Briefly noted: Wild & Scenic Film Festival returning to Glenwood Arts next week; Lenexa VisionFest set for tonight

Wild & Scenic Film Festival returns in coming days. The Wild & Scenic Film Festival, locally coordinated by a group of SM East students, returns in the coming days, with a showing set at the Kansas City Zoo Sept. 23 and at the Glenwood Fine Arts Theatre Sept. 27. The festival includes a series of short films that examine different parts of the earth and its environment, from energy and food systems to biodiversity and climate change.

Lenexa’s VisionFest with futurist Stephen Ames, set for tonight. Futurist Stephen Ames will be at the Lenexa Civic Center tonight to give remarks on trends that will affect communities, states and the nation in the coming decades. The presentation will be part of the city’s Vision 2040 planning process. The event runs 7 to 9 p.m.

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Jay Senter
Jay Senter

Jay Senter is the founder and publisher of the Johnson County Post.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in business at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, where he worked as a reporter and editor at The Badger Herald.

He went on to receive a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Kansas. While he was in graduate school, he also worked as a reporter for the Lawrence Journal-World.

His reporting has appeared in the Kansas City Star, The Pitch and The New York Times, among other publications.

Senter was the recipient of the Johnson County Community College Headliner Award in 2023.

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