Senior Center Month Focuses on Finding Balance and Friendship
September is National Senior Center Month with the theme Finding Balance at the Senior Center. The column highlights balance through purpose fitness learning and friendships. Activities include Ambassador Singers Thursdays 1 pm, health fair with St. Catherine Hospital Thursday 9 am to noon, vendor lunch, and a busy weekly schedule of exercise classes, games, and meals at the Senior Center. Check the website for details.
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YMCA
Steven Lynch
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Local girls win P. E. O. Scholarships in chapter news
Chapter X P. E. O. awarded two 500 and one 250 education scholarships to local high school graduates Julia Montoya Breyanna Avila and Lucia Saldana. Montoya Latin parentage attends Garden City CC psychology. Avila to Garden City CC criminal justice or dental hygienist. Saldana plans Pittsburg State Univ pharmaceutical chemistry.
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P.E.O
Julia Montoya
Breyanna Avila
Lucia Saldana
Ruben and
Guadalupe Montoya
Garden City Community College
Jerry and
Shelley Johnson
Juanita Gaytan
Pittsburg State University
Holcomb Student Wins $1500 Agriculture Scholarship
Margaret Roth of Holcomb was awarded a $1500 America's Farmers Grow Ag Leaders Scholarship funded by the Monsanto Fund. Three hundred fifty two scholarships were awarded nationwide in 2016 to support post high school study in agriculture with a $1500 grant for each recipient.
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Holcomb
Monsanto Fund
America
Farmers Grow Ag
Holcomb High wins DAR contest in 2015 16
Holcomb High School students shine at the Dodge City Chapter DAR Junior American Citizens contest with local winners in poetry posters and stamps. National results bring top placements to 10th 11th grade students across posters banners and stamp designs under teacher Mrs Pat Van Dolah.
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Holcomb High School
DAR
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Daughters of the American Revolution
America
Dodge City
Miranda Montanez
Taylor Becker
Jake Hawkins
Maria Salamanca
Adamaris Alvidrez
Kaitlynne Chandler
Oscar Garcia
Janine Fierro
Connor Austin
Jorge Macias
Cindy Morales
Bailey Roberts
Jesse Becerril
Alex Barriger
Austin Bond
Joseph Erskin
Nataly Granados
Fabian Ibarra
Luis Hernandez
Carlos Estrada-Perez
Spring 2016 Graduation Highlights at Wichita State University
Almost 1,900 students earned degrees at Wichita State University in spring 2016 with summa magna and cum laude honors. Local graduates include multiple area students from Garden City Lakin Satanta Scott City Ulysses and nearby counties earning bachelor masters and education nursing business and psychology degrees.
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Telegram
Washburn University
Topeka
Garden City
Matthew Becker
Bianca Garcia
Ricardo Leal
Logan Schultz
Scott City
Tomas Ellis
Nicole Walker
Damon Simmons
Tribune
Dustin Myers
Wichita State University
WSU
Deerfield
Duke M. Martinez
Cody S. Bernbeck
Amber C. DiNapoli
Matilda S. Hall
Lenna Kiem
Hanh T. Nguyen
Tyson L. Phillis
Michael D. Woods
Ulysses
Garrett D. Kissell
Jared D. Neidert
Addison Nichols
Evans Named to Carroll Dean's List
Jeremy Welch of Garden City was named to the spring 2016 dean's list at Carroll University in Waukesha Wisconsin. To qualify, students must hold a semester GPA of at least 3.5.
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Carroll Dean
Jeremy Welch
Garden City
Carroll University
Waukesha
Wis
Local Students Earn Honors at K State Graduation
More than 480 Kansas State University students earned graduation honors in May 2016. Names from Garden City, Holcomb, Ulysses, Cimarron, Montezuma, and Sublette include Victoria Guzman Magna Cum Laude, Deanna Milligan Cum Laude, and Ruth Bartel summa cum laude among others. Also over 1,400 students graduated from Butler Community College, with area graduates Alexandra J. Jones, Lacy McIntyre-Smith, Darian Anguiano-Wagher, and Nichole D. Everett listed.
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Kansas State University
Garden City
Victoria Guzman
Deanna Milligan
Jessica Nicholson
Kaydee Tran
Holcomb
Gabriela Armendariz
Chloe Pfeifer
Ulysses
Gabriela Chavez
Cimarron
Ruth Bartel
Montezuma
Brett Bullinger
Joshua Carrion
Butler Community College
Telegram
Alexandra J. Jones
Lakin
Lacy McIntyre-Smith
Satanta
Darian Anguiano-Wagher
Nichole D. Everett
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