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The Local Show: June 14, 2012

This week: Big 5 Champion Peter deSilva and One Week KC, a Women and Girls Lead profile of Olathe's Monica Steiner, the Mayor's Turn the Page KC project and Wonderscope.

This week on The Local Show, Nick Haines sits down with Peter deSilva to get a progress report on the Chamber’s Big 5 initiative “Making Kansas City America’s Most Entrepreneurial City” and to preview the upcoming One Week KC events. We launch a series of profiles of Kansas City women called Women and Girls Lead. Our first profile is of Olathe’s Monica Steiner who is battling Stage 4 breast cancer as well as fighting to save lives through her fundraising efforts. We share a segment produced by the Local Investment Commission (LINC) about Mayor Sly Jame’s Turn the Page KC project. And we go inside Wonderscope Children’s Museum of Kansas City to see how they are making a difference in children’s lives.

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Big 5: Champion Peter deSilva & One Week KC

Peter deSilva, CEO of UMB Bank and one of the Champions of the Chamber's Big 5 Ideas, gives a progress report on Making Kansas City "America's Most Entrepreneurial City" and previews the One Week KC events.

Next week is a big week for entrepreneurs and wannabee entrepreneurs in Kansas City. Monday kicks off what is being called One Week KC…nine days of meet-ups, conferences, idea exchanges, speakers, parties and workshops to educate, inspire, encourage and celebrate entrepreneurship.

It’s all part of Kansas City’s quest to become America’s Most Entrepreneurial City. You’ve heard that expression before, but whatever happened to that? You may remember it was one of the Big 5 Ideas announced by the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce last fall. Did it simply just fade away?

The man leading the Chamber’s Making Kansas City “America’s Most Entrepreneurial City” initiative is Peter de Silva, CEO of UMB Bank, who sat down with Nick Haines to give a progress report.

Graphic giving thanks to Big 5 underwriters Burns & McDonnnell, UMB, Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute and Swope Community Enterprises

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Women and Girls Lead: Monica Steiner

As part of a series called Women and Girls Lead, we will be share profiles of females from all walks of life who inspire us with stories of resilience, hope and empowerment. We begin with Monica Steiner from Olathe.

This week on The Local Show, we introduce a new series of features called Women and Girls Lead in which we profile females from all walks of life who inspire us with stories of resilience, hope and empowerment. The series, created for the web and TV, is a collaboration between KCPT and the Independent Television Service. We begin by introducing you to the story of Olathe resident Monica Steiner who is battling Stage 4 breast cancer and fighting to save the lives of others through her IronTeam fundraising efforts for cancer research.

Woman wearing a hat sitting in a chair receiving chemotherapy

Catch more of our Women and Girls Lead profiles in future editions of The Local Show. The series features five women and girls from Kansas City.

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Investing In The Future: Turn the Page KC

Sly James is pushing for all Kansas City, Missouri children to be reading at a third grade level when they reach third grade with his Turn the Page KC project. We take a closer look at the program with a video piece from our friends at the Local Investment Commission (LINC).

A Kansas city Mayor has lots of priorities in office. Fixing streets and sewer systems. Creating jobs. Stemming violent crime. But for Sly James, ensuring every child is reading at grade level by the third grade is a more important goal than any other.

That’s why he’s been pushing the Turn the Page KC reading project. The effort got a big boost recently thanks to a New York publishing house which donated 10,000 titles to this multi-year effort that puts books into the hands of Kansas City, Missouri children just as they have started their long summer vacations.

Here is a brief introduction to the project from the Mayor’s website:

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