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Tweet Wet grounds and cloudy skies moved the annual Missoin Bunny Eggstravaganza from Broadmoor Park to the Sylvester Powell Community Center, but it didn’t dampen the spring fun. Patrons enjoyed races, face painting, bounce houses and a visit from a Consolidated Fire District No. 2 truck: And, of course Easter egg hunts overseen but his [...]
Tweet Tim Dorr’s 2012 choreographed holiday lights display on the Prairie Village Municipal Grounds brought in more than $3,100 for the Prairie Village Municipal Foundation and Heartland Habitat for Humanity. It was the second year that Dorr put up the display on city property after deciding to move it from his home in 2010 after [...]
Tweet It’s about time to start thinking about not having to think about Christmas anymore, right? Well, if getting rid of that Christmas tree would help you put the holidays behind you, you’ve got a couple of options. Prairie Village and Mission Hills residents can simply set their Christmas trees on the curb to be [...]
Tweet The festive platoon of Fairway holiday light fanatics has spoken. And what they have spoken is this: The Harrington family at 5939 Delmar has the best Christmas lights display of the year. It’s no surprise, really. Since the display launched in 2009, it’s been a favorite on Fairway’s annual Bright Nights with Holiday Lights [...]
Tweet Mission’s Cash and Cans for the Holidays food drive is going to make Christmas Day more filling and fulfilling for 47 families in northeast Johnson County. Donations to the food drive can be made at Sylvester Powell, Jr. Community Center. Of those families who will be fed this year, 27 need gifts to make [...]
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 The Prairie Village Police Department and the Prairie Village Municipal Foundation on Tuesday helped make sure a group of less-fortunate youth — as well as their families — will have a happy Christmas. For the second year in a row, the police department hosted its “Shop with a Cop” event. Police accompanied 13 local [...]
Tweet Kids from 1 to 92 shared in the Christmas spirit on Sunday — and helped a good cause in the process. Dozens of seniors, parents and tots gathered in the Brighton Gardens common area for the annual Gingerbread House decorating parties benefiting the Prairie Village Municipal Foundation. Mely Ballard of Mely’s Yogurt and Ice Cream [...]
Tweet Students at St. Ann Catholic School on Friday loaded up presents that will make Christmas brighter for 106 children in foster care around the Kansas City metro. The students adopted the children as part of the Red Bag program, a 29-year-old tradition for the school. In fact, the Red Bag program itself was started [...]
Tweet With Thanksgiving comfortably in the rear view, many of us have turned full attention to the holiday juggernaut that is Christmas. So, dear readers, where is it you’ll be procuring the bulk of your holiday gifts?
Tweet Difficult as it may be to believe given that it’s 60 freaking degrees outside, it’s officially Christmastime. Which means that the city of Fairway is seeking entrants into its annual “Bright Nights with Holiday Lights” contest. Each year, Fairway puts on a festive trolley trip during which riders judge a series of Fairway homes [...]
Tweet It was a warm night, but that didn’t stop the flow of hot chocolate and the roasting of the marshmallows at the Mission Holiday Lights and Festive Sights Friday night on Johnson Drive. Santa and Mrs. Claus barreled down Johnson Drive in an impressive sleigh powered without a reindeer in sight. Just in time, [...]
Tweet Mission’s annual Holiday Lights and Festive Sights will kickoff tonight at 5:30 p.m. at the corner of Woodson and Johnson Drive and culminate with musical fireworks at 8:15 p.m. The celebration includes Christmas movies at Mission theater, a holiday shop, music and kid’s activities. The Rushton PTA will sponsor cookie decorating and a holiday [...]
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 Pleasant temperatures and a shiny new “pocket park” drew a sizable Santa-hungry crowd to Corinth Square Thursday for the 27th annual lighting of the Mayor’s Holiday Tree. Mayor Ron Shaffer performed his traditional emcee duties, welcoming performers from Dancerz Unlimted and the SM East choir to the stage before Kris Kringle himself came up [...]
Tweet Usually around this time of year, the house at 7611 Falmouth is hard to miss. Even during the day, the dozens of figurines and lights that make up Mike Babick’s nationally known Christmas display stick out from his house with bright colors. But this year is different. Permanent floodlights installed to illuminate the animated [...]
Tweet Purveyors of another Prairie Village holiday tradition flipped the on switch over the Thanksgiving break. The Outlook Lane cul-de-sac off 79th Street made its typical transformation into Candy Cane Lane Friday, with homeowners passing out candy canes to visitors on opening night. Every house on the street participates, with decorations including typical lights on [...]
Tweet Tim Dorr’s choreographed Christmas lights and music display had its opening night on the Prairie Village Municipal Grounds Thursday, marking the second season Dorr and the city of have teamed up to bring the popular display onto public property. (Dorr decided to move the display from his home in after a neighbor expressed concerns [...]
Tweet By Julia Westhoff Today marks one of my favorite food days of the whole year. As much as I love Thanksgiving dinner, the leftovers are what really do it for me. Forget the formality of tablecloths and silver and give me a pyrex container of cold leftovers. Even better, grab a couple slices of [...]
Tweet Gobble, gobble, NEJCers! Here’s wishing a very happy and healthful Thanksgiving to you (our fabulous readers) and yours. So, how precisely will you be celebrating tomorrow? Staying here in town? Or traveling? In which case we trust that you aren’t answering this poll on your cellphone while driving.
Tweet Here’s a note from the good people at Prairie Village city hall reminding us about office hours and waste pickup schedules over the long holiday weekend: The Prairie Village Municipal Offices will be closed on Thursday, November 22 and Friday, November 23 for the Thanksgiving holiday. There will be no solid waste, recycling and yard waste [...]
Tweet By Julia Westhoff Jay and I have several friends whose families celebrate Turkey Day in a bit of a contrarian way: They go out. When I first heard that some folks eschew the traditional dinner, I thought it was kind of crazy. You can’t go out for Thanksgiving dinner. That’s un-American! (Right?) But eventually [...]
Tweet Prairie Village’s new special event permit ordinance may have chilled Mike Babick’s plans to put on his annual display, but organizers of another of the city’s favorite Christmas traditions have received official approval to move ahead. Prairie Village police this week approved a special event permit for the Candy Cane Lane display that homeowners [...]
Tweet Ai’ght, everybody: Here’s what I need you to do. Go into your computer’s operating system dashboard and find the “Software Updates” tab. Click “Update Software.” It might take a while. But it’s going to be worth it. Because if your computer doesn’t have the most up-to-date cuteness processing software, there’s a pretty good chance [...]
Tweet “AHHHHHHHHH! CANDY!!!!! GIMMEGIMMEGIMMEGIMMEGIMME!!!” That, dear readers, is what the sugar-addled homunculus who lives inside each and every child is screaming this morning in preparation for the annual Festivity of Fructose (This holiday is also sometimes called “Halloween”). Anydoodle, don’t forget that the the parade of costumed cuteness descends on the Village Shops from 4-7 [...]
