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Johnson County Community College hosts Horticultural Sciences Field Day Feb. 16
Story by Anne Christiansen-Bullers
JCCC OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - The politics of water, the business of landscaping and pest management, among other topics, will be discussed at the second annual Horticultural Sciences Field Day from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, at Johnson County Community College.
Speakers from academics, business and government will share varied topics related to horticultural science in the Capitol Federal Conference Center (Regnier Center 101).
The public is invited to attend, and admission is free.
Stuart Warren, professor/chair, Department of Horticulture, Forestry and Recreation Resources, Kansas State University, will present "Water Wars: Are You Ready?" at 10 a.m., followed by other industry professionals speaking throughout the day. Other speakers are as follows:
· 11-11:30 a.m. Larry Ryan, CEO, Ryan Lawn and Tree. "Marketing Horticulture."
· 11:30 a.m.-12: 15 p.m. Alan Stevens, director, Kansas State University Research and Extension. "Holiday Decorations and Flowers: Building Pride in Our Neighborhoods and Communities."
· 12:15-1 p.m. Dalton Hermes, CEO, Hermes Landscaping Inc., and Hermes Nursery. "Success in the Green Industry: What Employers Really Want."
· 1:30-2:30 p.m. Raymond Cloyd, professor, entomology, Kansas State University, "How insecticides work."
· 2:30-3:15 p.m. Rodney St. John, assistant professor, turfgrass science, K-State Research and Extension Center - Olathe. "Mythbustin' Lawncare."
· 3:15-4 p.m. Collin Wamsley, state entomologist, Missouri Department of Agriculture, "Exotic Pest Threats in the Midwest."
· 4:15-4:45 p.m. Donna Duffey, professor/chair, entrepreneurship, JCCC. "Make Money with Your Passion."
· 4:45-5:30 p.m. Jeff Vogel, program manager, plant protection and weed control, Kansas Department of Agriculture. "Invasive Horticultural Plants for Small Landscapes."
· 5:30-6 p.m. Jane Male and Frank Male, MAGICouncil, "Landscape Industry Certification."
· 6-7 p.m. Royan Teter, chief, pesticides program team, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Region 7. "Overview of the Worker Protection Standard, including Compliance Tips, Pesticides and Water Quality, and Pesticide Labeling."
The field day is sponsored by Hermes Landscaping and Nursery, Inc., Ryan Lawn and Tree, Suburban Lawn and Garden and JCCC's Center for Sustainability and College Now program.
More than 20 businesses will participate in the accompanying trade show.
The event organizer is Lekha Sreedhar, associate professor/chair, horticultural sciences, JCCC.
"Events such as this provide students exposure to the industry and excellent networking opportunities. Such commitment and participation from local businesses shows acceptance and recognition of our program at the regional level," Sreedhar said.
"Students who attended the event last year were thrilled at the excellent job opportunities the event provided," she said.
For more information about the field day, contact Sreedhar at 913-469-8500 ext. 3763, or atlsreedhar@jccc.edu.
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Californos:'The Korbel Black Party VII' EventKC's infamous Black Party is hosted by Californos and is brought to you by Korbel. The event promises not to disappoint and is considered by many as the New Year's party of the year.
Details: $80 per person/ $150 couple / $110/$210 VIP single in advance General Admission entitles guest to all three levels of entertainment, door prizes, balloon drop and more. VIP tickets include the GA package plus a ten piece dinner buffet, private rooms, private bars, and coat check, plus attendants. Purchase tickets in advance @ eventkc.com and hurry, the event sells out quickly. Harrah's Voodoo Lounge: 'Quixotic 2012 with Mini Kiss' Time: Doors at 9pm
Quixotic, Mini Kiss and DJ's to peform. Hors d'oeuvres from 9pm-11pm.
Tickets are $35 + service charges Hyatt Regency Downtown: This year’s celebration features four bands, four entertainment areas, 20,000 balloons unleashed at the stroke of midnight, indoor laser light show and pyrotechnic display. Cost: Starting at $75 per person. Dining and room packages available and vary in cost. Packages include:
Overnight accommodations
Two tickets to the New Year's Party
Midnight champagne toast
Two drink tickets per person for a total of 4 drink tickets
Dinner for two at Skies Restaurant This package can ONLY be booked thru the hotel's New Year's Eve Desk at 1-816-398-4770. Martini Corner: The Martini Corner's 2011 Countdown at the Corner Cost: $75, VIP $100
Includes: Access to all five Martini Corner Bars ( Velvet Dog, Tower Tavern, The Drop, Sol Cantina, Monaco) and unlimited domestic beer, house wine and wells. VIP and reserved seating available, as well as bottle service.
