Category: Business

Kansas Speedway selected a winner in 35th annual Telly Awards

The Telly Awards has named Kansas Speedway as a bronze winner in the 35th Annual Telly Awards for the online commercial titled “Tailgate-Coolers-Midway.”

There were nearly 12,000 entries from all 50 states and numerous countries.

“Receiving a Telly award is terrific praise for our team,” said Kansas Speedway Vice President of Marketing and Sales Chris Schwartz. “Being recognized for online creative work is a testament to our agency partner Kuhn & Wittenborn and their understanding of and vision for our business.”

The winning commercial can be viewed by visiting the link below:
www.youtube.com/kansasspeedwaycom.

The Telly Awards were founded in 1979 and is the premier award honoring outstanding local, regional, and cable TV commercials and programs, the finest video and film productions, and online commercials video and films. Winners represent the best work of the most respected advertising agencies, production companies, television stations, cable operators, and corporate video departments in the world.

Tickets are currently on sale for Kansas Speedway’s June 7 IMSA races, the Oct. 3 ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards, the Oct. 4 Kansas Lottery 300 (NASCAR Nationwide Series) and the Oct. 5 Hollywood Casino 400, the fourth race in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. For more information, see www.kansasspeedway.com.

New barbecue restaurant to open in mid-June

A new barbecue restaurant, Slap’s, is planned at the site of the former Millie’s Cafe on Central Avenue in Kansas City, Kan. (Photo by William Crum)

by William Crum

Soon to open will be a new barbecue restaurant located at 553 Central Ave. in Kansas City, Kan. The name of the restaurant is Slaps Barbecue. This is the old location of Millie’s Café, which many might remember.
Slaps Barbecue is the dream child of three barbecue masters, Joe Pearce, Mike Pearce, and Brandon Whipple. All are from the Greater Kansas City area; both Joe’s and Mike’s grandmother is from the Strawberry Hill area in Kansas City, Kan.
“This is why we wanted to locate here because of my close ties to Kansas City, Kan. We are born-and-bred barbecue-fed,” Joe said.
Even though Joe, Mike and Brandon had only been together for not quite a year each has competed in various barbecue competitions throughout the area. Each one brings a lot of barbecue knowledge that will make this restaurant a truly unique pleasurable barbecue experience, especially for those who really enjoy good barbecue. Currently they are on the 2014 America’s pit masters barbecue competition where they compete with other barbecue teams throughout the nation. In fact it is a high honor for any team to compete on a national well known level.
The restaurant will offer barbecue like you would do in your backyard the old-fashioned way, where they have open smokers. They plan to be open for the lunch crowd, for the working man who has a 30 minute lunch. As of now their hours have not yet been determined, however they do plan to be open until they sell out.
This is a true example of the Wyandotte County experience where new businesses are opening up constantly in our community, making Wyandotte County a more livable community.

Registration open for Microsoft Excel class

by Kelly Rogge

There is still time to register for Kansas City Kansas Community College’s Microsoft Excel 2010 Level 3 course.

Students will increase their knowledge of Microsoft’s full featured spreadsheet program that is part of the Microsoft Office 2010 Suite of Programs. Using a hands-on approach, students will become familiar with using Pivot Tables, Macros, financial functions, data analysis, auditing and additional functions, advanced formatting and analysis tools, collaboration and more. Before registering for the Level 3 course, students must have taken Microsoft Excel 2010 Beginning Levels 1 and 2.

The Microsoft Excel 2010 Level 3 course is from 6 to 9 p.m. May 13, 15, 20 and 22 in Room 3619A in the Flint Building on KCKCC’s campus, 7250 State Ave. The cost is $75.

For more information or to register, call 913-288-7660 or visit KCKCC’s website, http://kansascity.augusoft.net/index.cfm?fuseaction=1010&&. Select the Computer Training option under the Community Education section for course information.