Welcome to Wednesday, Shawnee Mission!
☀️ Today’s forecast: Sunny and clear. High: 52. Low: 34.
🚨 Happening today
SevenDays, the annual event meant to promote kindness and tolerance, kicks off today in Leawood.
The event each year honors the legacies of three people — Reat Underwood, William Corporon and Terri LaManno — killed in two separate shootings in 2014 in Overland Park carried about by a white supremacist who was targeting Jewish sites.
Mindy Corporon, who is the mother of Underwood and daughter of William Corporon, founded SevenDays and the Faith Always Wins Foundation in the wake of the tragedy.
Here’s a rundown of this year’s SevenDays events and how you can participate:
Kindness Breakfast: Wednesday, April 5 (7:30-9 a.m.), United Methodist Church of the Resurrection, Leawood
- There will be a presentation of the annual “Ripple of Kindness” Award, which will go this year to Lisa Ginter, CEO of CommunityAmerica.
- Mindy Corporon will also give brief remarks
- Youth team, youth button design winners and Kindness Action Scholarship winners will also be honored
Blood donations: starting Friday, April 7, Community Blood Center, 10568 Metcalf, Overland Park
- Tony Corporon, William Corporon’s son, will donate blood at the Overland Park location of the Community Blood Center.
You Day: Tuesday, April 11, Jazzercise Mission, 5340 Johnson Dr., Mission
- Jazzercise Center in Mission will offer a free class at 8:15 a.m. to anyone who wishes to attend in a gesture of “taking care of you — mind, body and soul.”
Onward Day: Thursday, April 13, at Blue Valley and Blue Valley North high schools
- Students at Blue Valley High School organized a kindness walk, starting at 12:15 p.m. that day at the stadium track.
- Students at Blue Valley North organized their own, set to start at 12:14 p.m. at the stadium track.
Farmers’ Market booth: Saturday, April 15, 9 a.m.-noon, Overland Park Farmers’ Market
- Volunteers will host an information booth on the first day of the season for the Overland Park Farmers’ Market in downtown Overland Park, giving away stickers, buttons & kindness information.
Kindness Walk: Sunday, April 16, 4-7 p.m., United Methodist Church of the Resurrection, Leawood
- A “fun and easy” 1.5 mile walk hosted by SevenDays Kindness Youth Leadership Team, with live music and food trucks.
SM South walk: Thursday, April 10, SM South High School, 5800 W. 107th St., Overland Park
- Students at SM South will host their own “Kindness Walk” before school from 8-8:40 a.m. at the stadium track. Six school clubs are sponsoring the walk.
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- Lenexa business owner indicted by federal grand jury over alleged loan fraud
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📰 Other local news
- Angie Long, who along with her husband Chris owns NWSL franchise KC Current and Mission Hills-based investment firm Palmer Square Capital Management, was named to a national list of the 100 businesswomen in the U.S. [Kansas City Business Journal]
- The Red Cross is helping two people find temporary housing after a fire early Tuesday morning displaced them from their home in Olathe near K-7 and 119th Street. [Fox 4]
- New U.S. Census data shows the population of Johnson County jumped by more than 8,000 people over the past decade, part of a surge in suburban county growth in the Kansas City region that also saw a marked decline in population in so-called “urban core” counties like Jackson and Wyandotte. [KCUR]
📸 A thousand words
A windblown day for legislative class pictures on the steps of the Kansas Statehouse, according to Leawood Rep. Mari-Lynn Poskin. Photo via Twitter.
