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Eddie Lamar Thomas Jr.
This rendering depicts what a new Wonderscope Children's Museum might look like.
Oral Roberts University students taking part in the CASA to CASA: Biking to End Abuse Ride include (from left) Israel Richardson, David Laing, Liam O'Hara, Nick Wagoner and Troy Gerrard. Not pictured is Jacob Adams. The four-day ride will begin Friday.
Amanda Mills, right, Aly Tennis and Samantha Mills participated in Riverview Elementary School’s art supply drive for Children’s Mercy.
A Parents-Teachers-Students Association lanscaping project, funded in part with grant from Lowe's, will focus on the west side of Shawnee Mission Northwest High School.
Amy Gabbert
Larry Lust of Olathe hopes to get this message to a woman named Carol, who was the first to stop and talk to him after he had fallen from his bicycle during a ride in Shawnee Mission Park. Lust had injured his spleen in the fall.
Nick Lecuru of Boy Scout Troop 93 shows Caleb Schmittendorf of Pack 3651 how to cut up bananas for Tour de Shawnee participants stopping at the rest stop the troop sponsored at Blackfish Parkway and Pflumm Road.
More riders round the corner from Renner Road to Holliday Drive. The 24-mile route is known for the steep hill on Renner just before the turn onto Holliday.
A police officer leads the front runners on the 24-mile route as they turn from Renner Road west on Holliday Drive.
And they're off — riders begin to leave the Power Play parking lot for the Tour de Shawnee. There were 612 cyclists in this year's ride.
Riders await the starting horn of the Tour de Shawnee.
Joel Dyke, left, mechanic with Trek Bicycle of Kansas City in Shawnee, checks over the bike of John Field of De Soto before the ride.
Participants pick up a doughnut or bagel prior to the ride.
Stacey Dungan, right, of Shawnee pins a number on her daughter, Kelley, before the Tour de Shawnee
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Do you think it is important for Shawnee to be bicycle-friendly?
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!
