
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Drive
Blake Waters
United Way
Senators react to anthrax scare after letter test
Senate Majority Leader Daschle, aides tested after anthrax positive letter. Ullman compares campaign to war against cancer. Art Howe praises Derek Jeter after Yankees eliminate Athletics in game five of the playoff series.
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Senate
Tom Daschle
Harland Ullman
The
Center For Strategic and International Studies
U.S
Oakland Athletics
Art Howe
Derek Jeter
New York Yankees
Athletics
Private motto quote attributed to Mark Twain
The line chairs a remark about popularity versus correctness, noting Mark Twain as the source and offering a succinct cultural aside from the author’s era.
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Mark Twain
On This Date in History October sixteenth highlights
Today's Highlight in History recalls past events from 1901 Booker T. Washington dining with Theodore Roosevelt to 1995 the Million Man March in Washington, with notes on 1793 Marie Antoinette's beheading and 1962 Cuba missile bases. It also mentions 1964 China’s first atomic bomb, 1970 Sadat's election, 1978 John Paul II’s papacy, and a 1995 Luby's shooting aftermath.
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Booker T. Washington
White House
Theodore Roosevelt
Marie Antoinette
John Brown
Harper’s Ferry
Kennedy
Cuba
China
Anwar Sadat
Egypt
Gamal Abdel Nasser
College of Cardinals
Roman Catholic Church
Karol Wojtyla
Poland
John Paul II
Washington, D.C
Nation of Islam
Louis Farrakhan
Killeen
Texas
George Hennard
Luby’s
McCain Bayh push to expand national service for youth
Senators John McCain and Evan Bayh plan a Senate bill to grow AmeriCorps fivefold by 2009, enabling up to 1 million youths every four years to work on community service and homeland defense projects. The plan retains education grants and seeks broader college student participation and flexible enlistment in the military.
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John McCain
Evan Bayh
McCain
Arizona
Bush
U.S
AmeriCorps
Bayh
Clinton
Democratic Leadership Council
Habitat For Humanity
the Red Cross
McCain-Bayh
House
Washington Monthly
Homeland Defense
Pentagon
Armed Services
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Steve Delaney
Bill Draper
Delaney
Draper
Kathy Hanks
Hanks
COM
Lini
Garden City Telegram
Borie May
Bob Dole
Mateo Flores
Guatemala City
Iibo
Washington Post
City Hall
Gctelegram.com
P.O. Box
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