Reserved football tickets go on sale

Renewal notices for Great Bend High School Panther season football tickets will be mailed Aug 1.
To retain your seats for the 2009-10 season, please complete and return the card with your payment to the GBHS activities office, 2027 Morton Street, prior to Aug. 21. 
Any tickets that are not renewed will be made available to the general public beginning Sept. 1. Those tickets may be purchased on a first-come, first-served basis in the activities office at the high school. 
The first home game for the Panthers is Sept. 18.

7/28/09

Panther card fund raiser begins

Great Bend High School Panther card sales will begin July 31.
High school student athletes will be canvassing the community on that date to raise funds for the athletic department. This is the only fundraiser for the department and the profit from the sales is used to provide items that would not otherwise be available due to budget limitations. 
If you have not been contacted in the past and are interested in purchasing a card, you may call the activities office by calling 793-1560. The Panther card is valid at participating businesses from Aug. 1 through July 31, 2010.
 The cards sell for $10 each and you must present the card at the sponsoring businesses to receive their promotional items/discounts.

Proposed school budget maintains mill levy

            Good news in bad times is hard to come by, but good planning by the USD 428 school board will greatly reduce the impact of tough economic times on local school patrons. The local mill levy will remain nearly constant from last year, according to the proposed 2009-2010 school-year budget.
            “It’s been a long-standing goal of the school board to leave the mill levy flat with no big surprises for taxpayers from year to year,” said Dan Brungardt, USD 428 director of business. “In good years, money is placed in reserves; in bad years, the savings is available for use.”

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7/28/09

While teachers may eye the summer break with the same enthusiasm as their students, for many it’s an opportunity to change roles and become students themselves.

Through many USD 428 offerings during the summer, teachers become the students as they compile the necessary hours to remain certified by the state board of education.

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7/28/09

NASA computers find new life in local schools

Shawn Williams, Great Bend High School class of 1987, hasn’t forgotten where he came from or his alma mater. And he’s encouraging others to follow his lead.
            Williams, information technology manager at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, helped USD 428 secure 40 used computers, valued at about $20,000, for use at the high school and middle school. He is in charge of the National Aeronautic and Space Administration’s donation program.

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7/29/09

Business students take fourth at nationals

They knew it played well locally and at the state level, so the trio took their My Town show on the road and learned their efforts were well received on the national level, too.
The team of Tory Arnberger, Devan Boeger, and Emily Goad, Great Bend High School Future Business Leaders of America members, brought home fourth-place honors from a recent national leadership conference in Anaheim, Calif.

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7/29/09

Stang competes at national speech, debate tournament

Shawn Williams, Great Bend High School class of 1987, hasn’t forgotten where he came from or his alma mater. And he’s encouraging others to follow his lead.
            Williams, information technology manager at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, helped USD 428 secure 40 used computers, valued at about $20,000, for use at the high school and middle school. He is in charge of the National Aeronautic and Space Administration’s donation program.

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