Month: March 2020

Spring break programs offered by Wyandotte County 4-H

Spring break sessions are being offered through the 4-H Youth Development Department March 16-20 at the Wyandotte County K-State Research and Extension Office, 1200 N. 79th St., Kansas City, Kansas.

Morning sessions will run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and afternoon sessions from 1 to 3 p.m. The programs will be centered on a “Plant and Animal Science Extravaganza” theme. Lunch will be provided from noon to 1 p.m.

Some sessions will be “for youth, by youth.” Youths currently enrolled in Wyandotte County 4-H will present the session, alongside an adult presenter.

Sessions are open to all youth in first through eighth grade, and a $5 class fee per youth allows students to attend as many sessions as they would like throughout the week. Sessions will be limited to 25 youth participants.

For more information or to register for the spring break sessions, visit
• County Extension website: https://www.wyandotte.k-state.edu/program_areas/4-h/spring_break_sessions/index.html
• Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/793568284463891/

For questions contact Jessie Carr, 4-H Youth Development Extension agent, 913-299-9300 Ext. 105, [email protected].

Breakfast will be served on opening day at the lake

Opinion column

by Lou Braswell, Leavenworth Road Association

The catfish have been delivered, the prediction is for great temperatures in the 60s, plus the Leavenworth Road Association is excited to be doing breakfast for opening day at Wyandotte County Lake, March 7, at the Marina Cafe.

The menu will be biscuits-and-sausage gravy, sausage patties, hash browns along with a choice of drink, coffee, milk or orange juice, all for $8, with a kid’s meal smaller portion for $5 for those under 10. 

The bonus we are offering during this event is that we will listen to your “fish stories,” real or fiction, and we will believe every word. 

Opening day at the lake is offered through the Unified Government Parks and Recreation Department.

Stop by the Marina to eat, visit and share your tales from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday, March 7. Wyandotte County Lake is located at 91st and Leavenworth Road in Kansas City, Kansas. Hours for fishing are 6 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. once the season opens.

LRA ( Leavenworth Road Association) is a registered not for profit, 501 (c) 3 organization, working in the community.  We have youth programs,, senior citizen and or disabled citizens and any of those in between. Our motto is, “We fill a lot of shoes on a shoestring budget.” This breakfast event helps our budget fill those shoes.

Our monthly meetings are held the second Tuesday of the month at Eisenhower Center, 2901 N. 72nd.  We start with a potluck dinner-social hour at 6 p.m. and follow with the meeting at 7 p.m.

This month, March 10,  Jeff Brownlee will be our guest speaker.  Brownlee is a retired Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department officer, who now travels the U.S. training on gang-related subjects. Learn to read the signs and how to identify gang-marked areas.

The LRA meetings are always open to everyone, membership is not required, but certainly appreciated.

Lou Braswell is the executive director of the Leavenworth Road Association. For more information about the LRA, visit https://www.facebook.com/LeavenworthRoadAssn.org/ or http://www.lrakck.org/ or call 913- 88-3988.

Mayor’s ‘KCK at a Crossroads’ community meeting to be tonight

The first of Mayor David Alvey’s “KCK at a Crossroads” community meetings is scheduled at 5:30 p.m. tonight at the Joe Amayo Argentine Community Center, 2810 Metropolitan Ave., Kansas City, Kansas.


The public is invited to join the mayor at meetings in March and April for a presentation of his vision for Kansas City, Kansas, his thoughts on the city’s current financial situation, where the city must go from here and how the city can get where it needs to be.


The mayor’s presentation will emphasize the community’s financial forecast and growth through economic development, according to a spokesman.


Following the presentation, meeting participants with questions regarding the Unified Government and its services will be able to visit one-on-one with representatives from 11 departments: the Mayor’s Office, Animal Services, Appraiser’s Office, Code Enforcement, Economic Development, Livable Neighborhoods, Parks and Recreation, Planning and Zoning, Police, Public Works, and the Sheriff’s Office.


Representatives from the Board of Public Utilities and some area school districts will also be available.


The mayor will hold five “KCK at a Crossroads” community meetings. The meetings will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on these dates:


• March 5 – Joe E. Amayo Argentine Community Center
2810 Metropolitan Ave., Kansas City, Kansas.
• March 10 – Bethany Community Center
1120 Central Ave., Kansas City, Kansas.
• March 24 – Northwest Middle School
2400 N. 18th St., Kansas City, Kansas.
• April 7 – Patricia “Diane” Kane Community Center
3130 N. 122nd St., Kansas City, Kansas.
• April 21 – USD 500 headquarters
2010 N. 59th St., Kansas City, Kansas.