Category: Bonner Springs

Saturday events

Tiblow Days, run, parade, music and more continues Saturday in Bonner Springs
Tiblow Days continues on Saturday, Aug. 25, in Bonner Springs. A pancake, biscuit and gravy breakfast will be held from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. at the Community Center, Sunflower Room, 200 E. 2nd St., Bonner Springs. The Tiblow Trot 5-mile, 5K run and 2-mile walk will be held from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. A model train exhibit will be on display from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday at the Community Center, 200 E. 2nd St. Vendor booths will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with an option to stay open until 11 p.m. Saturday on 2nd Street, from Elm to Cedar and Centennial Park. The parade will take place at 9:30 a.m. from Lions Park to Nettleton to Oak. A car show on Cedar Street will take place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Awards will be presented at 2 p.m. Parade awards and group performances will be at 11:15 a.m. at Kelly Murphy Park, near the carnival. Scheduled to perform are the Gateway Highsteppers Drill Team, the Premiere Dance and Performing Arts, Bonner Springs High School cheerleaders and Dazzlers, and CMS cheerleaders. The carnival will continues from noon to 9 p.m. Saturday, with tickets and armbands available. The concert schedule from 6 to 11 p.m. will include the Johnny Dollar Band at 6 p.m., Dirty Blvd at 7:30 p.m. and Phylo Clark at 9:30 p.m. The concert is in Centennial Park near the caboose. Those attending may bring a lawn chair to the free concert. Most of the activities of Tiblow Days are in the downtown Bonner Springs area, on Cedar, Front, Oak and Nettleton streets, and 2nd and 3rd streets. For more information, visit https://www.bsedwchamber.org/tiblowdays.

Wild horse and burro sale continues Saturday at fairgrounds
A wild horse and burro sale continues Aug. 25 at the Wyandotte County Fairgrounds, 137th and Polfer Road, Kansas City, Kansas. The Bureau of Land Management is selling the wild horses and burros from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, Aug. 25. For more information on the Bureau of Land Management program, visit www.blm.gov/whb.

Family story time planned
Family story time will be from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 25, at the Main Kansas City, Kansas, Public Library, 625 Minnesota Ave. The story time is geared to children ages 2 to 6. For more library programs, visit www.kckpl.org.

Spanish singing lessons at the library
Spanish singing lessons are planned from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 25, at the South Branch Library, Conference Room B, 3104 Strong Ave., Kansas City, Kansas. Children who want to learn to sing may attend the free program. Sandra Zamora is the leader of the class.

Craft time planned for youth
Back-to-school crafts will be created by youth at a program from 1 to 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 25, at the Main Kansas City, Kansas, Public Library, 625 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, Kansas. Youth will make their own pocket journals and locker caddies. The program is for ages 18 and younger.

String art program offered
A string art program for children and youth is planned from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 25, at the West Wyandotte Library, 1737 N. 82nd, Kansas City, Kansas. To create a picture, strings will be used instead of paints.

Ice cream social planned
Christ the King Catholic Church, 3024 N. 53rd St., is planning an ice cream social after the 4 p.m. Mass Saturday, Aug. 25. There will be food, sloppy Joes, cake and ice cream, games and bingo.

Anthem artist to sing at T-Bones game Saturday
Joe Everson, anthem artist, will sing the “Star-Spangled Banner” while painting a picture of the flag on Military Appreciation Night at 7:05 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 25, at the T-Bones game at T-Bones Stadium, Kansas City, Kansas. Gates open at 6 p.m., with the anthem sung at 6:55 p.m. and the first pitch at 7:05 p.m. The T-Bones will play the Winnipeg Goldeyes. For ticket information, see tbonesbaseball.com, call 913-328-5618 or visit the T-Bones Stadium Box Office.

Sporting KC takes on Minnesota United Saturday in KCK
Sporting Kansas City will play Minnesota United FC at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 25, at Children’s Mercy Park in Kansas City, Kansas. For ticket information, see SeatGeek.com. The first 10,000 fans in attendance will receive a free camo bandana. At the match, military veterans will be recognized in a Sporting Salutes program with a special pregame ceremony honoring local veterans of World War II.

Previewing the Renaissance Festival

Costumed medieval characters performed a fiery dance at the Renaissance Festival preview Thursday night at the festival grounds in Bonner Springs. The Renaissance Festival opens Saturday, Sept. 1, at 130th and State, Bonner Springs. (Photo by William Crum)

Review
by William Crum

A Renaissance Festival preview held Thursday night at the festival grounds in Bonner Springs highlighted the excitement of fire dancers, the quaint and colorful medieval costumes, the magnificence of royalty, and the new dishes concocted for this season.

