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The Kansas City, Kan., Branch NAACP will meet on Tuesday, Oct. 6, at the Bethany Medical Office Building, 21 N. 12th St., Kansas City, Kan., in the second floor meeting room.
The Executive Committee meeting will start at 6 p.m. followed by the general membership meeting at 7 p.m.
The W.I.N. (Women In NAACP committee is scheduled to meet in the same room at 5 p.m.
For further information, call 913-281-7900, or fax 913-281-7847.
Clark Middle School, Bonner Springs, soon will recognize its first class of National Junior Honor Society inductees.
Fifty-four seventh- and eighth-grade students will be inducted into NJHS at 6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 28.
It is the first year Clark Middle School has participated in the program, and it is among only 21 middle school chapters in the state. The initial process in selection for NJHS was based on the area of scholarship. Students had to have a 3.8 GPA in order to be given an initial letter of eligibility. Those students then completed an application to determine their citizenship, leadership and community service.
Sarah Andaverde, NJHS sponsor, said the group was about more than just doing well in class.
“While it is important for students to be recognized for their achievements, it is also necessary for those students to be a positive academic and community model,” Andaverde said.
The students plan to coordinate with the Bonner Springs High School National Honor Society on several projects, including blood drives and a community clean-up.
Andaverde hopes NJHS members will take pride in representing CMS and the community.
“I want students to be noticed by teachers, peers and te community or being in the top of their class academically, and making their community a better place to live,” she said.
The induction ceremony will take place in the CMS auditorium.
– Story from Bonner Springs-Edwardsville school district
The Kansas City, Kan., Public Library will be participating in the world’s biggest drawing festival on Oct. 17.
The Big Draw event will be held at the South Branch of the Kansas City, Kan., Public Library, 3104 Strong Ave., from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 17.
Participants will celebrate creativity by drawing and painting their own artwork. They’ll be able to take it home or hang it in the KCKPL art gallery, which has many professional art exhibits. Supplies, snacks and fun will be provided.
There will also be three visiting professional artists demonstrating their work.
Robin Case is a studio painter, indoor muralist, and teaching artist. Her mural for the Kansas City, Kan., Public Library is in the foyer at the South Branch Library. Robin is the lead artist for the Big Draw and will facilitate a group mural project.
Monique Gabrielle Salazar is a writer, artist, musician and small business owner living and working in the Kansas City area. She will lead interactive sidewalk chalk drawings in front of the library.
A contemporary fine artist and poet, Timothy Barr Rowland is also known as Re Ti Ro, blue dog and timbarow. He is best known for his traditional work in oil painting, often being called a primitive painter working in a myriad of styles. Barr Rowland will lend his creative energy to the Big Draw and encourage visitors to be creative too.
The Big Draw is the world’s biggest drawing festival with thousands of enjoyable, and mainly free, drawing activities which connect people of all ages with museums, outdoor spaces, artists, designers, illustrators – and each other.
This international celebration of drawing has grown from one day in October 2000 to an annual month-long festival of drawing across the United Kingdom and the world.
The first Big Draw in 2000 attracted 180 partner organizations. By October 2011, the number had risen to 1,300, with over 260,000 people taking part. Events are run by galleries, museums, heritage and other cultural sites, schools, colleges, local authorities, libraries and other community agencies – individually or in collaboration.
This is the first year that KCKPL has participated. The theme of this year’s event is “Every Drawing Tells a Story.”
For more information on the event, visit kckpl.org.
– Story from Kansas City, Kan., Public Library.