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Laurie Sisk/Telegram From the left: United Way representative Mary Guy-Eves and Target volunteers Staci Wedermyer and April Kramer try to flag dowmn motorists for donations for the United Way near Kansas Avenue and Center street on Friday afternoon. The United Way is currently about $150,000 short of their goal for the year.

United Way at about 80 percent of its goal

By SHAJIA AHMAD

sahmad@gctelegram.com

As the end of their annual fundraiser looms ahead, United Way campaigners have raised just more than 80 percent of their 2010 goal.

Reaching the peak, however, is going to take an extra push, they said.

Several Finney County United Way volunteers tried to give the campaign that extra nudge as they rallied along Kansas Avenue near C ...

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Police looking to make PACT

By RACHAEL GRAY

rgray@gctelegram.com

In an effort to make neighborhoods and the city safer, the Garden City Police Department is doing away with Neighborhood Watch and instead switching to Police and Citizens Together, or PACT.

At Tuesday's Garden City Commission meeting, Police Chief James Hawkins talked about the change and explained to the council that Neighborhood Watch ha ...

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Tornado leads team of TV storm chasers through area

By MONICA SPRINGER

mspringer@gctelegram.com

The storm that they were chasing looked promising, a storm chaser and videographer for Storm Chasers, a television show that airs on the Discovery Channel, said of a storm that eventually "turned into a beast."

Chris Chittick and a team of meteorologists were chasing a storm on June 15 that led them through Johnson City, he said. The ...

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Promising wrestling season starts with high intensity

By JASON ELMQUIST

jelmquist@gctelegram.com

Just because school got out early on Friday didn't mean things were going to go lightly for the Garden City High School wrestling team. It was the last day of the first week of practice -- and only two more weeks before the Buffs open at the Amarillo (Texas) Team Duals on Dec. 4-5.

"It's been a really good week of practice, so far," G ...

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Busters come up short; GCCC women fall by 14

By The Telegram

The Garden City Community College men's and women's basketball teams found themselves on the long road for the weekend and the traveling and visiting gyms treated the two teams in much the same manner Friday night.

GCCC's men fell to Laramie, Wyo. Community College, 65-63, in the opening night of the Laramie Classic, while the Lady Busters traveled to Enid, Okla. fo ...

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