Category: Bonner Springs

Saturday events

Community recycling, electronic recycling and shredding event planned Saturday
Electronics recycling will take place from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, March 10, at the Bonner Springs City Library, 201 N. Nettleton Ave., Bonner Springs, Kansas. Old and broken electronics items may be recycled from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, March 10, in the library’s back parking lot, with Surplus Exchange on hand. A list of accepted electronics items is available at the library, telephone 913-441-2665. Also a Community Shredding and Recycling Event is on Saturday and continues through Wednesday, March 14, at the Bonner Springs City Library. Bring in old bills, files, statements and envelopes and place them in secure carts during library hours. On Thursday, March 15, ProShred will bring a truck and shred the contents of the carts on site. For more information, see http://bonnerlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/RECYCLING2018.jpg.

Knitting class planned
A Shepherd’s Center knitting class is planned from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, March 10, at the West Wyandotte Library, Conference Room C, 1737 N. 82nd, Kansas City, Kansas.

Family story time planned
Family story time is planned from 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday, March 10, at the Main Library, craft room, 625 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, Kansas. This program is for ages 2 to 6. Participants will read stories, dance and sing.

Family Lego Club planned
Family Lego Club is planned from 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday, March 10, at the West Wyandotte Library, craft room, 1737 N. 82nd St., Kansas City, Kansas. Those participating will build what they want, with the Legos provided by the library. Participants may work on their own or build a s a team. All ages are welcome.

Spanish singing lessons scheduled
Spanish singing lessons are scheduled from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday, March 10, at the South Branch Library, Conference Room B, 3104 Strong Ave., Kansas City, Kansas. Thisprogram is for children.

Bilingual storytime offered
A bilingual storytime will be offered from 2 to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, March 10, at the Main Kansas City, Kansas, Public Library, craft room, 625 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, Kansas. There will be an hour of stories and songs in English and Spanish for children.

KCK schools to hold public ‘listening tour’ starting Saturday
Members of the Kansas City, Kansas, Board of Education will meet the district’s parents, students and community in a public listening tour starting on Saturday, March 10. The March 10 event will be from 1 to 3 p.m. at the South Branch of the Kansas City, Kansas, Public Library, 3104 Strong Ave., Kansas City, Kansas. The board will listen to what is important to parents, students and the community concerning the Kansas City, Kansas, Public School district. The listening tours will be a chance for the board to hear first-hand about important opportunities that could help inform future board priorities, a spokesman said. It also gives parents, students and the community a chance to meet new members of the board. Other listening tour dates include: Monday, March 19: 6 to 8 p.m. at Wyandotte High School, 2501 Minnesota Ave.; Saturday, March 31: 1 to 3 p.m. at Washington High School, 7340 Leavenworth Road; Tuesday, April 3: 10 a.m. to noon at the Central Office and Training Center, 2010 N. 59th St. Those unable to attend in person, can engage with the board by sharing their comments or questions during a YouTube Live event on the school district’s page: www.YouTube.com/KCKPSTV .

‘Wasted! The Story of Food Waste’ film and panel discussion to be March 10
A film and panel discussion on “Wasted! The Story of Food Waste” will take place at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 10, at the Bonner Springs City Library, 201 N. Nettleton Ave., Bonner Springs, Kansas. The new film by Anthony Bourdain may change the way people buy, cook, recycle and eat food. A panel discussion will follow the film. For more information, visit http://bonnerlibrary.org/wasted-film-screening/.

‘Shattering the Glass Ceiling’ program planned Saturday
A panel discussion will be part of a Wyandotte County Young Democrats program on “Shattering the Glass Ceiling” planned from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 10, at the Upper Jewell building at Kansas City Kansas Community College, 7250 State Ave. The program begins with a video forum discussion led by Aliyah Shaw, treasurer of the Young Democrats. Then a panel of female leaders in politics is planned, with invited guests including former Kansas City, Kansas, Mayor Carol Marinovich; State Sen. Pat Pettey, D-6th Dist.; Brooklynne Mosley, deputy executive director and coordinated campaign director for the Kansas Democratic Party; State Sen. Laura Kelly, a Democratic candidate for governor; Christal Watson, president of the Heartland Black Chamber of Commerce and deputy chief of staff for Mayor David Alvey; and Lauren Martin, political and data director for the Kansas Democratic Party. The panel will be moderated by Rashane Hamby. The program is open to the public. Those who would like to be a member of the Wyandotte County Young Democrats must be 15 to 35 years old, live in Wyandotte County, and be registered as a Democrat.

