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Missing chef casts long shadow- September 25, 2007
- It didn’t seem the same without Al Bohnert.
- Video: Shawnee Great Grillers 2007
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- Missing chef casts long shadow
- September 25, 2007
- It didn’t seem the same without Al Bohnert.
- Smoke ban is enacted by Council
- By 7-1 vote, Shawnee outlaws smoking in most bars and restaurants starting Jan. 2
- September 25, 2007
- Smoking will be prohibited in some Shawnee bars and restaurants beginning next year.
- No surprises: numbers up in De Soto schools, down in Shawnee Mission
- September 25, 2007
- Enrollment trends continue in Shawnee schools.
- St.Joseph’s Festival is Sept. 28-29
- September 25, 2007
- St. Joseph’s Festival this weekend.
- Striving for a global impact
- September 25, 2007
- Area residents are making an impact all over the world thanks to local churches and one Shawnee resident in particular.
- Shawnee Town receives grant for oral history project
- September 25, 2007
- Shawnee soon will be able to offer its residents another chance to put their history on tape.
- Scarecrow festival
- September 25, 2007 in print edition on A5
- Shawnee’s third annual Scarecrow Festival starts Oct. 6.
- More jucidial activism is needed, not less
- September 25, 2007 in print edition on A4
- The Founding Fathers wisely divided the government into executive, legislative and judicial branches.
- Letter: Time for change
- September 25, 2007 in print edition on A4
- Demand change, or keep smelling fish.
- Letter: Not enough space
- September 25, 2007
- Something must be done, and soon.
- Cougars roll on northside
- September 25, 2007
- If before the game, someone would have told the Shawnee Mission North’s defensive football coaches they would hold Shawnee Mission Northwest running back Alex Reed to 43 rushing yards for the game, Indians’ coaches would have been ecstatic. Unfortunately for North, Northwest exhibited a multifaceted attack in a 33-0 win on Friday.
- Jags attack
- With running game grounded, Lawyer connects with Malec as
- September 25, 2007
- Mill Valley quarterback Luke Lawyer and wide receiver Miles Malec turned the team’s offense into the run and shoot Friday as the team’s passing game went from potentially potent to lethal. The pair combined for four touchdowns and led the Jaguars to a 35-0 win over Tonganoxie.
- Kasselman bounces back
- September 25, 2007
- Bonner Springs’ head football coach Lew Kasselman’s wife, Linda, answers the phone about 5:30 p.m. on Sunday. Lew isn’t home. “He’ll be home soon, but we are going to church at 6 p.m.,” she says. “Call back around 7 p.m.” Is it too late, do you need time alone? “It is football season, so we don’t get nights to ourselves,” she says with a laugh.
- Northwest gymnasts win again at home
- Team continues impressive performances on the mats, bars and beams
- September 25, 2007
- The Shawnee Mission Northwest gymnastics squad continued its roll through the 2007 season last week by claiming team championships in two meets. The Cougars have won all but one meet this season, but one this season with that finish being a second-place nod. On Sept. 18, the Cougars played host to Lawrence, Lawrence Free State, Olathe East, and Olathe Northwest in SMNW’s second home meet of the season.
- Acting classes available at Wonderscope
- September 25, 2007 in print edition on A8
- Theatre for Young America begins its acting classes for children and teens this month at Wonderscope Children’s Museum, 5705 Flint.
- Out & About Calendar, Sept. 26, 2007
- September 25, 2007 in print edition on A8
- Events for local museums, libraries and venues.
- Mill Valley places 2nd in cross country meet
- September 25, 2007
- The Mill Valley boys’ cross-country team ran its best race in two years at the Tonganoxie Invitational on Monday. The Jaguars finished in second place with 87 points. Wamego won the meet with 28 points. Mill Valley had four runners medal in the meet.
- Volleyball squad wins three matches
- Mill Valley defeats Class 6A teams last week, faces two KVL foes this week
- September 25, 2007
- Mill Valley volleyball players are proving they can play with any size team on the court this season.
