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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 2008
Page
3
Garden City firefighters battled a residential blaze on East Wiebe Road starting 8:44 a.m. Two trucks responded and left the scene by 12:16 p.m. The cause and extent of damage are under investigation. no injuries were reported and the home was unoccupied. Property owner’s name not released.
Ballet classes for youth ages 6 to 8 start Tuesday at Garden City Recreation Commission. Fee is $20 for six weeks. Participants need a leotard tights and ballet slippers. For details or registration call 276-1200 or visit 310 N Sixth St.
A regional meeting to discuss transportation priorities with Gov. Kathleen Sebelius's task force will start at 8:30 a.m. Thursday at the Grant County Civic Center in Ulysses. Morning sessions cover highway and regional modal needs including rail aviation transit and bike pedestrian access with an afternoon testimony opportunity for communities.
Garden City Police Department will conduct a citywide saturation patrol this weekend from 11 p.m. Saturday to 3 a.m. Sunday. Officers will focus on speeding safety belt use and alcohol related violations in pre designated deck areas funded by the Impaired Driving Deterrence Program grant from the Kansas Department of Transportation.
Deadline to sign up for the Friday food program at the Senior Center of Binney County 907 N. 10th St. Readily available Prairie Pak for 22 dollars includes at least five meat items and six to eight fresh fruit or vegetables plus two hours of volunteer service. Additional meat pack 12 dollars and one hour, fruit and vegetable pack 10 dollars and one hour. Specials listed at oprairielandfood.com. For info call Barbara Jensen Pedigo or Sneight.
Finney County commissioners will consider amending the shared Law Enforcement Center agreement. The city would pay 10 000 annually for routine medical costs of city inmates and the sheriff would gain full authority to approve treatment without city input. The measure saves phone calls and aligns costs with historic data while enabling streamlined inmate care.
The USC 457 Board of Education will hear about Garden City’s new teachers and their adaptation, with Shelly Kiblinger presenting hiring results for 2008 09 and a survey on job satisfaction in service quality community fit and housing. The meeting also covers a new math support class and several facility and equipment procurements.
Eight western Kansas districts including Holcomb Cimarron Colby Goodland Hugoton Lakin Scott City and Ulysses discussed leaving the Hi Plains League to form a larger league. Trustees weigh travel impact versus more junior varsity play opportunities as Scott City has endorsed the idea and others consider resolutions for a Monday night meeting. Endowment fund publicity and bus fleet talks also dominated the Holcomb USD 363 board agenda along with enrollment and KS assessment preliminaries.
In southwest Kansas a contest between ITC Great Plains and Westar Energy over building a V shaped high voltage transmission line sees state lawmakers on the Kansas Electric Transmission Authority declining to back any proposal. ITC pushes a compromise to speed construction and lower rural rates while Westar seeks to build the entire line. The Kansas Corporation Commission tracks the case with a report due next month.
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