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- Huge Lego exhibit opens Friday
- November 13, 2007
An underwater world finds a home in Shawnee.
- Marathoner’s next race: Antarctica
- November 13, 2007
Summer doesn’t mean much in Antarctica: temperatures can drop below zero, even colder with the wind chill.
- Road work moving at last
- November 13, 2007
One of the items on Shawnee’s 2007 to-do list is finally moving forward.
- SMNW eliminated from playoffs
- Second half turnovers prove costly for Cougars, who finish football season with 9-2 record
- November 13, 2007
- Somewhere down the line it will sink in. Members of the 2007 Shawnee Mission Northwest football team will realize what they accomplished last season. The Cougars will enjoy what they built - moving the team from a 1-8 season in 2004 to a 9-2 season this year. They will realize they were one of the best football teams in Kansas. They will relish it. However, last Friday night was not that time. After a frustrating fourth quarter against Olathe North at Shawnee Mission North District Stadium, the Cougars were eliminated 32-16 in the Kansas 6A Quarterfinals. The loss ended the season for the Cougars and caused tears and emotion to be exhibited by players as they walked off the field for the last time. Northwest coach Aaron Barnett expressed regret that the Cougars lost without playing their normal, disciplined style of football. “We picked a bad night to do some things that were very uncharacteristic of what our team has done all year,” Barnett said. “Our heart and desire was there, it’s just our execution wasn’t.” The Eagles scored 22 points off turnovers in the second half, opening the door opening the door for a North offense that was efficient on the ground. The game began like the barnburner most experts were expecting between the two one-loss teams. There were just two possessions in the first quarter.
- Principal throws his hat into the ring for Legislature
- November 13, 2007
Mill Valley High School Principal Joe Novak is looking for a new job - in the Kansas Legislature.
- Cougars playoff loss hurts, but doesn’t diminish season
- November 13, 2007
- Coaches tell players all the time how they should feel after a loss. Usually, they are just winging it, recalling sage words of the past. Wisdom that maybe an old coach told them. Losing a final game of a high school career is a rite of passage. There are tears and speeches. There is not anything that anyone can say to make the situation better. Shawnee Mission Northwest football coach Aaron Barnett knows this as well as anyone. “I usually prepare speeches with the idea that we are going to win,” he said to his team. “I don’t prepare them with the idea that we are going to lose.” No good coach does. Emotions flowed for the Northwest football team after the 32-16 loss to Olathe North. How could they not?
- Rural homeowners struggle with high costs of extending water lines
- November 13, 2007
In some small pockets of Shawnee, a daily shower isn’t necessarily a guarantee.
- Owen Donohoe will run again
- November 13, 2007
- Owen Donohoe, R-Shawnee, announced Tuesday afternoon he will run for re-election to his 39th District seat in the Kansas Legislature.
- Don’t make it easier for thieves
- November 13, 2007
- It’s that time of year again - the time of year where the weather has turned cold and people are warming up their vehicles, leaving them running and unattended in driveways, parking lots, and at convenience stores.
- Saints football is family affair
- Cousins shuffle in at quarterback for St. Thomas Aquinas football team
- November 13, 2007
- St. Thomas Aquinas wide receiver Beau Bourquin was playing quarterback earlier this season. He was tabbed as the team’s starter and preparing for the first game of the year.
- Class notes
- November 13, 2007
- News from area schools
- Monticello Trails Middle School honor roll
- November 13, 2007
- First quarter honor roll
- Local police officers prepare for boxing matches
- November 13, 2007
- Olathe firefighter David Miller is preparing to fight his stepbrother on Saturday night for charity. Miller is fighting Stewart Bloomfield of the Shawnee Police Department for charity, to help raise money for families of men who work in the line of duty and may one day need the funds assistance. The brothers will fight three one-minute rounds and judges will score the fight. Neither has ever boxed in a match. “I always wanted to do it, never the time or the opportunity, something fun,” Miller said. They began training about six months ago and told trainers they wouldn’t mind sparring in a match against each other. Now, the fight is a week away. The brothers have been talking back and forth a little bit.
- SMNW applies for IB program
- November 13, 2007
- Students at Shawnee Mission Northwest High School might soon have more course options.
- Little chance of district split, officials say
- November 13, 2007
- Although some patrons in the De Soto School District have expressed their desire for two separate districts to serve the east and the west sides, the odds are against it happening.
- Cityside Briefs, Nov. 14, 2007
- November 13, 2007
- Shawnee Knights of Columbus, Kaw Prairie Community Church, Johnson County Park and Recreation and more
- Cougars ready to learn basics of wrestling
- Coach Newcomb and athletes make quick move to wrestling after football
- November 13, 2007
- Shawnee Mission Northwest coach Howard Newcomb moved from prowling the sidelines to prowling the mats all in the course of one weekend. In the three previous years Newcomb, the Cougars’ head wrestling coach and an assistant coach with the 9-2 Cougar football team, had several weeks to make the transition from sideline coach to mat room coach. However, with the success of the 2007 Cougar football team Newcomb hasn’t had much time to rest. “If we had won on Friday I would have had to make wrestling practice start later,” Newcomb said. “I would have wanted to be on the field for Coach Barnett at practice in the afternoon. As it is we’ll get the ball rolling after school on Monday.”
