Community quilt show opens Saturday at Wyandotte County Museum

More than 60 quilts are on display at the community quilt show opening Saturday at the Wyandotte County Museum in Wyandotte County Park, 126th and State, Bonner Springs. (Photo from Wyandotte County Museum)

Saturday will be opening day for the community quilt show at the Wyandotte County Museum, located in Wyandotte County Park at 126th and State Avenue, Bonner Springs.

More than 60 quilts from the community are on display this year, said David Hartman museum curator. Many of the quilts are handmade.

One quilt, he said, is over 100 years old and will be shown inside a case. Another is made from men’s ties, he said.

Another distinctive quilt has Polish eagles, and a different quilt is made from handkerchiefs. One is a quilt that shows different aspects of 4-H, according to Hartman.

“We’ve had a really good variety of them,” he said. “Some are full length and some are hanging in a case.”

There isn’t a theme to the show this year, he said, except they are from the community and represent different areas in the community.

The community quilt show is open during regular hours at the museum. On Saturday, Oct. 5, the hours will be 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The museum is now open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays. It will not be open Sunday.

The Wyandotte County Museum is at 631 N. 126th St., Bonner Springs. For more information, call 913-573-5002.

More than 60 quilts are on display at the community quilt show opening Saturday at the Wyandotte County Museum in Wyandotte County Park, 126th and State, Bonner Springs. (Photo from Wyandotte County Museum)
More than 60 quilts are on display at the community quilt show opening Saturday at the Wyandotte County Museum in Wyandotte County Park, 126th and State, Bonner Springs. (Photo from Wyandotte County Museum)

40 authors featured at library’s Homegrown Reads program Saturday

About 40 area authors will be featured at the Homegrown Reads program on Saturday, Oct. 5, at the Main Kansas City, Kansas, Public Library, 625 Minnesota Ave.

The event will be from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday on the main floor of the library.

The event is free and open to the public.

Most of the authors will have their books on hand to sell, and will autograph books, according to Anne Lacey, a spokeswoman for the library.  There will not be authors’ readings.

This year, it’s mostly a new group of authors, with about one or two authors who have appeared in the program previously, she said.

“A number of them live here,” Lacey added.

Authors listed on the program:

Cheryl Alvarado

Megan Bannen

Sally Berneathy

Calogero Bradley

Becky Brinkley

Luann Cadden

Starla Carr

Shelley Coulter

Amy A.J. Culey

Darlene Deluca

Marcus Dickerson

Janice S. Ellis

C.L. Fails

Kenya Frazier

Jennifer L. Gadd

Stephenie L. Hardaway

Ronda Hassig

Grace Lajoy Henderson

Dr. Evelyn Hill

Lila Johnson

Niki Lenz

Masai Long

Sunni Delight Long

Dr. Bianca Smith Love

Joanna Marsh

Andy Marso

Brian McCann

Mary McConnell

Leah Merrill

Jerry Parrish

Kneika Robbins

Francis Robinson

Dr. Sondra B. Samuels

Vladimir Sainte

Lissa Sloan

Gwendolyn E. Squires

Joycelyn Strickland-Egans

Kendria Taylor

Nicole Tolefree

Joe H. Vaughan

Robert B. Way

Candidate forum to be Oct. 14-15 at KCKCC

A candidate forum will be held at 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 14, and Tuesday, Oct. 15, at Kansas City Kansas Community College.

The forum is sponsored by Business West and other neighborhood associations, KCKCC and the Wyandotte Daily Online.

The forum will be in the upper Jewell building at KCKCC, 7250 State Ave., Kansas City, Kansas.

Candidates for the Kansas City, Kansas, Board of Education (District 500) and the KCKCC Board of Trustees will be at the Monday, Oct. 14, forum.

Candidates for the Board of Public Utilities, Register of Deeds and Unified Government will be at the Tuesday, Oct. 15, forum.

The forums are not debates.

Candidates will have two minutes to make introductory remarks, then panelists will ask them questions. Then candidates will have one minute to make a closing remark.

The forum will be taped and replayed on the KCKCC public access channel, including on cable television and on YouTube.