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Archives for April, 2012
Tweet Kansas City Christian community members and area residents got the art fair season off to a good start at the inaugural Art Event at KCC this past weekend. More than 600 people packed the opening night party Friday, with live music and gourmet eats drawing a crowd. Organizers say they were able to raise [...]
Tweet So…they maybe they didn’t set the World (Affairs Council) on fire (and, literally speaking, at least, that’s a good thing). But SM East’s Academic WorldQuest Team did put in a pretty solid showing at last weekend’s national competition in Washington D.C. Sponsor Brenda Fishman chaperoned juniors (above, from left, Andrew McWard, Jocelyn Worner, Anamika [...]
Tweet Belinder third graders on Friday wrapped up an Earth Day recycling project that will keep three tons of paper out of the landfill — and put it back into use within just two weeks. The project was part of the Belinder GIVES (Growth in Volunteer Experience for Students) program, which encourages kids to enhance [...]
Tweet Since the group started organizing in January, the Mission Valley Neighbors Association has held considerable sway over Prairie Village civic affairs. The group successfully lobbied to kill a proposed comprehensive planning process for the site that would have cost $80,000-$90,000. They also worked to elect new City Council members — helping bring about the largest [...]
Tweet Highlands Elementary second graders got a little extra fresh air this morning in recognition of Arbor Day. The students gathered at Peterson Park in Fairway where they took an Arbor Day-themed civics quiz administered by Mayor Jerry Wiley (Sample question: “Who is the mayor of Fairway?” Silence. One hand shoots up: “You are.” Good [...]
Tweet The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle reported Thursday that Congregation Kol Ami has put the building at Belinder Avenue and 75th Street that it’s occupied since 2005 up for sale. The listing price is $1.4 million. The president of the congregation, which has around 90 members, told the paper that its board of directors had [...]
Tweet I’m sure I don’t have to remind any of our readers that this week was Administrative Professionals Week. I look forward to this week all year. While I am not, in fact, an administrative professional, I get to reap the benefits. That’s because every April my colleague Leanne makes The World’s Greatest Cinnamon Rolls [...]
Tweet Two local women are hard at work prepping to open a new nail salon at the Fairway Shops this summer. Megan Thornberry, a Pembroke Hill graduate who lives in Brookside, and Molly Maxwell, a SM East graduate who lives in Mission Hills, plan to open HOOPLA in the space previously occupied by Matney Floral. [...]
Tweet Construction crews in Fairway are at work putting in a new section of sidewalk from the west side of the 5600 block of Mission Road south to the city limit at 63rd Street — and it serves as an interesting point of reference in the ongoing trails debate in Prairie Village. At five feet, [...]
Tweet For the first time in Where’s that at?’s illustrious history, we present a reader-submitted photo. And what a momentous one it is:
Tweet It may have been senior night — but a freshman was the one who made it memorable for the SM East lacrosse team Tuesday. First-year team member Nick Bailey scored the winning goal in a 9-8 victory over the Pembroke Hill Raiders. The junior varsity team walked away with a win, too, beating Pembroke 5-1. [...]
Tweet Four SM East graduates are among the 45 University of Kansas seniors inducted into this year’s class of Mortar Board honorees. Mortar Board is a senior honor society that selects members based on “distinguished ability and achievement in scholarship, leadership and service.” Outgoing chapter members select new members for admission. The average GPA of [...]
Tweet The Highlands Elementary community is in mourning this week at news of the passing of Debra Utterback, a cornerstone of the school who served as its kindergarten teacher for the past 24 years and had long ties to the Prairie Village area. She died Thursday, April 19, at the age of 58. Friends and [...]
Tweet Mission Hills officials say the city is close to reaching an agreement with the residents whose extensive landscaping project caused more than $35,000 worth of damage to city park property last year. Assistant city administrator Jennifer Lee said the city and the Brandmeyer family were in the process of coming to terms on a [...]
Tweet I know, I know. With the return to truly spring-like weather this past week, the thought of taking a dip in the pool is considerably more shiver-inducing than it was, say, in mid-March when the mercury was pushing 85 degrees. But don’t let that stop you from taking advantage of a pretty good deal [...]
Tweet Well, Villagers, through the magic of the Internet web machines, the progenitor of the prom proposal that had all the town abuzz last week saw our li’l story and filled us in on the deets (which, I’m told, is a cooler way to say “details”). Christopher Heady said he hatched the plan to ask [...]
Tweet Even at their young age, SM East students Emmy Hadley, 17, and Madeleine Heigele, 15, are no strangers to big audiences. They’ve performed on the stages of the Coterie, Theatre in the Park and Starlight in productions like the Sound of Music, Cinderella and Xanadu. But the chance to perform at the state-of-the-art Kauffman [...]
Tweet A Prairie Village-based tech startup that uses a web platform to connect meat eaters with local farmers is getting some major attention. AgLocal co-founders Naithan Jones and Jacob McDaniel are featured in the current issue of Fast Company magazine as one of six ventures that embody the “United States of Innovation.” Though it hasn’t [...]
Tweet Several readers last week alerted us to an elaborate prom proposal that used the street posts along Mission Road as a canvas. By the time we got over there to take pics, though, the wind had done away with a number of the signs — which ran at least from Somerset Drive all the [...]
Tweet Back for the its 11th year, the Prairie Village Earth Fair came to SM East Saturday, providing environmentally focused fun for young and old.
Tweet Four SM East students are heading to Washington, D.C., this weekend — and taking their big brains with them — for the national Academic WorldQuest global affairs knowledge competition. Andrew McWard, Hudson Peters, Anamika Ratri, and Jocelyn Worner earned a spot at nationals by beating out 15 teams and winning the Kansas City competition [...]
Tweet I’ve always had a love affair with boozy milkshakes. Along with reubens and huevos rancheros, it’s an item I absolutely must order when it’s on a menu. It reminds me of olden-timey days when life was more fun and people didn’t worry about little things like “health.” Of course, since you shouldn’t drink while [...]
Tweet Boulevard Brewery founder John McDonald can tell you a thing or two about beer. Like how 7,000 years ago the serendipitous mixture of seeds a hunter-gather had stored in a stone or wooden vessel, some rain water and some wild yeast yielded a beverage that gave drinkers something of a “religious experience.” Or like [...]
Tweet Prairie Village police on Thursday released surveillance video showing the vehicle that delivered the two men who tried to rob a DJ as he was leaving Indian Hill Country Club on Saturday. The video shows the vehicle, which appears to be a silver Honda CRV, entering the frame at 27 seconds. It quickly disappears, [...]
Tweet From gas consumption to recycling to carbon footprints, there are dozens of messages floating around these days about how to be a friend to the environment. This year, the organizers of the Prairie Village Earth Fair want to help people connect the dots. The 11th annual event returns to SM East this Saturday, and [...]