Time: 9pm-3am Rock the Clock 2012 at Union Station:Union Station's Rock the Clock features Flashback KC. Everyone will enjoy premium bars, a martini lounge, indoor fireworks show, and champagne toast at midnight. General Admission includes 2 free drink tickets and General Admission Plus include unlimited drinks. Tickets start at $79. KC Live! on the Power and Light Live Block: KC Live! On the Red Carpet Bash Cost: No cover to get into the Live! Block. The P&L will have quite the extravaganza on NYE. Most restaurants and bars in the district will have their own parties, but the Live! Courtyard does it up right. They'll have four bands, laser light shows, the ball drops at midnight, and that crazy cash cannon. Call 816.471.7300 for all info. New Year's Eve at the Temple:95.7 The Vibe and CrazyKC.com host NYE 2012 at the Scottish Rite Temple (1330 Linwood). Over 2,000 folks will party the night away with 3 Levels, 8 party areas, 7 five hour open bars, 3 award winning DJ’s playing top 40/dance/mashups, party favors, gigantic dance floors, laser lights and free parking. Tickets are $100.12 and may be purchased online at www.nyekc.com Mosaic
Power and Light District
Reserved tables and bottle service available.
Reservations encouraged, call 913.568.4870. Tengo Sed Catina
Power and Light District
Red Light District NYE
No Line, No Cover with VIP All-access pass. Doors open to public at 10pm.
Reservations required.
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Gardner, Olathe, Overland Park, Leawood, Lenexa, Shawnee, Mission, Merriam, Prairie Village, Basehor, Tonganoxie, Lansing, Leavenworth, Spring Hill, Eudora, De Soto, Edgerton, Platte City, Smithville, Gladstone, Liberty, Riverside, Independence, Lee's Summit, Pleasant Hill, Raymore, Belton, Grandview, Raytown, Waldo and the surrounding Kansas City communities.
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Christmas in the Park at Longview Lake in Lee's Summit has long been a favorite holiday tradition of Kansas Citians. With over 300,000 glowing bulbs and 175 animated figures, your family will love the lights and will be amazed at the enchantment and wonder of it all. Christmas in the Park truly is a Winter Wonderland. Plan enough time. There typically is a long line. Christmas in the Park Hours:
Sunday-Thursday: 5:30-10pm Friday-Saturday: 5:30-11pm Longview Campground is located at Longview Lake, I-470 and View High Drive.
RE/MAX sells more homes than any other real estate company.For a reason...should we talk?Blog post written by the Dowell Taggart Team of RE/MAX Premier Realty Comments are appreciated! Go ahead and add your 2 cents . . .We have 3 easy steps to find you the perfect home . Click here to get started, today!Short sales, foreclosures, luxury homes, investor homes, first time home buyer homes, land, investment properties and move up buyers.
Gardner, Olathe, Overland Park, Leawood, Lenexa, Shawnee, Mission, Merriam, Prairie Village, Basehor, Tonganoxie, Lansing, Leavenworth, Spring Hill, Eudora, De Soto, Edgerton, Platte City, Smithville, Gladstone, Liberty, Riverside, Independence, Lee's Summit, Pleasant Hill, Raymore, Belton, Grandview, Raytown, Waldo and the surrounding Kansas City communities.
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The Farmers Airship, the world's largest airship and one of only two Zeppelins in the world, will make a historic stop in the greater Kansas City area as part of the Farmers Airship Covering Communities Tour -- a six-month journey which will take the world's largest airship across the United States and back.
The Farmers Airship will arrive in the area on August 29, and be based at Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport in Kansas City, MO until September 4.
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KANSAS CITY REAL ESTATE & BUSINESS POWER PLAYERS NETWORKING EVENT
Get your tickets now for Thursday, September 1 when MetroWireMedia presents Power Players, a networking happy hour honoring a select group of professionals in Kansas City real estate and business. Our event will be held in the Muehlebach Suite at the Boulevard Brewing Company. Tickets are $25/person and include appetizers, wine, unlimited Boulevard beer and a souvenir pint glass. Prices to increase at the door, so click here or the ad to the right to purchase your tickets and save a few bucks!
