J31 Dance Center Attends BravO! Dance Competition

J31 Dance Center Attends BravO! Dance Competition

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March 18, 2023 By Jim Dietz This past weekend, J31 Dance Center’s Company dancers in Lee’s Summit competed in the BravO! National Dance and Talent Competition held at the Liberty Performing Arts Center. BravO!’s mission is to create a regional dance competition…

Kansas City Bronze Coming To Lee’s Summit

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March 18, 2023 Kansas City Bronze, a community handbell ensemble that performs on 120 chimes and handbells, is returning to Lee’s Summit for a performance at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 416 SE Grand Avenue. There will be one performance on Sunday, March…

Monica’s School Of Dance Celebrating 40 Years Of Dance Excellence

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August 20, 2022 Monica Renwick and her husband Mike Coupe have welcomed thousands of students throughout the past 40 years to their dance studio, “Monica’s School of Dance”. “The dream of owning my own dance studio all started at the age of…

Air Race Classic Team 39 Missouri “MO Madness” Update

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July 23, 2022 Air Race Classic team 39 Missouri “MO Madness” thanks everyone who contributed to their race. Pilots Jeanné Willerth, from Lee’s Summit, MO and Madeline Hooks, from Bolivar, MO appreciated all the support given their team. The 2,500 mile all…

Full Amtrak Missouri River Runner Service Resumes

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July 16, 2022 With funding approved by the Missouri General Assembly and signed by Gov. Mike Parson, full service by Amtrak Missouri River Runner trains resumes on July 18, with two daily round-trips for travel this summer. Community representatives along the route…

Downtown Days Festival Sports Booth Returns In 2022

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May 28, 2022 By Fred LiggettFredL@lstribune.net Following a two year layoff due to the COVID-19 pandemic the very popular Downtown Days Festival returns this year to the downtown Lee’s Summit area on June 3, 4 and 5. Returning favorites include Arts &…

Over 75 Volunteers Clean Up Blue Parkway

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May 7, 2022 By Jessica Cox Over 75 volunteers from two Lee’s Summit wards of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints cleaned up the trash along Blue Parkway on Saturday, Apr. 30, 2022 for Global Youth Service Day. Blue Parkway…

New Director Welcoming Summer Singers

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April 30, 2022 The Summer Singers of Lee’s Summit, a summer-only community chorus active in June and July of each year, welcomes a new music director to the podium. The chorus is presently registering singers of all experience levels for the choral…

Local Student Nominated For SBU’s Annual Mr. And Miss Southwest Pageant

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February 26, 2022 Ben Yoder of Lee’s Summit is among the candidates in the running for Southwest Baptist University’s Mr. and Miss Southwest Pageant, a tradition annually honoring one male and one female student. The event takes place this year at 7…

The Evidence of Faith’s Substance

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January 22, 2022 Subject: General Charles McGee and the Tuskegee Airmen: Freedom in Jesus Christ 2Corinthians 3:17 “The Lord is the Spirit; where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Freedom.” “What freedom means is when I was told I couldn’t…