Archives for “Notable folks”
Tweet Mission Hills attorney Steve Gorny has made something of a side career out of raising money for good causes by tackling double-take inducing running feats. In 2006, he ran a marathon a month to raise money for the The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. In 2009, he ran 100 miles in 24 hours and 26 [...]
Tweet Prairie Village is losing a resident who has become one of the Kansas City area’s most accomplished art administrators. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art announced earlier this month that Margi Conrads, its American Art Curator, has accepted a position as the Deputy Director of Art and Research at the Amon Carter Museum of American [...]
Tweet Take a bow, SM East theatre program. Starlight Theatre last week announced the nominees for the annual Blue Star Awards, which recognize the metro-area’s top high school musical theatre productions and performances, and SM East received three nods. Lily Kaufmann is nominated in the Best Actress in a Lead Role category for her portrayal [...]
Tweet You aren’t likely to hear our city — or even our state — mentioned during the broadcast of the Kentucky Derby this Saturday. But in May 1938, Prairie Village, Kansas, was the toast of the horse racing world. Well… not Prairie Village, exactly, since it didn’t officially exist. But saying “unincorporated northeast Johnson County, Kansas” [...]
Tweet Dalton Banks, the man who cut hundreds of area residents’ hair at Village Hairstyling over more than 20 years, died earlier this week at the age of 63. His former colleagues at the Village Shops barbershop got the news from his sister, who called after he passed away on Wednesday. Banks had stopped cutting [...]
Tweet In this world there are men. And then there are men among men. I’m going to go ahead and put Prairie Village resident Danny Miller in the latter category. Where many people viewed yesterday’s blizzard, with its heavy snowfall and gale force winds, as a good excuse to sit in the living room vegetating, [...]
Tweet Prairie Village grocery store fixture Frank Bardwell celebrated his 81st birthday on Friday, marking the start of the ninth decade for the area’s most well-loved sacker. Bardwell has lived and worked in Prairie Village since 1952. His friendly demeanor and penchant for remembering names and faces made him the highlight of many a trip [...]
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