Garden City High earns 2012 National Blue Ribbon status
Garden City High School is named a 2012 National Blue Ribbon School along with six Kansas schools and 269 nationwide. USD 457 superintendent Rick Atha praises the achievement, saying it places the school among the nation’s top high schools and reflects pride for the community.
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Garden City High School
Kansas
Rick Atha
USD 457
U.S. Department of Education
Atha
Five KBI Most Wanted Faces In Finney County Warrants
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation lists five local cases on its most wanted list with active warrants in Finney County. The five are Sam Eugene Helfferich Antonio Palacios Eric Rocha Pedro Sanchez and Bessie Sanchez. Lt. Mike Schap of the Finney County Sheriff Warrants Division notes the cases are very old with unknown whereabouts and the warrants issued long ago.
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Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Finney County
Sam Eugene Helfferich
Antonio Palacios
Eric Rocha
Pedro Sanchez
Bessie Sanchez
Mike Schap
Sheriffs Office
Schap
Calvillo crowned Fiesta Queen at Garden City pageant
Klarissa Calvillo, 17, was named 2012 Fiesta Queen at Garden City Community College’s Pauline Joyce Fine Arts Auditorium. The scholarship pageant, now in its eighth year, kicks off Garden City’s 86th Community Mexican Fiesta. Calvillo and runners up Madison Witzke and Lizbeth Pena delivered talents and responses to judges’ questions as audience members cheered. Calvillo earns a $1,000 scholarship. first runner up receives $500 and second runner up $250.
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Klarissa Calvillo
Gabriela Armendariz
Garden City Community College
Pauline Joyce
Gram, Calvillo
Garden City
Madison Witzke
Holcomb High School
Lizbeth Pena
GCCC
Calvillo
Beyonce Knowles
Christopher Cruz
RSVP helps seniors share love of reading at Florence Wilson
Retired nurse Marsha Valentine, 68, volunteers at Florence Wilson Elementary to check in and shelve books and assist the librarian. She uses her time to encourage reading among students and introduces them to authors like Nancy Drew, reflecting RSVP volunteers in Finney County United Way funding for 21 agencies in 2013.
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Florence Wilson
Valentine
RSVP
Finney County United Way
Finney County
Florence Wilson Elementary
Kansas
Nancy
Drew
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