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Tweet The next installment of the MainStream Coalition’s legislative series will focus on the wrap-up session which will start in Topeka next month. The discussion will be from 7 to 8:30 p.m. April 18 at Colonial Church, 71st and Mission Road. It is co-hosted by MainStream and Colonial Church. The panel discussion will feature Kansas [...]
Tweet If you think schools are important to northeast Johnson County, then you will want to turn out Saturday for the PVPost.com forum featuring the two candidates for Shawnee Mission School Board at-large seat. Cindy Neighbor and Mark Read are competing in the only contested race in the Shawnee Mission district elections this year. The [...]
Tweet Organizers of the annual Renovation Sensation homes tour to benefit SM East’s SHARE program have released the addresses of the four houses to be featured this year. The homes tour will be Wednesday, Sept. 12. Tickets are available at Bank of Prairie Village as well as Hen House grocery stores at Corinth Square, the [...]
Tweet It’s Community Spirit season, Villagers — and nominations are now open. Each year, Prairie Village recognizes residents, youth, organizations, businesses and business leaders “whose contributions of time and commitment to service make Prairie Village a great place to call home.” These Community Spirit Awards are announced at the annual VillageFest Fourth of July celebration. Nominations [...]
Tweet Most neighborhood picnics are centered around the idea of eating a lot of food. But at their picnic this year, the residents of the Normandy Square area decided that just as much attention should be paid to collecting it. The neighborhood held its first-even food drive this year, and collected a total of 300 [...]
Tweet You know what’s good? Peanut butter. And you know what’s even better than getting peanut butter? Giving it. It’s Peanut Butter Week in Prairie Village. For the 27th year, the city and Harvesters, the community food network, are teaming up to sponsor a peanut butter drive. The rich, peanutty goodness collected during the week [...]
Tweet Know somebody who lives and breathes Prairie Village? Have a friend who is always volunteering their time and energy to make Prairie Village a better place? Then don’t hesitate to submit a nomination for the annual Prairie Village Community Spirit Awards. The awards, which are given out at the VillageFest Fourth of July celebration, [...]
Village Crawfish Fest organizers select arts organization as new beneficiary amid state funding cuts
Tweet The Secret Order of Crawdaddies, organizers of the annual Village Crawfish Festival, have named Kansas City Young Audiences as a beneficiary for this year’s event, to be held May 7 at St. Anne’s. Proceeds from the previous three events went exclusively to Head Start of Shawnee Mission, which will remain a beneficiary in 2011. [...]
Tweet Get ready for a jazzy jog this spring, Prairie Village. The organizers of the Prairie Village Jazz Fest are planning to raise funds for the second annual event with 5K fun run tentatively scheduled for May 15. Organizers Kathy Peterson, Dan Andersen and Jack Shearer appeared at the Prairie Village city council meeting earlier [...]
Tweet The Prairie Village Municipal Foundation is hosting two gingerbread house decorating parties this holiday season, with proceeds going to provide scholarships for summer activities to Prairie Village kids. The parties, to be held this Sunday, Dec. 12 at the Prairie Village Community Center, 7720 Mission Road, and Sunday, Dec. 19 at Brighton Gardens, 7105 [...]
Tweet Something about that sign seems two-thirds familiar… Currie Myers, a former Johnson County sheriff who now runs a conservative Web site called The Shawnee Mission Times, had printed off a slew of yard signs protesting the city of Mission’s recently passed Transportation Utility Fee. Commonly referred to as the Driveway Tax, the controversial initiative [...]
Tweet Members of several local churches and two synagogues came together at Asbury United Methodist Church, 5400 West 75th St., Sunday afternoon for the annual ecumenical Thanksgiving service. Participating congregations included Prairie Baptist Church Congregation Ohev Shalom, Cherokee Christian Church, Village Presbyterian Church, Colonial United Church of Christ, Southminster Presbyterian Church, Congregation Kol Ami, and [...]
Tweet A group of students from St. Anne’s and Indian Hills spent Saturday morning braving the chilly weather and flagging down cars along Roe Avenue in hopes of selling cookies and hot chocolate for their Girl Scout troop (they’ll be at the intersection of Homestead Drive and Roe Avenue until 1 p.m.) If you missed [...]