Costumed performers juggled fiery hoops while the festival’s royalty watched from balconies. Performers dressed in all walks of medieval life strolled through the grounds.

And the food designed for this year’s festival – a panini sandwich, pizza, turkey and dressing, and a hamburger – was very good.

The Renaissance Festival opens Saturday, Sept. 1, at 130th and State Avenue, Bonner Springs, and continues on weekends, plus Labor Day and Columbus Day, through Oct. 14.

The festival will be open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and on Columbus Day, the hours will be 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

For more information about the festival, visit http://www.kcrenfest.com/.

Costumed medieval characters performed a fiery dance at the Renaissance Festival preview Thursday night at the festival grounds in Bonner Springs. The Renaissance Festival opens Saturday, Sept. 1, at 130th and State, Bonner Springs. (Photo by William Crum)
Costumed medieval characters performed a fiery dance at the Renaissance Festival preview Thursday night at the festival grounds in Bonner Springs. The Renaissance Festival opens Saturday, Sept. 1, at 130th and State, Bonner Springs. (Photo by William Crum)
Costumed medieval characters performed a fiery dance at the Renaissance Festival preview Thursday night at the festival grounds in Bonner Springs. The Renaissance Festival opens Saturday, Sept. 1, at 130th and State, Bonner Springs. (Photo by William Crum)
More scenes from the Renaissance Festival preview Thursday night in Bonner Springs. (Photo by William Crum)
More scenes from the Renaissance Festival preview Thursday night in Bonner Springs. (Photo by William Crum)
More scenes from the Renaissance Festival preview Thursday night in Bonner Springs. (Photo by William Crum)
More scenes from the Renaissance Festival preview Thursday night in Bonner Springs. (Photo by William Crum)
More scenes from the Renaissance Festival preview Thursday night in Bonner Springs. (Photo by William Crum)
A panini sandwich is one of the foods served at the Renaissance Festival (Photo by William Crum)
Pizza is one of the foods served at the Renaissance Festival. (Photo by William Crum)
Turkey and dressing is one of the foods served at the Renaissance Festival. (Photo by William Crum)
A hamburger is one of the foods served at the Renaissance Festival. (Photo by William Crum)

Tiblow Days runs Thursday through Saturday in Bonner Springs

Tiblow Days, Bonner Springs’ annual celebration, runs from Thursday evening through Saturday in the downtown Bonner Springs area.

The event includes a parade on Saturday, as well as musical entertainment, a carnival, a car show, a 5K race, food vendors and vendor booths.

The event kicks off with a City Band Concert and ice cream social at 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 23, at Kelly Murphy Park, near 2nd and Elm streets. It is a free event, open to the public.

A carnival will run from 6 to 10 p.m. Thursday, with an armband and tickets available for purchase.

Friday, Aug. 24, events will include a mayor’s banquet at 6:30 p.m., the carnival from 6 to 10 p.m., and vendor booths from 6 to 10 p.m.

Parachute Adams will appear from 8 p.m. to midnight Friday, Aug. 24, at Kobi’s Bar and Grill.

On Saturday, Aug. 25, a pancake, biscuit and gravy breakfast will be held from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. at the Community Center, Sunflower Room, 200 E. 2nd St., Bonner Springs.

The Tiblow Trot 5-mile, 5K run and 2-mile walk will be held from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m.

A model train exhibit will be on display from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday at the Community Center, 200 E. 2nd St.

Vendor booths will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with an option to stay open until 11 p.m. Saturday on 2nd Street, from Elm to Cedar and Centennial Park.

The parade will take place at 9:30 a.m. from Lions Park to Nettleton to Oak.

A car show on Cedar Street will take place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Awards will be presented at 2 p.m.

Parade awards and group performances will be at 11:15 a.m. at Kelly Murphy Park, near the carnival. Scheduled to perform are the Gateway Highsteppers Drill Team, the Premiere Dance and Performing Arts, Bonner Springs High School cheerleaders and Dazzlers, and CMS cheerleaders.

The carnival will continues from noon to 9 p.m. Saturday, with tickets and armbands available.

The concert schedule from 6 to 11 p.m. will include the Johnny Dollar Band at 6 p.m., Dirty Blvd at 7:30 p.m. and Phylo Clark at 9:30 p.m. The concert is in Centennial Park near the caboose. Those attending may bring a lawn chair to the free concert.

Most of the activities of Tiblow Days are in the downtown Bonner Springs area, on Cedar, Front, Oak and Nettleton streets, and 2nd and 3rd streets.

The event is sponsored by the Bonner Springs-Edwardsville Chamber of Commerce. For more information, visit https://www.bsedwchamber.org/tiblowdays.