Month: November 2018

Santa to arrive Saturday at Cabela’s

Cabela’s in Kansas City, Kansas, will offer a Santa’s Wonderland with games and activities for children. Santa will arrive at the store at 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10. (Photo from Cabela’s)

Santa Claus is scheduled to arrive at 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, at Cabela’s, 10300 Cabela Drive, Kansas City, Kansas.

After arriving in front of the store in a boat, Santa Claus will participate in a tree lighting ceremony. Then Santa will open the Santa’s Wonderland section inside the Cabela’s store.

A number of free activities, including crafts and games for the family, are planned through 8 p.m. Saturday at the Wonderland area. The area will include remote control trucks, a laser-foam toy arcade and Lincoln Logs building area, among other games. Hot chocolate and cookies are planned.

There are also free photos with Santa Claus, and free visits with Santa.

Santa’s Wonderland will run through Dec. 24 at Cabela’s. Santa will appear daily, and a schedule will be posted at the Cabela’s store.

Chili dinner planned Nov. 10 at Grinter Place

A chili dinner is planned, with a veterans’ ceremony, from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, at Grinter Place, 78th and K-32, Kansas City, Kansas.

The cost of the dinner will be $8 for adults, $4 for veterans with ID, and $4 for youth under 12. Dinner will include a dessert and a drink. Hot dogs will be available for $2 and chili dogs for $2.50. Extra desserts or drinks will be $1.

Tours of the Grinter House will be available from 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. for $6 for adults and $3 for children.

A flag ceremony for veterans will be held at 4:30 p.m.

The event will include live music and a silent auction.

At 3 p.m. the Grinter walking trail will be dedicated.

Power outage reported in KCK

A BPU power outage map showed more than 6,000 customers without power around 2:30 p.m. Friday in Kansas City, Kansas.

A power outage affecting more than 6,900 customers was reported Friday afternoon in Kansas City, Kansas.

According to the BPU’s power outage map, 6,939 people were without power about 2:30 p.m. Friday, mostly in the central part of Kansas City, Kansas. More than 1,000 outage calls were made by customers, according to the power outage map.

According to a Board of Public Utilities spokesman, a substation went offline, and all power is now restored.

The outage lasted only about a half-hour in some places.