Garden City hosts cemetery twilight tours with historical figures
Garden City residents and visitors attended cemetery twilight tours featuring Buffalo Jones Lettie Fulton and other figures as guides. Actors portrayed founding fathers and local personalities while a monument honors 13 Indians buried without identification. Finney County Historical Society organizes with Price and Sons Funeral Home as sponsor. tours sold out for the event noted by museum director Steve Quakenbush.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mitchal Runnels
Runnels
Garden City
Tammi Frazer
Frazer
Buffalo Jones
Lorraine Vallejo
Vallejo
Sondra Clay
Meade
Rita Lahman
Minneola
Finney County Historical Society
Clay
Lahman
Mark Whitley
Ashley Freburg
Taylor
Freburg
Rosemary Corbett
Rosemary Velaszco
Tam
Steve Quakenbush
Price and Sons Funeral Home
Finney County Convention and Visitors Bureau
Diabetes help aids Nava and others in Garden City area
Ada Flores coordinates diabetes education at Genesis helping Nava and low income patients apply for free or reduced insulin and other medications. She trains on glucose monitoring and diet, involves families, and notes multiple paths to prevent diabetes. Dr. George Hopkins provides free eye exams for diabetes monitoring. The Finney County United Way fund goal is 570000 for 23 partner agencies including Genesis Family Health and local services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ada Flores
Genesis
Flores
Nava
Garden City
George Hopkins
Hopkins, Hopkins and Ackerman
Enriqueta
Cuitzeo
Mariela
Belinda
Hadel
Finney County United Way
Genesis Family Health
Big Brothers Big Sisters
Finney and Kearny Counties
Catholic Social Service
Communities In Schools
Community Day Care Center, Inc
Family Crisis Services, Inc
Finney County
Garden City Family Ymca
Garden City Recreation Commission
Garden City Area
American Red Cross
Girl Scouts of Kansas Heartland
Kansas Children’s Service League
Meals On Wheels
Miles of Smiles
Real Men Real Leaders
Russell Child Development Center
Santa Fe Trail Council
Boy Scouts of America
Building Blocks
Southeast Asian Mutual Assistance Association
Spirit of the Plains
Casa, Inc
Salvation Army
United Cerebral Palsy of Kansas
Seeds of Hope Jail Ministry
Kansas Budget Debate Narrows Tax Talk With Gov Promise
Former budget director Steve Anderson criticizes fiscal policy and leadership in Kansas under Gov. Brownback. He urges tax cuts with caution while warning that inaction could trigger new tax hikes. He blames loyalists for management failures and cites cabinet departures and internal disputes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eileen Hawley
Brownback
Anderson
Kansas
Laura Kelly
Topeka
Senate
Steve Anderson
Kelly
Facebook
Buffalo
Trump
Kansas Policy Institute
Wichita
KPI
Topeka Capital Journal
Dennis Taylor
Kansas Department of Administration
Taylor
Kansas Lottery
Sam Brownback
Karen Brownlee
Kansas Department of Labor
Rob Siedlecki
Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services
Brownlee
Labor Department
Landon Fulmer
Kim Borchers
Fulmer
Washington, D.C
Borchers
Karin
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Johnetta Hebrlee
Valley View Cemetery
Hebrlee
Finney County Museum
Teen Black Light Party
Jinney County Public
Nature Explore Center
The
Kansas Humanities Council
Jam House Productions
Finney County Public Library
Walnut Garden City
Finneylibrary .Org
Oklahoma
Americans For Prosperity
Gov
L&l
L&L’s
Floor Covering, Inc
Llfloorcovering
North Maine
Reeve Agri Energy
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