April 11, 2019
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City Hires Finance Director Steven Craig has accepted the position of Finance Director with the City of Grain Valley. Craig has worked in municipal government since 2005. He began his career, after obtaining a Master Degree in Public Administration, in the City of Cabool, Missouri as their Economic Development Director. He then worked in Camdenton, Missouri where he was hired as the Assistant City Administrator/ Economic Development Director and later promoted to City Administrator. Craig most recently worked in Oak Grove where he fulfilled the duties of City Administrator and Finance Director for the past 10 years.
Craig will be filling the position which will be vacated by Cathy Bowden. Ms. Bowden will retire, effective May 31st, after nearly 8 years of service to the City. She and Craig will work together for the first few weeks of his employment to ensure a smooth transition. “I look forward to working with Steven and know that his work experience will be a great asset to Grain Valley. He has a passion for local government and does not take for granted the degree of responsibility to the citizens he holds in a position such as this,” City Administrator Ryan Hunt said. Mr. Craig will assume his new position at City Hall on May 6th.
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Good News
D.A.R.E. Students Transform Waste Into Benches for Community
School Board Elects Officers School Board Directors Julie Groff and Michael Hackett, who were re-elected April 2nd, took the Oath of Office at a workshop by the School Board April 4th to begin their next three-year term.
The Board also elected their officers for the next year. Eddie Saffell was selected to serve as President, Michael Hackett as Vice President, and Tisha Homfeld as Secretary.
GVPD Officer Daniel Iiams rests on one of the two community benches D.A.R.E. students helped create by collecting hundreds of pounds of plastic caps and lids. The pilot project was spearheaded by Officer Iiams as a way to get students involved in a service project and show how seemingly small things can add up to create a big change in a community. Each bench is made from approximately 200 pounds of plastic lids and caps collected by local D.A.R.E. students. The benches will be placed at Grain Valley North and Grain Valley South Middle Schools. Photo credit: Valley News Staff
City Wide Clean-Up To Be Held June 1st
Pictured Left to Right: Superintendent Marc Snow, school board members Julie Groff and Michael Hackett. Photo credit: Grain Valley Schools
The City of Grain Valley will hold its annual City Wide Clean-Up event Saturday, June 1st from 8:00am—11:00am. This free community event is for Grain Valley residents to dispose of unwanted items. Proof of residency (water bill or driver’s license) is required. Metal recycling is available. Residents are asked to bag loose
items, such as insulation and other small items. Items that are not accepted include tires, paint, oil, refrigerators, air conditioners, bagged trash and yard waste or clippings. Senior Citizen Curbside pick-up is available on Thursday, May 30th and Friday, May 31st, but must be scheduled before May 28th by calling 816-847-0091.
Local News
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Police Blotter
The following information is derived from the Grain Valley Police Department daily calls for service log for the week of March 27—April 2, 2019.
Honoring Our Vietnam Veterans On March 29, Americans observed National Vietnam War Veterans Day. This holiday, established in 2017, calls us to remember those who served during the Vietnam War and the sacrifices they made to serve our country and preserve the freedoms we enjoy for the next generation. We can never fully repay these brave individuals for those sacrifices, but I think it’s the least we can do to honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice. That is why on April 25, the Missouri General Assembly will host a ceremony to honor and recognize these individuals. Veterans who served on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces from Nov. 1, 1955, to May 15, 1975, regardless of location, are encouraged to attend. Official recognition will be provided to all veterans in attendance by the Department of Defense. To RSVP, Vietnam Era veterans are encouraged to register by April 10 through the Missouri Veterans Commission website, or by calling 573-522-4228 or 573-522-1421. In other news, the Department of Revenue is now issuing REAL IDcompliant driver’s licenses. While DOR is offering these new forms of licenses, that does not mean you have to get one. Missourians will be able to choose whether or not to get a REAL ID the next time they renew their licenses. Depending on the type of license an individual chooses, there may be consequences. A REAL ID-compliant
license meets federal ID standards and will allow you to board planes or access federal facilities; a non-compliant ID may lead to you being denied entry in the future. Even with REAL IDs now available, you do not need to get one immediately. Current non-compliant Missouri IDs will continue to be accepted for things like air travel until Oct. 1, 2020. With that date well into the next year, Missourians will have plenty of time to decide for themselves if a REAL ID is right for them. Lastly, as you are probably aware, there has been some confusion regarding Missouri’s withholding tax tables over the past few months, affecting the amount of taxes an individual may owe the state for 2018. As this confusion is being sorted out, I would like to share that the Missouri Department of Revenue will not impose penalties for underpayment of estimated tax, provided that the taxpayer has paid at least 80 percent of the tax owed by April 15, 2019. The standard threshold is 90 percent. Other modifications will be done on a case by case basis. For more information, I encourage you to call DOR at 573-781-7200. Please feel free to contact my office in Jefferson City at (573) 751-1464. For information about committees or sponsored legislation for the 2019 session, please visit my official Missouri Senate website at senate.mo.gov/ Cierpiot.