KCK school board to have special meeting Saturday
The Kansas City, Kansas, Board of Education has planned a special meeting at 3 p.m. Saturday, March 10, at the South Branch Library, 3104 Strong Ave., Kansas City, Kansas. At the meeting, the board will review responses to the requests for information and proposals for the superintendent search, and select firms or individuals to be interviewed.

Taco dinner fundraiser planned Saturday
A taco dinner and salami bingo are planned at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, March 10, at Holy Family parish, Monsignor Mejak Hall, 513 Ohio, Kansas City, Kansas. For a $15 donation, participants will receive a bingo card, a taco dinner including three tacos, rice and dessert, and a cold beverage. The event, for those over 21, is sponsored by the Holy Family Church Altar Society.

Wyandotte County Museum receives donation from Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma

Attending a $10,000 check presentation from the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma to the Wyandotte County Museum today were, left to right, Edwardsville Mayor John McTaggart, Rebecca Meditz, president of the Wyandotte County Historical Society and Museum, Unified Government Commissioner Mike Kane, Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma Chief Billy Friend, Kansas City, Kansas, Unified Government Mayor David Alvey, Unified Government Commissioner Melissa Bynum and Wyandotte County Museum Director Trish Schurkamp. (Staff photo)

Preserving the future of their past has been one of the themes of the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma, according to Chief Billy Friend.

As part of that historical preservation effort, today the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma presented the Wyandotte County Museum a check for $10,000. The museum is located at 126th and State Avenue inside the Wyandotte County Park at Bonner Springs.

Friend said one of his goals as a tribal leader is to make sure the next generations of the Wyandotte Nation know their history. For the past 10 years or more, he has brought busloads of Wyandottes to the museum to learn about their history, he said.

The Wyandottes were here primarily from 1843 through 1867, when the group split and some of the Wyandotte Nation moved to Oklahoma.

“This is an important part of our history,” Friend said. The period of 1843 through 1867 also was an important part of the history of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, and included the Civil War years. Those 24 years had a strong effect on the tribe, and there was a split in the Wyandotte Nation that occurred during those years, he said.

“Thank you for all you have done in helping us preserve the future of our past,” Friend said in presenting the check today.

The donation of $10,000 was presented on behalf of the tribe and the 7th Street Casino, which is located in downtown Kansas City, Kansas, at 7th and Ann Avenue.

Mayor David Alvey, who received the check with Museum Director Trish Schurkamp, expressed his thanks to Chief Friend and the Wyandotte Nation.

The circumstances that brought the Wyandottes to this area were not happy, and were fairly brutal, Alvey said, but “sometimes great things come from that, and your presence here now and your friendship here now is a great thing.”

“Today we are being honored by the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma and Chief Billy Friend,” Schurkamp said. Over the past years, the friendship that the museum and the Wyandotte Nation has built has prided itself on honesty, trust and stability, she said.

“I am and will forever be humbled by this alliance,” Schurkamp said.

Schurkamp said the $10,000 check will not be used for museum operations, but will go to a special Wyandotte County Museum fund that will help to fund exhibits and museum needs.

Program to tell of women’s role in Civil War

Diane Eickhoff, an independent author and editor from Kansas City, Missouri, will be the featured speaker when the Wyandotte County Historical Society meets at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 18, at the George Meyn Community Center, 126th Street and State Avenue, Wyandotte County Park, Bonner Springs. The program will tell of the women’s role in combat during the Civil War. The program will be free and open to the public.

by Murrel Bland

March is National Women’s History Month and the Wyandotte County Historical Society is sponsoring a special program that will tell stories of women who served in Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War.

Diane Eickhoff, an independent author and editor from Kansas City, Missouri, will tell of women who cut their hair, donned men’s clothing and reported for duty.

Other women served as scouts and spies or rode with their husbands and brothers. One of these women was Emma Edmonds, who settled in Ft. Scott after the war. Eickhoff tells how and why these women defied cultural norms of the day.

Women who participated in the Civil War will be the topic of a program March 18 at the George Meyn Community Center at Wyandotte County Park, Bonner Springs.

Eichkoff and her husband Aaron Barnhart are the authors of the book “The Big Divide,” a travel guide to historic and Civil War sites in the Missouri-Kansas border region.

Eickhoff also is the author of the book “Revolutionary Heart,” the story of Clarina Nichols. Nichols was a crusader for women’s rights and lived in the Quindaro community in the mid-1850s.

The program will be presented at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 18, at the George Meyn Community Center at 126th Street and State Avenue in the Wyandotte County Park, Bonner Springs. It will be free and open to the public. The Kansas Humanities Council is sponsoring the program in-part.

The society’s annual awards program also will be presented. Light refreshments will be served.

For more information, telephone 913-573-5002.