What on Earth should the Kansas City, MO school district do with 38 potential eyesores and dens of crime? We are talking about the 38 schools that the district now has to repurpose or sell. About 20 of them are from last year’s contentious round of school closings, but the remainders have been on the books for a lot longer…some for decades. The district is now providing tours of the schools to would be buyers, but are they getting any bites? The Local Show tags along on the one of the tours.
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Since 2006 when the doors were re-opened, more than one million people have visited, studied and learned from the National World War I Museum. From 1921 until today, this monument stands not only for Kansas City’s dedication to preserve history, it also stands for our dedication to remember those who serve and sacrifice for the dream of peace. The National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial inspires thought, dialogue, and learning to make the experiences of theWorld War I era meaningful and relevant for present and future generations. The Museum fulfills its mission by: • Interpreting the history of World War I to encourage public involvement and informed decision-making • Providing exhibitions and educational programs that engage diverse audiences • Collecting and preserving historical materials with the highest professional standards
This week, Nick Haines sits down with David Hawley to discuss some of the exciting new developments at the Steamboat Arabia Museum.
The steamboat Arabia was a side wheeler steamboat which hit a snag in the Missouri River and sank near what today is Parkville, Missouri, on September 5, 1856. It was rediscovered in 1988 by a team of researchers. Today, the artifacts recovered from the site are housed in the Steamboat Arabia Museum. In the 1860s, Elisha Sortor purchased the property where the boat lay. Over the years, legends were passed through the family that the boat was located somewhere under the land. In the surrounding town, stories were also told of the steamboat, but the exact location of the boat was lost over time. In 1987, Bob Hawley and his sons, Greg and David, set out to find the boat. The Hawleys used old maps and a proton magnetometer to figure out the probable location, and finally discovered the Arabia half a mile from the river and under 45 feet of silt and topsoil. The owners of the farm gave permission for excavation, with the condition that the work be completed before the spring planting. The Hawleys, along with family friends Jerry Mackey and David Luttrell, set out to excavate the boat during the winter months while the water table was at its lowest point. They performed a series of drilling tests to determine the exact location of the hull, then marked the perimeter with powdered chalk. Heavy equipment, including a 100-ton crane, was brought in by both river and road transport during the summer and fall. 20 irrigation pumps were installed around the site to lower the water level and to keep the site from flooding. The 65-foot-deep (20 m) wells removed 20,000 US gallons (76,000 l) per minute from the ground. On November 26, 1988, the boat was exposed. Four days later, artifacts from the boat began to appear, beginning with a Goodyear rubber overshoe. On December 5, a wooden crate filled with elegant china was unearthed. The mud was such an effective preserver that the yellow packing straw was still visible. Thousands of artifacts were recovered intact, including jars of preserved food that are still edible. The artifacts that were recovered are housed in the Steamboat Arabia Museum. On February 11, 1989, work ceased at the site, and the pumps were turned off.
President Schulz is active in the Boy Scouts of America, and serves on the Executive Board of the Coronado Council. Kirk also serves various roles on the boards of Cereal Food Processors, the Greater Manhattan Community Foundation, the Kansas BioSciences Authority, and the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. President Schulz is active in several professional societies including the American Institute for Chemical Engineers and the American Society for Engineering Education. In recognition of achievements in the field of Chemical Engineering, Dr. Schulz was selected as a Fellow in both the American Society of Engineering Education and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The Land Institute has worked for over 30 years on the problem of agriculture. Our purpose is to develop an agricultural system with the ecological stability of the prairie and a grain yield comparable to that from annual crops. We have researched, published in refereed scientific journals, given hundreds of public presentations here and abroad, and hosted countless intellectuals and scientists. Our work is frequently cited, most recently in Science andNature, the most prestigious scientific journals. We are now assembling a team of advisors which includes members of the National Academy of Sciences. These scientists understand our work and stand ready to endorse the feasibility of what we have come to call Natural Systems Agriculture. Our strategy now is to collaborate with public institutions in order to direct more research in the direction of Natural Systems Agriculture. We are seeking funds to construct and operate a research center devoted to Natural Systems Agriculture and to underwrite scientists elsewhere who will engage with us in such research. We estimate the research cost to be $5 million a year for 25 years, which is a small fraction of one percent of the nation’s annual agricultural research investment. Important questions have been answered and crucial principles explored to the point that we feel comfortable in saying that we have demonstrated the scientific feasibility of our proposal for a Natural Systems Agriculture. Because this work deals with basic biological questions and principles, the implications are applicable worldwide. If Natural Systems Agriculture were fully adopted, we could one day see the end of agricultural scientists from industrialized societies delivering agronomic methods and technologies from their fossil fuel-intensive infrastructures into developing countries and thereby saddling them with brittle economies.
Mission Statement: When people, land, and community are as one, Twenty-five thousand people in our region will be diagnosed with cancer this year. Ten thousand of them will die. This week on The Local Show, we take a closer look at efforts to make Kansas City a cancer fighting mecca. Leading the effort is Dr. Roy Jensen.
Kansas City’s pursuit of National Cancer Institute Designation. Skim through your daily newspaper or watch your evening news and you’ll often hear mention of Mattie Rhodes. It might be abut a new art exhibit…or a story about domestic violence or the challenges facing Latinos in the metro. As part of our Difference Makers series here on KCPT, we try to bring a brighter spotlight on our area non-profits. This week we go inside an agency that many of us have heard of…but few may know much about.
The Local Show will feature an extended excerpt from the new documentary Rails to Suburbia. The documentary is about the commuter rail line that city founder William F. Strang established in the early 1900s between Kansas City and the area that today is Overland Park. The excerpt examines Strang’s efforts to attract potential home buyers to the suburbs. The half hour documentary may be seen in its entirety on the Oct. 21 edition of Screentime. September 16, 2010 September 2, 2010  Bernadette Gray-Little Bernadette Gray-Little is the 17th chancellor of the University of Kansas, a post she assumed August 15, 2009. Prior to coming to KU, she was at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where she served as a professor of psychology before being named to several top administrative posts, including executive vice chancellor and provost. Gray-Little has identified enhancing undergraduate education, raising KU’s already high scholarly profile, and securing the resources needed for students and the university to succeed as three of her initial goals for KU. September 5, 2010 at 3:00PM on 19.1
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