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Barton County Community College has announced its 2008 graduates, who received their diplomas in commencement ceremonies in May.
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People passing through Barton Community College’s Fine Arts Building will see two contrasting types of digital photography if they pause to look in the fine arts display cases outside the Shafer Gallery. Great Bend photograph artists Marion Lightfoot and Dale Shaner are exhibiting their work in those cases.
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Barton Community College is announcing enrollment times for College Advantage courses for the fall 2008 semester. College Advantage classes give motivated high school juniors, seniors and gifted students an opportunity to show their commitment to earning a college degree and their ability to handle college course work.
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Kala Steffen has been named Barton Community College’s Workforce Development Training coordinator serving the training and educational needs of business and industry.
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Great Bend artists Rose Dudek and Karen Shaner are exhibiting their artwork in the display cases in Barton Community College’s Fine Arts Building Lobby until the end of June. Barton art instructor Steve Dudek selected the artists to exhibit their work as part of a series of student exhibits in the display cases.
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The Barton Community College Bookstore will be closed for inventory Thursday, Friday and Monday, June 26, 27 and 30. The bookstore will resume its regular hours beginning at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, July 1.
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Connie Wagner, Barton County Community College graphic designer, won an award of merit in the Central Indiana Artists Spring Art Show in Avon, Ind., for her colored pencil work of African violets titled “Enjoying the Sun.”
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Barton County Community College will offer a Certified Medication Aide Update in Russell to provide CMAs with continuing education and a review of medications and delivery styles.
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Barton County Community College will offer a Continuing Nursing Education seminar titled “Improving Attitudes and Succeeding as a Supervisor.” The class will meet from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday, July 14 and 15, in the college’s Fine Arts Building Seminar Room, F-30. Check-in will be at 8 a.m. July 14. Speaker is John Mulvaney.
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Students from the June 2007 Citizenship Classes at Barton County Community College’s Center for Adult Education received their citizenship in a naturalization ceremony May 2 at Century II in Wichita.
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Barton County Community College’s Center for Adult Education will recognize the 2007-2008 GED students who have passed the General Education Development test. The students will be honored in a graduation ceremony at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 8, in the college’s Fine Arts Auditorium.
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Barton County Community College will offer a basic computer workshop titled “Computer Necessities.” The class will meet from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. on Wednesdays, June 18 through July 16, at the Great Bend Workforce Center, 1025 Main.
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Barton County Community College’s Jumpstart Program is a residential summer program for students who plan to be incoming freshmen at Barton for fall 2008 and who need developmental coursework to help them to be on track to graduate and/or transfer after 2 years. The program will run from July 13 to Aug. 8. 
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Four hybrid courses will be offered on the Barton County Community College campus this summer featuring faculty from Barton’s Fort Riley campus. Hybrid courses offer a mix of face-to-face instruction with online work to give students the best of both worlds.
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5/29/08
Dealing with Loss Is Continuing Nursing Education Topic at Barton

Barton County Community College will offer a Continuing Nursing Education seminar titled “Dealing with Loss and Stress Busting.” The class will meet from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday, June 24 and 25, in the college’s Fine Arts Building Seminar Room, F-30. Check-in will be at 8 a.m. June 24. Speaker is Jenni Reling.
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Barton Community College is selecting a new official wordmark for use by all areas of the college and would like the public’s input.
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Four employees of Barton County Community College have been named recipients of NISOD Excellence Awards sponsored by the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development at the University of Texas, Austin.
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Mark A. Bruce has been promoted to major of the Support Services Section for the Kansas Highway Patrol. Bruce joined the patrol in June 1989. He has worked in the Research and Planning Section of general headquarters in Topeka, as lieutenant and captain of Emergency Operations and captain of homeland security.
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Barton County Community College has announced its 2007-08 Brant J. Ballhorst Student Ambassadors of the Year. Named in memory of Brant J. Ballhorst, the award recognizes two outstanding Student Ambassadors, Amber Tuttle, Gove, and Sarah Hubbell, Spearville. A ceremony honoring the recipients was held May 15 on the Barton campus.
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Barton County Community College honored 33 graduating nurses in a Nurses Pinning Ceremony May 15. In addition, students completing Barton’s practical nursing program received LPN pins and certificates. Participating in the ceremony were Barton’s director of nursing education Linda Gobin, MSN, RN, and Barton President Dr. Carl Heilman.
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The Barton County Community College Foundation named Danny and Darlene Biggs recipients of the 2008 Distinguished Service Award at Barton’s 38th Commencement on May 15 in the college gymnasium.
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5/15/08
Barton BML Program Offers Business Law I in Summer Session