- Library seeks public input
- November 13, 2007 in print edition on A2
- The Johnson County Library is undertaking a strategic planning process this fall to set direction for the next three to five years.
- Kaw Valley League coaches name Nash, Huff to first team
- November 13, 2007
- Spencer Nash has been Mill Valley’s go-to scorer the last few years. He was a force in the team’s lineup during his senior season. Opposing teams designed defenses to catch him off sides with trapping formations. He drew double teams, but found ways to score goals. He led the Jaguars with 17 goals in the season and also had four assists.
- ‘Fiddler’ sweeps awards for Theatre in the Park
- Show wins 9 prizes
- November 13, 2007
Theatre in the Park presented its annual Demmi Awards and announced its 2008 season at its Celebration of the Stars event Saturday.
- Tours offered with new exhibit
- November 13, 2007
- The Johnson County Museum of History, 6305 Lackman Rd., is offering two programs to coincide with its newest exhibit, “Coming of Age in Johnson County,” which focuses on the county’s history in the 1960’s and 70’s.
- Mill Valley front line players named to Kaw Valley League football team
- November 13, 2007
- A pair of lineman headline Mill Valley’s list of selections to the 2007 Kaw Valley League football team. Joe Yarsulik was a first-team selection for his play on the offensive line. The 225-pound senior played a pivotal role in the team’s offense. The offense featured the league’s leading rusher in Nicholas Woods and wide receiver Miles Malec.
- Out & About Calendar, Nov. 14, 2007
- November 13, 2007
- Upcoming events at local venues, libraries and museums.
- SMNW coaches begin practice with week of player auditions
- November 13, 2007
- Shawnee Mission Northwest boys basketball coach Ben Mesek will not call the first week of practice tryouts. Rather, they are practices. Sure, Meseke and his staff will make decisions on who will represent Northwest on the varsity, junior varsity, and freshmen squads, but they’ll also be teaching this first week. Players who are hoping to make the teams can prove their worth by adapting to Meseke’s system of play. “I’ve always called them practices, but we’ve got tryouts along with them,” he said. “With new kids or kids who didn’t come out last year the first thing we look at is fundamentals, but we also want to see how fast they are picking things up.”
- Jaguars players shine in all-star match
- November 13, 2007
- Mill Valley volleyball players Jen Volmer and Kaitlin Stacy completed their volleyball careers by playing with the best players in the Kansas City area Monday. The players participated in the Kansas and Missouri All-Star game and helped the Kansas team win the five game match, 3-2. For the first time since 1999, the game was decided by the fifth game. The match scores were 18-25, 25-19, 21-25, 25-23, 15-10. Volmer played the libero position. She played in the first and third games.
- Hereford House, Vintage Stock open in Shawnee
- November 13, 2007
- Two Midwestern chain businesses have completed their moves to Shawnee locations.
- Business Briefs, Nov. 14, 2007
- November 13, 2007
- Shawnee Mission Medical Center holds “topping out” ceremony, locals graduate from Leadership Kansas and more.
- Giving girlz
- Fourth graders raise money to help children in need
- November 13, 2007
- When fourth-graders Ellie Gossman and Kaitlyn Kuhl saw a little girl with cancer help other children who were sick on “Extreme Makeover Home Edition,” they figured they could do it too.
- De Soto picks top artwork for administrative building
- November 13, 2007
- Students in the De Soto School District received recognition for their artwork at the Nov. 5 school board meeting.
- Private school calendar
- November 13, 2007
- Thursday/15 ¢ St. James Academy - Community School of Faith, 7 p.m. ¢ St. James Academy - Eighth grade parent night, 7 p.m. ¢ St. Joseph - PTO meeting, 7 p.m.
- The ‘Other Holiday’
- November 13, 2007
- Amidst all of the Holiday sales and hoopla, sandwiched somewhere between the Zombie Prom Kings and the Baby King is a little holiday that we used to know as Thanksgiving. It wasn’t Turkey Day or the Lions vs. Cowboys NFL tradition day. Instead, it was a day when we took time to truly reflect on that which we are grateful for.
- Shawnee Mission school calendar
- November 13, 2007
- Wednesday/14 ¢ Shawanoe book fair, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. ¢ Shawnee Mission North National Merit Reception, from 3 to 4 p.m. ¢ Shawnee Mission North Advanced Repertory Theatre Original Sketch Comedy, 7 p.m. ¢ Shawnee Mission Northwest financial aid night, from 7 to 9 p.m. ¢ Trailridge late start, 10:45 a.m.
- De Soto school calendar
- November 13, 2007
- Wednesday/14 ¢ Clear Creek book fair. ¢ Monticello Trails Site Council meeting, 4:15 p.m. ¢ Prairie Ridge Caring and Sharing food drive.
- Thanksgiving’s roots in war
- November 13, 2007
Odd as it may seem, the official observance of Thanksgiving has its roots not in the Pilgrim harvest feasts of popular myth, but in the America’s great bloodletting, the Civil War.
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