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Tweet St. Ann Elementary fourth graders on Monday completed a project sure to raise awareness about an unfortunately common problem in America: childhood hunger. For the past several weeks, the students had been collecting canned goods to donate to the Catholic Charities’ Emergency Assistance food pantry. Prior to Monday’s event, the students constructed an American [...]
Tweet Our friends over at Headstrong for Jake have a great opportunity on their hands — but they need some help from volunteers this weekend: On Tuesday night NASCAR Foundation representatives contacted Headstrong for Jake and offered us the opportunity to partner with the NASCAR Foundation at this weekend’s races. We believe this is a [...]
Tweet If you’re looking for lunch this Sunday, have a hankering for Mexican, and want to help send a group of SM East and Bishop Miege kids southward for a summer of cultural exchange, plan on attending the Amigos de las Americas feast: The Kansas City Chapter of Amigos de las Americas will serve its [...]
Tweet With a successful inaugural event in the bag, organizers of the Prairie Village Relay for Life are already starting to put the pieces together for a second event late this summer. Event Chair Gay Garrett said the group is in the process of approaching potential sponsors for this year’s event and is looking for [...]
Tweet People: Before you know it, April will be here. And with it will come the 12th annual Prairie Village Earth Fair. And with that will come a used books sale put on by a group of SM East students in support of the school’s library. But here’s the thing: They need some books to [...]
Tweet A group of local parents organizing a show of support for the Sandy Hook Elementary community in Newtown, Conn., is asking residents to help them adhere to guidelines sent out by the national PTA. Initially, the group had been putting together care packages for the community, but an email from the PTA suggests monetary [...]
Tweet Prairie Elementary mom Lainie Reuter sent us the following note about collecting items for a care package to send to Newtown, Conn: The Prairie Village community is putting together a care package for Sandy Hook Elementary School to let them know we are thinking and praying for them during this difficult time. If you’d [...]
Tweet To shoppers at the Mission Hy-Vee, David Perryman is a well known face. A couple of other well-known faces joined him Friday as he collected for the Salvation Army, his job year-round, not just at the holidays. It has been 17 years that Perryman has been collecting at the Hy-Vee, the only bell ringer [...]
Tweet Thanks to Finn Bullers for passing along the above pic of the family ringing bells for the Salvation Army over the weekend: Christian, Finn and Alora Bullers ring their Salvation Army bells from 5-8 p.m. Dec. 7 in front of the Ace Hardware Store at the newly refurbished Corinth Square Shopping Center in Prairie [...]
Tweet Tyler Rathbun adored soccer — and just a week and a half after his tragic death, his love for and talent in the sport is already a huge part of his legacy. Which is why Rathbun’s SM East teammate Clint Dunn has scrambled to organize the Tyler Rathbun Memorial Soccer Game, a match that will [...]
Tweet The SM East student council’s annual can drive to benefit the Johnson County Christmas Bureau is under way. Through Nov. 16, students will be collecting canned goods for JCCB’s annual Holiday Shop, where for a $5 fee families in need can come in and pick up food, children’s clothing, toys, books, coats and [...]
Tweet Nine days after Hurricane Sandy battered the New York coast, 2001 SM East grad Elise Heeran and her two young daughters are still in exile from their Rockaway Beach apartment — and the chances of heading home soon are still slim. In fact, Heeran says, residents who had managed to return to the community in [...]
Tweet Elise Berlau didn’t know much about Rockaway Beach, NY, when she graduated from SM East in 2001. But there’s a good chance that she, like millions across the country, heard about the devastation the community faced when it lost more than 50 residents on 9/11. And then heard about the added torment of having [...]
Tweet When he thought about an Eagle Scout project, Westwood resident Parker Jennings, 14, immediately thought of doing something to help out Children’s Mercy Hospital. “Children’s Mercy helped me out when I was two years old,” he says. “I had a hole in my heart and they helped patch me up.” So Jennings contacted the [...]
Tweet Johnny’s Tavern at Corinth Square on Saturday will be hosting a fundraiser to support owner Pat Robert’s brother-in-law, who was badly injured in a motorcycle accident this August. Paul Cabral, a father of two who owns his own landscaping company, is currently in a neuro-rehab hospital in Lincoln, Neb. One of Cabral’s daughters is [...]
Tweet Residents of the Normandy Square neighborhood in Prairie Village completed a successful food drive for Harvesters, collecting 360 pounds of canned goods – the equivalent of more than 250 meals. This was the second year of what residents hope will become an annual event. “The timing of the food drive is perfect,” said resident [...]
Tweet Have a few items you would like remove from your house, but that could be treasures in someone else’s home? Tomorrow is your chance to deliver them for the SM East SHARE annual garage sale. SHARE is the community service program at SM East that involves nearly 1,000 student volunteers in more than 70 [...]
Tweet Alexa Adams decided she wanted to do something meaningful with the final days of her summer vacation. So with the help of mom Niki, the 10 year old rallied a corps of neighborhood kids to put on a fundraiser. The “Clean Up 4 Kids” charity garage sale kicked off yesterday at the Adams’ house, [...]
Tweet It’s not that the news was a big surprise to Prairie Village resident Jim Miksch. His father had battled the disease himself, after all. But there’s simply no avoiding just how jarring it can be to hear the word “cancer” coming out of your doctor’s mouth can have. “My father had prostate cancer, so [...]
Tweet When Tom O’Sullivan died of colorectal cancer in 2008, Prairie Village resident Doug Sharp knew he had to do something to honor his friend’s memory “It was fast and it was ugly,” Sharp said. “The day of his service, I told my wife we had to figure something out to honor Tom. The pain [...]
Tweet Nearly 200 aspiring Erik Seidels packed the party rooms at the 810 Zone on the Plaza Saturday for the fifth annual Brady Stanton Memorial Poker Tournament. The event honors Stanton, an SM East grad and Leawood resident who died in 2006 of pancreatic cancer. Funds raised from the tournament go to benefit the Brady [...]
Tweet Bullying is nothing new. But a pilot program in Prairie Village designed to help give adolescents the confidence to stand up to it is. When local esthetician Holly Reynolds heard about the suicide last fall of 14-year-old New Yorker Jamey Rodemeyer — who killed himself after being bullied online about his sexuality — she [...]
Tweet Brady Stanton loved his family. He loved his dog. He loved gardening, writing and playing the guitar. And he loved his Tuesday night poker games. So when the Briarwood, Meadowbrook and SM East grad and Prairie Village resident died in 2006 after fighting an extremely aggressive form of pancreatic cancer for four months, his [...]
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 Prairie Village resident Barb Miksch is spearheading the local effort to raise funds for Plant it Pink, the fundraiser for the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. For $20, Plant It Pink donors get a one-year membership in ACS CAN plus 10 Darwin hybrid pink tulips imported from Holland. The bulbs will be available [...]
