Ellsworth

Homecoming delayed after student’s death

Homecoming activities have been postponed at Ellsworth High School in central Kansas after the sudden death a homecoming queen candidate.

Sara Ann Goddard, 17, died Saturday of natural causes, according to the Rev. Dan Scheetz.

Scheetz said Goddard’s death was “sudden and quite unexpected, very shocking.”

Hutchinson

State Fair to increase price of admission by $1

State Fair attendees will have to pay $1 more for admission next year under the fiscal 2005 budget approved by Kansas State Fair board.

The increase is part of the $3.7 million in expenditures approved by the board Monday.

The budget, which takes effect July 1, 2004, includes an extra $200,000 in admissions revenues with the increase. Gate and advance tickets will be raised for senior citizens, adults and children. Adults will pay $5 in advance and $7 at the gate. For seniors, the price is raised to $4 in advance and $5 at the gate. Admission for children will be $3 in advance and $4 at the gate.

Wichita

Board delays vote on technical college

The Wichita school board said it needed time to obtain legal advice before acting on a plan that would start cutting the district’s ties to the Wichita Area Technical College.

A new state law requires the technical college and three others to separate from the school districts that run them.

The Kansas Board of Regents will begin overseeing the technical colleges by July 2005.