Old flags to be part of ceremony at Garden City
Garden City High School senior Carly Champlin plans a flag retirement ceremony as part of her Buff Project. Old flags can be dropped off through Oct 11 at Dillon Stores East, Knights of Columbus, Garden City High School, and American Legion Club with hours shown. Contact Champlin at 275-0709 for details.
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Carly Champlin
Champlin
GCHS
Dillon Stores
Kansas Ave
Knights of Columbus
Eighth St
Main St
Garden City Class of 78 to hold first meeting
The Garden City High School class of 1978 will hold its first informational meeting at 7 p.m. October 9 at Edith Scheuerman Elementary School. Organizers plan to discuss possible dates and activities for the upcoming 30th class reunion. Contact Patty Woods at 275-6300 or Tammy Lalicker Rieth at 272-1684.
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Garden City High School
Edith Scheuerman
Patty Woods
Tammy Lalicker Rieth
Clifford to serve on academy selection board
Congressman Moran reappointed Jean Clifford of Garden City to an 18 member First District Service Academy Selection Board. The board reviews applications for the U S service academies and conducts interviews. Clifford, a 27 year Air Force veteran and Air Force Reserve Colonel, and her husband William have six children. Interviews are Oct 6 at the Eisenhower Presidential Library in Abilene.
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Jerry Moran
Jean Clifford
Garden City
First District Service Academy Selection Board
U.S. Service Academies
U.S. Military Academy
U.S. Naval Academy
U.S. Air Force Academy
U.S. Merchant Marine Academy
Clifford
Air Force
Air Force Reserves
William Clifford
Selection Board
Moran
Eisenhower Presidential
Abilene
GCCC offers two Saturday GPS class in October
Garden City Community College will run a two Saturday GPS class October 20 and 27 from 8 a.m. to 4 30 p.m. in the Warren House Science Math Building. Instructor Terry Lee will teach locating points and facilities with GPS units. the course carries one college credit hour and 16 participants may enroll. Contact Terry Lee at 276-9553 or terry.lee geccks.edu.
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Garden City Community College
Warren House
Campus
GCCC
Terry Lee
Lee
Terry
Geccks
Edu
Kansas board drafts health coverage plan for children
Kansas Health Policy Authority board works on a plan requiring health coverage for children enrolled in schools and extending to young adults. The plan would expand subsidies, create a private market clearinghouse, and faces questions on who pays roughly 400 million dollars in added costs. The group plans to report by November 1 to guide the 2008 legislative session.
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Topeka
Kansas Health Policy Authority Board
Kansas
Agencies join up to help the disabled in southwest Kansas
Agencies such as United Cerebral Palsy of Kansas and the Center for Independent Living Southwest Kansas partner to assist disabled residents. The effort funds assistive devices like wheelchairs, posture seating clinics, and independent living support, aiding Finney County and surrounding southwest Kansas communities.
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Troy Horton
Horton
Center For Independent Living
Southwest Kansas
United Cerebral Palsy
United Cerebral Palsy of Kansas
UCPK
Ucp-K
Wichita
Dave Jones
United Way
Finney County
Finney
Kansas
Jones
Cerebral
the Timbers
Stacy Ritt
CIL
Garden City
E. Spruce
Ritt
Ing
Center
UCP
Southwest
Ucp.org
UCPE
Garden City native Jeff Deal becomes deputy fire chief
Garden City native Jeff Deal, born and raised there, returns home after a varied career. He trained in public administration, worked 12 years with Hutchinson Fire Department, and after a failed stint in Frisco Texas, rejoined Hutch then moved to Garden City to take the first full time deputy chief role, focusing on training and leadership. His daughters remain in Hutchinson as he eyes a long stay in Garden City.
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Jeff Deal
Deal
Garden City
Garden City High School
South Dakota
Kansas
Hutchinson Fire Department
Frisco
Texas
Hutch
Jeff
Shelton
Hutchinson
Anna Deal
Zoo welcomes rare addax calf at Lee Richardson Zoo
The Lee Richardson Zoo unveiled a baby addax in the African Plains yard on Saturday. Director Kathy Sexson notes the species is critically endangered with only 50 to 200 surviving, mostly in Niger. The calf weighs 17 pounds, mother arrived November 2006, father December, gestation about nine months. Addax are Sahara Desert natives adapted to extreme droughts and can go long periods without water.
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Lee Richardson Zoo
African Plains Yard
Kathy Sexson
Niger
Africa
Sexson
Sahara Desert
Addax
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