Category: Communities

Community meeting planned on education March 27

“How Best to Access Success in Wyco,” a community meeting, will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. March 27 at the Dr. Thomas Burke Technical Education Center at Kansas City Kansas Community College, 65th and State Avenue.

A panel discussion will be sponsored by El Centro, KCKCC Advancement Council and MainStream Coalition on kindergarten through 16th year education in Wyandotte County and the effect of recent Kansas legislation.

Partnerships in the Wyandotte education community that help students succeed will be discussed. There will be a voter registration booth.

Guest speakers include Ed Marquez, director of admissions, Donnelly College; Superintendent Cynthia Lane, Kansas City, Kansas, Public Schools; and Joy Engel, assistant superintendent of the Turner Public Schools. The moderator is KCKCC President Doris Givens.

To register for the program, visit www.mainstreamcoalition.org under “Upcoming Events.” Reservations are requested but not required.

Fifty new prom dresses donated to Cross-Lines Community Outreach

Fifty new prom dresses have been donated to Cross-Lines Community Outreach. They are being sold at the Cross-Lines Thrift Store. (Photo from Cross-Lines Community Outreach)

Fifty prom dresses, worth about $450 to $500 each, were donated recently to Cross-Lines Community Outreach, according to Theresa Swartwood, Cross-Lines director of public relations and marketing.

The new prom dresses were donated by Teresa’s Bridals at Algona, Iowa, Swartwood said.

The store owner has family in the Kansas City community and wanted to help the area, she said.

Cross-Lines will make the dresses available to the public through its Cross-Lines Thrift Store, Swartwood said, where they will be sold for $50 each. It will be first-come, first-served for the dresses.

It will be just in time for proms, which will start in April.  The dresses could be worn to prom, or could be fancy dresses for 15th birthday parties or other special events, she added.

The same donor also gave many prom dresses about four or five years ago to Cross-Lines. At that time the agency had a prom dress drive, which has since been discontinued.

The Cross-Lines Thrift Store is at 628 S. Pyle, Kansas City, Kan. It is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 15.

Informational session on Affordable Care Act

Trained, certified healthcare navigators will be available from 5 to 7 p.m. on Monday, March 17, 5 at Wyandot Center, 1301 N. 47th St., Kansas City, Kan., for a question and answer session on the Affordable Care Act.

The event is open to the community and is sponsored by partners including Wyandot Center, the Wyandotte/Leavenworth Area Agency on Aging and the Kansas City Kansas Community College.

This event will be educational-informational. Participants will have the opportunity to sign up for one-on-one support in using the online Healthcare Navigator Tool to enroll in health insurance. Reservations are not required for the March 17 event.

Call 913-328-4624 for more information.