Oktoberfest Polka Party Draws Family Crowd
Lane joined the Oktoberfest fun with her mother Sara McKenna watching as polka rhythms moved the crowd. The festival began Friday with a beer tasting and dancing, continued Saturday with children’s games, German food, and live music from Garden City patrons Shirla Holmes and Catherine Overson enjoying the polka beat at long communal tables.
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Lane
Sara McKenna
McKenna
Shirla Holmes
Catherine Overson
Garden City
Holmes
Knoll
Tomsicek
Oktoberfest serves up hearty fare and last dual Friday-Saturday run
At the festival diners filled plates of beef and noodles bierocks piggies bratwurst kraut and wieners from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Volunteers planned to keep the event on Saturdays only after this year as organizers noted crowds enjoyed the food and music while preparations included five weeks for kraut and fresh bierocks.
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Travis Brunson
Knights of Columbus
Leann Simmons
Larned
Mark Jantz
Garden City
Simmons
Jantz
Garden City Community College
Brunson
Relatives recall deadly plane crash in 1955
Kansas City relatives remember the TWA Flight 260 crash near Albuquerque on February 19 1955 that killed 3 crew and 13 passengers. The article notes initial claims of intentional action, later reports by the Civil Aeronautics Board and Larry DeCelles who fought to clear the pilots names, and the eventual 1960 acknowledgment of unknown causes with mountains clouded during most of the flight.
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Kansas City
TWA
Spong
Jean Spong
Michael
DeCelles
Civil Aeronautics Board
Sandia
Rojas Balanced Life of Service in Garden City
Rojas volunteers as Red Cross Garden City board chairman and Dodge City HOG member while serving as state Patriot Guard captain and Finney County public works supervisor. He helps at High Plains Motorcycle Rally and supports his four children. He cites 9 11 and Spe Upchurch funeral as moments showing community response and insists he will keep helping as long as able.
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Garden City
The
Red Cross
Rojas
Dodge City Hog
Harley Owners Group
Patriot Guard
High Plains
Finney County Department of Public Works
Antonio
Community Health Center Board
Deb
United Flight 57
Washington, D.C
Los Angeles
Spe
Clint Upchurch
Samarra
Iraq
Westboro Baptist Church
Upchurch
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Wesley Beare
Marshall Allen Bailey
John Garcia
Edith Scheuerman
GCHS
Fulton House
Pleasant Valley School
Sterling T. Pe
Ehresman Packing Company
Finney County Museum
VISA
Mastercard
COX Communications P
Farmer's Market
Windsor
Ritmo Latino
Poppa the Clown
COX Communications
Garden City Downtown Vision,inc
N. Main
Keller Insurance, Inc
Keller Leopold Insurance
Susan Howell
Syracuse
Susan
Cimarron
N. Main Street
St. Catherine Hospital
Cardiopulmonary Dept
E. Spruce
American Lung Association
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