GVPD Welcomes New Officer
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Officer Michael Staat was sworn in as a new officer with the Grain Valley Police Department (GVPD) during the April 9th Board of Aldermen meeting. Pictured Left to Right: Police Chief James Beale, Officer Michael Staat. Photo credit: City of Grain Valley
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Looking Back: Stony Point and Pink Hill Schools by Marcia Napier Grain Valley Historical Society
Excluding the “resort towns” of Lake Lotawana and Lake Tapawingo, Grain Valley is the youngest town in Jackson County. The mostly straight-line railroad tracks built by the Chicago and Alton Railroad to connect Oak Grove (Lickskillet) and Blue Springs by-passed the villages of Pink Hill to the north and Stony Point to the south. Pink Hill was placed on the map by the United States Post Office in 1854, and in the same year the first school was built. George Love and Asbury Neer plated a town of 40 lots on 10 acres where present day Pink Hill and Kirby roads intersect northeast of Grain Valley. Lot 19 was reserved for the school. On August 25, 1863, Union General Thomas Ewing, Jr. issued Order Number 11. Union troops marched through Pink Hill burning homes, businesses and the school. Residents were forced to leave their homes, many moving to Lafayette County. Some returned after the Civil War. The 1877 Jackson County atlas listed a population of 482 men and 484 women in the village of Pink Hill and the map indicated a school replacing the one that had been burned. At the Grain Valley Historical Society there are old photographs of Pink Hill students beginning in 1912. There is also one showing that the school existed in
the mid-1940s. I have not found any documentation for the exact date when the Pink Hill School closed, and the students came into Grain Valley for their formal education. Jacob Franklin Gregg was born at Stony Point, March 22, 1844. In his biography, it states that he received his education at the Stony Point School. Little has been written about the school so exact dates of operation are vague. In 1870, James H. Cannon came from Virginia by way of Pennsylvania (his mother’s home) teach at Stony Point. After only one year he became Postmaster at Stony Point and proprietor of the mercantile. Although the town disappeared when Mr. Cannon moved his store to the railroad in 1878, the Stony Point school continued to provide an education to the children in the area. In 1931, Erma (Baumgartner) Doty was a 12-year old student at Stony Point when she wrote an essay titled the “History of Stony Point.” A copy of her story is on display at the Grain Valley Historical Society. Again, documentation for the exact date of the school closing is unknown, but some old-timers believe it closed at the beginning of the United States involvement in World War I.
Students from Pink Hill School pose for a class photo in 1917. Photo credit: Grain Valley Historical Society
The Grain Valley Historical Society Museum, located at 510 Main Street, 10am— is open Wednesdays from 10am —3pm and by appointment. Society’’s website, www.grainvalleyhistory.com, Visit the Historical Society and follow the Society on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram (@grainvalleyhistory).
Next Week: Learn about Oak Hill School.
Thrift Shop for a Good Cause at NeNe’s Attic Thrift store enthusiasts will soon have a new place to explore when NeNe’s Attic opens later this month. The shop will be located at 110 South Buckner Tarsney Road in the Old Towne Marketplace. Owner Sheri Schneider is a passionate thrift store shopper, and is excited to take the leap to own her own shop. “I’ve worked for the Blue Springs School District for the past 15 years. I love my co-workers, and I’m sad to go, but I’m looking forward to the challenge,” Schneider said. It was her husband’s encouragement to create something for herself that pushed her to open the business. “Ever since we’ve been married, my husband has asked me what I wanted to do for myself. I could never come up with an idea, and one day he asked me ‘What do you like to do the most?’. I said, ‘I love to go to thrift stores.’ I’m a big thrift store shopper. He gave me this look, and a light bulb just came on, and I knew what I wanted to do.” The store name comes from Schneider’s grandson.
