Kansas City Community: Local Scribes & Faithful Workers

For our most loyal readers we want to reiterate an important message that's often overlooked amid our constant wave of news regarding violence, corruption and controversy: 

Kansas City is home to so many good people doing wonderful, selfless good deeds for the community. 

Here are just a few examples that don't even begin to scratch the surface . . .

Content creator makes school supply wishlist webpage for Kansas City teachers, over 450 sign up

Over 450 Kansas City-area teachers have added their Amazon wishlists for their classrooms to a webpage a local content creator made to help teachers out as they head back to school.

Cross Pollination: Wonderscope exhibit helps kids appreciate insects

Interactive learning concept sponsored by local pest management company

Hickman Mills, other KC-area school districts gear up for school year with hiring events

Hickman Mills School District joins other Kansas City-area schools hosting job fairs this month, with teaching positions in science, math and special education among the highest priorities.

Habitat for Humanity starts building 14 affordable homes in Olathe

Habitat for Humanity has already accepted the first homeowner for the workforce housing project at 159th Street and Black Bob Road.

Overland Park quilters collect supplies to help Missouri prisoners create quilts for kids

A group of OP quilters is sending tons of quilting supplies to a prison in Licking, MO, who quilt blankets for kids.

Independence Pizza Ranch holding fundraiser for infant with rare liver disease

An Independence family says their 8-month-old is fighting for her life and needs a new liver.

Olathe leadership club with 100% graduation rate builds up students by building bikes

The Olathe Leadership Lowrider Bike Club returned home last week from the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C., where they participated in an event focused on youth and future culture.

Combat Pilot Flys High at KCPD

Simecek served four years in the Air Force as a Security Forces Specialist before joining the Platte County Sheriff’s Office. While there, he earned his degree in Criminal Justice from Missouri Western State University. However, after almost four years at Platte County, Simecek joined KCPD, his “land of opportunity.”

Community Blood Center: Urgent need for Type O donors

The Community Blood Center says hospitals' supply of Type O blood is dangerously low across Kansas and Missouri.

Popular Free Writing Classes Return in August

Nearly 500 Library patrons attended free writing classes during the 2024-2025 school year. Those classes are back in August.

Photos: Make48's Women in STEM at KCAI

Photo by Shea McGraw Make48 hosted a Women in STEM event at the Kansas City Art Institute (KCAI) where seven teams are, according to the Make48 website, challenged to "build a physical prototype , create a sales sheet, produce a one-minute marketing video and pitch their big idea to a panel of judges" to compete for a spot a nationals...

Augustinian Sisters participate in 5K as part of Fiesta kickoff - The Leaven Catholic Newspaper

The 5K was started by the late Paul Griego, a member of Our Lady Guadalupe Parish in Topeka.

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