Terry Dunn, JE Dunn
David Block, Block & Co. +3
Mike Burson, The Weitz Co
Jeff Stingley, CB Richard Ellis
Joy Hays, Polsinelli +1
John Engelman, KCPL
Meridith Cimino, City Wide
Jamie Clark, IronStone Bank
Ora Reynolds, Hunt Midwest
Blaine Degnan, City Wide
John Alexander, Property Trak
Tom Rirodan, Smith Barney
Bob Rodriguez, ACS +3
Bob Dunn, JE Dunn
Margaret Bowker, JE Dunn
Wayne Bennett, Continental Title +3
Doug Boyd, Junk Architects
Randy Bunch, M&I Bank
Joy Thompson, Design Mechanical
Brian Votava, Briarcliff Development +2
Randy Waldorf, Secured Title
Mike Stephenson, Priority Envelope
Jason McFatter, Paychex
Bryan A. Barnes, MetroWire Media
Steve Dunn, JE Dunn
Katy Ryan, MetroWire Media
Radd Way, The Weitz Co
Doug Wesselschmidt, Shawnee EDC
Joe Nolke, ECA Services
John Novak, JE Dunn
Bob Paradise, Paradise Asphalt
Evan Warwick, Colliers International
Marshall Mallory, Cerner
Kelli Post, Konrady's
Dirk Schafer, JE Dunn
Mitch Shipman, Blue Beetle +1
Jenn Shorrock, Embassy Landscape
Jon England, Colliers International
Bill Iler, Design Mechanical
Rob Junk, Junk Architects
Chris Briley, Smith Barney +1
Steve Kelly, Geotechnology
Tom Stephenson, Principal Financial
Stephen Marshall, John A. Marshall Co +1
Mary Moore, JE Dunn
Gary O'Dell, Jones Lang LaSalle
Kathleen Musgrave, The Weitz Co
Valerie Mussett, Design Mechanical
Ann Spivak, MetroWire Media
Andrew Nave, Shawnee EDC
Charlie Nielsen, CWPS +1
Jay Ferguson, Ferguson Property Group
Ryan Nab, Granite City
Kathleen Foland, Presentations KC +2
Joe Orscheln, CB Richard Ellis
Lisa Franklin, KCPL
Jennifer Slansky, City Wide +1
Pam Snell, Secured Title
Steve Soby, Midland Companies
Travis Steele, Masco Maintenance
John Stephenson, CRES Management
Scott Branton, Junk Architects
Patrick Redetzke, Universal Forrest Products +1
Mike Briscoe, McCown Gordon
Susan Brown, Brightergy +4
Steve Gatvoulis, Kramer & Frank +1
Joe Gray, McConnell & Assoc +3
Mike Haverty, JE Dunn
Glenn Hibben, Nebraska Furniture Mart
Bob Mayer, MR Capital Advisors
Brad Heinze, Phoenix Metals
Larry McMillin, Dean Realty Co
John Middleton, Secured Title
Linda Moore, Secured Title
Justin Kauffman, LANE4
RE/MAX sells more homes than any other real estate company.For a reason...should we talk?Blog post written by the Dowell Taggart Team of RE/MAX Premier Realty Comments are appreciated! Go ahead and add your 2 cents . . .We have 3 easy steps to find you the perfect home . Click here to get started, today!
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The ABC television program “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” is considering several families in the Kansas City area for an extreme home makeover.
Extreme Makeover will kick of their next build with an “Extreme Makeover Pep Rally” at 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 19, at the Overland Park Convention Center, 6000 College Blvd.
The Pep Rally will showcase M.A.C. Corporation and Canyon Creek Construction, LLC, co-builders and primary partners for this project, who have been selected to carry out the build. The Pep Rally will also highlight trade partners, volunteers and key participants. The public is invited to attend the free event open to all ages.RE/MAX sells more homes than any other real estate company.For a reason...should we talk?Blog post written by the Dowell Taggart Team of RE/MAX Premier RealtyComments are appreciated! Go ahead and add your 2 cents . . .We have 3 easy steps to find you the perfect home . Click here to get started, today!
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Featuring FIFI, the only flying B-29 Superfortress Bomber and P-51 Mustang Gunfighter!
Fun for the entire family! Saturday, July16, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.Sunday, July 17, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. CAF hangar at New Century AirCenter6 Aero PlazaNew Century, KS 66031(159th and Old 56 Highway) 913-907-7902 - The hangar is on the North end of the AirCenter.
FIFI - the only flying B-29 will be on our ramp and doing rides in the mornings (it gets hot in the bomber on 90 degree days).
Here are a few pics I took of FIFI this morning: | | FIFI, B-29 SuperFortress Bomber |
 | | My daughter, Cassie, said "This plane is big." |
Go checkout the Air Expo this weekend! RE/MAX sells more homes than any other real estate company.For a reason...should we talk?Blog post written by the Dowell Taggart Team of RE/MAX Premier RealtyComments are appreciated! Go ahead and add your 2 cents . . .We have 3 easy steps to find you the perfect home . Click here to get started, today!
