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Tweet So, we’ve been to a few block parties by this point. We’ve seen the good. And we’ve seen the awesome. But I’m not sure we’ve seen a program as solid from top to bottom as Indian Fields’ shindig Sunday evening. For starters, there was live music. Like, good live music, from the Ernest James [...]
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 And, we’re off. The Second Annual Great Prairie Villagian Block Party Contest got off to a hot start Saturday as the neighborly neighbors of 72nd Terrace braved the oppressive weather in the name of good times: They definitely get bonus points for high turnout in the unreasonably high temperatures — and a couple of gold [...]
Tweet Last year, we put out a bold call. A call for neighborly merriment. A call for community spirit. A call for light in an often dark world. A call for the first annual Great Prairie Villagian Block Party Contest. And this year, the call is renewed. Here’s how this works: You let us know [...]
Tweet We had just about closed the books on block parties for 2010 when we got a surprising, if very welcome, message from a Prairie Villager last week. It turns out that if it’s Halloween weekend, it’s block party time on El Monte Street. At first, I didn’t know what to make of things. I [...]
Tweet Oh, man. What a summer. It seems like just moments ago that we were typing away a post encouraging people to invite us out to their block parties. And here we are three months later with a notepad full of block party memories. Best beverage selection – 73rd Terrace. They had something called chocolate [...]
Tweet School has started. The leaves are beginning to change. The pool is closed for the season. Another summer is nearly behind us, and with it ends the inaugural Great Prairie Villagian Block Party Contest. Luckily, we went out with a major bang and not a whimper thanks to the good people of 72nd Street. [...]
Tweet Well, we’re kind of at a loss for what to do here. Technically, the Corinth Hills picnic and pool party held at Harmon Park last night wasn’t a block party. I mean, no block was partitioned off, and an entire homes association was involved. But you did have a whole bunch of people getting [...]
Tweet Much like the weather, the competition just keeps heating up. The good people of Pawnee Street put on their seventh annual neighborhood get together this weekend — a soiree bound to score high marks in a number of our judging categories. The unofficial theme seemed to be: water. There was the presence of the [...]
Tweet Some pleasant Prairie Villagians from 72nd Terrace were kind enough to pass along a few shots from their block party on Saturday (which I, unfortunately, didn’t get to in time…bad blogger). An olden-timey car and a moonwalk? I think that earns high marks for the block party organizers. Good work, 72nd Terrace.
Tweet Obviously we won’t be naming our final winners in the “Great Prairie Villagian Block Party Contest” until the block party season has come to an end. But I did want to report on some preliminary findings from this weekend — namely that the block parties were strong…to quite strong. The people of 73rd Terrace, [...]
Tweet We’ll be honest: we’ve been a bit underwhelmed by the response to the announcement of our “Great Prairie Villagian Block Party Contest.” In fact, applications for inclusion in the judging have been approximately eleventy-million percent below what we’d hoped. In that we’ve received none. So. To jump start things we’re going to go ahead [...]
Tweet This summer, Mayor Ron Shaffer is beseeching residents to ask not what Prairie Village can do for them, but what they can do for Prairie Village. His suggestion? Hang out more with your neighbors. In his column in the city’s newsletter, Shaffer writes that he “challenge(s) Prairie Village residents to make the most of [...]
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