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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/.

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.

Wild horse and burro sale coming to Wyandotte County Fairgrounds Friday and Saturday

These wild horses are among about 50 that will be for sale on Friday and Saturday at a Bureau of Land Management event at the Wyandotte County Fairgrounds, 137th and Polfer Road. (Photo from Bureau of Land Management)

A wild horse and burro sale on Aug. 24 and 25 is something that Wyandotte County hasn’t seen in a long time.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management is bringing wild horses and burros to a sale at the Wyandotte County Fairgrounds, 137th and Polfer Road, this week, according to Crystal Cowan of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

The sale will begin with an auction at noon Friday, Aug. 24, then continue through 6 p.m. Friday, and again from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday, Aug. 25, she said. After the auction at noon Friday, the horses and burros will be for sale on a first-come, first-served basis, she said. The fairgrounds is east of K-7 highway, east on Polfer Road to the fairgrounds at 13700 Polfer Road.

About 50 horses and burros from western states will be available for sale to good homes, with fees starting at $25. All the animals are untrained, Cowan said.

According to the Bureau of Land Management, excess animals are periodically removed from the range in order to maintain healthy herds, and to protect other rangeland resources. The population of wild horses and burros would double every four years without the adoption and sale program and herd reduction program.

The adoption and sale program is essential for achieving these important management goals, according to the agency. Since 1973, the BLM has placed more than 235,000 of these animals in approved homes across the country.

Those who want to purchase an animal will receive an application to fill out, along with information about what it takes to care for an animal, a place for an animal such as a barn or corral, and how to feed an animal. Buyers should bring a stock trailer to take the animal home.

The BLM will accept payments in checks, cash and credit cards, she added. The animals will be staying at the fairgrounds while the sale takes place.

“The folks are very nice to work with and we’re excited to be here,” she said.

Often, 4-H members attend the wild horse and burro sales and purchase an animal, usually a yearling, for $25, then raise it and show it at the fair, she said. The youth are able to sell the animal at the end of the project, if they wish, she added.

For those who live in Kansas City, Kansas, there are zoning rules that apply to having an animal on the property, including rules about how much property is necessary for an animal. The city requires a permit if property is not zoned for agriculture. For information, visit https://library.municode.com/ks/wyandotte_county_-_unified_government/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=CH7AN. There are also stables in the area where animals might be boarded.

For more information on the Bureau of Land Management program, visit www.blm.gov/whb.