Garden City man electrocuted at work in Wichita transfer
A Garden City man, Juan Herrera, 34, was electrocuted at Midwest PMS on 985 N. Anderson Road while cleaning a tanker at 2:10 p.m. Monday. He was knocked by 7,200 volts from overhead lines, treated at St. Catherine Hospital and later moved to Via Christi Burn Unit in Wichita. Midwest PMS produces cattle feed supplements shipped by train.
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Garden City
Wichita
Finney County Sheriff's Office
Midwest
Anderson Road
Juan Herrera
Mike Warren
Sheriff’s Office
Herrera
Warren
St. Catherine Hospital
Via Christi Regional Medical Center
Midwest Pms
Free Child Screening Clinic Set for Friday
Garden City USD 457 offers a free screening for children ages 3 to 5 at Trinity Lutheran Church 1010 Fleming St. Trained staff assess hearing vision motor skills communication and thinking in about 90 minutes. Parents may schedule via the Early Childhood Department at 276 5149. If an appointment is missed call 271 8847.
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Garden City
Trinity Lutheran Church
Fleming St
Word Fundamentals computer class at Garden City CC
Word Fundamentals a short term computer class runs six sessions from September 20 to 29 on Tuesdays and Thursdays 6 30 to 8 30 p m at Garden City Community College in the GCCC Business and Industry Institute The hands on workshop teaches creating editing and printing documents with a fee of 119 per person Registration and information are at 275 3279 or at bi geccks.edu
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Garden City Community College
Gccc Business and Industry Institute
B&i
Geccks.edu
State board mulls opt-in sex ed policy for Kansas
The Kansas State Board of Education discusses requiring a signed home note before sex education in public schools. Conservatives push an opt-in standard, arguing parents should control their children’s education, while others warn of reduced class participation and administrative burdens. Five of ten board members face re-election next year.
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Topeka
State Board of Education
Con
Steve Abrams
Arkansas City
Sue Gamble
Abrams
Gamble
Terrace Garden hosts appreciation lunch for emergency crews
Terrace Garden Care Center at 2308 N Third St hosted a Sept 11 commemoration lunch for 61 emergency personnel from Garden City Police, Fire, Finney County EMS and the sheriff. Residents, including 90 year old Methvyn Sheehy and 93 year old Waneta Puckett, mingled with responders as meals of barbecue pork sandwiches, fries, veggie trays and fruit were served amid songs and piano by local residents.
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Garden City
Mike Milligan
Kelly Burgardt
Terrace Garden Care Center
Third St
Finney County
Methvyn Sheehy
the Center
N. Third St
Kathy Brown
Finney County Ems
Terrace Garden
Brown
Sheehy
Garden
Waneta Puckett
Puckett
Mike Radke
Radke
Dorothy Hawkins
Holli Ayala
Aaron Wheeler
Catholic Social Service offers neutral pregnancy counseling in Kansas
Amy Falcon explains that Catholic Social Service provides nondirective pregnancy counseling across 22 southwest Kansas counties from Dodge City, helping women weigh adoption or parenting options. The service is free, funded in part by a $6,000 United Way grant for 2006, and open to non Catholics, with broader programs in adoption and foster care.
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Falcon
Catholic Social Service
Catholic Social ‘Service
Dodge City
Garden City
Kansas ‘Counties
United Way
Heidi Meerkatz
Meerkatz
Catholic Social
The
American Red Cross
Big Brothers Big Sisters
Finney County
Spirit of the Plains Court
Girl Scouts of Tumbleweed Council
Kansas Children’s Service League
Meals On Wheels
United Methodist Mexican-American Ministries
Russell Child Development Center
Salvation Army
Santa Fe Trail Boy Scouts of America
Amy Falcon
CSS
Board deadlocks on renewal of Career Learning System plan
Holcomb USD 363 Board declines to renew its part in the Finney County Career Learning System Center of Excellence citing low student enrollment. No motion was made to approve the yearly renewal, with seven Holcomb students ever enrolled in the program. The district will keep investing idle funds and approved a 4 percent raise for district administrators.
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Holcomb Usd 363
Board of Education
Finney County Career Learning System
Holcomb
Garden City Usd 457
Garden City Community College
Holcomb School Board
Holcomb High School
Mike Pfeifer
Bill Biermann
Center of Excellence
Biermann
Linda Holmquist
Skip Landis
Steve Johnson
Phil Keidel
Landis
Security Savings Bank
First National Bank of Holcomb
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