“I knew I didn’t want to be called Grandma, but I didn’t know what I wanted to be called. Sure enough, when he started talking, he called me NeNe, and I’ve been NeNe ever since,” Schneider said. Local animal shelters, including Grain Valley Animal Hospital, will receive proceeds from the store, and Schneider is planning on hosting pet adoption days on Saturdays. Donations of clothing, accessories, household items, books, and toys can be delivered on Saturdays from 10:00am— 2:00pm. Mattresses and major appliances are not accepted. Schneider hopes to be open on April 27th and will establish additional drop off times once the store officially opens for business. Store hours will be Tuesday—Friday 10:00am –7:00pm, Saturdays from 9:00am—6:00pm, and Sundays from 10:00am—3:00pm. For more information on NeNe’s Attic, visit their Facebook page at www.facebook.com/nenesattic.
NeNe’’s Attic will open in late April at NeNe 110 South Buckner Tarsney Road in the Old Towne Marketplace. Local animal shelters, including Grain Valley Animal Hospital, will receive proceeds from the store, and Schneider is planning on hosting pet adoption days on Saturdays. Photo credit: Valley News Staff
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Drivers Urged to Give Turtles a Break The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) is urging drivers to be cautious on the roads this spring and be on the lookout for turtles. These reptiles are often hit by cars during the warmer months but are at special risk this time of year because they are more active. Common turtles spotted crossing Missouri roads include three-toed box turtles, ornate box turtles, and snapping turtles. Turtles emerge from their burrows and begin the hunt for food and mates during warm and wet conditions, which can lead them to cross roadways, oftentimes resulting in their death. Thousands of box turtles are killed every year by vehicles. Vehicles are one of the leading factors in box turtle declines, and MDC urges motorists to be cautious and slow down when they see a turtle in the road. If helping a turtle make it safely across, check for traffic and move the turtle across the road in the direction it is traveling. For more information on Missouri’s turtles, visit the MDC online Field Guide at nature.mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/fieldguide/search/turtle.
Business News
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Grain Valley Schools Celebrate Retiring Employees
Grain Valley Schools Class of 2019 retirees were honored during a reception April 4th. Photo credit: Grain Valley Schools
Grain Valley Schools honored its Class of 2019 retirees at a reception April 4th. Pictured left to right are: Linda Pierce, media specialist at Stony Point; David Allen, PE teacher at Prairie Branch; Michael Abbott, counselor at South Middle School; Debbie Smith, reading specialist at Sni-A-Bar; Michelle Knox, gifted education teacher at Stony Point; Kathryn Nicolaus, math teacher at GVHS; Carolyn Dunbar, special education at Matthews; Doug Chandler, district operations; Cathy Lynch, Valley Kids at Prairie Branch; Diane Logan, secretary at Matthews; and Carolyn West, speech/language pathologist at Matthews. Not pictured is Bradley Clark, district operations.
2019 Permit Activity Higher than 2018 With 1,184 residential units permitted in the first two months of 2019, the metro area activity has increased compared to 2018. The first two months of 2018 saw 876 units permitted according to the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City, which is 26 percent lower than the current year. North Kansas City recorded the highest number of permits during the first two months of 2019 with 240. Lee’s Summit, Grandview, and Spring Hill were also top permitting cities with 175, 160, and 108 permits, respectively. Grain Valley reported 5 single family unit permits in February 2019.
Business News is provided weekly by the Grain Valley Partnership, whose mission is to be a leader in the growth of Grain Valley. The Grain Valley Partnership is located at 1450 SW Eagles Parkway, and can be reached by phone, 816-443-5162 or via email at info@growgrainvalley.org.
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Upcoming Partnership Events: April Coffee Connection Friday, April 19, 2019 8:00am—9:00am Grain Valley Cosentino’s Price Chopper Annual Banquet Friday, April 26, 2019 6:00pm—11:00pm Adams Pointe Golf Club Reservations due April 12th Kissick Classic Friday, May 3, 2019 Adams Pointe Golf Club
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Education & Youth
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Operation Prom Night Provides Graphic Lesson for Students As the school year begins to wind down, the excitement of prom is on the minds of many high school students. While students may be focused on finding the perfect outfit or securing a date, police and first responders are focused on ensuring they make wise choices when they get behind the
wheel. Area police and emergency management agencies partnered with theatre students from Grain Valley High School on April 10th to present a graphic simulation to impress upon juniors and seniors the dangers of impaired driving. The simulation exercise occurs every
other year in the spring and involves students playing out the moments following a collision. Grain Valley High School Resource Officer Steven Thompson along with fellow School Resource Officers Shawnda HayesDonnell and Daniel Iiams and Captain Jeff Palecek coordinated the effort with
Photo credit: City of Grain Valley
support from Grain Valley High School administrators. Central Jackson County Emergency Management Agency, Missouri State Highway Patrol, Santa Fe Tow, Life Flight, and Royer Funeral Home assisted in the effort as well.
