Category: Communities

Up to 95 jobs to open at new Argentine Walmart market

The new Walmart Neighborhood Market in the Argentine area of Kansas City, Kan., will hire up to 95 associates, according to a news release.

The store plans to open in the summer. A temporary hiring center has opened at 2414 S. 34th St., Suites B and C, Kansas City, Kan.

Applications are being accepted from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Interested applicants also may apply online at http://careers.walmart.com.

Through Walmart’s Veterans Welcome Home Commitment, the company will offer a job to any qualified veteran who has been honorably discharged within the past 12 months.* Interested veterans may find out more at http://walmartcareerswithamission.com.

According to store manager Deryk Cogdill, the store will be hiring both full- and part-time associates. “Walmart jobs are more than just simply ‘a job’—these jobs can lead to great career opportunities,” Cogdill said. “Walmart will work with you to help you excel. I started out as a cart pusher and now I’m managing a brand new Walmart Neighborhood Market.”

Walmart provides a benefits program to eligible full- and part-time associates. For example, it provides a variety of affordable health and well-being benefits including health-care coverage with no lifetime maximum. Walmart also offers eligible associates matching 401(k) contributions of up to 6 percent of pay, discounts on general merchandise, an Associate Stock Purchase Program and company-paid life insurance. Additionally, eligible associates receive a quarterly incentive based on store performance.

The majority of new associates will begin work in August to help prepare the store for its grand opening, a spokesman said.

Veterans must be within 12 months of active duty and meet Walmart’s standard hiring criteria, according to the spokesman.
– Information from Walmart

Nearly half-million in casino grants to go to charities

Grants from the Hollywood Casino at Kansas Speedway totaling $492,929 were approved recently to be spent in Wyandotte County.

The Hollywood Casino Grant Selection Committee, which is through the Unified Government, selected the award recipients, and the grants were unanimously approved by the Unified Government Commission. This year, 17 of 39 grant applications were approved for funding, according to UG officials.

The theme of the grants continued to be promoting health in Wyandotte County.

Some minor changes were made to the grant selection process this year, and the process also will be under study for the future, according to UG officials. There is some commission support for evaluating the results of the grants.

Joe Connor, who coordinated the grant selection committee for the UG, said there had been some changes to the application process and requirements. This year, there may be more oversight of how the funds are spent, and the results of the programs.

This year’s approved grant recipients include:

– Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas, “New Roots for Refugees Program,” $50,000;

– The Family Conservancy, “Healthy Parents, Healthy Kids,” $25,000;

– Caritas Clinics (Duchesne Clinic), “Evidence-Based Diabetes Prevention,” $45,000;

– Kansas City Community Gardens Inc., “Healthy Gardeners Wyandotte,” $30,000;

– Bethel Neighborhood Center, “Youth Fit 4 Life,” $39,000;

– Southwest Boulevard Family Health Care, “Let’s Exercise; Expanding Family Health Care Fitness,” $23,200;

– Freewheels for Kids Inc., “Healthy for Life,” $20,000;

– El Centro Inc., “Promotores de Salud,” $29,679.14;

– Turner House Clinic Inc., “Turner House Healthy Lifestyles,” 32,500;

– The Menorah Legacy Foundation, “The Kansas City Beans and Greens Program,” $20,000;

– Riverview Health Services Inc., “Diabetes Education and Disease Management Program,”$45,000;

– Downtown Shareholders, “KCK Farmers’ Market,” $23,540;

– Harvesters, “Harvesters’ Wyandotte Healthy Eating Programs,” $25,000;

– YMCA, “Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health,” $20,000;

– Rosedale Development Association Inc., “Rosedale Healthy Kids,” $30,000;

– Bike Share KC, “Safe Routes to School: Access and Implementation in KCK,” $25,000;

– Shepherd’s Center of Kansas City, Kan., “Activity for Healthy Aging,” $10,000.

For a list of all the applicants, see the UG agenda for the June 5 meeting, page 11, online at www.wycokck.org under Public Meetings, agendas, Board of Commissioners.