March 16, 2015 NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 16, 2015 FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT Tracy Quillin, Associate Director Kansas Humanities Council (785) 357-0359; [email protected] Sami Philbrick, Director High Plains Museum (785) 890-4595; [email protected] Hometown Teams: Smithsonian exhibition travels to Goodland Goodland, Kan. – High Plains Museum in Goodland hosts the “Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America” Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibition March 21 ... March 16, 2015 Contact: Mike Stanley FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tel. 913.707.5305 Email: [email protected] Date: 03/15/2015 3 YEAR OLD OVERLAND PARK CANCER PATIENT MAKE-A-WISH REVEAL Family to receive trip to Disney World Make-A-Wish Missouri in conjunction with the KC Young Professionals will be granting a wish to a 3 year-old Overland Park girl and her family at their home. Callyn Stanley is diagnosed with ... March 16, 2015 Theme songs from decades of beloved James Bond movies will join the well-known melodies of John Philip Sousa and George Gershwin during the Overland Park Civic Band’s annual spring concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 29, at Shawnee Mission West High School (8800 W. 85th St., Overland Park, Kan.). Admission is free, and music fans of all ages are encouraged ... March 16, 2015 OVERLAND PARK, KS ( March 16, 2015) -- Jean Landreville, the new executive director of Tallgrass Creek retirement community managed by Erickson Living in Overland Park, KS, proves the adage that experience is certainly the best teacher. Landreville has spent 20 years in the senior housing and health care industries and most recently served as executive director at Greenspring, an ... March 16, 2015 Overland Park, Kansas ( Pressreleases.kcstar ) March 16, 2015 - Kansas City Urology Care is pleased to be able to provide office-based vasectomy procedures, under anesthesia, as part of our men's health services. This is a safe and effective procedure when performed by Board Certified Urologists like those at Kansas City Urology Care. For an out-patient sedated vasectomy, the treating ... March 15, 2015 Midwest Youth Chess Tournament Saturday April 4th, 2015 Online Registration at Reg4Chess.com Who: All kids in grades Kindergarten to 12th grade can play. Where: Oakhill Day School. 7019 N. Cherry, Gladstone (North Kansas City Area) MO 64118. Sections: K-3/K-6/K-12 Sections. A Midwest Individual Champion will be awarded for each grade. A Midwest Team Champion will be awarded for each section. ... March 14, 2015 Freedom House, home of five ministries that assist area residents in need, will hold a “Grocery Grab” drawing April 18 at Cosentino’s Price Chopper, 9717 N. Ash, Kansas City. Tickets are $5 each or five for $20 and are available at the service counter of the Price Chopper store, located near I-35 and North Highway 291 in Liberty. Ten semi-finalists ... March 13, 2015 Hannah Kennison, a University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School student, has taken on the noble cause of ending world hunger. Her aim is to use the crowdfunding website, gofundme.com, to raise the money the Borgen Project estimates it needs to end world hunger. The Borgen Project was founded in 2003 by Clint Borgen. The Borgen Project is an international non-profit ... March 13, 2015 Kansas City Wind Symphony continues their 17th Season “Let’s Celebrate” with a concert celebrating Spring on March 22nd at 7:00 PM in the sanctuary of Village Presbyterian Church in Prairie Village, Kansas. The free concert opens with Alfred Reed’s overture “The Hounds of Spring” inspired by a poem by Charles Swinburne that begins "When the hounds of spring are on ... March 13, 2015 The Greater Kansas City Interfaith Council announces a new current events discussion group. The first two sessions will be held at the Kansas City Public Library Waldo Branch, located at 201 East 75th Street on Sunday, March 22, at 3:00 pm Sunday, April 26, at 3:00 pm All sessions are open to the public at no charge. The theme for ... March 13, 2015 For Immediate Release March 13, 2015 (Kansas City, MO) – KC Studio is pleased to announce the appointment of Alice Thorson as the bi-monthly publication’s new editor. Thorson comes to KC Studio following 23 years as the art critic for the Kansas City Star and prior publication experience as managing editor of the non-profit New Art Examiner in Chicago and ... March 13, 2015 KANSAS CITY, MO. (February 28th, 2015) – Mazuma Credit Union recently celebrated the opening of its new Overland Park Headquarters and branch with a ribbon cutting on February 27th and a Winter Beach Bash on February 28th. Over a thousand people showed up to the Beach Bash despite a snowstorm. The Grand Opening celebrations kicked off on February 27th with ... March 13, 2015 Larry Wright and Nicole