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Fireworks Reminder / Raytown Report History
Reminder: Fireworks Vote This Tuesday The Raytown Board of Aldermen will decide the fate of legislation permitting the sale and shooting of fireworks in Raytown at its regulare meeting this Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. at Raytown City Hall. This is an open public meeting. Individuals who may wish to address the Board on the proposed legislation may address the Board of Aldermen at the beginning of the meeting during Public Comments. The Raytown Report – A History In 1997 former Raytown Alderman Garth Bare and I started a project we called the Raytown Reporter. I had just been defeated in a bid for re-election to the Board (I had lost by three votes – believe me, that sets your mind to second guessing “what if”. . . but that’s another story) but still wanted to keep in touch with what was going on Raytown City Hall. So we founded the Raytown Reporter. It was truly a labor love. The format was that of an electronic newspaper. We wrote stories, editorials, had a lively Letters to the Editor ...
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Just another black eye in the ongoing inabilities of mike mcdonnaugh and his administration at keeping ray town safe, and a place where people would want to raise their families.
This further explains why there are so many problems being reported about raytown plaza and the bars down at.
Let's keep in mind the city of Raytown enacted, a new ordinance almost 18 months ago. Directed at a bar and certain behavior would be considered a nuisance. Allowing the city to speed up the process to shut that bar down. That bar has since been shut down. But the city celebrates and looks the other way with the problems at Raytown plaza, which are far greater than what we had going on down at Gregory and 350.
It would be nice if a city would address the same type of problems in the same way. Otherwise, they are exposing the city to lawsuits of discrimination by the owners of one bar over the way they are allowing behavior at a another bar to continue.
At the end of the day, it's us.The taxpayers that are on the hook for the incompetency of the flunkies, the city keeps hiring.
If you live out by 75th and Woodson and were home yesterday and last night yu were treated to what closely resembled a professional fireworks display by the large group assembled at Kreister Park tht ran till what several nearby neighbors told me last until 2 am.
The problem is all Raytown Parks have posted NO Fireworks. Bit has been an ongoing annual occurrence and the Parks folks go about cleaning up the next day. Well today was Sunday so I knew they wouldn't be in until Monday. the massive amount of debris coupled with winds we got ghem again meant this debris would be scattered all over the greass abnd eventually the neighbors surrounding the park.
there were 12/14 large craters fromm the 1/2 and full sticks of essentially 11w grade dynamite in the outfield and and hundreds of the plastic mortar shells there as well. I cleaned up as much as I could but but it will take professional equipment tomorrow to clean up the baseball infield.
Dissappointing when you notify someone that has a direct "hotline" to PD that could have shut this down before it elevated to the trashy and destructive vandalism shown here.
I am guessing that between the two large scale violations there was not a ticket issued. Just chase them away! Which means they probably went to another park to continue their mayhem.
I was talking to a friend of mine who used to live in Overland Park. He told me that the police AND the fire department patrol specifically on the 4th of July to keep people from breaking the law.
Raytown is only ten square miles. That small of an area should be easy to enforce our laws in. But it remains to be said that enforcement means confiscating illegal fireworks, such as the ones you described.
Is it going to cost more the long his mistakes go on and why does the man not just own up he broke the law.
Many apolgies. Please, keep those cards and letters flowing in. What you have to say is important.
Many apologies!