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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 2002
Page
1
Makenzie Meschberger and Raef Meinhardt play in the back yard of Raef’s grandparents. The siblings enjoy a sunny afternoon with simple games and imaginative play.
In Wichita at a Rotary Club debate Republican Tim Shallenburger and Democrat Kathleen Sebelius urged making illegal immigrants legal promptly. Shallenburger favored open borders and easy paths to legality, while Sebelius stressed integration and tax contributions, noting barriers like license rules. The race for Kansas governor and a related education board controversy followed.
A Wichita Eagle and KWCH-TV poll shows Kathleen Sebelius leading Tim Shallenburger by 17 points among 680 Kansans likely to vote in the November election. Sebelius 55 percent to 38 percent, with a 3.9 percent margin of error and 3 percent undecided.
A Hugoton man Horace Buck Bell 56 and Rhonda Wesley 46 were killed in a single car rollover west of Hugoton on Road P about 4 50 p m Monday. The Ford Thunderbird rolled three fourths of a mile from the roadway. Bell wore a seat belt Wesley did not. Accident cause is undetermined. Obituary notices appear on Page A2.
Kansas hearings at Deerfield seek whether Sunflower Electric Power can obtain 5200 acre feet of water for a second Holcomb coal plant. Landowners oppose claiming senior rights and aquifer impairment. Sunflower outlines cost and plan, with Detroit Edison as investor.
Ward's Garden Center owner Mike Ward notes 27 years in the field and a booming local market as drought eases. In southwest Kansas gardeners invest in yards while shoppers drive miles for nursery stock, with careful watering and deep roots emphasized by designers Fred Palmblade of Wharton's for Every Bloomin' Thing.
The USD 457 school board cut planned raises for district classified personnel by half and apologized for not doing more. The decision follows previous August actions granting a $1 per hour increase, tied to college credit levels, with further details on page A5.
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