This video is a little long but
hard not to watch through to the end (especially if you love dogs). Hope you
enjoy it.
Rosie
THE
RICE-TREMONTI HOME
1844
Homestead on the Santa Fe Trail
8801
East 66th Street
Raytown,
MO 64133
SUMMER
TOURS
Saturdays
and Sundays 12:00-4:00
June
thru September
Admission
$3 per person
The oldest standing frame house in Jackson County,
Missouri, the Rice-Tremonti Home along with Aunt Sophie's Cabin have borne
witness to the sweep of American history. This site was settled first in 1836
by Archibald Rice and family. They built the Gothic-Revival farm house in 1844.
With beginnings as a way-point on the Santa Fe Trail and as jumping off point
for emigrants to Oregon and California, the wooden house endured the ravages of
border warfare and the Civil War. With a history spanning 173 years, the
Rice-Tremonti Home has an important story to tell.
Bring this flyer with you and save $1 off admission.
Memorial Day BY GREG WALTERS
Of all our
holidays, Memorial Day holds a special place as one of the most peaceful and
restful of holidays.
To many, it is
a way to honor those who have fallen in service to our country. To many more,
it is a time to remember those who have moved on from this life . . .
especially those who were close to us.
So, whether it
is brother, sister, mother, father or old friend that we can warmly remember –
take the time to do so. The fact that you miss and remember them is testament
to the fact that they have left a gift, a part themselves with you, even though
they are no longer with us.
Our lives are
often times too busy, and most certainly too short. Take the peace of this
Memorial Day and relish in the knowledge that what you had is special enough to
remember and honor.
Mark
Your Calendar!
RAYTOWN
SUMMERFEST - JUNE 8TH AND 9TH
Mark your calendars for two
big Days of Fun, Friends & BBQ. The Raytown Area Chamber of Commerce is
conducting its Annual Barbeque Cookoff and Community Festival on June 8th
and 9th. Located in Downtown Raytown, the popular annual event
promises to be bigger and better than ever.
The schedule for the two
day event is as follows:
FRIDAY, JUNE 8 – 4:00 TO
10:00 PM
BBQ
Lunch Specials will start at Noon on Friday!
6:30-9:30pm
~ Live Entertainment
FOUR FRIED CHICKENS & A COKE
FOUR FRIED CHICKENS & A COKE
SATURDAY,
JUNE 9 – 7:00 AM TO 10:00 PM
7:00-10:00am
~ Chris Cakes Pancake Breakfast
1:00pm
~ “Sausage Sprint” Dachshund Races & All Breed Dog Costume Contest
4:00pm
~ Barbeque Cookoff Awards Presentation
6:00-9:00pm
~ Live Entertainment
THE ELSEA SMITH BAND
THE ELSEA SMITH BAND
SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL!
Come out Saturday night and enjoy a delicious
BBQ dinner while enjoying the sounds of
The Elsea Smith Band.
BBQ dinner while enjoying the sounds of
The Elsea Smith Band.
Click on this link for a
With a purchase of a BBQ Rib Dinner.
Enjoy a FREE BBQ sandwich from 6-10pm!
Print as many as you like and pass out
to your employees, friends and family!
Print as many as you like and pass out
to your employees, friends and family!
Congressional
Candidates to Appear at Summerfest
Raytown’s
annual Summerfest/Barbeque Cookoff is just around the corner. This being a
Presidential Election Year I would expect to see quite a few politicians at the
event. After all, Raytown has, for the first time in decades, a state
legislative seat that will be uniquely Raytown.
There is also a spirited
contest shaping up between three Republicans vying for the chance to take on
long time incumbent Congressman Emanuel Cleaver of the Fifth District.
So,
I checked with Vicki Turnbow, the Executive Director of the Raytown Area
Chamber of Commerce to see who planned to be at the event.
I
was surprised to learn that none of the three candidates running for the State
Representative seat had purchased a booth.
Not
so for the three Republicans filed for the Fifth Congressional District. All
three of the, Jacob Turk, who has run for Congress more times than can be
remembered . . . a newcomer named Jason Greene . . . and Jerry Nolte, a veteran
member of the State House of Representatives finishing his fourth term, will
all be on hand for the event.
