Month: November 2017

KCKCC Music Department prepares for fall jazz concert

by Kelly Rogge, KCKCC

The Kansas City Kansas Community College Music Department is making final preparations for its Fall Jazz Concert.

The concert is at 7 p.m. Nov. 29 at the KCKCC Performing Arts Center, 7250 State Ave. It is free and open to the public, but donations will be accepted to go toward travel costs for several KCKCC ensembles who are going to the Jazz Educators Network National Conference in Dallas, Texas.

The concert will feature the Blue Devil Ensemble, Little Big Band, Jazz Combos and the Vocal Jazz Ensembles. In addition, there will be a pre-concert performance of the student solo jazz artists in the Performing Arts Center lobby. The solo performances will begin at 6 p.m.

For more information on the choral program at KCKCC, contact John Stafford at [email protected] or call 913-288-7137.

Homicide victim at 7th and Armstrong identified

A woman who was killed by gunfire near 7th and Armstrong at about 12:30 a.m. Nov. 28 has been identified, according to Kansas City, Kansas, police.

She is Tanna K. Moyer, 27, a resident of Overland Park, Kan., according to police.

A police spokesman stated that Moyer was inside a vehicle that was stopped by the Mission Police Department at an exit ramp of I-35 and Antioch Road. She was being rushed to the hospital by an acquaintance after having been shot at 7th and Armstrong, according to police.

The Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Division is investigating. Anyone with information is asked to call the TIPS hotline at 816-474-TIPS.

Yoder nominates 30 students to military service academies

Rep. Kevin Yoder, R-3rd Dist., has nominated 30 students to the U.S. Military Academy, U.S. Naval Academy and the U.S. Air Force Academy.

The list of students nominated to the academies today were all residents of Johnson County; no Wyandotte County students were named to the list. Last year, Emmett Lockridge III of Piper High School was nominated by Yoder to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

After receiving their nominations, the students must meet the requirements of each U.S. service academy to be considered for appointment, and the academies make the final decision on who receives an appointment.

Rep. Yoder will begin accepting applications for the 2019 Academy class on May 1, 2018. The application deadline is Oct. 1, 2018. For more information on the application process or to receive an U.S. Service Academy nomination application packet contact Susan Metsker in Rep. Yoder’s Overland Park Office at 913-621-0832 or visit www.yoder.house.gov.