Hispanic Student Day Set for Nov 4 at GCCC
Hundreds of southwest Kansas high school students will attend Hispanic Student Day 2005 at Garden City Community College on November 4. The event features a keynote by Garden City Mayor Juana Perkins, sessions on in state tuition for immigrant students, financial aid, and programs across career fields. Activities include campus tours, four breakout sessions, lunch, a Latin Heat performance, and closing ceremonies in the Pauline Joyce Fine Arts Building. Contact numbers 276-9245 and 276-9660 are listed for questions.
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Southwest Kansas
Garden City Community College
Garden City
Juana “Janie” Perkins
Beth Tedrow
GCCC
Carol Ballantyne
Pauline Joyce
Childhood obesity workshop in Finney County November 3
Local hospitals, health programs and schools join to fight obesity with a workshop from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. November 3 at the Grandstand Meeting Room, Finney County Fairgrounds. Twenty four grant recipients across 16 counties will receive training to support Kansas Kids C.A.N. with HKC leading the three year effort funded by the Kansas Sunflower Foundation.
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Pioneer Health Network
Healthy Kids Challenge
Finney County Fairgrounds
Kansas Kids
C.A.N
Kansas Kids C.A.N
Kansas Sunflower Foundation
HKC
College fair targets non English speaking parents at Garden City High
Fourteen state and area technical schools colleges and universities will attend a Garden City High School college fair next week. Admissions representatives will be on hand during parent teacher conferences from noon to 8 p.m. Thursday and 7 30 a.m. to 12 50 p.m. Friday in front of Clifford Hope Auditorium. La Esperanza de Manana organized the event in its second year at 1412 N Main St.
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Garden City High School
Clifford Hope
GCHS
N. Main St
la Esperanza de Manana
Hope For Tomorrow
Antiquities fundraiser offers old fashioned photos at Florence Wilson ES
Florence Wilson Elementary School hosts an antiquities fundraiser on Nov 5 at 1709 Labrador Blvd. A photographer will take old fashioned photos of children. A $10 coupon reserves an appointment and includes a free 10 by 13 photo. Photos delivered before holidays. Call 276-5245 for details. St Catherine Hospital holds a commissioning service for President and CEO Scott Taylor at 4 p.m. Thursday in the cafeteria with a reception to follow.
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Florence Wilson
Labrador Blvd
St. Catherine Hospital
Scott Taylor
Diversity celebration slated in Garden City Thursday
Cultural anthropologist Michael Broadway will speak at Garden City Kansas Plaza Inn 1911 E Kansas Ave 7 30 to 9 a m about new research on economic cycles in meat packing towns and immigrant relations The event marks community diversity efforts and follows a 1988 study by Broadway and Donald Stull at area packing plants Tickets cost 7 50 per person or 55 for a table of eight Reservations by Monday at 276 1175
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Garden City
Michael Broadway
Northern Michigan University
Donald Stull
Chang
Cultural Relations Board
Plaza Inn
E. Kansas Ave
Ford Foundation
Berry
Broadway
Stull
Juan Andrade
el Remedio Restaurant and Market
Andrade
ConAgra Beef Co
East Garden Village
Mobile Home Park
City of
Former astronaut testifies in Cosmosphere fraud trial
Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke Jr. testified in Wichita that he donated 10 lunar flags to the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center not to its director. Duke, retired Air Force general, said each flag was valued at 7000 dollars and he claimed a 70000 dollar tax deduction in 1999. He described a 2004 letter acknowledging donation with a caveat that one flag could go to Ary.
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Wichita
Charles Duke Jr
Kansas
Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center
Duke
Max Ary
Cosmosphere
Ary
Air Force
U.S
United Way drive reaches $160905 in Finney County
Finney County United Way reports $160,905.50 raised toward a $500,000 goal as volunteers persevere through illness. Local agencies benefiting include Red Cross Garden City, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Boy Scouts Santa Fe Trail, Catholic Social Services, Meals on Wheels, YMCA, and Salvation Army among 17 funded groups.
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United Way
Margaret Anderson
Finney County
Larlee Josserand
Debbie Karkiainen
Beef Products Inc
Karkiainen
American Red Cross
Garden
Garden City Iowa considers fluoride in drinking water proposal
Garden City residents can speak at the 4:30 p.m. meeting on fluoride addition with public discussion at 6 p.m. in the City Administrative Building 301 N Eighth St. MEEC backs fluorosilic acid for affordability amid concerns of cancer and bone issues. The agenda also covers US DOT approval of Essential Air Service flights to Denver and Kansas City and Kansas Main Street awards won by Downtown Vision Inc including promotions and community spirit honors.
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Garden City
Eighth St
Mid- Kansas Engineering Consultants
United Health Ministry Fund
MEEC
US Department of Transportation
Denver
Great Lakes Aviation
Kansas City
US Air Express
Bob Halloran
Matt Allen
Kansas Main Street
Garden City Downtown Vision, Inc
Downtown Vision
Kendall Kepley
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Missioning Service
Garfield
Ceasar Felix
Lisa Hoffpaulr
Corey Roth
Holcomb
United Way Fund
Eests
Commission
Eight St
City Commission
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