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Grassroots fundraiser to help Olathe, KS. Salvation Army
Project ONE, a one-day grassroots fundraiser, intends to help the Olathe Salvation Army feed families in the community.
Valerie Bentley, Olathe, initiated the one-day fundraiser to encourage every resident in Olathe to donate $1, on one day, June 25, to help fund the Salvation Army food pantry in Olathe. Volunteers in more than two dozen business locations on June 25 will accept donations. Bently moved from difficult financial times a few years ago.
The following locations are accepting donations for Project ONE on June 25th:
First National Bank of Olathe (drive-thru and lobby)444 E. Santa Fe11970 S. Blackbob Road110 N. Clairborne Road14670 S. Harrison15084 S. Blackbob Road175 N. Parker (inside Price Chopper)Decker Chiropractic13025 S. Mur-Len, #100Green Lantern Car Wash13512 S. Blackbob RoadStarbucks15094 S. Blackbob Road14605 W. 119th StreetWal-Mart13600 S. Alden395 N. K-7 HighwayHy-Vee16100 W. 135th StreetIn addition, First National Bank of Olathe, Green Lantern Car Wash and Decker Chiropractic are accepting donations during regular business hours the entire week of June 20.
For more information, go to: http://www.kccommunitynews.com/johnson-county-sun-news/28298284/detail.htmlRE/MAX sells more homes than any other real estate company.For a reason...should we talk?Blog post written by the Dowell Taggart Team of RE/MAX Premier RealtyComments are appreciated! Go ahead and add your 2 cents . . .We have 3 easy steps to find you the perfect home . Click here to get started, today!
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Merlin Entertainments is snapping up the chance to open a $15 million Legoland Discovery Center at Crown Center in Kansas City.
The Kansas City attraction will be the fourth Legoland in the country and marks a significant play in the Kansas City market for Merlin, which claims to operate attractions that draw more than 30 million visitors worldwide.
“They were so impressed with Kansas City after reviewing the area when they made the Sea Life deal, so it’s a totally new addition,” said Jerry White, senior retail adviser for Colliers International. White has represented Merlin as it expands into the Kansas City market.
Glenn Earlam, managing director of Merlin’s Midway Attractions Operating Group, said Crown Center’s true mixed-use development is a prime attraction.
“The Legoland Discovery Center concept is already successful in both Europe and elsewhere in the USA, and I know people will love it here,” he said in a release. “North America is a very important development market for Merlin, and we believe that Kansas City, and particularly Crown Center, is a great location for us.”
The Legoland center will be geared toward families with children ages 3 to 10 and will feature an interactive and educational two- to three-hour indoor experience.
According to Kansas City Business Journal archives, efforts have been afoot for more than five years to bring a Legoland attraction to the region. Developers have unsuccessfully proposed Legoland-anchored retail attractions in Olathe and Lee’s Summit.
Sea Life and Legoland Discovery Center will occupy the first two floors of Halls department store; Halls has consolidated into the third level of the Crown Center Shops.
The cost of attending Legoland at Crown Center has not been established.
Both attractions are slated to open in the first half of 2012, with construction beginning this month.
Read more: Legoland Discovery Center is planned for Kansas City’s Crown Center | Kansas City Business Journal
RE/MAX sells more homes than any other real estate company. For a reason...should we talk?
Blog post written by the Dowell Taggart Team of RE/MAX Premier Realty
Comments are appreciated! Go ahead and add your 2 cents . . .We have 3 easy steps to find you the perfect home . Click here to get started, today!
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Free Kids’ Bike Helmets on 6/20/09 Kohl’s Department Store in Lee’s Summit is having a free Bike Smart event this Saturday, June 20, 2009 from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. Your kids can get free bike helmets (while supplies last) and learn about Read More...
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Free College DayApril 18, 2009 Johnson County Community CollegeThank you, Johnson County, for 40 wonderful years! To show our appreciation, take a class – it’s on us! As part of Johnson County Community College’s 40th anniversary celebration, Read More...
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....Anxiety, pressure....THAT LAST GREAT GIFT IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER....You're bummed out, and the next stop os the food court....Just a quick drink, maybe a light lunch..... The irrestiable smells wafting from around the corner lure you in like Read More...
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After witnessing an awesome Tour de France (my family and I were glued to the TV), the State of Missouri is putting together an elite race that people in the USA usually can only see on TV. I have seen the Tour of Georgia and people in the cycling community Read More...
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