No
doubt other candidates will be on hand as well. But these three have at least
stepped up to show support for the community by paying for a booth at the
event.
The
family of a man shot to death while jogging in Raytown earlier this month has
added $500 to a reward fund for information in the unsolved homicide.
The
reward now stands at $1,500 for information in the death of Harry Stone, 60,
who was shot in a random attack about 7 a.m. on Mother’s Day along Blue Ridge
Boulevard near 67th Street. A dark-colored four-door sedan pulled alongside
Stone and a passenger fired several shots at him. Video surveillance from a
nearby store recorded an image of the car.
Police
said the shooting may have stemmed from a dare or gang initiation.
Anyone
with information should call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS (474-8477).
Callers remain anonymous.
Fit Bottomed Girls . . .
Triathlon
Made Me Cry BY
KRISTEN
My
first tri of the season is in the bag. A couple of weeks ago, I participated in
the Danskin
Triathlon Series near
Orlando (thanks to The XXtra Mile for sponsoring my registration!), and while
my performance wasn’t anything to write home about (1:47:20 for a 1/2-mile
swim, 12-mile bike and 3-mile run), this was one race where my personal
performance was just about as far from the front of my mind as it could get.
The Danskin Tri Series is an all-women event, and it’s very
strongly geared toward women who might not otherwise do a triathlon, in part
because of the distances offered (Sprint, which is the distance listed above,
and Super Sprint, 1/4-mile swim, 8-mile bike and 2-mile run), and partly
because, from the very beginning, we were all strongly encouraged to help each
other out.
Which, truly, is something that happens a
lot in triathlon anyway—during one race where I was suffering from dehydration on the run, I lost track of how many
people stopped as they went by me to make sure I was alright and didn’t need
help, and I’ve never competed in a tri where fellow participants didn’t cheer each other on at turnaround
points and as they passed each other.
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17 comments:
I wish my friends here a Happy Memorial Day. Please drive safely!
I enjoyed Rosie's video but every time I watch one of these, I wonder how any one has the time to make a video or take pics while doing this?
The directions to Summerfest goes to a map of N 63rd St. that in no way resembles Raytown.
Andy Whiteman
Thanks Andy,
I picked up the map information from the Raytown Chamber of Commerce website and have removed the map.
I'll let them know about the error.
One cannot be too careful!
Hopefully people don't go to the wrong location. I guess they will correct it before too many people go astray. I was expecting to see a map of the exhibits.
Andy Whiteman
Everyone needs to read the newest
Raytown Times, Letters to the Editor.
A lady wrote an interesting letter
blasting City Hall for the way this town
has gone and is going downhill. She has
a lot of good points and some I didn't
quite agree with. She came down on the
codes department for how trashy Raytown
has become and she also commented on
how the parks have become trashy and
overcome with people that don't care
enough to a trash container. She also
blasted the city administrator for not
doing his job. She said if his department
heads weren't doing their jobs, get
rid of them! She wrote "Do your job!"
She came down on the Police Department
too. She wants them to keep Raytown safer.
Our Police can't be
everywhere all the time. NO police department
could have foreseen the senseless murder
of Mr. Stone. Unfortunately, this is happening
in every town and city. Is Raytown seeing
an increase in crime? Yes! Is it the police
department's fault? Not really. Is it City Hall's
fault? Yes!
I read that lady's letter too. She makes valid points which really explain why the Tie Wearing Chairwarmers wont't move to Raytown. Who in their right mind would want to live under the conditions she describes?
Andy Whiteman
Andy, you are right about people NOT wanting to move to Raytown. As proof, look at all the empty houses. People have just picked up and left. Also I understand that a record number of homes are in the "For Sale" category.
I was contacted by a citizen today who wanted me to air his grievances to the BOA saying that he didn't have time to go to a meeting. Well, I don't have time either.
I have observed that it takes numerous citizens packing the chambers before the BOA will listen. I noticed it when there was violence by minors in the southern part of the city and when the one way part of Willow became an issue.