Photo credit: City of Grain Valley
Students Learn Local History During Study of Our Town Students in James Roberts’ 11th grade American Literature classes received a hands on opportunity April 8th—9th to learn more about life at the turn of the 20th century . The classes are beginning a study of Our Town, the 1938 play by American playwright Thornton Wilder, which is set in fictional Grover’s Corners in the early
1900’s. “We’re starting our study of Our Town, and they pantomime everything in the play. And these students have never snapped beans before, or pushed a push mower before, so they have no sense of how to do those things. And Grain Valley is almost identical to how Grover’s Corners is depicted in the play: a bank, a drug store, a grocery store. We have this wonderful asset that people don’t know very much about, and I want these students to connect with this place. My dream would be that this is a place that they come back to,” Roberts said. Grain Valley Historical Society volunteers, led by volunteer Marcia Napier, staffed several areas in the museum that depicted life in the 1800’s and 1900’s. A display of old schoolbooks, gradebooks, yearbooks, and a manual typewriter gave students a sense of what school was like in the early 1900’s. A push lawn mower was a popular demonstration item, as was the stereoscope. A stereoscope is a device for viewing a pair of separate images Historical Society volunteers shared depicting left and right eye views of the same scene, as a single 3-D image. information on artifacts found at the Students also sampled ice cream museum and described what life would floats and used primary sources to have been like for residents in the late draft maps of the original layout of 1800’s/early 1800’s/early 1900’s. 1900’s. Grain Valley. “I was surprised at how small Grain Photo credit: Valley News Staff
As a part of their visit to the Grain Valley Historical Society, students drafted maps 1800’s. of the downtown area as it would have appeared in the late 1800’ s. Photo credit: Valley News Staff Valley was,” junior Noah Humphrey said. “We did this two years ago, and it was so successful, I wanted to do it every year. The Historical Society’s museum has so much more on display now than they did even two years ago. They’ve improved it so much,” Roberts said. “We’ve had all of this material. It was just in storage and not displayed as well,” Napier said. “This is a very timely play to study.
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Thorton Wilder wrote this at the end of the Great Depression as a look back at a simpler time. When he wrote this play, there were rumblings of the Third Reich rising in Europe. If you look at where we are today, we also facing troubling times and look back to the past as a simpler time,” Roberts said.
Community Voices
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Wayne’s World
Monkey See Monkey Do by Wayne Geiger
I love bananas and probably eat at least one per day. I add them to my oatmeal or blend them up in smoothies. I also like to eat them with peanut butter. My wife insists buying organic bananas. In addition to not being subject to synthetic fertilizer, insecticides, and herbicides, organic bananas are also not sprayed with synthetically made ethylene gas to make them ripen more quickly. Organic bananas have to ripen naturally. So, you have to buy them with they’re pretty green. The other day, I grabbed a banana for my morning routine. The entire bunch was a little green and I picked what I felt was the ripest one. I yanked on the stem in an attempt to pry it open, but only ended up smashing the tip of the banana. Frustrated, I tried to cut a groove into the stem with my fingernail. Didn’t help. I reached for the drawer to grab a knife—and then I remembered, “Wait! I’m doing it wrong. I know better!” My mind flashed back to a video I saw years ago on how to properly open a banana. The right way to open a banana is to open it like a professional—like a Monkey! Who would know better than a monkey, right? Monkeys, I’m told, don’t open the banana from the stem, but from the other side. The person on the video showed how easy it was to pinch the non-stemmed end of the banana and then peel it open. It’s actually pretty simple and works great! It should be a case of monkey see, monkey do. Whatever that means. The phrase, “monkey see monkey do” is a phrase we incorporate into our vernacular from time to time. Generally, it’s in reference to someone who mimics another person. For example,
