Community foundation hosts nonprofit workshop and grants
The Western Kansas Community Foundation held an all day nonprofit seminar funded by the Kansas Health Foundation with more than 60 attendees from eight area communities. Nine area organizations received $500 mini grants, including Catholic Social Services and Garden City Community College Continuing Education. The foundation also announced its ninth annual fall grant awards ceremony for Oct. 11 at Plaza Inn, Garden City.
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Western Kansas Community Foundation
The
Kansas Health Foundation
Catholic Social Services
United Methodist Mexican-American Ministries
Greeley County Historical Society
Russell Child Development Center
Miles of Smiles
Lane County Library
Communities In Schools
Grant County
Garden City Community College
Continuing Education and Community Services
Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center
Plaza Inn
Garden City
the Foundation
Walk to School Week Celebrated by USD 457 in Garden City
Garden City USD 457 marks International Walk to School Week from Monday through Oct 7 with students parents and staff from Buffalo Jones Florence Wilson Georgia Matthews and Gertrude Walker elementary schools and Garden City High School taking part. Participants receive small prizes from the Garden City Recreation Commission and a chance at a larger prize via a drawing sponsored by the Partnership for a Walkable America. The effort promotes health safety physical activity and environmental concern. The Partnership leads national walking initiatives alongside UNC’s Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center in Chapel Hill.
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Buffalo Jones
Florence Wilson
Georgia Matthews
Gertrude Walker
Garden City High School
Garden City Recreation Commission
Partnership For A
University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center
Chapel Hill
N.C
Bus tour promotes TABOR amendment across Kansas
The American Dream Express visited Garden City to push the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights. About 30 to 35 residents heard supporters like Alan Cobb of Americans for Prosperity Foundation and lawmakers discuss limiting government growth and tax increases. Opponents warned TABOR could curb essential services.
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American Dream Express
Garden City
Stevens Park
Alan Cobb
Kansas
The
Americans For Prosperity Foundation
TABOR
the Express
Topeka
Manhattan
Russell, Hays
Colby
Sublette
Liberal
Dodge City
Great Bend
Larry Powell
Brenda Landwehr
Wichita
Tim Huelskamp
Fowler
Landwehr
House Appropriations Committee
Colorado
Troy Horton
Center For Independent Living Southwest
Schmidt Rules Out Governor Run to Focus on Family
Senate Majority Leader Derek Schmidt announced he would not enter the Kansas governor race, citing family duties as his two young daughters require his time. The Independence attorney, elected to the Senate in 2000, joins other prominent Republicans avoiding the contest while Kathleen Sebelius eyes a potential second term. In neighboring Johnson County, voters renewed a quarter cent sales tax to fund schools, with about 71 percent approval, guiding about 86.9 million over three years.
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Topeka
Senate
Derek Schmidt
Schmidt
Jennifer
Doug Mays
Robin Jennison
Healy
Dennis Hawver
Richard Rodewald
Lawrence
Olathe
Johnson County
Wyandotte County
Former Garden City resident on The Apprentice appears
Felisha Mason, once a Garden City resident and Abbott Gardens manager, is a contestant on NBC's The Apprentice Donald. She lived in Garden City from July 2003 to June 2004 and later sold the complex to Eric Meyer for Dalton Investments.
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Garden City
Felisha Mason
Donald
New York
Donald Trump
Trump
Mason
Gamino
Felisha
Trump Tower
Trump Organization
Carolyn Tayloe
Abbott Gardens
Judge allows evidence from Max Ary case to stand
Federal judge J Thomas Marten ruled the 2003 search of Max Ary s home legal and the warrant valid. Investigators from NASA FBI and the inspector general acted properly as Ary faces 19 counts including mail fraud and money laundering over alleged theft and sale of Cosmosphere artifacts. Ary has pleaded not guilty to claims of selling items for about 195000 dollars.
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Kansas City, Mo
Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center
J. Thomas Marten
Wichita
Max Ary
NASA
FBI
Office of Inspector General
Ary
Hutchinson Museum
State studies refinery option in southwest Kansas
Kansas Inc. released a June white paper proposing a southwest Kansas refinery to diversify the economy and tap potential oil from Texas Oklahoma panhandles and Colorado. Officials cite national demand and nearby transport savings while stressing continued research if interest grows.
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Topeka
HNS
U.S
Kansas Economic Development Agency
Kansas
Kansas Inc
Gulf
Stan Ahlerich
Texas
Oklahoma Panhandles
Colorado
Ed Cross
Kansas Independent Oil and Gas Association
Cross
Southwest
McPherson
Bush
Liberal
Ahlerich
Ablerich
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Garden City Community College Continuing Education and Community Services
GCCC
Orient Express
Jennifer Lisik
Arts Institute of Colorado
USD 457
Topas
Random Garden City
Horton
Harold Starr
Starr
Swingin
Marivel Leyva
Alondra Fuentes
Saleen Wears
Wiley Elementary School
Holcomb
Sarah Kessinger Kessinger
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