Barton County Community College’s Business Management and Leadership accelerated degree program will offer Business Law I beginning June 10.
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5/15/08
Barton County Community College Begins Summer Office Hours

Barton County Community College will begin its summer office hours on Monday, May 19. College offices will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays and from 7:30 to 11:30 a.m. on Fridays through Aug. 8.
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Barton County Community College named Medical Lab Technician instructor Kathy Heidrick as 2008 Distinguished Instructor at Barton’s 38th commencement ceremony May 15.
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Barton County Community College English instructor Ruth Moritz, Great Bend, received a first-place prize from the Academy of American Poets for her poem titled “Poacher.” The academy is a national organization that supports American poets at all stages of their careers.
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5/9/08
Outstanding Graduates to Address Barton’s 38th Commencement

Barton County Community College’s 2008 Outstanding Graduates will give keynote speeches for the college’s 38th commencement set for 7 p.m. Thursday, May 15, in the college gymnasium. Jonathan Pike, Great Bend, and David Krier, Claflin, have been chosen as this year’s Outstanding Graduates.
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The Barton County Community College Speech and Debate Program completed its winning season April 6 placing first among community colleges in the Lincoln Douglas Open Championship at Washburn University in Topeka. This was the first year for the LDOC, which is a self-sustaining division of the National Forensics Association.
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Barton County Community College will honor graduating nurses with a Nurses Pinning Ceremony at 2 p.m. Thursday, May 15, in the college’s Fine Arts Auditorium.
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5/9/08
Barton Offers Activity Director/Social Service Designee Course

Barton County Community College will offer an Activity Director/Social Service Designee course beginning June 6 at the Great Bend Workforce Center, 1025 Main.
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Barton County Community College will offer fall 2008 high school freshmen, sophomores and juniors an opportunity to explore non-traditional careers in June.
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Barton County Community College will present its final student recital of the spring semester at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 8, in Dorothy Moses Morrison Chapel, located in the college’s Fine Arts Building, F-157. Admission is free.
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Barton County Community College’s Center for Adult Education will offer classes titled Citizenship: Passing the New Test.
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Barton County Community College’s Dance Theatre will present its spring concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 10, in the college’s Fine Arts Auditorium. Admission to the concert is free.
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4/29/08
New Phi Theta Kappa Members Initiated in Candlelight Ceremony

Barton County Community College’s Phi Psi chapter of Phi Theta Kappa national honor fraternity initiated new members in a candle lighting ceremony Sunday afternoon, April 27, in the college's Fine Arts Building Seminar Room, F-30.
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Barton County Community College instrumental music groups will present their annual spring concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 6, in the college’s Fine Arts Auditorium. Admission is free.
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Barton County Community College has announced enrollment times for its summer 2008 outreach courses. The college’s summer outreach bulletin of classes lists all on-campus and outreach courses. Class bulletins are available at area libraries, high schools and businesses.  
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4/24/08
Barton Offers Medication Aide Update

