Ground has officially broken on the Garden City Fire Department and Finney County EMS Station 3. A groundbreaking ceremony was held Tuesday for the facility to be located on the northwest corner of the Schulman Avenue and Jennie Barker Road intersection. Deb Oyler, Garden City Mayor, said the facility is the final project using the 2017 sales tax proceeds that voters of Finney County supported. “Today is not just a celebration of this new joint facility, but it’s a testament to the power of community support and collaboration,” she said. “This is a great opportunity to celebrate the partnerships between Garden City and the county, and we want to thank you all for taking this time to join us in celebrating this milestone.” Allen Shelton, former Garden City Fire Chief, said while this project was a part of the 2017 sales tax initiative, he’s been working on this for 27 years. It started as a project in 1996 between him and Bob Holloran, the former City Manager of Garden City, to build a third fire station on the east side of the city. “At that time, we were having a lot of fires in the mobile home parks on this side of the community, and we knew that we needed to have a fire station that was closer to improve our response time,” he said.
Source: Garden City Telegram
