Roundup Briefs GCHS Hosts Buffalo Debate Tournament
Garden City High School will host the Buffalo Debate Tournament starting Friday at 3 p.m. and continuing Saturday at 8 a.m. Seventeen Kansas high schools will compete including Blue Valley Southwest, Blue Valley West, Colby, Dodge City, Emporia, Hugoton, Hutchinson, Liberal, Lyons, Maize, Manhattan, McPherson, Scott City, Silver Lake, Washburn Rural, Wichita East and Wichita Northwest. Volunteers to judge are sought. contact Russ Tidwell at 805-8175 or ridwell gckschools.com.
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Buffalo
Kansas
Blue Valley Southwest
Blue Valley West
Colby
Dodge City
Emporia
Hugoton
Hutchinson
Liberal
Lyons
Maize
Manhattan
McPherson
Scott City
Silver Lake
Washburn Rural
Wichita East
Wichita Northwest
GCHS
Russ Tidwell
Ridwell
Gckschools.com
Garden City P T Conferences Schedule No Classes Thursday Friday
Garden City Public Schools will cancel classes Thursday and Friday for parent teacher conferences. Students return to school Monday. Parents can learn about their child’s progress and take a district survey to provide feedback.
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Calf Fry Dinner Set for Legion Post This Thursday
The Sons of the American Legion Squad No. 9 Post 9 will host its final calf fry dinner of the year from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the American Legion hall, 125 West Pine Street. Menu includes calf fries roast beef scalloped potatoes salad dessert and iced tea for 8 dollars per plate with proceeds supporting the ADA Fund. For details call Monte Algrim at 276-8942.
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Sons of the American Legion
The
American Legion
W. Pine St
ADA Fund
Call
Monte Algrim
Night of the Reading Dead at Finney County Library
Finney County Public Library hosts a 24 hour Halloween fundraiser and reading marathon from 5 p.m. Friday to 5 p.m. Saturday at 605 E Walnut St. The event features a 7 to 9 p.m. Friday auction, live DJ, cakewalk, kids crafts, puppet shows, Rise from the Dead breakfast at 7 a.m. Saturday, costume contest and scavenger hunt. Admission is free with donations encouraged to support library services. Auction items include plane tickets, themed baskets, autographed books, Sinfully Sweet cake, a haunted doll house, and more.
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Finney County Public Library
Walnut St
Sinfully Sweet
YMCA Halloween at the YMCA marks 11th annual event
The Garden City Family YMCA at 1224 Center St hosts a free community Halloween event from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday. Activities include swimming, carnival games, inflatables, tattoos, arts and crafts, snacks, and door prizes. The first 50 kids receive T-shirts. Participants get a passport and may win candy jars by guessing counts.
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Garden City Family Ymca
Center St
YMCA
GCHS Key Club Collecting Donations This Week
The Garden City High School Key Club will trick or treat to collect monetary donations for charity. Club members plan to visit houses in the community from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday to gather contributions.
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Garden City High School
Key Club
Moran heavy favorite in Senate race in Kansas
In Kansas, veteran U.S. Rep. Jerry Moran is viewed as the likely winner over Lisa Johnston, a Baker University administrator making her first bid for office in a GOP-leaning state. Moran touts years in Congress and wide campaign spending, while Johnston emphasizes a fresh face and opposition to Moran’s national sales tax proposal.
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Topeka
Kansas
Lisa Johnston
U.S. Senate
U.S
Jerry Moran
Johnston
Barack Obama
Congress
Moran
Poten
U.S. House
Randy Duncan
Salina
GOP
Todd Tiahrt
Washington
Corn piles redefine farming in northwest Kansas townships
In Levant and Gem, Hi Plains Co-op installs high speed grain handling lifting 20,000 bushels per hour, creating 16 story corn piles. Farmers expanded corn acres from 98,000 to 155,000 dryland plus 68,000 irrigated in Thomas County as corn overtakes wheat. The Gem facility, opened Oct 9, aims to feed harvest with rapid truck loading and future expansion including a 250,000 bushel bin and a new Levant site.
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Gem
Kansas
Levant
Colby
High Plains
Deb Ruda
Hi Plains Co-op
Gary Brogan
Ruda
Brogan
John Strecker
Co-Op
Thomas County
Strecker
Hi Plains
Kansas sees 27 percent rise in 2008 child homicides
Kansas data show 26 child homicide deaths in 2008, up from 2007 and the highest total since 1998. Nine victims died in Sedgwick County. 16 were under age four and 10 were 15 to 17. Half of the cases were caused by child abuse, with most abuse deaths linked to non biological parents and mothers' boyfriends.
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Kansas
Steve Six
State
Death Review Board
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