Barton County Community College will offer a Certified Medication Aide Update to provide CMAs with continuing education and a review of medications and delivery styles.
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Barton County Community College’s Midwest Utility and Pipeline Training Center will offer Gas Leak Detection Training for utility and pipeline workers May 13-15 at the training center, located in the southwest corner of Barton’s campus.
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Barton County Community College’s cheer squad and dance team were among teams from 209 colleges competing in the NCA/NDA Collegiate National Championships April 9-13 in Daytona Beach, Fla. There were 122 cheer teams and 87 dance teams.
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The Higher Learning Commission has extended Barton County Community College’s accreditation to include distance delivery of degrees and certificates in both transfer and workforce training programs, its Board of Trustees was told at its April board meeting.
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Steve Dudek received a second place award in the 34th Annual Prairie Art Exhibition at the Sterling College Art Gallery, for one of his watercolors titled “Fish Jars.” He also is exhibiting two additional paintings including one from a sports action photograph.
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The Barton County Community College Foundation is aiming for success with a new fund-raiser – a Sporting Clay Shoot on April 20 at LaSada Sporting Clays and Hunting Service near Russell. This event will raise funds for mini grants for Barton’s faculty to enhance their students’ learning.
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Barton County Community College’s Agriculture Program hosted FFA members from six high school chapters for the 19th annual FFA South Central District Ag Sales and Service Contest March 31. High schools participating included Great Bend, Ellinwood, Stafford, Centre, South Barber and South Haven.
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“Making a Difference Every Day” is the theme for the 18th annual Clara Barton Colloquium offered by Barton County Community College.
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Barton County Community College students on a Campus Christian Fellowship ministry team spent their spring break in New Orleans helping with ongoing rebuilding projects three years after the Hurricane Katrina disaster.
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Breaking traditions in choosing a career has advantages. Women in careers traditionally chosen by men can receive as much as 25 percent more in salary than they would in a traditional career. Both women and men who choose non-traditional careers can base their jobs on abilities and interests, not gender stereotypes, and they have a greater chance of having a career they enjoy and greater flexibility in meeting family needs.
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The Barton County Community College Music Department will present a student recital at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 10, in the Shafer Gallery, located in the Fine Arts Building. The gallery will extend its hours to include 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday for viewing the BCCC Juried Technical Arts Exhibit currently on display.
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Exploring agricultural careers is the focus of the Youth Agriculture Careers and Technology Seminar to be held during the 54th annual 3i Show May 8-10 at the Great Bend Expo Complex. The seminar is set for 9 to 11:30 a.m. Thursday, May 8, beginning with registration and concluding with a complimentary lunch. 
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Barton County Community College’s Midwest Utility and Pipeline Training Center will offer a workshop called “Disinfection Through Chlorination” April 22 and 23 at the training center, located in the southwest corner of Barton’s campus. The course is for water operators of Public Water Supply Systems and will present information and technical assistance to municipal and industrial potable water operators.
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Barton County Community College forensics students competed in the International Public Debate Association Championship March 28-30 in Baytown, Texas. More than 100 tournament competitors representing 16 schools and 11 states participated in the event.
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Barton County Community College forensics students traveled to Pensacola, Fla., March 21-24 to compete in the 26th Annual Novice Nationals Championship. The tournament included 260 competitors representing 39 schools and 23 states for the national championship honoring the best first-year competitors in the country.
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Dr. Dorothy Crum, voice professor at Wichita State University, will be the guest clinician for Barton County Community College’s annual Vocal Masterclass set for Saturday, March 29, in the Dorothy Moses Morrison Chapel, located in Room F-157 of Barton’s Fine Arts Building.
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Parnassus Club conducted its annual voice and piano auditions March 8 at Barton County Community College. Participating in the auditions were 30 area high school students.
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Barton County Community College will offer “A Way With Word,” a basic introduction to computers and Microsoft Word. The class will meet from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. on Wednesdays, April 9 through May 7, at the Great Bend Workforce Center, 1025 Main.
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Barton County Community College’s Silver Cougar Club members can get fit with the help of a trained instructor by enrolling in a Fit for Life class at the college’s Thelma Faye Harms Wellness Center.
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Meredith Willson’s “The Music Man” topped the lists of all three people making the selection for Barton County Community College’s spring musical. “It seems it was meant to be,” said the musical’s director and choreographer Amanda Gawith.
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Barton County Community College will use a mixture of art and science to present “An Evening of Heavenly Stories” set for 7 p.m. Saturday, March 29, in the college’s planetarium.
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Barton County Community College recently recognized four employees with the Pride Award, given to employees who have demonstrated outstanding effort, going beyond the expected standards of their jobs to contribute significantly to creating and supporting a center of academic excellence at Barton.
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Barton County Community College will offer a Continuing Nursing Education seminar on pain management. The class will meet from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 16, in the college’s Fine Arts Building Seminar Room, F-30. Check-in will be at 8 a.m. Speaker is Melanie Simpson.
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Barton County Community College will offer a Certified Medication Aide Update in Ellsworth to provide CMAs with continuing education and a review of medications and delivery styles.
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3/14/08
Barton’s Child Education Fair Casts Vote for Kids

