GCCC Homecoming Week Full Of Activities And Events
Garden City Community College outlines a packed homecoming schedule from Wednesday through Saturday. Events include a Broacbuster volleyball match against Barton County CC, a staff vs student game, a campus bonfire with pep rally and music, a Friday softball game, a campus parade, a public cook-out, sand volleyball, a tailgate and hamburger fry, a football game with homecoming king and queen crowning, and a late night dance.
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Interpreter workshops offered by Smart Start of Southwest Kansas
Smart Start of Southwest Kansas announces two free interpreter workshops to improve communication with interpreters. One Voice: Working Actively With Interpreter runs Sept 27 from 11 45 a m to 1 p m in Dreams Achieved Conference Room 219 N Seventh St. Lunch provided. Sharing Your Voice: A Workshop for Interpreters runs Sept 26 9 a m to 4 p m at Dreams Achieved Conference Room with a second session Sept 28 at Liberal Memorial Library 519 N Kansas Liberal. Registration via 275-1510 or (866) 550-1510.
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Gas tax buffer proposal sparks praise and worry on border
The Kansas Joint Tax Committee heard testimony on a buffer zone 3000 feet inside borders linked to neighboring states gas taxes. Supporters say it could curb cross border purchases while opponents warn of millions in lost revenue and impacts on the highway fund.
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Tom Palace
Petroleum Markets and Convenience Store Association
Community Mexican Fiesta Queen crowned in Garden City
Carmen Baeza, 20, won the 2006 Community Mexican Fiesta Queen title at Clifford Hope Auditorium with a $500 scholarship. First runner up Elizabeth Trevino received $300, second Rita Perez $200, while Andrea Lira and Blanca Vasquez placed third and fourth. Baeza plans to study nursing at GCCC and represent community values. The ceremony featured talents and a final on stage question, with judges including Garden City police Chief James Hawkins and FBI agent John Morales. The coronation precedes the Fiesta parade and downtown Garden City festivities tomorrow.
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Elizabeth Trevino
Clifford Hope Auditoriu
Garden City High School
Baeza
Clifford Hope Auditorium
Garden City Community College
Blanca Vasquez
Garden City
James Hawkins
FBI
John Morales
Delores Mesa-Lopez
Lydia Wray
Hawkins
Mesa-Lopez
Kansas
Gabe Gallardo
Riddles
Stevens Park
Book drive aims to place books in children's homes
The Kansas Children's Service League partners with Garden City churches and businesses to collect books for Head Start and Early Head Start children. Last year the drive yielded about 1000 books, with parents selecting titles at monthly events. Drop-off sites include churches, clinics, and auto groups across Garden City.
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Lisa Russell
KCSL
Service League
Garden City
Russell
League
National
Head Start Association
Attorneys for districts call open records suit harassment
In Butler County Court the Schools for Fair Funding team asks to punish The Topeka Capital-Journal for seeking details of its public funds backed legal expenses. The paper’s attorney dismisses claims of bad faith as false. The group, funded by 19 districts, pushed a 1999 lawsuit prompting a Kansas Supreme Court ruling and an $831 million phased aid increase starting 2005-06.
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Topeka Capital-Journal
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Topeka
Kansas
Kansas Supreme Court
City school board meeting set for Monday night
USD 457 schedules a board meeting for 7 p.m. Monday in the Board Meeting Room at the Educational Support Center located at 1205 Fleming Street in Garden City. The session will cover district matters and potential agenda items.
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Board to hear about personnel goals and programs
The USD 457 Board of Education will hear reports on Jennie Wilson Elementary activities and progress toward personnel targets. Darren Dennis will address updating job descriptions and substitute teacher strategies, plus an after school program with Garden City Family YMCA and a $6627.36 Linweld bid for two gas extractors for the welding program.
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Per Darren Dennis
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YMCA
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Linweld, Hays
Career and Technical Education Department
Finney County names Mark Low as new county appraiser
Finney County announces the hiring of Mark Low as its county appraiser to replace Alan Roop who resigned. Low, long time Meade County appraiser since 1986, brings extensive southwest Kansas oil and gas experience and is a registered Kansas mass appraiser. He has led professional groups and served as president of the Kansas County Appraisers Association and the Kansas Association of Mappers in prior years.
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Meade County
Kansas
Pete Olson
Kansas Department of Revenue
Kansas Association of Mappers
Kansas County Appraisers Association
Alan Roop
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