Jax to Host Sunday Fundraiser for Gary Friesner
A fundraiser at Jax Sports Grill starts at 1 p.m. Sunday with 10 percent of sales donated to the Friesner Family Fund to cover health costs. Entertainment by Country Fever, Drillers, and Leon Jordan & The Million Dollar Band.
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Gary Friesner
Jax Sports Grill
Jax
Friesner
Country Fever
Drillers
Leon Jordan
Million Dollar Band
Shelly Nelson
Lindsey Becker
Dust Bowl PBS film screening at Finney County Museum
Ken Burns two part film The Dust Bowl will be shown next week at the Finney County Historical Museum 403 S Fourth St north entrance Show times are 330 to 6 pm Tuesday and Thursday Attendees are invited to bring photos to share.
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Ken Burns
Finney County Historical Museum
S. Fourth St
CASA seeks Secret Santas for Christmas program
CASA of Spirit of the Plains calls for volunteers to become Secret Santas aiding abused and neglected children in the court system. Wish lists open Nov 10. donors can shop, give money, or gift cards. 123 children are currently in the local CASA program. contact 310 E. Walnut St. Suite 208 or call 271-6197 or email casa wbsnet.org for details.
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Spirit of the Plains
CASA
Walnut St
Suite 208
Wbsnet
Hepatitis C Ties Grow for Kansas Hospital Case
Kansas health officials confirm six hepatitis C cases among Hays Medical Center patients linked to traveling technician David Kwiatkowski who worked in the catheterization lab May to September 2010. Nationally prosecutors link 382 cases to him. in Hays, 391 patients submitted samples with 374 negative results.
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Hays
Kansas Health Department
Hays Medical Center
Kansas Department of Health and Environment
David Kwiatkowski
Hays Hospital
Kwiatkowski
Hays Daily News
Former head of Great Bend Honor Flight arrested
LaVeta Miller, former program director for Central Prairie Honor Flight in Great Bend, Kansas, was arrested on suspicion of theft by deception over 100000 dollars. Authorities say the two year scheme involved missing funds from the Central Prairie Honor Flight account and RC&D programs, prompting the group to be ousted from the national Honor Flight network. Miller is jailed on a 20000 dollar bond.
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Great Bend Honor Flight
Great Bend
Washington, D.C
LaVeta Miller
Barton County
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Miller
Central Prairie
Washington
Central Prairie Resource Conservation and Development District
Ects
Central Prairie Rc&d
Stacy Neilson
Neilson
The
Eagle
Central Prairie Honor Flight
Central Prairie Group
National Organization
Hutchinson
Kansas Honor Flight
Richard Foster
Central Prairie Rc&d Board
Rc&d
Foster
Honor Flight
Springfield
Ohio
Kansas
Hutchinson turbines spin at Spearville wind farm dedication
In Ford County near Spearville the Ironwood Windpower Project adds 167.9 megawatts with 73 Hutchinson built Siemens SWT 2.3 turbines. Westar will buy power under a 20 year contract to meet Kansas renewable standards while Duke Energy Renewables and Sumitomo Corp back the project. Governor Brownback attended events and officials noted production tax credits and wind as a growing energy source.
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Spearville
Tronwood
Sam Brownback
Westar Energy
Duke Energy Renewables
Sumitomo Corporation
Magouirk
Dodge City
Ironwood
Ford County
Duke Energy
Westar
Gina Penzig
Penzig
Hutchinson
Iowa
Kansas
Siemens
Salina man 90 keeps busy with work and gardens
Salina resident Bill Smith, 90, continues to oversee Salina Mini Storage he owns after building Salina’s first units. A lifelong veteran and educator, he also gardens tomatoes, runs half a mile daily, bikes, and tends two community plots with wife Wanda. He credits the snowstorm that delayed him as life changing.
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Salina
Bill Smith
The
Gideons
Tri Rivers Fair
Smith
Wanda
Fort Scott
U.S. Army Air Corps
Coffeyville
Parsons
YMCA
Wanda Willson
Lubbock
Texas
Kansas State College
Hillsboro
Chamber of Commerce
Vanda
Kansas Supreme Court hears appeal in a capital case
The Kansas Supreme Court heard Sidney Gleason's appeal after a cousin involved in the February 2004 killings of Miki Martinez and Darren Wornkey reneged on a plea deal that spared him the death penalty. Gleason faces potential new trial as a result of questions about fair punishment given the cousin’s testimony and plea terms.
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Topeka
Kansas
Kansas Supreme Court
Sidney Gleason
Miki Martinez
Darren Wornkey
Gleason
Damien Thompson
Martinez
Thompson
Wornkey
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Garden City
Stephanie Bogner
E. Mary
Andres Pallares
East Walnut Street
New Spearville Farm
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