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TSnews GARDEN PLAIN – At its meeting on July 5, the Garden Plain City Council hired the Kirkham Michael engineering firm to start the planning process for a sewage lagoon system that will replace its current sewer plant.

Following is next week’s menus for Friendship Meals and Meals on Wheels in both Sedgwick County and Sumner County. A change was made recently, and there are now different menus for Sedgwick County and Sumner County.

Staff Report TSnews ARGONIA – The Argonia City Council approved spending $15,198 for a new computer with integrated controls for the city water plant. The previous computer quit running.

Argonia Thursday AHS/AJHS football camp, 7 a.m. Cheney Thursday Sedgwick County Fair Kids Club, 9 a.m.; Water Aerobics, 6 p.m.; Tae Kwon Do, 7 p.m., Cheney Rec.

Davis Williams of Haysville won Saturday's Run to Cheney 5K race at the Sedgwick County Fair. Williams’ time was 18:01.4. He also placed second in the 1-mile race. Amy Driskill from Haysville was 8th overall and 4th among women in the 8-mile race from Garden Plain to Cheney.

SALINA – An accident at a construction site in Salina has led to $333,949 in proposed fines for a Cheney contractor. The fines were assessed following a January trench collapse that trapped two workers.

The new $650,000 high school now under construction here is beginning to take shape. Good weather has been an aid to the workmen and the crew is ten working days ahead of schedule.

CHENEY – The Cheney Municipal Pool will remain closed until next week. A pump went out on Friday and the pool has been closed since then.

From July 1913 Duncan’s Auto Garage was entered between 12:30 and 2 p.m. last Sunday and robbed of about $22, which was taken from the cash register.

Staff report TSnews Lake Afton, located in southwest Sedgwick County near Goddard, continues to be on the Kansas Department of Health and Environment blue-green algae warning list. It was moved to the warning list from the watch list on June 22.