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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 2005
Page
1
Garden City commissioners voted to advertise for bids to install water slides at the Big Pool funded by a $500,000 bond. They explored installation options including a separate slide area to keep slides open longer than the main pool.
Garden City commissioners moved to keep discussions with employees on the new Fire Department Improvement Team private. The decision followed questions about whether the meetings must be open to the public after nine members were appointed at the August 23 session.
Multiple businesses and banks in Garden City list donation points for Hurricane Katrina relief benefiting the American Red Cross. Western State Bank funds aid for shelter residents, while Salvation Army drive runs at Commercial Federal Bank and others. Call 275-8500 or 800-475-8600 to add your group.
In New Orleans authorities mobilize 25 000 body bags as toxic floodwaters raise death toll fears. Soldiers with M 16s guard neighborhoods while police chief Eddie Compass and Coast Guard Vice Admiral Thad Allen urge residents to evacuate. Federal response expands with block by block door to door outreach.
Kansas officials say Smithfield Foods unit Smithfield Beef Group will not locate a new plant in Kansas despite earlier talk. Garden City officials reported Smithfield remains eyeing two sites out of state, with water use regulations cited as a key factor. Grant County officials confirmed Kansas is out of the running for the possible plant.
Local officials await federal word on sheltering up to 250 Katrina evacuees in Garden City. Red Cross managers along with Finney County emergency services plan a month long shelter at the Exhibition Building with hundreds of cots and a volunteer bank from St Catherine Hospital Area Mental Health and other agencies to cover health care security and counseling needs.
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