Sunflower Festival Bazaar at Satanta UMC
The Satanta United Methodist Women host their annual Sunflower Festival bazaar from 5 to 7 30 p m in the church fellowship hall. Hand crafted and food items will be offered with garden produce. A roast beef dinner is served for a five dollar adult donation and three dollars for children under 12. Menu includes steamed red potatoes homegrown carrots green beans relishes French bread and homemade pie.
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Satanta United Methodist
Fall Festival Halloween Event at First Assembly of God
A safe family friendly Halloween activity is planned for Wednesday from 6 30 to 8 30 p m at First Assembly of God 702 Campus Drive The Fall Festival features a dunking booth moonwalk face painting football toss cake walk pop toss duck pond door prizes and more Children are encouraged to wear costumes and bring parents with no admission charge No scary costumes or weapons allowed
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First Assembly of God
Campus Drive
Operation Christmas Child expands to western Kansas efforts
The program promotes filling shoe boxes with small gifts for children and ships them to 75 countries. Drop-off sites appear in western Kansas with collection weeks from November 6 to 13 and 12 to 19 nationwide. Local centers include First Baptist Scots, Scott City, Ulysses, Lakin United Methodist, Cimarron White's Foodliner IGA, and Garden City Family Bookhouse. Lori Miggiani volunteers to collect from southwestern Kansas. For details call 800-353-5949 or visit samaritanspurse.org.
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Kansas
Bosnia
Franklin Graham
Billy Graham
Samaritan
Boone
N.C
Wal-Mart
Family Bookhouse
N. Main St
Garden City
First Baptist Church
Scots
Scott City
Ulysses
Lakin
United Methodist Church
Cimarron
White
IGA
Main St
Lori Miggiani
Ingalls
Southwestern
Miggiani
Partridge
U.S
Afghanistan
Jordan
Saudi Arabia
Lebanon
Pakistan
Samaritanspurse.org
KSU provost shares expertise on bioterrorism
Kansas State University official Jerry Jaax, a former Army biohazard officer, discusses agroterrorism risks to agriculture and the economy. He notes cattle disease threats like mad cow disease, calls for biosafety expansion, and cites legislative aims to fund agroterrorism defense and university research efforts.
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Manhattan
Kansas State University
Army
Kansas
Jerry Jaax
Kansas State
Jaax
Siberia
Dustin Hoffman
Jon Wefald
Congress
Pat Roberts
Roberts
Britain
Ussr
Iraq
Bodies of missing boaters recovered in Kansas reservoir
Norton County Sheriff says three Garden City men were at Keith Sebelius Reservoir when their boat capsized on October 13. Somnuck Amphonephony, 54, and his son Kittikone Xaiyarath, 23, were recovered in Cement Cove area, with Sombath Phanalith, 41, found near the capsized craft. Investigators do not suspect foul play.
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Norton
Garden City
Keith Sebelius
Norton County
Troy Thomson
Somnuck Amphonephony
Amphonephone
Kittikone Xaiyarath
Thomson
Cement Cove
Sombath Phanalith
Xaiyarath
Amphonephony
Sebelius Reservoir
Phanalith
Holcomb students observe Red Ribbon Week with fire department guest
Holcomb Elementary School kicked off Red Ribbon Week with a morning assembly in the south gymnasium. Five Holcomb Fire Department firefighters in full gear addressed elementary students, leading the Pledge of Allegiance as PE teacher Martin Cook organized activities and explained the drug awareness theme. The week features Decoration Day Pajama Day Sports Day and Red White and Blue Day while honoring DEA agent Enrique Camarena killed in 1985 and remembered nationwide since 1988.
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Holcomb
Holcomb Elementary
Holcomb Fire Department
Martin Cook
Holcomb Elementary School
Cook
Enrique “Kiki” Camarena
DEA
Great Pumpkin Race aids diabetes causes in Finney County
Stacy Gonzales organized The Great Pumpkin Race at Southwind on Saturday to help local families with diabetes costs. About 34 participants ran a two mile or five kilometer course, raising roughly $370 split between adults and children. Winners included Arturo Ponce and Kathleen Cerullo in the two mile. Cliff Dunlap and Tina Dodson in the five kilometer.
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Stacy Gonzales
Southwind
Wichita
Gonzales
Finney County Health Department
Zero Road
Wooden Nickel
Western State Bank
Jim Wharton
Heidi Huber
Mi Rumba
Rt’s Sporting Goods
Scheepner
Andy
Grace Weddell
Huber
Arturo Ponce
Garden City
Kathleen Cerullo
Larned
Kansas crime data entry workers in Wichita process vast reports
At the Kansas Bureau of Investigation Crime Data Information Center in Wichita four data entry operators type over 100,000 incident reports and 50,000 arrest reports about 65 percent arriving on paper.
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Wichita
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Kansas crime data show statewide gaps amid switch to NIBRS
Kansas records rise in Wichita and Topeka with murders and assaults up, while rapes fall. Total statewide crimes edge up from 20,977 in 1999 to 21,669 in 2000 but Topeka drops from 13,350 to 13,056. Kansas transitions to National Incident-Based Reporting System to track 22 crime categories, aiming for electronic submissions by mid-2000s.
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KBI
Topeka
Wichita
FBI
Crime Data Center
Howerton
Kansas
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
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