Month: May 2016

Annual Urban American Outdoors kids’ fishing event to be Saturday, May 21, at KCKCC

Urban American Outdoors TV (UAOTV) and the Kansas City Kansas Community College will be the hosts for the 11th Annual Urban Kids Fishing Derby KCK.

The free Saturday fishing excursion will be held on May 21 at Kansas City Kansas Community College Pond at 7250 State Ave. in Kansas City, Kan. Registration begins at 8 a.m. and the derby ends at noon This will be an “Every Kid in a Park” event.

Candice Price, executive producer of Urban American Outdoors program, noted that the weather forecast calls for nice, dry weather on Saturday. She said there are already quite a few children signed up for this event.

Price said there will be a representative from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife, as well as some information provided by the Environmental Protection Agency at this event. Kansas Speedway is expected to bring a car to display. Also, Gates Bar-BQ will be providing hot dogs for the kids attending the event.

Partnering hosts this year include KPRS, Gates Bar-BQ, F.A.C.T.S Tutoring Services, Healthy Park Healthy People, The Kids Derby is free for youngsters between the ages of 4 to 16, and they must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. All registered participants must bring their own rods, reels, bait, tackle and stringer. There will be loaner poles available for those who need one.

Those who are interested in having their youngsters participate may go to www.urbankidsfish.com and sign up, if they have questions they may call 913-334-5177. There is a limit on the number who may attend and a release must be signed.

Along with a free hot dog there will be a goodie bag prepared just for young guests. The young anglers who have the winning catches will receive gifts and other outstanding prizes. For the biggest fish there will be a $100 prize. Parts of the derby will be filmed for an upcoming segment on Urban American Outdoors TV with host Wayne Hubbard.

UAOTV airs weekly on Bounce TV on Saturday morning at 7:30 a.m.. and offers sports enthusiasts a chance to view outdoors from a different perspective. Wayne Hubbard has for the past 17 years been sharing his outdoors adventures, conservation tips, green ideas, wildlife information, STEAM education and has mentored more than 100,000 youth in the Greater Kansas City area.

The event is free, and there will be plenty of family fun, fishing and volunteers like XCaliber. Registration forms will also be on site or go online at www.urbankidsfish.com to sign up.

Nominations sought for ‘Reasons to Believe’ alumni honor roll

Nominations are open for the Kansas City, Kan., Public Schools’ 2016 Reasons to Believe Alumni Honor Roll, part of a coordinated plan to spotlight alumni successes to encourage and inspire today’s students.

KCKPS established the Reasons to Believe program in 2002 to generate pride and celebrate the progress being made throughout the district. The Alumni Honor Roll annually showcases the high caliber of graduates that the district produces, and brings a select group of them together with staff, students, community members, colleagues and key leaders for a night of honors in November.

Nominees must:
• Be graduates of a KCKPS high school
• Be successful in their chosen business, profession or life work
• Be a person of integrity and stature that KCKPS would take pride in recognizing
• Have demonstrated the importance of their education from KCKPS

Nomination forms can be downloaded from the KCKPS website, www.kckps.org/recognition/alumni or call 913-279-2225 to request one. The deadline for returning nominations is Monday, June 13.

Overland Park couple arrested in bank fraud, citizenship fraud case

A married couple from India who allegedly obtained U.S. citizenship by fraud have been arrested on bank fraud and immigration charges, acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said today.

The couple, Ajay Dave, 60, and Parul Dave, 59, who live in Overland Park, are scheduled to make an initial appearance in the case at 2:30 p.m. today in Kansas City, Kan., before Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge James P. O’Hara. A federal grand jury returned a sealed indictment against the Daves last week in which the Daves are charged with two counts of bank fraud, two counts of making false statements on their applications to become U.S. citizens, and four counts related to obtaining their U.S. citizenship by fraud.

If convicted, the defendants face up to 30 years in prison, $1 million in fines, and forfeiture of residential real estate identified in the case. They also face revocation of their United States citizenship and possible deportation to India.

The indictment alleges that the Daves provided false financial information and bogus tax returns in April 2010 to First Federal Bank in Overland Park to obtain a $417,000 mortgage loan on an Overland Park residence. It also alleges they engaged in similar conduct in July 2010 to obtain a $238,500 refinance of a home they own in Topeka, Kan., from Topeka’s Heritage Bank.

Then, starting in 2012, when the Daves, who came to the United States in 1999, began the process of seeking naturalized citizenship, they failed to disclose their alleged false statements to the banks, according to the indictment. Parul Dave became a U.S. citizen on October 26, 2012; Ajay Dave, who before he was naturalized was known as Ajaykumar Balwantrai Dave, was sworn in as a U.S. citizen on August 23, 2013.

Beall said the case arose from a joint investigation of the Kansas Department of Revenue; the Department of Homeland Security’s Citizenship and Immigration Services (Fraud Detection and National Security Office); Homeland Security Investigations; U.S. Office of Labor Racketeering and Fraud Investigation; Kansas Department of Labor Fraud Investigation Division; Kansas Alcoholic Beverage Control; and the Overland Park Police Department. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Brent Anderson.