I suggest anyone with a grievance not sit on his duff and watch on TV but come in and make himself heard.
That is one man's opinion,
Andy Whiteman
I see john Edwards got a free pass on his self-proclaimed "sins". Over $900,000 from private donors to keep his girlfriend out of the public's eye during his campaign for president. Disgusting.
Where is the outrage of the 99%?
Oh yeah, I forgot. It is okay to break the rules if your a dem. Isn't that right Bill?
6:54 PM, I observed 2 homes within a block of me sell in December. One was new to the market due to owner's death and the other was on the market for some time, off the market, and back on again. Both homes were nice and in good condition.
I think that the unaccredited KCMO school district was a factor in these sales and may still have some influence in the market especially if the home isn't run down.
Andy Whiteman
8:16PM, I can't agree. The decision was by a jury of "his peers." Apparently there was a lot of disagreement because the jury was hung a long time which the judge wouldn't accept. I was on a similar type of jury with 11 guilty and 1 not guilty. We finally found a logical reason for the other 11 to vote not guilty because we wanted to go home. Blame the judge and the jury, not the Democrat Party.
I would blame the judge because if he had accepted a hung jury, there would have been a retrial with possibly a different verdict.
Andy Whiteman
The purpose of the police has never been to protect individual citizens from crime. The police show up after the fact to make a report, collect evidence and seek the criminal. Take responsibility for the safety of yourself and your family.
When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.
Don't blame the political partys for John Edwards acquittal. Just as in the OJ Simpson and Robert Blake cases, the prosecutors came into court and failed to make there case. The jurors are saying the evidence wasn't there. Blame the prosecutors and/or the investigators that worked the case.
8:22 AM, So everyone should speak softly and carry a big dog?
Andy Whiteman
I read the letter in the Times as well. The lady wrote the sad truth. She is particularly right about the police being afraid to go to Coleman Park and enforce even the simplest traffic laws. Is afraid the right word? You tell me. Maybe they are too good to go enforce the laws. I can remember years ago under another Chief of Police that the cars would not only have been ticketed. They would have been towed. All it takes for things to go bad in any neighborhood is for the city not to enfoce the laws. Mayor Bower has told people he will not use gestapo tactics to enforce laws. It would be more accurate to say that he will not use ANY tactics to enforce property codes.
I blame Bower, the city council and all of their hirelings for turning their back on their jobs.
It is sad. This can be a great community. But it will not be as long as Bower and his type are running the show.
Why are the laws written? It is senseless to write a law and then not enforce it. Sometimes I think laws are enforced only AGAINST certain people.
There are outdated codes on the books that are not enforced. Long ago I told the BOA that they should go through the codes end remove the outdated codes.
Andy Whiteman
I read the article in the Raytown Times too and the lady is right on. I have lived in this town for 54 years. This use to be a GREAT town to live in, but not any more. I work for a LARGE 1300 employee corporation down town. It is a running joke with my co-workers that I live in Raytown. They refer it to the Ghetto, Slumtown and the Dump. I can truly say that I agree with them. We have the crime and trash people coming from KC and their defunked school district. Raytown schools are getting just as bad. My house is well guarded with enough guns to do the trick. It is "lock and load" time. The police will be called to "pick up" what is left over of the person.....
Agreed, Andy. There are a few outdated laws but the REAL problem in Raytown is that those in authority turn their head and look the other way on some real common sense laws. Like traffic laws. There is a reason areas of high traffic, like parks, do not allow parking on one side of the street. One real good reason is so emergency vehicles can get through. When people are barbequeing and parking in the middle of street on Lane by Coleman Park it is often times blocked. The police know it. But they sure don't enforce it.
Its kind of like the dress code at Raytown South High. The teachers and administrators pretend not to see those who are breaking the dress code. That's how they handle the problem.
I hear that the graduation at Raytown South especially was marred by rude and bad behavior once again this year.
It won't be long before the place holding the event tells the school district you are not welcome here.
Codes is another problem. Our mayor has decided that it is "mean" to enforce property codes. so he lets the city go to hell in a handbasket while spending money on monuments at intersections.
Where is the sense in that?
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