TALK series continues at Finney County Public Library
The Kansas Humanities Council TALK program hosts a Saturday discussion at 11 a.m. at the Finney County Public Library about Good Land by Bruce Bair. Sister Rosemary Kolich will lead, exploring 40 years of a High Plains farming family, isolation, schooling, and the evolution of American agriculture.
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BSIC Hosts Scholastic Book Fair in Library
Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Center hosts a Scholastic Book Fair in the library from Monday through Oct 29 during school hours and parent teacher conference hours. Funds raised support library and classroom books, the William Allen White reading challenge, and the All for Books program.
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SAFE Night at Kenneth Henderson
Kenneth Henderson Middle School will host SAFE Night from 5 30 to 7 30 p m Tuesday at 2406 Fleming St The event run by SADD promotes safer driving and distracted driving awareness with demonstrations from various organizations Aimed at parents and youth the event is free and includes food and prize drawings.
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Garden City seeks citizen input for seven year CIP plan
City calls for residents to suggest capital projects and join the CIP committee. The group ranks proposals, balances needs and funding, and prepares a plan for the commission’s February goal-setting retreat. More than 300 projects worth over 80 million are on the CIP with about 50 million potential city cost.
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Kansas federal sites resume operations after shutdown
Federal workers return to duties in Kansas as Congress funds operations ending a 16 day partial shutdown. Eisenhower Library alerts reopen, WIC payments resume, National Guard sites and Fort Riley regain staff, drills and duties, with full return phased as funds become available.
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Salina
Fort Leavenworth
McDonnell Air Force Base
Wichita
Department of Defense
O’donnell
Campaign urges Kansans to be active
A statewide effort to promote exercise launches Saturday as four Wichita area Physical Activity Champions encourage simple daily activity. The Get Active Kansas program offers a web tool moveacrosskansas.ks.gov to log activity and track progress across the state map with a goal of 600 minutes per month.
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Kansas Congress split on shutdown amid health care clash
Kansas lawmakers Roberts Huelskamp Pompeo and Yoder criticized the federal budget deal and Obamacare. Rick Roberts pressed Sebelius resignation as he denounced ongoing spending while Pompeo and Yoder warned against repeating the shutdown risk. Huelskamp accused fellow Republicans of bowing to Democratic fear mongering.
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