if a six-year-old stands on the chair to reach the cereal in the pantry and your four-year-old tries to do the same thing, you might say, “Well, look, monkey see, monkey do” and then, probably laugh. But the phrase didn’t start out as a laughing matter. Wikipedia suggests that the phrase, monkey see, monkey do, is a West African folklore from Mali where a hat salesman, attempting to sell his stock of hats, decides to take a nap under a shady tree and places his box of hats on the ground. During his restful slumber, ornery monkeys come in and steal his hats in order to play with them. They toss them back and forth and try them on, etc. Upon awakening, the salesman is startled and infuriated that the monkeys have captured his hats and source of income. In anger, he gestures with his hands and screams. The playful monkeys, in turn, mimic him and gesture and scream back. The salesman feels as if he’s being mocked and, in desperation, stamps his foot and throws his hat to the ground. The mimicking monkeys do the same. The salesman, seizing the opportunity, collects his hats and departs. Hence, monkey see, monkey do. The winner in the story is the salesman. His superior logic empowered him to outwit the monkeys. So why can’t I learn this lesson? It’s one thing to forget something. What’s worse is, when I forget the same thing over and over. I learned the banana trick years ago. It was life-changing and, if you’ll pardon the pun, very apeeling. Unfortunately, it didn’t become a habit. I had the knowledge, but it did not transform my behavior. It seems that my default banana peeling position is from the stem. And, then
from time to time, I would remind myself to open it properly—like the monkey. So, why do I have to keep relearning this lesson? Is it my age? Is my brain reacting negatively to the missing insecticides and herbicides? The Curious George in me needed to know. I think it comes down to two things. First, the payoff. Researchers suggest that it’s easier to keep doing a bad or potentially destructive habit because there is an immediate payoff. For example, some potentially harmful habits cause the brain to emit the neurotransmitter dopamine that gives you that “aahh” feeling. As Pink Floyd would suggest, we’ve become “comfortably numb.” The payoff is immediate, and we enjoy it. Opening a banana gives me no such thrill. Perhaps, if it were a timed, Olympic event, that might help. The second problem is tradition. All of us like tradition because it provides comfort. We are all creatures of habit and like doing the same things over and over. We get stuck in a rut. The 7 last words of a traditionalist are, “We’ve never done it that way before.” My wife’s and my eating habits are different, but we feel comfortable in the way we do it. Both of us are stuck in a rut. My wife likes to eat one thing at a time until it’s completely consumed. For decades, I have tried to convince her of the error of her ways and tried to get her to come to a more reasonable and sensible conclusion and eat like me. She refuses and argues, “I like the way I’m doing it. I eat what I like best and then move on to the next item. If I get full, I’ve eaten what I wanted the most.” Although a sensible argument, it lacks spontaneity and zest. It’s boring. In contrast, I like to alternate my food
from one thing to another—taking a well-rounded approach. I eat in unpredictable patterns and kind of go with the flow. Each bite is different. There are no predictable patterns. I also like to mix my foods. For example, I love to stab a piece of meat, use it to scoop some mashed potatoes, and them dip them into my pile of corn. Another potential Olympic event. Strangely, my wife finds my approach somewhat animalistic and barbaric. So, what happens when an immovable object meets an unstoppable force? They have dinner together. But, both of us find great comfort in our tradition. Neither of us are willing to change. But, back to bananas, trying to remember to properly peel a banana should not be overly difficult. I simply have to find a way to find the immediate payoff and break out of the routine. Or, do I? Maybe my default is by design. Maybe, over time, humans have observed these primates peeling peculiarities and decided we could do better. We know, we just like the way we’re doing it. After all, the stem does kind of look like a handle or even a telephone. And, remember, peeling from the bottom does require us to open it upside down. Finally, do I really want to regress backward into the food chain and accept the eating etiquette of a primate? Certainly not. Perhaps, in my desire to mimic the monkey see, monkey do mentality, I may unwillingly, become a monkey’s uncle. On second thought, maybe I’ll just have an apple.
Wayne Geiger is the Pastor of First Baptist Church Grain Valley, an Adjunct Associate Professor of Speech at Johnson Country Community College, and a freelance writer.