- St. James volleyball team is unbeaten
- September 25, 2007
- After Thursday night’s performance, it looks like the St. James Thunder volleybal team should play at home more often. But of course, if the road has been as good to you as it has been for the St. James squad, what’s the rush? Still, a volleyball homecoming of sorts was good news for head coach Nancy Dorsey and her team as the Thunder picked up two more wins, sweeping KC Christian (25-8, 25-9) and Turner High School (25-12, 25-21) in the home triad.
- Datebook
- September 25, 2007
- What’s happening in Shawnee
- Building bridges
- North Spanish teacher travels to Turkey to teach English
- September 25, 2007
- Shawnee Mission North High School Spanish teacher Carol Yasuhara has worked for the last three years to promote tolerance and understanding by teaching English.
- Cougars volleyball takes league match
- September 25, 2007
- Playing their best volleyball since late August, the Shawnee Mission Northwest volleyball team claimed its first Sunflower League win of the 2007 last Thursday by downing Leavenworth 28-30, 25-18, and 16-9 in a Lawrence High-hosted triad. The Cougars then narrowly lost to the Lions 23-25, 23-25 to close out the evening. Northwest head coach Holly Davidson said she was extremely pleased with the effort her team put forth in claiming their first conference win. “I really thought that we played excellently,” Davidson said. “I think that the girls anticipated better and were understanding where we needed to get the ball. We eliminated our errors.”
- Maranatha sports roundup
- September 25, 2007
- Rain wiped out Thursday’s scheduled races at the Tonganoxie Invitational and a Monday rescheduling conflicted with school plans, so the Maranatha Eagles were unable to send a full squad to any race last week. However, not all was lost for the Eagles as the cancellation allowed head coach Bianca Williams to place three of her boys’ squad members into the KC Metro Meet at Raymore-Peculiar High School.
- Lost tests concern Mill Valley Students
- September 25, 2007
- Missing Advanced Placement tests left several Mill Valley High School students without a chance to get college credit, and left their parents wondering what went wrong.
- Mill Valley celebrates homecoming with parade
- September 25, 2007 in print edition on A9
- Alex Carpenter inhaled deep, pressed the balloon to her lips and filled it with air.
- SM North hosts JV tournament
- September 25, 2007
- Shawnee Mission North played host to a junior varsity invitational last week. The team has a young squad, which is learning to play golf on junior varsity, before going up to varsity next year.
- New schools dedicated
- September 25, 2007 in print edition on A7
- Two schools in the De Soto School District were dedicated Sunday afternoon, a little more than one month after they opened their doors for students.
- School calendars
- September 25, 2007 in print edition on A9
- De Soto Schools Wednesday/26 ¢ Clear Creek skate party, 6 to 8 p.m. ¢ Clear Creek Pizza Shoppe night. ¢ Responsibility assembly at Clear Creek, 3 p.m. ¢ Vision and hearing screening at Horizon.
- SM North loses volleyball match to Silver Lake
- September 25, 2007
- Members of the Shawnee Mission North volleyball team did some nice things in the Topeka-Seaman volleyball tournament on Saturday, but not enough to advance into the finals competition.
North volleyball players went 1-3 in the pool play portion of the tournament.
North lost to Silver Lake, 19-25, 19-25 in a qualifier match. If North had won, it would have advanced to the finals round of competition.
- Mill Valley falls to Shawnee Mission East
- September 25, 2007
- During the first half of Monday’s game, Mill Valley soccer player Alex Linthicum was pushed down in the Shawnee Mission East goal box. The Mill Valley bench wanted a call, but the referee didn’t call for a penalty kick. In a world of ifs and buts, if the penalty kick had been called and the Jaguars had converted it, then maybe the game would have had played out differently, Jaguars coach Arlan Vomhof said.
- Shawnee passes smoking ban
- September 25, 2007
- Smoking will be prohibited in some Shawnee bars and restaurants beginning next year.
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I think it’s important. I do love and use the paths, but it would be nice to have lanes so we could use bikes to run errands - saving gas!
