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Tweet The state senator and four state representatives for northeast Johnson County head back to Topeka this week for the so-called veto session where a state budget and tax plan will be the main agenda items. Saturday they explained to their constituents the events and bills that often put them in a minority voting ‘no’ [...]
Tweet There has been a lot of talk in northeast Johnson County lately about gun laws at both the city and state levels. But there has been comparatively little talk about another major part of the gun debate: the effect of gun violence. Village Presbyterian Church is hoping to change that with a community event [...]
Tweet Are Kansas schools suffering from lowered standards despite sufficient funding or performing at exceptional levels in the face of fewer dollars available for the classroom? Depends on whose point of view and whose data you believe. A full house of nearly 200 packed the basement at Colonial Church for the second of MainStream Coalition’s [...]
Tweet Rev. Gayla Rapp put ashes on the foreheads of morning commuters in the parking lot of Asbury United Methodist Church as part of the church’s first-ever drive-thru Ash Wednesday services. Colonial Church offered drive-thru Ash Wednesday blessings as well.
Tweet Party tonight — it is Mardi Gras after all — but tomorrow is for repentance. And you can get the proper start to your 47-days of Lent without even getting out of your car at two Prairie Village churches. Colonial Church in Prairie Village will offer an “Ash Wednesday Drive-By” in the circle drive [...]
Tweet St. Ann Catholic School will undergo a classroom expansion this summer. The building project will add eight new classrooms to the school, which serves students from kindergarten through eighth grade. Principal Becky Akright said the construction will allow space for an additional kindergarten classroom and move the current kindergarten class closer to the primary [...]
Tweet This Christmas Eve will mark the birth of a new church community in Prairie Village. And if its leaders are successful in their mission, that community will give birth to new churches of its own. REACH Church Alliance will assume occupancy of the building at 75th Street and Belinder Avenue that was most recently [...]
Tweet The congregation of Southminster Presbyterian Church in Prairie Village on Thursday put the final touches on this year’s presentation of “Journey to Bethlehem,” its annual interactive telling of the Christmas story. Churchmembers practiced their roles as key characters in the story, from King Herrod to the innkeeper to Mary and Joseph. The popular annual [...]
Tweet In a mere two weeks, the god forsaken death march wonderful expression of our democracy that is the 2012 presidential campaign will be over. And, as you may have heard, the fate of the Affordable Care Act passed by congress in 2010 (and deemed constitutional by the Supreme Court this summer) may hinge on [...]
Tweet The Festival of Faiths, a metro-wide interfaith undertaking born in northeast Johnson County, opens its 2012 run tonight with the highly-praised play “The Hindu and the Cowboy” at the Plaza Library in Kansas City. The play, written by Fairway resident Donna Ziegenhorn, tells the story of Kansas City area residents of different faiths and [...]
Tweet A full sanctuary at Southminster Presbyterian Church Monday evening joined the voices in the choir to celebrate Hymnfest, a concert featuring widely-known and loved music from the hymnal. The hymn festival marked the opening of the 75th anniversary year of the Kansas City Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.The performance featured the Bells [...]
Tweet Old Mission United Methodist Church in Fairway will celebrate its 70th anniversary later this month and has just welcomed its 10th senior pastor to serve the church over that long run. Dr. Michael Gardner, a Kansas City native who grew up in Hyde Park, made his return to the Kansas City suburbs at Old [...]
Tweet You’re going to freak when you hear who’s coming to Prairie Village on Friday. She’s appeared in some of the most enduring films of her era. She’s acted along the likes of Schwarzenegger and Lohan. And soon enough she’ll be at Village Presbyterian Church reading from her latest children’s book. Fairway’s Rainy Day Books [...]
Tweet The paraments were in rainbow colors. The choirs were all male. And the message was one of hope and inclusion. More than 250 people gathered in the Asbury United Methodist Church sanctuary in Prairie Village Thursday for the opening night of “Our Family Gathering,” a sign of solidarity among members of three UMC conferences [...]
Tweet Asbury United Methodist Rev. Gayla Rapp isn’t shy about expressing her disappointment with her denomination’s most recent vote on whether to openly welcome gay men and women. “I watched what was happening and hoped and prayed,” she said of the moments before delegates at the once-every-four-years Methodist general conference voted on the issue this [...]
Tweet While the 16th century French knight watched his peers battling in the yard, the metal smith taught Viking wire weaving inside while the questers cleaned up after their experiments with the catapult. Such was the scene at St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church Saturday as it played host to the ”Feast of Eagles,” an [...]
Tweet And the Lord said, “On the seventh day they will rest. And on the seventh day I will also make it, like, 114 degrees outside so that the ice cream at the Ice Cream Social will taste totally incredible. And then people will be like, ‘God, thank you for creating ice cream. This stuff [...]
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 If all the bustling of the season has left you behind schedule, fret not: there’s still time to get a handsome Christmas tree for your house. Both the Prairie Village Lions Club and Boy Scout Troop 199 are still holding their annual tree sales. This year, the Lions Club has moved from its previous [...]
Tweet Southmister Presbyterian congregation members spent Thursday night going through the dress rehearsal of their annual Journey to Bethlehem living nativity scene. Now in its 26th year, the program transforms the church’s hallways and meeting rooms into scenes from the story of Jesus Christ’s birth. The story starts in Nazareth, where a local magistrate, flanked [...]
Tweet KMBC reported earlier this week that a local church’s trailer filled with equipment for a special Christmas service was stolen over the Thanksgiving holiday. Mercy Church, which used to meet at Indian Hills Middle School and has recently moved to the Congregation Kol Ami temple, had the trailer parked in the Kol Ami lot [...]
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 For Kansas State University geography professor John Harrington, the data about global climate change is as clear as day. But a concerted campaign of misinformation, he says, has made the issue politically foggy. “The message has been around for 35 years,” he said. “The planet is warming. And now we now know that humans [...]
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 Readers of the New York Times got a glimpse at Prairie Village in Sunday’s fashion section. SM East graduate Hanne Duncan, née Gradinger, and beau Duncan’s 2010 wedding at Village Presbyterian Church was featured in a story on quirky wedding exits. The Duncans, who met at a bike race in the mid-2000s and took [...]
