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Soaking Up Sun: Kauffman Stadium Goes Green

Solar panels were recently installed around the outfield of Kauffman Stadium that will generate enough electricity to power four average homes. The Kansas City Royals play their first home game of the season on April 13.

Friday marks the Royals season home opener. If you are heading over to Kauffman Stadium, you will notice something different at the K. With 120 newly installed large solar panels wrapping the back of the ballpark, the Royals are going green. It is apparently the largest in-stadium solar installation in major league baseball.

The panels will generate about 36,000 kilowatt hours of renewable energy a year. That’s enough to power four average homes. The panels are non-reflective and tilted to keep any reflections from interfering with play. That was a concern of Major League Baseball, which had to approve the stadium change.

When the dog days of summer arrive and you are basking in the sun at the stadium, just remember that even your beer and soda are going to be cooled by the sun.

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The Local Show: April 5, 2012

This week: Stacey Davis & the Anita B. Gorman Conservation Discovery Center, Kansas City's Toy & Miniature Museum, David Naster and the winning video entry about SEA LIFE Aquarium from a high school journalism contest.

This week on The Local Show, we speak to Stacey Davis about the Anita B. Gorman Conservation Discovery Center. We go inside the Toy & Miniature Museum for a look into the past with a performance about Nettie Wells, a Kansas City girl who grew up in the 19th century and learned many life lessons while playing with the dollhouse her father made for her. Nick Haines talks to author and comedian David Naster about his new documentary and his mission to help people use laughter to cope with serious health problems. And we share the winning entry in a journalism contest for area high school students relating to the new SEA LIFE Aquarium which is set to open on April 6 in Crown Center.

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Green Acres: Anita B. Gorman Conservation Discovery Center

This week, the Anita Gorman Discovery Center is celebrating its 10th anniversary. For many visitors, The Discovery Center at 47th and Troost continues to be their first introduction to nature.

In 2002, the Missouri Department of Conservation opened a unique facility on Troost Avenue in the heart of Kansas City designed to get young people in urban neighborhoods more connected with nature and the outdoors.

This week, The Anita Gorman Discovery Center is celebrating its 10th anniversary. For many visitors, The Discovery Center at 47th and Troost continues to be their first introduction to nature.

Surrounded by 10 acres of gardens, forests, wetlands and prairie, the Discovery Center beckons urban residents to visit and to learn. Randy Mason spoke with Stacey Davis, the center’s manager.

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It’s A Small World: Kansas City’s Toy & Miniature Museum

Kansas City's Toy & Miniature Museum has been delighting the young and young at heart for many years. The Local Show shows you around the museum and gives a sneak peek at one of the special events hosted at the museum.

Mary Harris Francis collected toys. Barbara Hall Marshall fancied fine miniatures. These two women’s distinctly different collections are the backbone of Kansas City’s Toy & Miniature Museum at 52nd & Oak. All year round, its 33,000 square feet of displays lure the young and young at heart. Sometimes the museum, as it will this weekend with its Nettie Wells dollhouse, finds special ways to celebrate a child’s imagination and the spirit of play.

Nettie Wells, as portrayed by Maycee Steele, will share stories of her dollhouse at the Toy & Miniature Museum this Saturday with another performance later this summer.

Child in period dress next to elderly woman in wheelchair holding bouquet of roses

Pictured: Nettie Wells' daughter Jane and actress Maycee Steele

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