Month: August 2015

Tiblow Days kicks off tonight in Bonner Springs

Tate Stevens to perform Saturday night at event

Bonner Springs is expecting a crowd for its 35th annual Tiblow Days Festival, which kicks off tonight.

The three-day festival begins with a carnival from 3 to 11 p.m. and City Band concert, plus ice cream social at 8:30 p.m. tonight in Kelly Murphy Park. Admission to the carnival is $20 for a wristband from 5 to 9 p.m., and the concert and social is free.

Many of the events are taking place on Cedar and Second Street in Bonner Springs. Musical entertainment, food, a barbecue competition, a carnival, a parade and car show are some of the events.

Expected to attract a crowd will be a performance at 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 29, by Tate Stevens, a country music singer originally from Belton, Mo. Stevens was the lead singer of the Dixie Cadillacs before moving to the Outlaw Junkies and Tate Stevens Band. He appeared on the X Factor show beginning in 2012 and was the final winner, which boosted his career.

Friday’s events include a carnival from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m., with a $20 wristband from 5 to 9 p.m.; vendor booths; the mayor’s banquet at 6 p.m., advance tickets; a Beer Garden from 6 to 11:30 p.m. in Centennial Park to support Bonner Springs Project Grad; and music from 7 to 11 p.m. at Centennial Park.

Performing will be Damien Gunn and the Bang Bangs at 8 p.m. and a Garth Brooks tribute by Shawn Gerhard at 9:30 p.m. Friday.

Saturday’s events include a Smokin’ on Oak Barbecue competition with judging at noon; a biscuit and gravy breakfast from 6 to 9 a.m., at the First Christian Church, 148 N. Nettleton; the Tiblow Trot from 7 to 9 a.m.; a car show staging and check in from 8 to 10 a.m.; a carnival from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m.; vendor booths; a parade at 9:30 a.m. from Lions Park to Nettleton to Oak; a car show on Cedar Street from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.; parade awards at 11 a.m. at Kelly Murphy Park; group performances from 11:15 a.m.to 3:15 p.m.; a community pinewood derby at 4 p.m. at Kelly Murphy Park; barbecue awards at 3 p.m. at the community center; a Beer Garden from 5 to 11:30 p.m. at Centennial Park; and a musical lineup from 6:30 p.m. to 11 p.m.

The group performances on Saturday include CMS and BSHS cheerleaders and dancers at 11:15 a.m.; Sarah’s School of Dance at 11:45 a.m.; Kristi’s Academy of Dance at 12:30 p.m.; Grand Master Kim’s Taekwondo at 1:30 p.m., and Legacy Dance Studio at 3 p.m.

The musical lineup on Saturday night includes Unholstered Outlaws at 6:30 p.m.; Blake Tuttle at 8 p.m. and Tate Stevens at 9:30 p.m.

There will be a Cars for Heroes car giveaway during the Tate Stevens musical performance.

The Tiblow Days event’s host is the Bonner Springs-Edwardsville Chamber of Commerce.

More information about Tiblow Days is available from www.bsedwchamber.org and www.facebook.com/bsedwchamber.

Three meetings scheduled tonight for UG

The Unified Government Commission plans to meet at 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 27, at City Hall, 701 N. 7th, Kansas City, Kan.

On the agenda for the 5 p.m. meeting in the fifth floor conference room will be a discussion about vending machines. After that will be a closed session in the ninth floor conference room on security and personnel, according to the meeting announcement.

The 7 p.m. UG Commission meeting, with many planning and zoning items, is scheduled for the Commission Chambers, lobby level, City Hall.

After the 7 p.m. meeting, the UG Public Building Commission will meet in the ninth floor conference room at City Hall. It concerns the repairs to Cricket Wireless amphitheater, with $750,000 in bonds proposed through the Public Building Commission.

Among the items on the 7 p.m. meeting agenda, which also includes several planning and zoning items:
– Cricket Wireless Amphitheater, Bonner Springs, repairs, $865,000 project. It is owned by Wyandotte County. Proposed is $750,000 in bonds through Public Building Commission financing. The UG and Bonner Springs are to provide $115,000 in cash to begin the project. According to UG documents, the facility is in need of major capital improvements to address safety issues and improve the appearance of the grounds and buildings.
– A resolution to authorize funding of $760,000 for the Kaw Point Park connector trail. The commission previously authorized $510,000 in general obligation debt for the project, and this is a request for more money because of increased construction costs.
– Change of zone from agriculture to commercial for storage of landscaping materials in conjunction with existing business at 5201 and 5204 N. 97th St., Blake Watson, Nature’s Touch Landscaping.
– Special use permit application for a kennel for six dogs at 2610 S. 27th St., Susan Prucka.
– Change of zone from single-family district to planned light industrial and industrial park district for industrial park at 6925 Riverview Ave., Eric Watts, NorthPoint Development.
– Special use permit for a dirt fill at 4301 Powell Ave., Jose D. Llaves.
– Special use permit for an indoor sports facility, focusing on soccer, at 3140 S. 28th St., Peter Duffey, Peak Soccer Performance.
– Special use permit for racing pigeons at 3406 Webster Ave., Leng Yang.
– Special use permit for a horse at 741 S. 76th St., Patricia Soto.
– Special use permit for a recycling operation at 822 N. 49th St., Wil Anderson, BHC Rhodes.
– Vacation of utility easements at 3412 and 3414 N. 109th Terrace, Shawn Woods, Woods Development Group.
– Vacation of a street at 4926 McGurk St., Rogaciano Meza.
– Vacation of utility easements at 1405 N 98th St., Curtis Peterson, Polsinelli, for Dairy Farmers of America.
– Master plan amendment from low density residential to business park at 6925 Riverview Ave., Eric Watts, NorthPoint Development.
– Ordinance amendment, planning and development in city ordinances, adding a substitution clause to Division 11, signs, of the zoning code.
– An ordinance vacating right of way at 9020 State Ave.
– An ordinance allowing the substitution of noncommercial speech on signs containing commercial speech, adding a new section to the ordinances codes.
– Several Land Bank items.

For more information about the meetings, visit the agenda at www.wycokck.org.