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Archives for August, 2011
Tweet Prairie Village: Prepare yourself for a political coup and a takeover of our major infrastructure. Tomorrow at 2 p.m., the city will be officially renamed Lancer Village. And our main thoroughfare will be overrun by marching teenagers and floats. Indeed, it’s time for the annual Lancer Day Parade! The parade, which will make its [...]
Tweet Prairie Village City Councilman Michael Kelly recently returned from his third trip to Prairie Village’s Sister City, Dolyna, Ukraine, and sent along this article about the experience: In Dolyna, Ukraine, an American is a rare sight. Especially two Americans. My friend, business associate, and fellow Prairie Village resident Michael Long accompanied me to visit [...]
Tweet A two-goal season-opening outing earned SM East graduate and current Park University junior Dana Hemmingsen Player of the Week honors from the American Midwest Conference. Hemmingsen’s standout performance came against Benedictine University on Saturday iin Springfield, Ill. The Park Pirates won the game 6-0. “It’s a great honor for Dana to earn the AMC’s [...]
Tweet Dr. Lillian Pardo, a Mission Hills resident and a professor emeritus in pediatrics and neurology at the University of Kansas Medical Center, has been named one of the 100 most influential Filipina women in the United States. The Filipino Women’s Network will honor Pardo and 99 others at its eighth annual Filipina Leadership Summit [...]
Tweet Homestead Country Club has opened up two new courts that might strike people used to traditional tennis as a bit odd. The platform tennis courts are about a quarter the size of traditional courts, surrounded by a 12-foot high fence, and raised off the ground. The sport of platform tennis was created to give [...]
Tweet Kids looking forward to a big Labor Day weekend at the pool aren’t the only victims of the precautionary measures to stop cryptosporidium infection at Johnson County pools. Cuddly canines will feel the effects of the anti-crypto crusade as well. Prairie Village has been forced to cancel its inaugural Paws in the Pool event, [...]
Tweet If you were hoping to head to the pool one last time this season, we’ve got some bad news. Prairie Village and Fairway are closing their pools earlier than scheduled this year in response to concerns over the spread of cryptosporidium. The decision was made Monday after several of the municipalities in the superpass [...]
Tweet Given the brutality of the past few months’ weather, I’m not sure how many people will lament the approach of the traditional close of summer: Labor Day weekend. But it’s still an opportunity for a final hurrah before fall, with its shortening days and cooling weather, sets in. So how are you spending this [...]
Tweet Frankly, we were starting to get a little worried about this year’s block party contest. It had been a full month since we’d gotten an invite to witness neighborly fun. But a bright crowd from 70th Terrace turned our frown upside down with a thoroughly enjoyable setup Saturday night. Organizers Andy and Lauren Wymore [...]
Tweet Everything in moderation, the old saying goes. Especially moderation. But in a state where a single party controls all three houses of government and a broad swath of local elected offices, even temperate subscribers to the theory of moderation can find themselves wanting. And they could find themselves wanting even more if a group [...]
Tweet Okay, readers: prepare for a little bit of the ick factor. Johnson County has recommended that all public pools throughout the area close and superchlorinate their water as a precaution against Cryptosporidiosis. The county’s environmental department has implicated 11 swimming pools in the county in the transmission of the disease, which is spread through [...]
Tweet I can’t say I am a huge fan of eggplant – I think it’s a textural thing. I sometimes roast slices of it and stick it in a sandwich (with prosciutto and mozzarella), and once in a while I’ll make a garlicky Baba ghanoush dip, but usually I just stay away. But the other [...]
Tweet Listen up, hops heads, because tomorrow night offers a rare opportunity: drinking beer and helping a good cause. Johnny’s Tavern is hosting its second “Jazz Tavern Tasting” event to benefit the Prairie Village Jazz Festival (which, if you’re keeping track at home, is a mere two weeks away). For $10 at the door, you [...]
Tweet The walking wounded among Prairie Village’s weekend warriors have a new place to get some TLC. Active Health Solutions, a two-doctor chiropractic clinic, opened its doors at 89th Street and Roe Avenue earlier this month. Thomas Cotter and Jeff Remsburg were chiropractor college classmates in Davenport, Iowa, and decided they wanted to go into [...]
Tweet So, the last few of these have just been way, way too easy, it turns out. We’ve attempted to dial it up a notch this week — but are prepared to be blown away by someone guessing correctly within a precious few minutes of the quiz going live. Still, we think this one is [...]
Tweet The dusty streets of Iraq and the gritty realities of human trafficking are a world away from peaceful Prairie Village. But they were a powerful chapter in the life story of an Olathe man scheduled to speak at Colonial Church this Sunday. As an Army Reservist in Baghdad, Lt. Col. Ted Lockwood served as [...]
Tweet Renovation Sensation, the popular homes tour benefiting SM East’s SHARE student volunteer program, is back. Four recently renovated homes will be open to the public Wednesday, Sept. 14 from 10 a.m.-7 p.m. A patrons party will be held the night before. Tour tickets cost $20 each, or $25 the day of the tour, and [...]
Tweet A Prairie Village man’s love of country music — and dog treats — has him on a short list to meet country music star Trace Adkins. Drew Fenton wrote a song for Waggin’ Train’s Tail Waggin’ Jingle Contest catchy enough to land him on the 20-person semi-finalist list. Based on nationwide voting open through [...]
Tweet FBI officers are searching for a man who robbed the U.S. Bank location at the Village Shops Tuesday afternoon — dressed as a woman. Security camera footage shows a man in what appears to be a shoulder-length curly-haired wig at the teller’s station around 1:45 p.m. Tuesday. The FBI says the man did not show [...]
Tweet Amanda Jessee’s fifth-grade students at Westwood View are now officially being taught by the best American History teacher in the state. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History named Jessee 2011’s Kansas History Teacher of the Year earlier this summer, a distinction that automatically made her eligible for the National History Teacher of the [...]
Tweet The scene at 63rd Street driving north on Roe Ave. Sunday was telling: a sign proudly letting motorists they were entering Fairway, designated Tree City USA for 12 years running, hung from a single screw, the victim of the sustained 60 mile per hour winds that inflicted tens of thousands of dollars worth of [...]
Tweet LANE4 has submitted plans to the Prairie Village Planning Commission for major renovations to the facade of Corinth Square’s main building — plans that would fulfill the first of the company’s obligations under the Community Improvement District approved by the city last year. The renovations would likely coincide at least in part with the [...]
Tweet It’s pretty hard to get excited about what the Chiefs have done in pre-season so far — but hopes are sky high for the local team playing a couple of rungs lower on the competition scale. The SME Lancers will take to the gridiron for the first time this season next Thursday, Sept. 1. That’s, [...]
Tweet Corinth Square owner LANE4 has submitted a proposal to the city of Prairie Village to sell off the parcel of the shopping center where the former Bank of America building stands. The proposal would require approval by the city’s Planning Commission at its next meeting, Tuesday, September 6. LANE4 senior vice president Jeff Berg [...]
Tweet Prairie Village and Fairway residents ended up spending plenty of time in the lawn this weekend. They just didn’t get to work on the projects they probably had planned. Two days after the first of consecutive powerful storms hit the area, nearly 300 area residents were still without power. Stop lights along Roe Avenue [...]
