Mike Jacobi, third from left, received the FAA’s highest award in a ceremony today, surrounded by friends and family, at Mayor Mark Holland’s office. (Photo provided by Mayor Holland’s office) Mike Jacobi, right, received the FAA’s highest award in a ceremony today at Mayor Mark Holland’s office in Kansas City, Kansas. (Photo provided by Mayor Holland’s office)
Mike Jacobi, known as one of the fathers of the consolidation of the Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, governments, today received the highest award from the Federal Aviation Administration.
Jacobi received the Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award at Mayor Mark Holland’s office in Kansas City, Kansas. FAA officials presented the award.
Jacobi is a Vietnam veteran, and flew combat missions there in 1967 and 1968. He returned to Vietnam in 1970 to fly behind enemy lines in special operations missions. He also commanded an attack helicopter company.
In Wyandotte County, he worked as a Realtor for many years and was instrumental in the unification of the city and county governments.
Kansas City dropped its fourth straight game Tuesday night in the second game of a three-game series against the Gary SouthShore RailCats, 10-7.
For the second night in a row the two clubs had to wait an hour to get started with rain moving back the first pitch to just past 8 p.m. The division rivals both put up a big first inning in what became a back-and-forth affair all night long.
Colin Willis had a bases clearing triple off Scott Carroll, and Alex Crosby added a fielder’s choice RBI for a 3-0 lead for Gary.
The T-Bones came right back with two runs of their own in the bottom of the first off RailCats starter Alex Gunn. Omar Garcia and Marcus Lemon had back-to-back singles and then both executed a double steal to move to second and third. Kevin Keyes drove in Garcia on a sacrifice fly to center and Chase McDonald followed with a double to score Lemon to cut the lead to 3-2.
Each team’s starting pitchers kept the ballgame fairly even; Gary’s Alex Gunn threw 4 and two-thirds innings, allowing nine hits but only four runs, while Kansas City’s Scott Carroll tossed five innings, allowing three hits and five runs.
In the third inning, Frank Martinez hit a two-run homerun for Gary to make the score 5-2. The T-Bones answered in the fifth, with McDonald knocking in two more for Kansas City, cutting the lead again, 5-4.
After Gary added three more runs in the top of the seventh, the T-Bones came back in the eighth with a three-run homerun from Patrick Brady to cut the RailCats’ lead to 8-7. The T-Bones could never get any closer with Gary scoring two more runs in the ninth inning.
The RailCats’ Drasen Johnson got his second save of the series in Tuesday’s game, with Ryan Fritze securing the win.
The T-Bones will conclude this series against the RailCats Wednesday night at 7:05 p.m. at CommunityAmerica Ballpark in Kansas City, Kansas. Stick around for a post-game of catch following the final pitch.
Following the series with Gary, the T-Bones will hit the road for a three city 10 game road trip to St. Paul, Gary and Sioux Falls before returning home on June 5 against Wichita.
Tickets are available online, by calling 913-328-5618 or by visiting in person the Providence Medical Center Box Office.
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Thunderstorm chances will increase Friday into Saturday as a storm system approaches the area, according to the National Weather Service.
Some storms may be severe, especially Friday night and Saturday with strong winds and large hail likely the biggest threats, the weather service said.
Today, it will be cool with a slight chance of rain. There is a 20 percent chance of showers between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. It will be partly sunny, with a high near 64, the weather service said, and a north northwest wind of 6 to 13 mph.
Tonight, expect mostly clear skies, with a low of 48 and a north northwest wind of 5 to 7 mph becoming calm in the evening, according to the weather service. There may be patchy fog after 5 a.m. Thursday morning.
Thursday’s forecast calls for a high near 76, the weather service said. Patchy fog may continue before 9 a.m., then skies will become sunny. A light south wind will increase to 5 to 10 mph in the morning.
Thursday night, there is a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1 a.m., according to the weather service. The low will be around 61 with a southeast wind of 5 to 8 mph.
Friday, there is a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1 p.m., with a high near 80, the weather service said. An east southeast wind of 5 to 7 mph will become northeast in the afternoon.
Friday night, there is a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1 a.m., with a low of 63, according to the weather service.
Saturday, there is a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, with a high near 78, the weather service said.
Saturday night, expect a 30 percent chance of showers and storms before 1 a.m., with a low of 56, according to the weather service.
Sunday, skies will be mostly sunny with a high near 76, the weather service said.
Sunday night, the low will be 56 with mostly clear skies, according to the weather service.
On Monday, Memorial Day, there will be mostly sunny skies with a high near 77, the weather service said.
Monday night, expect partly cloudy skies with a low of 54, according to the weather service.
