Like miners in search of fabled treasure, for the past year Project KCUMA (Kansas City Urban Market Assets) has been searching for undiscovered wealth in Kansas City’s urban core. Now they’re ready to declare they’ve found it – in the form of people and buying power previously not recognized.
On May 13, Southtown held its annual Beautification Award dinner at Benjamin Ranch. In keeping with the western-style setting, the theme of this year’s ceremony was “Blazing Trails,” and the honorees were certainly a “round-up” of the best individuals and organizations that work to keep Southtown beautiful.
The Southtown Environment and Public Works Committee has selected Alphapointe Association for the Blind, 7501 Prospect, for the May Sparkle Award.
Southtown’s own Durwin Rice and his “Tulips on Troost” project made the list of Reader’s Digest’s “35 People Who Inspire Us.” The list is the featured article of the magazine’s May 200
Alphapointe Association for the Blind and the Kansas Audio Reader Network have announced a new partnership that expands the coverage of readings of local newspapers available to people who are visually impaired. The Kansas Audio Reader Network is a free radio reading service for the visually impaired living in Kansas and western Missouri. With this new partnership, volunteers will record 10 hours of news from local papers each week at the Alphapointe Studios.