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Wednesday, 14 July 2010 00:00 |
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July 14
Juggler Brian Wendling performs at 2 p.m. at the Plaza Library, 4801 Main St. Attendees may see bowling pins raining in the air, real china bowls spinning, three hula hoops spinning around his body, vaudevillian cigar boxes telling a story, or who knows what else. For information, visit kclibrary.org or call 701-3481.
July 15
"Songs with a Splash" summer reading program takes place around a miniature, portable pond complete with crawdads and other water critters at 2 p.m. at the Waldo Library, 201 E. 75th St. Emmy Award-winning nature singers WildHeart! will lead songs and dance moves. For information, visit kclibrary.org or call 701-3486.
July 16
All World Languages & Cultures Inc. presents "Training of Diversity Trainers" from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. July 16-17 at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, 5000 Rockhill Road. Space is limited for this interactive class. Certificates will be awarded to those who complete the course. For details, call 795-7800.
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Wednesday, 07 July 2010 00:00 |
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The Mid-America Regional Council Air Quality Program is sponsoring a coloring contest from July 1 through Aug. 31 asking children age 12 and younger "What does clean air look like?"
The contest is intended to be a fun way to encourage area children to think about air quality to raise awareness about the impact of clean air on personal health.
Entry forms can be picked up and dropped off at eight Kansas City, Mo., Public Library locations: Plaza, Central, Trails West, Sugar Creek, Northeast, Southeast, Ruiz and Waldo. Select summer camps and recreational facilities across the region also are participating.
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Wednesday, 07 July 2010 00:00 |
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Support Kansas City, a local nonprofit providing business and administrative support services to other nonprofits, was awarded the Regional Business Excellence Award by the Kansas Department of Commerce.
Support Kansas City was chosen as one of four winners in the region and 26 winners statewide.
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Written by Loren Stanton
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Wednesday, 07 July 2010 00:00 |
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 Some came for sentimental reasons. Some came out of curiosity. Some came to see history pass. And some just came to buy stuff.
Piece by piece, the contents and fixtures of the historic White Haven Motor Lodge were auctioned off June 1 and 2. While non-nostalgic buyers walked away happy to have filled a practical need, others left feeling they had acquired an article or two of Americana.
Smiles, tears and memories were on the faces and minds of those who witnessed and participated in the bidding at 8039 Metcalf Ave., Overland Park.
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Wednesday, 07 July 2010 00:00 |
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July 7
Little Tigers Karate is from 6:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesdays starting July 7 at Red Bridge Family YMCA, 11300 Holmes Road. Children age 3 to 7 will learn basic karate fundamentals, stranger awareness and more. To register, call 942-2020.
July 8
The chamber music ensemble Summerfest hosts Grammy-nominated soprano Tony Arnold for Luciano Berio’s "Folk Songs," an arrangement of folk melodies from America, Armenia, France, Sicily, Italy, Sardinia and Azerbaijan at 7 p.m. at the Plaza Library, 4801 Main St. This "informance" will explore several of these folk songs, chosen for their emotional character and connection between ancient music-making and contemporary music. To R.S.V.P., go to kclibrary.org or call 701-3407.
The Sierra Leone United Descendants’ Association, in conjunction with the Kansas City Public Library, is hosting the Bunce Island Exhibit through Aug. 8. A free lecture and reception starts a 6 p.m. Thursday at the Central Library, 14 W. 10th St., with professor Joseph A. Opala, exhibit curator. The exhibit explores a British slave castle in Sierra Leone, West Africa, that was the departure point for thousands of captives to the ports of Charleston and Savannah in the 1700s. For information, call 716-2569.
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Wednesday, 30 June 2010 00:00 |
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 St. Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City is making it easier for area women to donate human milk.
The city’s first collection point for donated milk from lactating women opened in June at St. Luke’s Hospital on Wornall Road.
The Kansas City Regional Human Milk Bank is recognized as a Developing Milk Bank by the Human Milk Banking Association of North America and will serve as a collection point or "depot" for the Mother’s Milk Bank of Denver until it is a fully functional milk bank in 2011.
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