Barton County Community College’s Child Education Fair set for April 5 continues its goal of meeting the needs of child care providers with its election-year theme, “Vote for Kids.”
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Ellinwood art student Dayna Ball won Best of Show among two-dimensional works for her pencil drawing titled “Cornerstone Obedience” in the Barton County Community College Shafer Gallery juried exhibition featuring the art of Barton County high school students. Cody Waite, also from Ellinwood High School, won Best of Show in the three-dimensional division for a ceramic piece titled “Sleepy Hollow.”
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Barton County Community College art instructor Steve Dudek was awarded third place in the 41st Annual Wichita Garden Show at Century II for his watercolor painting of an iris behind a chain link fence. The subject of the painting was located in an iris bed near Veterans Lake in Great Bend.
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Four hybrid courses will be offered on the Barton County Community College campus featuring faculty from Barton’s Fort Riley campus. Hybrid courses offer a mix of face-to-face instruction with online work to give students the best of both worlds.
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English for Speakers of Other Languages students from Barton County Community College’s Center for Adult Education joined several other Barton students to attend “Your Day at the Capitol” in Topeka recently. The trip was a joint effort of the Kansas African American Affairs Commission and the Kansas Hispanic and Latino Affairs Commission.
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The Barton County Community College Foundation will ask community members to “Step Up to the Plate in 2008” in its annual Academic Enrichment Fund Campaign to raise money for academic scholarships. Launched March 1, the AEF Campaign is being conducted by direct mail throughout the month of March.
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Barton County Community College’s Shafer Gallery will host the Barton County High School Juried Art Exhibition March 2 through 14. The student artists will be recognized for their work with a reception from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday (March 2) at the gallery. Ribbons will be awarded for first, second and third place, and honorable mention.
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Barton County Community College awarded dance line scholarships for 2007-2008 to students selected by Barton’s head dance line coach Amanda Schnoebelen.
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Barton County Community College’s Shafer Gallery will host the Barton County High School Juried Art Exhibition March 2 through 14. The student artists will be recognized for their work with a reception from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday (March 2) at the gallery. Ribbons will be awarded for first, second and third place, and honorable mention.
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Barton County Community College’s Forensics Program hosted and competed in the Kansas Speech and Debate State Championships Feb. 15-16. A total of 85 tournament competitors representing 10 Kansas colleges came to Barton’s campus to participate in the event.

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Great Bend High School senior Nakita Fischer, a member of the Argonne All-Stars dance team, has signed a letter to dance on Barton County Community College’s Cougar Danz Force for the 2008-09 academic year. She has accepted a dance line scholarship, which includes tuition and books. Scholarship recipients are selected by Barton’s head dance line coach Amanda Schnoebelen.
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The ad runs plenty of times during televised college sporting events and literally dozens of times each March during the NCAA basketball tournament. Focusing on the high percentage of NCAA student-athletes who go on to become doctors, biologists, business leaders and such, the commercial notes that nearly all of them “will be going pro in something other than sports.”
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Barton County Community College will offer a digital photography workshop from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, March 3-14, in Barton’s Technical Building, T-103.
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Barton County Community College will offer a Continuing Nursing Education seminar titled “Mental Disorders Across the Lifespan.” The class will meet from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 13, in the college’s Fine Arts Building Seminar Room, F-30. Check-in will be at 8 a.m. Speaker is Kathleen Barrett.
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Barton County Community College’s Midwest Utility and Pipeline Training Center will offer a workshop on Waste Stabilization Ponds for utility and pipeline workers March 12 and 13 at the training center, located in the southwest corner of Barton’s campus.
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Area high school musicians will have the privilege of performing with the U.S. Navy Band for one John Philip Sousa march when the band performs Feb. 25 in Barton County Community College’s Fine Arts Auditorium. The concert is sponsored by the Great Bend Tribune and the college.
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The Barton County Community College Center for Adult Education will begin citizenship classes in Macksville on Monday, Feb. 18. The class will meet from 7 to 9 p.m. Enrollment will be at 6:30 p.m. For more information, contact Doris Reile, 620-786-7565 or 791-7314.
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Barton County Community College will offer a computer workshop on the basics of Microsoft Excel and Access. Classes will meet from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. on Wednesdays, Feb. 20 through April 1, at the Great Bend Workforce Center, 1025 Main. Instructor will be Kay Boyd.
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The Barton County Community College Speech and Debate program placed first overall in Community College Sweepstakes in the Border Wars Invitational Tournament Feb. 1-3 at Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina. A total of 165 competitors representing 18 colleges and universities participated in the event.
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Barton County Community College awarded cheerleading scholarships for 2007-2008 to students selected by the Barton cheerleading and dance line coach.
The following students, listed by hometown, were selected for cheerleading scholarships for this academic year:
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A Sporting Clay Shoot at LaSada Sporting Clays and Hunting Service near Russell will help the Barton County Community College Foundation fund mini grants for Barton’s faculty to enhance their students’ learning.
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Two Barton County Community College students will join other Kansas community college scholars Feb. 14 in Topeka to be honored for their scholastic achievement. Barton sophomores Elizabeth Davis, Ellinwood, and Jon Pike, Great Bend, will be among 46 community college students honored at an awards luncheon recognizing them as members of the All-Kansas Academic Team.
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1/30/08
U.S. Navy Band to Perform Concert in Barton’s Fine Arts Auditorium

The U.S. Navy Band from Washington, D.C., will present a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 25, in the Barton County Community College Fine Arts Auditorium.

