Sebelius attends 41st Grant County Home Dinner in Kansas
Governor Kathleen Sebelius joined about 1,300 guests at the Grant County Civic Center for the 41st annual Grant County Home Products Dinner. She noted she has attended six of eight years as insurance commissioner and spoke of harvest, community, and volunteerism as Kansas celebrates together. The event drew residents from southwest Kansas and busloads of locals to a western Kansas Tuesday gathering.
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Ulysses
Grant County Home Products
Kansas
Kathleen Sebelius
Grant County
Sebelius
Western
Towns showcased at Grant County festival dinner
Area residents toured towns as representatives peddled communities at the Grant County Civic Center during the Sample Wild West Country Festival held with the Grant County Home Products Dinner. Officials touted tourism as an economic tool while Kansas Sampler Foundation leaders praised rural efforts to tell their stories.
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Grant County Civic Center
Grant County Home Products
Wings and Wheels
Syracuse
Beer Wings
Johnson
WenDee LaPlant
Finney County
Former choir director silent on theft charges in Finney County
Pamela C. O'Donnell, 48, Topeka, former Garden City High School choir director, pled not guilty or guilty remain silent as motions including dismissal are prepared. She allegedly embezzled about 8300 from the GCHS Modern Show Choir for a Caribbean Nassau cruise between December 2001 and March 2002. Trial set for December 8 to 11 with a November 10 pretrial. charges include forgery seven counts and three counts of misdemeanor theft.
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Garden City High School
Finney County
Ricklin Pierce
Pamela C. O’donnell
Pierce
O'Donnell
Topeka
Gchs Modern Show Choir
Nassau
Bahamas
O’donnell
Four-lane US 50 plan worries Holcomb resident
Kansas officials outlined a two added lanes plan from the US 83 junction to west of the IBP plant, arguing the existing route keeps maintenance down and IBP traffic toward Garden City. The plan would close IBP Road access and require local traffic changes, with residents like Jonell Friend fearing they may have to move again if approved.
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Jonell Friend
Kansas Department of Transportation
IBP
Garden City
Holcomb
USD 363
Skip Landis
Finney County
Cliff Mayo
W. US. Highway 50
Friend
Hospital donates room for sexual assault exams
Finney County SART unveils a new SANE SART room at St. Catherine Hospital to reduce trauma during forensic exams. The room relocation from the ER aims to ease child victims’ experience and assist detectives, with 52 reports of assaults on under 16s in Garden City and surrounding Finney County from mid 2002 to mid 2003.
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Lurita Patrick
Finney County
St. Catherine Hospital
SART
Garden City Police Department
Finney County Sheriff’s Office
Ashley Rich
Rich
Diana Schunn
Sane Nurses
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Sue Brown
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Kathy Hanks Hanks
Gctelegram
Marci Penner
Inman
Kansas Sampler Foundation
Penner
Greensri
Rhonda McKee
Greensburg
Brad Nading
Robert Frost
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