Fall Fest grows in second year downtown
Garden City hosts Fall Fest with 482 duck races led by Nasduck and prize to Paul Joseph of the Garden City Area Chamber of Commerce. Proceeds support Downtown Vision beautification while vendors sell crafts cookies and fundraisers. Local students from Garden City High School aim for a Europe trip with the Kansas Ambassadors of Music. events encourage community engagement and downtown commerce.
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Paul Joseph
Garden City Area Chamber of Commerce
Schmitz-Glass
Garden City
Europe
Kansas Ambassadors of Music
Jane Vanderhoff
GCHS
Kansas
England
France
Austria
Switzerland
Italy
Vanderhoff
Garden City Community College
Art Club
GCCC
Association of Black Collegians
Couple finds fit for debate and community at GCCC
Neighbors describe G.C. couple Moore and Rutter as a good match for the college forensics program. Moore replaces resigned director Mark Jarmer, coaching the debate team and teaching public speaking, interpersonal communications, and a women’s studies course next semester. Rutter, drawn to philosophy, taught public speaking at Ball State and a prison program, noting the community’s diversity and challenges like limited campus resources while adjusting to Garden City life.
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GCCC
Moore
Mark Jarmer
Rutter
Tute
Ball State
Garden City
Stevens Park
Democrats push pay limits and oversight for bailout plan
Democrats seek pay caps and loan aid with two year initative and an emergency oversight board. House action anticipated midweek as Bush warns against tying unrelated provisions to the rescue. Dodd proposes mortgage modification in bankruptcy and a systematic foreclosure prevention approach for loans held by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with Treasury monitoring. Group of Seven pledges help as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley convert to bank holding companies to gain deposit access and Fed loans. Congress and the administration push to pass relief swiftly with strong oversight and executive pay limits amid the crisis.
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Senate
U.S
Congress
Dodd
Treasury
Henry Paulson
Fannie Mae
Freddie Mac
Brookly McLaughlin
CBS
Today
Barney Frank
House Financial Services Panel
Paulson
Frank
D-Mass
ABC
Good Morning America
Group of Seven
United States
Goldman Sachs
Morgan Stanley
Fed
Bear Stearns
Federal Reserve
Ben Bernanke
Christopher Shays
R-Conn
John McCain
NBC
Main Street
Wall Street
Wind farms planned in Hamilton and Thomas counties
Acconia pilots two Kansas wind projects to generate 135 megawatts in Hamilton County with 200 temporary workers during construction 10 miles south of Coolidge. Thomas County would add 108 megawatts from 72 towers with nacelles from Acconia’s Iowa plant and construction slated for late 2008 into 2009.
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Schneider
Acconia
John Kennedy
Kennedy
Coolidge
Thomas County
West Branch
Iowa
Sunflower Electric
Thomas
Kansas
United States
Canada
Center For American Progress
Kansas Sierra Club
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