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Community Groups

The Lenexa Rotary Club raised about $15,000 over the weekend during its largest fundraiser of the year — the ShrimpFest and Bingo night — and first in three years since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Roughly 600 people gathered...
The Shawnee couple was deeply affected by their little neighbor, Lucy Weber, who was fighting brain cancer. Jill and Michael Chalfie were inspired by her young spirit as well as everyone in the community who pulled together to help...
Just looking at 5-year-old Ainsley Bridges from Westwood, one would never suspect she has any health complications. The friendly 5-year-old enjoys gymnastics, ballet and swimming. Yet Ainsley lives with phenylketonuria, or PKU, a rare, genetic and lifelong disorder that causes...
This fall, members of Boy Scouts of America Pack 3291 broke their previous record for fall popcorn sales, topping $27,000 for the first time in pack history. On Monday, members celebrated with a messy close to their meeting. Thirty-one scouts...
It's a brighter idea for a troop of Boy Scouts who've been selling Christmas trees since 1960 at the corner of 67th and Nall in Mission. Tired of replacing its strings of fragile, incandescent bulbs every couple of years, Kris...
The Roeland Park Citizens Fundraising Initiative finished as the runner-up for the “Community First Award” and will receive a $2,500 donation that will be applied toward building a shelter in R Park. The citizens group was among 10 finalists for...
The Barn Players Theatre is looking for a new place to call home. The community theatre is losing its lease on the building at 6219 Martway in Mission that has housed the productions since 2004. The theatre currently has a...
Mission is the newest location for a Johnson County Department of Health and Environment project aimed at providing fresh produce to area women and their children. More than 15 volunteers came out on Friday to help plant a variety of...
The Roeland Park strategic plan, developed by a citizens group and released earlier this year, has made progress on several fronts, the city council was told last week. “We’ve had movement on four of the five goals,” Tom Madigan, who...
In May 1913, a northeast Johnson County woman named Lurene Ellis McShane invited a few neighbors over for a get together, hoping to help spur the development of friendships for women at a time when their lives were dominated...
Roeland Park residents turned out in droves Saturday night to support the latest R Park fundraiser. A sold out crowd spilled into overflow rooms at the Roeland Park Community Center for BBQ & Bluegrass. It was the second major fundraising...
Members of Game On for Kansas Schools will be setting out for Topeka on Friday in another 60-mile walk that begins in Merriam. This will be the third walk to Topeka for the group. The walk will begin at 9:15...