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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 2002
Page
3
The Southwest Arts and Humanities Council opens The ArtsCENTER on Main at 318 N. Main St Saturday from 9 30 a m to 5 p m. The Kansas Clay Connections exhibit will be shown with refreshments all day. Regular hours are 10 a m to 5 30 p m Tue Fri and 10 a m to 3 p m Saturday with 1 30 to 3 30 p m Sunday.
The Garden City High School Band Boosters meet at 7 p.m. Monday in the GCHS band room to discuss supporting the school band program.
Registration for the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test begins Monday and runs through October 4. High school juniors register in the counselor's office, paying $10 due at registration. The test, from 11:56 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., October 14 at First United Methodist Church, 1106 N Main, serves as practice for the SAT and is part of the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.
Garden City Police Department will set up a sobriety checkpoint Saturday between 12:15 a.m. and 2:15 a.m. East bound traffic in the 1700 block of East Fulton Street will be diverted for sobriety and curfew checks. Officers will search for underage drinking and open containers.
Barton County Community College will start charging freshmen from outside Kansas more than Kansas residents next fall. The move follows a 1999 policy granting in-state tuition to out-of-state students to boost enrollment, said President Weldon Law. He cited limited effect and potential state-aid losses amid economic difficulties.
Ten students and a teacher from Valley Center High School depart for a 37 hour journey to Kazakhstan. They will spend about three and a half weeks with host families, attending school six days a week and keeping up with academic work.
Pleasantly cooler weather is forecast in Kansas through the weekend with no rain expected. Highs range from the lower 80s in the west to the mid-70s in the east on Friday, with overnight lows from the mid to upper 40s in the west to the mid-50s in the southeast.
Garden City police probe check fraud involving Garden City High School dance team members. Checks totaling up to 3000 dollars were altered after being issued to a Dodge City business for dance shoes. The incident occurred between June 1 and August 20, with no suspect identified.
A federal judge approved Birch Telecom Incs reorganization plan under Chapter 11, saying the move will not affect the Garden City office or local customers. The plan cuts bank debt in half to about 100 million, gives lenders 80 percent of equity, swaps bondholders debt for 20 percent, and reshapes the board with new shareholders while preserving most employees.
Reno Harvey and McPherson counties pressed lawmakers to restore tax rolls on nonprofit independent living units for the elderly. Hearings showed broad support for ending exemptions amid estimated losses of 2.5 million dollars statewide. Critics argued tax should apply equally to all, while nonprofit spokesmen said proceeds fund health care and assisted living. Lawmakers will revisit in October.
John Miller, 96, of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., has logged over 39,000 flight hours. He flew solo to Wichita in 1969 for the American Bonanza Society convention. As a student he saw Lindbergh’s Spirit of St Louis takeoff in 1927 and slept in a hotel lobby to watch Lucky Lindy.
Judge John Anderson III announced testimony on three murder charges against John E. Robinson Sr. will begin Sept 30, with opening statements possibly that day. The lengthy jury selection has screened about 600 of 1,200 potential jurors from 30 states and Canada, as the case nears a four to six week trial.
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