Salsa Challenge seeks entries at Garden City Arts
The GCA Salsa Challenge invites area restaurants, professional chefs, and community members to enter their best salsa at the Garden City Arts Gallery on Saturday from 1 to 3 p.m. Entries split into restaurants and professionals versus amateurs with top honors and cash or plaques. A $5 sampler plate includes chips and tastings. part of the 2013 Dia de los Muertos Arts & Culture Festival with details via Facebook, phone, or email.
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Garden City
N. Main St
Tor Restaurateur
GCA
Facebook.com
Gardencityarts
Gmail.com
Take-Back Drug Event By Local Officers At Walmart
The Garden City Police Department and Finney County Sheriff's Office join the nationwide DEA Take-Back initiative. Officers collect expired and unused prescription drugs at the Walmart east entrance from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Items like illicit drugs or needles are not accepted.
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Garden City Police Department
Finney County Sheriff's Office
The
Drug Enforcement Administration
DEA
Walmart
Kansas Ave
Dea.gov
Community groups wrap up city food drive efforts
Finney County United Way and partner groups finish a food drive begun Oct 1 to stock Salvation Army United Methodist Mexican American Ministries Family Crisis Services and St Catherine Hospital Benincasa House. Donations picked up at Garden City High Thursday 9 am from multiple drop sites. call 275 1425 or email scawed at gmail com for pickup.
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Finney County United Way
Finney County Young Professionals
GCHS
Garden City Community College
Salvation Army
United Methodist Mexican- American Ministries
Family Crisis Services
St. Catherine Hospital
Benincasa House
UMMAM
N. Taylor Ave
United Way
Fulton Terrace
Gmail
Legion calf fry dinner canceled this month
The American Legion cancels the monthly calf fry dinner scheduled for Thursday. The Sons of the American Legion will resume the dinners after the first of the year, ending the current run and planning a return in the new year.
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Legion’s Monthly
The
American Legion
Sons of the American Legion
Davis selects Docking as running mate in Kansas governor race
Democratic leader Paul Davis introduced Jill Docking as his running mate in the 2014 Kansas gubernatorial campaign. Docking cited funding for public schools and education spending as core issues, and she and Davis argued Brownback’s income tax cuts burden the middle class. Docking, a former Kansas Regent and Wichita adviser, boosts name recognition for the ticket amid fundraising dynamics and a four city bus tour.
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Topeka
Paul Davis
Jill Docking
Docking
Wichita
Davis
Highland Park High School
Kansas Board of Regents
Sam Brownback
U.S. Senate
Brownback
Tom
Kansas
Republican Party
Clay Barker
Barker
No Docking
Why now on Hard 50 appeal in Kansas
Kansas Supreme Court justices questioned whether to rule now on retroactivity of the Hard 50 prison sentence, as Dustin Hill appeals a 2009 first degree murder case. Hill faces life without parole for 50 years unless retroactive changes apply, with lawmakers enacting a September fix. The court weighed efficiency and guidance to lower courts amid related pending cases.
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Topeka
Kansas Supreme Court
Johnson County
Dustin B. Hill
U.S. Supreme Court
High Court
Hilt
Joanna Labastida
Labastida
Steve Howe
Kansas
Supreme Court
Dan Biles
Biles
Hill
Howe
Derek Schmidt
Schmidt
District Court
Garden City schools cancel classes for parent teacher conferences
Garden City Public Schools will not hold classes Thursday and Friday as conferences take place across many campuses. Individual school hours vary with Abe Hubert Elementary from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday and 8 to 10:20 a.m. Friday. others list afternoon and evening slots today and Thursday and morning times Friday.
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Garden City
Abe Hubert
Alta Brown
Buffalo Jones
Edith Scheuerman
Florence Wilson
Garfield Early Childhood Center
Georgia Matthews
Gertrude Walker
Jennie Barker
Jennie Wilson
Plymell Elementary School
Victor Ornelas Elementary
Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Center
Charles Stones
Horace J. Good
Kenneth Henderson
Garden City High School
Billboard Billboards Hunt Law Debate Highlights Public Access
Veteran waterfowl hunter Andy Fanter funded a billboard near Great Bend urging public participation in Kansas hunting laws. The sign, costing 2500 and bearing duck images, calls residents to attend Wildlife and Parks Commission meetings and emails contact. The message follows August commission hearings on 2013 waterfowl seasons and a Bidrowski proposal weighing habitat, migration, and hunter input for dates.
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Great Bend
Andy Fanter
Kansas
Wildlife and Parks Commission
Cafanter
Aol
Fanter
Highway 281
Kansas Department of Wildlife Parks and Tourism Commission
Tom Bidrowski
Marais Des Cygnes
Neosho
Bidrowski
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