Fisher, founding members at Wright & Fisher LLC, announce the firm's new website dedicated to providing clients in the Kansas City and surrounding areas with information regarding their personal injury and family law/divorce legal services. Recently, a new website was launched for Kansas City personal injury attorneys Larry Wright and Nicole Fisher, founding members at Wright ... March 12, 2015 Contact: Tim Linn Marketing Communications Writer [email protected] 816-501-4892 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 12, 2015 Kansas City, MO—At 7 p.m., Monday, March 30, Tom Ventresca, ’70, will lead a discussion of selected chapters from Charles Darwin’s The Voyage of the Beagle, On the Origin of the Species and The Descent of Man in Massman Hall, room 241. Darwin, a Norton Critical ... March 12, 2015 Flipped Learning OPEN HOUSE at St. Teresa’s Academy WHEN: 7:15 - 10:45 am, Friday, March 13, 2015 WHAT: St. Teresa’s Academy is opening our doors and joining schools from 12 countries, 15 states, and 34 cities and towns throughout the nation for a Flipped Classroom Open House. Teachers in various grades and disciplines are opening their classroom doors to allow ... March 12, 2015 Memory care expert encourages conversation and understanding of disease KANSAS CITY, MO (March 11, 2015) – Senior Star at Villa Ventura and Senior Star at Wexford Place are proud to welcome back national Alzheimer’s and dementia expert Susan Scanland for two presentations on Thursday, March 19. Scanland’s presentation, “Assisted Living: Preventing the Hazards of Staying Home Too Long,” encourages a ... March 12, 2015 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Christel Gollnick, regional relations 816.588.2730 (mobile) | [email protected] Photos Available: If you are interested in publishing a photo including your local e2 Fellowship participants, please contact Christel Gollnick, listed above, to confirm location and time information. A list of participants by name is included at the end of this release. Local intergenerational participants graduate from Heartland ... March 12, 2015 Kansas City, MO – Lang Chevy in Paola, KS will award any individual who fills out a perfect bracket for the 2015 Men’s College Basketball Championship a new car up to a $25,000 value. "The Lang Chevy Bracket Challenge is just one of the many ways we involve ourselves in the community and engage with our fans online," said Tim ... March 12, 2015 KANSAS CITY, KAN. — Donnelly College faculty, staff and students will welcome best-selling author Sonia Nazario to campus on Monday, April 6, 2015. This year, all Donnelly freshmen read Nazario’s book, "Enrique’s Journey." This will be Donnelly’s inaugural event in its new Sister Jerome Keeler Lecture Series established in part by the National Endowment for Humanities. Nazario, a veteran of ... March 12, 2015 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, contact: Steve Wiegenstein [email protected] 217-779-9762 Missouri Novel Is Finalist for International Historical Fiction Award A novel set in Missouri in the years after the Civil War has been named a finalist for the M. M. Bennetts Award for Historical Fiction. This Old World, by Columbia writer Steve Wiegenstein, is one of 12 finalists chosen ... March 12, 2015 Tooth decay is the leading chronic infectious disease among children in our nation. It causes pain and can interfere with a child’s ability to eat, speak, smile and concentrate, and has the potential to affect one’s systemic health. To help combat this issue, Delta Dental of Missouri is educating and inspiring children to adopt healthy life habits through its upbeat ... March 12, 2015 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Joel Coon 540-353-8404 [email protected] March 12, 2015 Lee’s Summit Business and Healthcare Leaders To Hold Roundtable in Support of Medicaid Reform Local Business Leaders, health care advocates and Hospitals will hold a roundtable discussion of the impending health care funding crisis and proposed solutions in the form of Medicaid Reform. Specifically they will be discussing Kansas ... March 11, 2015 Blue Gallery is honored to present the mid-career survey of painter, Lisa Lala. This highly-anticipated solo exhibition, titled “SEEKER,” incorporates her various iconic series including “Birds on a Wire” and “Ferris Wheels” and will also debut novel themes featuring symbolic self-portraiture, glasses of water, and cherry blossoms. This entirely new body of work will examine and celebrate Lisa Lala's twelve-year ... March 11, 2015 The Gathering Women of the Arts Perform to benefit Homeless Women & Children Blue Room Sunday, March 29th 2:00 – 5:00 PM Kansas City, MO- Legendary Blues and Jazz artists are coming together to celebrate “Sisterhood” and close out Women’s History Month by helping homeless women in Kansas City. The second anniversary event will be held Sunday, March 29th from ...