Sports
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Lady Eagles Down Smithville Warriors 1-0 by John Unrein
A solid team effort afforded the Lady Eagles Soccer Team a close home win on Tuesday, April 9th. Smithville spent much of the first half on the attack in Grain Valley territory. Junior Goalkeeper Raegan Beeding put up a shutout against Smithville as the Eagles had the advantage in shots on goal 10 to 9. She consistently put herself in correct position and was solid in batting down balls and beating defenders to the spot for saves. Beeding was also vocal in communicating with teammates on field. “Reagan in goal was phenomenal again tonight. She’s as steady as you go. There’s a reason why she’s signed to the Division One Level,” Head Coach Tyler Nichol said. The shutout was supported by the sure-footed efforts of Senior Defender Brittney McKay along with Junior Defenders Kierra Arndorfer and Kami Drollinger. Their hustle along with placement on the field blocked passing lanes for Smithville much of the evening. They were all also aggressive in charging the ball and coming up with key stops and steals against Smithville advances. “Kierra Arndorfer is a rock for us as a captain and holding down the midfield kind of role. She controls a lot of things in the game as a quarterback for us. Kami Drollinger was rock solid tonight. She along with other teammates have been battling through being sick,” Nichol said. Grain Valley’s offensive efforts on the night were also highlighted by multiple players. Junior Forward Kailey
Sophomore Midfielder Raena Childers scored the lone goal in the second half, helping the team defeat Smithville 11--0. Photo credit: Valley News staff Larson was active in the second half, pushing the ball into the Warriors zone and putting pressure on their defense. Larson was not to be outdone by Midfielders Madison Shields and Sophomore Midfielder Raena Childers. Shields provided a nifty no look assist to Childers who put a solid strike on the ball for a goal at the 22-minute mark in the second half. This would be all the offense the Lady Eagles would need to secure the win 1 to nil. “We went back to the fundamentals in the second half. We stopped missing passes by five yards and connected on them which allowed us to keep the ball more. The goal being scored also gave us a burst of energy for the next five to ten minutes of the half,” Nichol said. “Maddie Shields is a technical player for us. She hardly ever gives the ball away. She’s sharp on the ball and good
GVHS Track & Field Continue Winning Streak at Fort Osage Grain Valley High School’s Track & Field team continued its winning streak on April 10th at the Fort Osage Invitational. As one of the smallest schools in the competition, the Girls remained undefeated and the Boys team came in second, just behind Blue Springs. Karlie Romines continues to break
records in the Girls Javelin competition, breaking the school record for the second meet in a row with a throw of 118’8”. The Boys 4x200 Relay team of Tyler Luke, Nate Booker, Logan Pratt, and Kendall Schrader came in first with a time of 1:30.05.
in possession. Her doing the right thing at the right time led to the goal.” The Lady Eagles soccer team moves to a 6-4 record on the season and are currently 4-0 in conference. Their next opponent will be the Kearney Bulldogs who visit on Thursday, April 11th. Kearney competed at the Class 3 level of the state tournament last year. They
“Kierra Arndorfer is a rock for us as a captain and holding down the midfield kind of role. She controls a lot of things in the game as a quarterback us.”” - Tyler Nichol, Head Coach for us. Photo credit: Valley News staff will present a solid matchup for the Eagles as they try to keep momentum and defend their home field.
Community Calendar April 11, 2019
Census Records Research Mid-Continent Public Library Grain Valley Branch 2:00pm—3:00pm Register: www.mymcpl.org/events
April 13, 2019
Animal CSI: What You Learn From a Skull Mid-Continent Public Library Grain Valley Branch 10:30am—11:15am Register: www.mymcpl.org/events 16th Annual Cruising for Grads Car Show Grain Valley High School, 551 SW Eagles Parkway Noon Registration begins at 11am; $20 entry fee for cars. Spectators are free. Raffle drawings, food, car show to benefit Project Grad. Trivia Night Grain Valley High School Doors open at 6:00pm; Games begin promptly at 6:30pm Entry fee: $100 per team/table Mulligans: $10 for 10 (one per game) 16 years and older Cash awards for 1st and 2nd place teams. 50% of proceeds benefit scholarships for 2019 graduating seniors; 50% help provide shoes for students in need. Email Jan Reding, janreding@earthlink.net or call 816-225-0713. Registration deadline: April 5th.
April 15, 2019
Senior Coffee Weekly on Mondays Grain Valley Community Center, 713 S Main 9:00am—11:00am Time to visit with friends and make new ones. Free.
Senior Yoga Weekly on Mondays Grain Valley Community Center, 713 S Main 10:30am—11:15am $2 or Free for SilverSneakers, Silver & Fit, and Renew Active Members
April 16, 2019
Park Board Meeting Grain Valley Community Center 713 S Main Street 7:00pm
April 22, 2019
Board of Aldermen Meeting Grain Valley City Hall, 711 Main Street 7:00pm
April 24, 2019
Planning and Zoning Commission Meeting Grain Valley City Hall, 711 Main Street 6:30pm
April 27, 2019
Drug Take Back Event Grain Valley Police Department parking lot, 711 Main Street 10:00am—2:00pm Bring prescription and over the counter medications for safe disposal. No syringes. No questions asked.
May 1, 2019
Senior Citizen Luncheon Grain Valley Community Center 713 S Main Street 11:30am—1:00pm RSVP to 816-847-6293 or info@cityofgrainvalley.org.
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