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Archives for November, 2011
Tweet Jerry Marquis’s neighbors have a tough act to live up to. The retired Kansas Gas Service employee loves working in his yard, and over time has acquired a whole shed full of pro-caliber equipment to help him along. Several times a week he’ll spend a couple hours out raking, blowing and bagging, so that [...]
Tweet Shawnee Mission East senior Hayley Hansford has signed a letter of intent to play volleyball for the Pittsburg State Gorillas next season. Hansford, a 5’10″ setter, finished her high school career as the Lancers’ all-time career assists leader. She helped power the Lancers to two conference titles and is a three time All-Sun selection. [...]
Tweet Janelle has a full time job. But as a single mother with three kids, both money and time with her children are tight. So for the past three months, Janelle has brought the family to Lutheran Church of the Resurrection at 91st Street and Mission Road every Saturday morning for breakfast. The free meal doesn’t [...]
Tweet Most Prairie Village residents will be spared the pain of a recent change to the Johnson County Landfill’s policy on yard waste. The landfill recently announced it won’t accept yard waste beginning next year. But the city’s current waste disposal contract stipulates that all yard waste be composted — meaning it wasn’t headed to the [...]
Tweet The Kansas City Star reports that Brian K. Pennington, 27, the handyman accused of trying to kill Prairie Village resident Marti Hill in September 2010, pleaded guilty to attempted first degree murder and aggravated burglary in a Johnson County courtroom Thursday. He will be sentenced Dec. 12. Hill spent weeks recovering from the attack, [...]
Tweet Turkey Day is coming, and many of us will be spending some serious hours in the kitchen this coming week. Our Thanksgiving is usually a little different due to the vegetarians in my family, as well as others who just don’t care for turkey. I’ve always tried to come up with some type of [...]
Tweet By Laura Herring, DeSoto Explorer The Kansas Sheriff’s Association named Johnson County Sheriff Frank Denning Sheriff of the Year for 2011 during a ceremony last Thursday, Nov. 10. Denning, who has been sheriff since 2004, was honored for his proactive attitude towards improving the criminal justice system, according to a press release regarding the [...]
Tweet A number of Mission residents and business owners voiced strong objections yesterday to the announcement that Walmart would be one of the anchor tenants of the Gateway development at Roe Avenue and Shawnee Mission Parkway. How do you feel about the announcement?
Tweet It’s cold outside, so we figured we’d better hunker down for this week’s puzzler. Anyone know where this is at?:
Tweet Following the recommendations of city staff, the Mission Hills city council on Monday decided not to pursue adding Rottweilers to the city’s dangerous dog ordinance. Pit Bulls, however, will remain banned in the city. Per the council’s instructions at its October meeting, the city’s administrative staff pulled data on dog bites in Prairie Village, [...]
Tweet Public grousing and private grumbling met the presentation Wednesday of plans to build a 150,000 square foot Walmart as part of the $200 million Gateway development on the site of the former Mission Center Mall. The Kansas City Star’s website lit up with comments lambasting the announcement, and several disappointed residents made their objections [...]
Tweet A partnership between the Prairie Village Municipal Foundation and Heartland Habitat for Humanity is helping revitalize two aging homes here. The Prairie Village Municipal Foundation donated $9,200 to a Habitat neighborhood revitalization initiative called “A Brush With Kindness,” and the funds are helping provide equipment for clean up efforts at two Prairie Village homes. [...]
Tweet SM East isn’t the only local school celebrating a state fall sports title. Kansas City Christian’s boys soccer team took home its fifth state championship in 11 years Nov. 5 with a victory over Lenexa’s St. James Academy at the 1-4A tournament in Winfield. Coach Allan Chugg, who is also KCC’s principal, said this [...]
Tweet Mission Mayor Laura McConwell sent a letter to residents Monday informing them that the company developing the site of the former Mission Center at Shawnee Mission Parkway and Roe Avenue had secured Walmart as one of its anchor tenants. “Its involvement is what now moves the project to the final approval and construction phase,” [...]
Tweet Mission Hills, Fairway and Westwood are the three brainiest small towns in Kansas, according to a new set of rankings by the Wichita Business Journal. The publication’s new brainpower index took data on 10,540 American communities with populations between 1,000 and 9,999, and ranked them based on the educational attainment of their citizenry. Mission [...]
Tweet So, we’re a little late getting the word out about this, but we’d been holding out for an exclusive interview with the hero of this story. Alas, we weren’t able to connect…but that isn’t going to stop us from giving a huge shout out to Corinth Elementary’s Madeline Stinson for winning the Kansas title [...]
Tweet Mayor Rick Boeshaar told the Mission Hills city council Monday that he’d received a wave of negative reaction to his committee’s work exploring to possibility of building new jogging trails — but that he remained convinced most of the city’s residents would appreciate the new amenity. The general tenor of the complaints, Boeshaar said, [...]
Tweet A Goodwill truck will be at Corinth Square from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in recognition of America Recycles Day. Radio station Q104 will be having a live remote broadcast from the shopping center, where Goodwill staff will be collecting donations. Suggested donations include: Clothing & linens Computers, printers, monitors, keyboards, etc. (any [...]
Tweet All good things, they say, must come to an end. So it was on Friday, when the Lancers’ loss to Olathe South in the second round of the state playoffs brought their season to a close. But as Coach Sherman said so often throughout the season, this year’s team was a young one — [...]
Tweet Nearly 200 runners came out to Liberty Memorial Sunday for the third annual Lung Hill Run, and event organized in honor of a non-smoking SM East graduate battling stage 4 lung cancer. Annabelle Buckner Allen was diagnosed with the disease in 2009 at the age of 32 while she was training for her first [...]
Tweet If you spent any time in the yard raking up leaves this weekend, you may have noticed that the bagging process was a little lighter than usual. So where are all the acorns? Indeed, we’ve had a few people write in inquiring about the lack of acorns falling from the oak trees this season. [...]
Tweet For the second year in a row, the Olathe South Falcons ended SM East’s football season when they beat the Lancers 55-42 Friday night. The Falcons, led by the running of Jordan Ward, scored three touchdowns before the Lancers got on the board for the first time. Ward scored five touchdowns for the Falcons. [...]
Tweet If you looked down the sidelines at an SM East football game this season, you’d likely have seen a few dozen Lancers in their pads and uniforms lined up a few feet behind the out-of-bounds line. And you’d have seen one of their teammates standing out in front of the crowd. He’d watch the [...]
Tweet I’ve always loved cooking during cold weather. On a dark, damp night there is really no place I would rather be than in front of the stove, listening to music and stirring a big pot of comfort food. And for some reason last week, that big pot absolutely HAD to contain beef stroganoff. Now, [...]
Tweet Belinder students and parents packed the school’s halls and classrooms Thursday for the second Health and Science fair. The event featured 39 interactive learning stations for kids — the most popular among them an inflatable planetarium that filled up a big chunk of the library: The first fair was held two years ago, and [...]
