Happy Thursday, Shawnee Mission!
☁️ Today’s forecast: Cloudy with a 40% chance for rain, mostly after 4 p.m. High: 50. Low: 38.
? Happening today
Overland Park residents who live east of Antioch Road can sign up to have old mattresses hauled away starting today.
The city is offering free pickups of old mattresses and box springs all day this Friday and the following three Fridays:
- March 31
- April 7
- April 14
Residents who would like to have an unwanted mattress or box spring taken away curbside must register by 5 p.m. on the Tuesday before the Friday on which they’d like the service.
You can sign up for mattress pickup here.
The city says collected mattress and box springs will be cleaned and sanitized and made available to families in need.
Residents who live west of Antioch Road will get the chance to recycle mattresses this fall.
? Weekend things to do
- Kansas City Mom Collective Spring Family Egg Hunt, 3&2 Baseball in Lenexa, Sat., 9 a.m.-12 p.m. [More details]
- Kids’ Jam, Midwest Trust Center at JCC, Sat., 11 a.m. [More info]
- “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” Theatre in the Park, through Sunday [More info]
- Winter Farmer’s Market, Lenexa City Hall, Sat., 10 a.m.-1 p.m. [Details]
? Post’s top Thursday stories
- Heritage Park lake in Olathe to be drained and dredged
- Obituary: Gabriel A. Puchalla, 18, St. James grad and U.S. Marine
- Here’s what’s in new Shawnee city manager’s contract
- Here’s what’s happening at Georgetown Plaza in Overland Park
- LUX by Mitzy closes downtown Mission storefront
? Other local news
- City leaders in Olathe have approved tax incentives to support the construction of a $152 million meat processing plant in the southern portion of the city. [Fox 4]
- One mother in the Gardner Edgerton School District has challenged several library books, leading the district to pull seven of them from the shelves for review. [Kansas City Star]
- An Overland Park father has written a memoir detailing his daughter’s colon cancer journey. [KSHB]
? Notable tweets
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly is getting goodies again after Kansas State’s men’s basketball team beat Michigan State in the Sweet 16 Thursday night.
Well, we know what happened the last time a governor bet against me… https://t.co/gGJwm9yJNL pic.twitter.com/Ss6y8pU0a8
— Governor Laura Kelly (@GovLauraKelly) March 23, 2023
Another laurel for Blue Valley Northwest’s title-winning boys’ basketball coach.
2023 Sports in Kansas 6A Boys Basketball Coach of the Year: Aaron Ihm of Blue Valley Northwest
VIEW CAPSULE: https://t.co/zIMNpWjZaa pic.twitter.com/CqGtYHeBkm
— Sports in Kansas (@sportsinkansas) March 23, 2023
? A thousand words
Even the murals in downtown Overland Park seem a bit wind-blown and chilly this week. Photo credit Nikki Lansford.
