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08/02/2025

WESTERN KANSAS’ FIRST SAFE HAVEN BABY BOX DEDICATED AT STATION 3

BY MEGHAN FLYNN
Garden City Telegram

No shame, no blame and no names.
That is what Monica Kelsey, founder and Executive Director of Safe Haven Baby Boxes, says Safe Haven Baby Boxes offer women who choose to surrender their children.
Safe Haven Baby Boxes is a a non-profit that seeks to prevent the illegal abandonment of newborns.
The Baby Boxes are in accordance with the state’s Safe haven Law, which allows parents to safely surrender their children anonymously if they are 60 days old or younger and show no signs of neglect or abuse at dedicated locations.
The locations include hospitals, fire stations, police stations, law enforcement centers, city/county health departments and baby boxes.
Kelsey said the Baby Boxes give women another option – an option to safely, legally, lovingly and anonymously surrender their infants if they can’t walk into the fire station and hand them over.
Garden City dedicated and blessed the first Safe Haven Baby Box in western Kansas on Wednesday at Fire Station 3.
The box is the third in the state of Kansas and number 361 in the nation, Kelsey said.
For more on this story, visit https://www.gctelegram.com/western-kansas-first-safe-haven-baby-box-dedicated-at-station-3/

08/02/2025

GC WIND OPENS POSTSEASON ON SATURDAY
Garden City Wind starting pitcher Zach Westbrook makes a pitch to a North Platte batter for a strike out July 21 during a game at Clint Lightner Field. The Wind will open postseason play on Saturday at home against North Platte, Neb., in a best of three-game series in the second round of the Pecos League’s Mountain North division playoffs. First pitch is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. BRAD NADING/GARDEN CITY TELEGRAM

08/02/2025

With the start of a new school year approaching, several new appointments have been made in leadership positions in USD 457.

08/02/2025

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08/02/2025

Neighborhoods throughout Garden City will celebrate National Night Out for the 42nd year on Aug. 5.

08/02/2025

MIDDLE SCHOOL IPAD CHECKOUT NEXT WEEK

Horace Good Middle School and Kenneth Henderson Middle School will hold checkout sessions from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Aug. 4 – 7 each day to issue iPads to students.
Students are encouraged to have all fees paid at the time of iPad checkout. Fee payments can be made at the school or online at: https://payments.efundsforschools.com/v3/districts/55837.
Students will also have an opportunity to get their student ID picture taken for the 2025-26 school year.
The first day of school for the 2025-26 school year will be Wednesday, Aug. 13, with a half-day orientation for students in grades kindergarten through fifth grade, seventh grade, ninth and tenth grades and all students new to Garden City Public Schools USD 457. The first full day of school for the district is Thursday, Aug. 14, when all classes will be in session for the start of the 2025-26 school year.
For any questions, call Horace Good Middle School at 620-805-8100 or Kenneth Henderson Middle School at 620-805-8500.
For more information about the start of the school year, go to www.gckschools.com.

08/02/2025

SAFE KIDS DAY
The Finney County Safe Kids organization held a Safe Kids Day July 30 at the GCFD/EMS Station 3. Children and families could get information from various organizations in Garden City as well as free fitted bicycle helmets and families could have car seats checked to see if they are installed properly.

08/02/2025

PREVENTION NIGHT AT THE POOL TO BE HELD SUNDAY

BY MEGHAN FLYNN
Garden City Telegram

Prevention Night at the Pool returns for a fourth year on Sunday.
LiveWell Finney County is set to host the annual, free, family-friendly event from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Garden Rapids on Aug. 3.
Beth Koksal, LiveWell Director of Community Health, said the event focuses on drug and alcohol prevention, community resources and local support services.
Originally, the event was a smoke-free and vape-free event as it was funded by a grant that dealt with to***co prevention, but once that funding ended they took it up with LiveWell’s Drug Free Communities Grant and broadened that prevention scope of it, Koksal said.
“[We felt] if we can get people to come to an event that’s family friendly, that they want to come to and give them some information that will help them, we’re more than happy to do that,” she said.
Getting information out about prevention is really important, not just to youth, but to parents, Koksal said.
“If we can get parents to talk to their kids and start talking to their kids early about the dangers of drug and alcohol use, we know that that is really what works,” she said. “A lot of times parents just really don’t have the information that they need to start those conversations, so, we’re hoping we can give them some of the tools they need that night to talk to their kids.”
The event will feature educational booths offering resources on drug and alcohol prevention; mental health, su***de and problem gambling awareness; and local programs and services for youth and families.
For more on this story, visit https://www.gctelegram.com/prevention-night-at-the-pool-to-be-held-sunday/

08/02/2025

GCHS TO HOLD IPAD CHECKOUT

Garden City High School will hold a number of checkout sessions to issue iPads to students returning for the upcoming school year. The checkout will be held outside the GCHS iPad Support Room, 2720 Buffalo Way Blvd.
Freshmen and new students will be able to get their iPads during the first week of school.
Students are encouraged to have all fees paid at the time of iPad checkout. Fee payments can be made online at: https://payments.efundsforschools.com/v3/districts/55837.
The checkout process may take up to 10 minutes. This year’s sophomores, juniors, and seniors may come during the following times: 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Aug. 4 – 7 on each day.
All Garden City High School students have the opportunity during these days to get their student ID picture taken for the 2025-26 school year.
Students that do not pick up the iPad during one of the scheduled times, will have it issued to them before or after school in the iPad Support Room.
For more on this story, visit https://www.gctelegram.com/gchs-to-hold-ipad-checkout-days/

08/02/2025

ZOO WELCOMES NEW GIBBON SPECIES TO WILD ASIA

Lee Richardson Zoo has welcomed a new species to its animal residents.
A female northern white-cheeked gibbon, Tangra, recently arrived from Lincoln Children’s Zoo thanks to a Species Survival Plan (SSP) recommendation through the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA). A male companion will join Tangra once the temperatures are appropriate for his travel.
White-cheeked gibbons are classified as lesser apes. Unlike the much bigger and bulkier great apes, gibbons are slender, diminutive, and more arboreal, and weigh on average under 20 pounds.
Gibbons have the longest arms in proportion to their legs of any primate. Their arms are about 1 ½ times as long as their legs, an adaptation that suits gibbons perfectly for their preferred form of locomotion, brachiation.
Gibbons move quickly and gracefully through the canopy of trees by swinging on the underside of branches, arm over arm. They typically live in male-female pairs with offspring, and pairs display a duetting call that helps them bond, locate one another, and advertise territory.
Northern white-cheeked gibbons are found primarily in the tropical and sub-tropical forests of Laos, and in some small pockets in Vietnam. Due to various human threats, the population has declined to fewer than 2,000 individuals worldwide. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classifies them as Critically Endangered.
Tangra is a very engaging gibbon who is fascinated and interested in people. She can be seen in her outdoor habitat in the zoo’s Wild Asia section.
Stop by Lee Richardson Zoo soon to see Tangra in her new home and learn more about the species, or contact the zoo at 620-276-1250.

08/02/2025

Signed 35 years ago this month, the ADA was the world’s first comprehensive civil rights law for people with disabilities — guaranteeing equal opportunity in public accommodations, employment, and more. But it likely wouldn’t have passed without the relentless pressure of grassroots activists ...

08/02/2025

Garden City Community College is set to launch a new Agriculture Technology course this fall.

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