Walton Receives Kansas PRIDE Pacemaker Award
Gov. Robert Bennett presented Walton with the PRIDE Pacemaker Blue Ribbon Award at a Walton Grade School ceremony. Walton is the seventh Kansas town to earn the honor for leadership, planning and civic involvement with 300 attendees at the event.
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Walton
Kansas
Robert Bennett
Harvey County
Bennett
Bennett, Dunbar and Wilkins
Greg Gamer
Kard TV
Wichita
Richard Walker
72Nd
Tom Kline
John H. Sanders
Dean Davis
Newton
Hesston
McPherson
Oberlin
Wakefield
Russell
Alden
Burrton
Derby
Peabody
Herington
LaCrosse
Pittsburg
Revenue sharing hearing set for city budget funds
A 9:15 a.m. Wednesday City Commission meeting will hear plans to use 185000 of Revenue Sharing funds in the 1978 budget with public comment invited. The proposal redirects funds from police to fire department operations and includes other agenda items such as a fountain site lease, park development funds, library plans, and animal control ordinance amendments.
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Virginia Whitfield
Jay Newton
Newton
Santa Fe Railway Co
5Th and Main
Newton Public Library
Wichita
Newton City County
Sand Creek
Oak
Rolling Hills Drive
Sherman Circle
Rolling Hills
Trinity Court
Grandview Heights
SE 21St
SE 22Nd
Duncan
Quail Creek Estates
W. 3Rd
Grandview
Higland
Central
W. 5Th
Citizens Forum
City upgrades near complete at wastewater plant
City Engineer Charles E. Pankiewicz reports two new trickling filter arms are being installed at the disposal plant at Slate Creek and Sand Creek. EVE Inc. Hutchinson submits a 68 689 60 change order. EPA approved last July with delivery delays. An additional basin improvement change order is pending EPA grant approval to cover 75 percent.
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Charles E. Pankiewicz
Slate Creek
Sand Creek
EVE Inc
Hutchinson
Pankiewicz
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
K State team to compete in SCORE design for farm energy
Three Kansas State University engineering students travel to Richland Washington to join a national SCORE competition with 56 college entries. The team aims to design an energy system using ethanol from sorghum and a Savonius wind machine to supply about 20 kilowatt hours daily and meet a 2.5 kilowatt peak.
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Nancy Horst
Kansas State University
Richland
Wash
Bradley J. Krehbiel
O.B. Krehbiel
W. 24Th
North Newton
Krehbiel
Burns McDonnel
Kansas City
Kansas
Reginald Moore
Moore
Kstate
Score Foundation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kansas City Power and Light Company
Kstate College of Engineering
SCORE
Newton Youth Charged in Reported Incident Near Downtown
A 17-year-old Newton boy faces a juvenile petition after the girl identified him as her attacker in an incident that occurred the night of June 2 near downtown while she walked home. He had been on parole for burglary and is jailed awaiting court action.
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Newton
Wheat loan rate set for Harvey County farmers
The 1977 wheat loan rate for Harvey County farmers is established at 2.20 dollars per bushel, a one cent drop from 1976. Kansas counties including Sumner also set varying loan rates, with rates differing by county and underpinning farmers' harvest financing and storage plans. Newton will spray mosquitos again, weather permitting, per Howard Knox.
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Harvey County
ASCS
Kansas
Sumner
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John O. Dunbar
Cooperative Extension Service
Dunbar
America
Howard Wilkins
Kansas Economic Development Commission
Wilkins
KDED
Newton Boy
Howard Knox
Knox
Weather Data
Kjirg
Barom
Harvey County Recreation and Parks
Ken Schlup
Carol Holzrichter
Schlup
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