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The Barton County Community College Speech and Debate program resumed its competitive season Jan. 15-16, traveling to St. Louis, Mo., to participate in the Gorlok Gala Invitational held on the Webster University campus.
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Barton County Community College will offer the Continuing Nursing Education seminar titled “Medical Errors/Documentation.” The class will meet from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 22, in the college’s Fine Arts Building Seminar Room, F-30. Check-in will be at 8 a.m. Speaker will be Terry Siek.
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Students and parents can meet one-on-one with financial aid advisers at the freeCollege Goal Sunday event from 2 to 4 p.m. Feb. 10 at the Front Door, 1615 10th Street. They will receive help filling out the required Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), the first step in applying for federal aid. All postsecondary schools accept the FAFSA.
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Barton County Community College Director of Instrumental Music Activities Steven Lueth has announced spring rehearsals for the community orchestra. String players in the community are encouraged to join the orchestra.
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Barton County Community College will be closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Monday, Jan. 21. Barton's Center for Adult Education and the Shafer Gallery also will be closed.
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1/16/08
Jan. 16 Basketball Games Postponed to Thursday, Jan. 17

The Jan. 16 basketball games against Garden City have been postponed until Thursday, Jan. 17. Game times remain 6 p.m. for the women's game and 8 p.m. for the men's game.
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Barton County Community College will offer a Certified Nurse Aide course in Larned. The class will meet from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays every other weekend, Feb. 2-March 30, at Larned Health Care and Living Center, 1114 W. 11th, Larned. Check-in will be at 7 a.m. Feb. 2. Instructor is Cindy Zink.
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Navajo artist R.C. Gorman’s most successful and best-received works have been his studies of Navajo women, portrayed as archetypes of nurturing “earth mothers.” Barton County Community College’s Shafer Gallery will exhibit many of these works and others from the R.C. Gorman Sagebrush Inn Collection. The exhibit will open Sunday, Jan. 20, with a reception from 1 to 3 p.m.
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The Barton County Community College Music and Drama Departments have begun their search to fill the cast of their 23rd spring musical, “The Music Man.”
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The 2008 Lee Turner Lectureship at Barton County Community College will deal with the safety and protection of law enforcement officers as they face shooters or terrorists. Officers may attend the seminar either Jan. 23 or 24.
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Smoky Hills Public Television has set Jan. 19 as the rescheduled date for taping Barton County Community College vocal and instrumental music groups at St. John Lutheran Church in Russell. Taping of the Christmas concert on the original December date was canceled because of snow and ice.
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Barton County Community College will offer the Continuing Nursing Education seminar, “Spanish for Nurses.”
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Barton County Community College’s Silver Cougar Club members can get fit with the help of a trained instructor by enrolling in a Fit for Life class at the college’s Thelma Faye Harms Wellness Center.
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Barton County Community College is inviting aspiring local writers to submit their original manuscripts, plays or short stories for an original playwright competition.
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The Kansas Department of Commerce has awarded more than $235,000 in Workforce Solutions Funds to Barton County Community College to help the institution increase its capacity to train incumbent natural gas industry workers, officials announced today.
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The Barton County Community College Speech and Debate program continued its season Dec. 1, competing in the Cameron Christmas Classic on the Cameron University campus in Lawton, Okla. A total of 90 tournament competitors from 21 schools participated in the event. Some of Barton’s opponents in the competition were Texas Tech, Kansas Wesleyan University, Oklahoma University and the U.S. Air Force Academy.
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12/04/07
Nursing Donors Honored With Appreciation Luncheon

Barton County Community College’s Nursing Education Department hosted a Nursing Donor Appreciation Luncheon Dec. 4 to honor the agencies who contributed funds to match a $38,280 grant awarded to Barton by the Kansas Board of Regents.
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