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LEE’S SUMMIT JOURNALConnecting your community
2014CALENDAR
The heart of Lee’s Summit
Welcome to Downtown Lee’s Summit...the heart of the community and a Great American Main Street award-winner, naming it one of the top downtowns in the nation.JANuARy
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President’s Day
Valentine’s Day
Super Bowl Sunday
FOURTH FRIDAY
Who doesn’t love chocolate? Every February, Downtown Lee’s Summit merchants give away delicious chocolate creations while shoppers pick out gifts just in time for Valentine’s Day.
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first Day of Spring
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Mardi Gras Ash Wednesday
Downtown Lee’s Summit is Irish for the day every year on the Saturday before St. Patrick’s Day when the Emerald Isle Parade and its nearly 100 entries and thousands of participants and spectators go green for the all-day festivities. Photo by Taylor Pemberton. MARCh
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Passover Begins
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Watch for the Easter Bunny and hundreds of children dressed in hats and bonnets parading down the streets of Downtown Lee’s Summit every year on the Saturday before Easter. Kids also can hop from store to store for special candy treats.APRiL
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Cinco de Mayo
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MUSIC IN THE PARk
The free Music in the Park series, hosted by Downtown Lee’s Summit Main Street, features two concerts Friday nights from May 30 through Aug. 29 in Howard Station Park. The series kicks off with its popular Kids Night Concert the Friday of Memorial Day weekend. MAy
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� LSN takes down Tigersin conference match | 1B
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September 27 & 28 in Downtown Lee’s Summit
2013 BUSINESS OF THEYEAR IN THE PARVUS CATEGORY.
Join more than70,000 visitors forLee’s
SummitChamber’sOktoberfest, presented
by Pinnacle Bank,from 5-11 p.m. on Sept.27 & from 10 a.m.-11p.m. Sept. 28 inhistoric DowntownLee’s Summit. EnjoyGerman meals, threestages
ofentertainment, Germandancers,
carnival,Biergarten,
freechildren’s activities,contests and arts &crafts booths
ON TAPOktoberfest
INSIDE
Get to know all things Oktoberfest; concertschedules, activitesand contests all insidetoday’s paper.
Complaints about brush overgrowing a
house in a Lee’s Summit neighborhood
spurred the City Council to take a closer
look at its property maintenance ordinances.
Peggy Johnson, a resident living on
Hunters Ridge in north Lee’s Summit, at a
recent meeting showed them photographs of
a house next door and pleaded for help. She
said that for two years she and her neighbors
tried to get the owner to trim his trees and
shrubs. The garage doors are rotting andvermin livein theunderbrush,she said.Neighborshave offeredto help, but
the owner refuses to let them on the
property.She said a lack of regulations made it
difficult for the codes department to make
progress on the problem, adding the
situation is frustrating to her and neighbors.
“My taxes continue to go up, while
potential resale value of my property goes
down,” Johnson said.She asked the council if a potential buyer
would want to live next to that house.
The council had mixed reactions, but
reached a consensus at the Sept. 5 meeting
to have the issue assigned to one of its
committees for further consideration.
CITY
Brushgetscouncil’sattentionCtiy will considerstricter propertymaintenance codesBY RUSS [email protected]
CODES | page 2A
2,000Average number of nuisancecomplaints to Lee’s Summit code
enforcement each year
Twenty years ago Missouri State Highway
Patrol Corporal Michael Webster was killed in
the line of duty after he was struck and killed by
a vehicle driven by a drunk driver.In the two decades since, Webster’s widow,
Kathey, has kept his memory at the forefront of
the community by hosting a blood drive at the
Troop A headquarters in Lee’s Summit.
This year, Kathey Webster, the Highway
Patrol and national organizations such as the
American Red Cross, Community Blood Bank
and Be the Match have gone one step further,
one step bigger and one step bolder.
Instead of hosting the month-long blood drive
here locally, Webster and crew got permission to
BLOOD DRIVETriumph over tragedyWidow helps preserve memory of former state trooper
BY TORIANO [email protected]
WEBSTER | page 5A
Masquerade inMonte Carlo
ASHLEE HENDRIX/the Journal
Over 560 women attended the 11th annual Piccadilly
Gala Sept. 19 at the Pavilion at John Knox Village. La-
dies wore colorful and sparkly masks in honor of the
Masquerade in Monte Carlo theme. The Piccadilly Ga-
la is a ladies night out benefit for Downtown Lee’s
Summit Main Street. See more photos on page 5A,
Testingfor
concreteresults
PHOTOS BY RUSS PULLEY/the Journal
Quality Custom Concrete, a subcontractor for Lamke Trenching and Excavating, the city’s
contractor for a water main replacement at Third and Green streets, Sept. 24 was finishing
pavement repairs, with all street work is to be done by Friday morning in time for Oktober-
fest. The replacement is part of a $3.6 million undertaking to replace six miles of water main
that have reached the end of their lifecycle and are being replaced with new PVC pipes that
have a life expectancy of more than 75 years.
John Titsworth, a seniortechnician with Terra-con, a Lee’s Summitcompany that providesgeotechnical and envi-ronmental consultingservices, Sept. 25, pre-pares concrete samplesfrom concrete pouredfor Third Street whichwill be cured for up to28 days then broken totest the samples’strength. If it’s not up tosnuff, the contractorwill have to break outthe concrete and re-place it.
Tommy Leslie returnedto Lee’s Summit from NewZealand with his wife aftera two-and-a-half year stintthere intent on making aname for himself in thetrade and barter realm.Leslie’s home-based
business, Elite BarterGroup, isn’t a unique
concept within itself, butin this market – and with alittle tweak hereand there to thebusiness model –the business may bejust what the doctorordered.Elite BarterGroup officiallyopened its door inJune of last year,and in the year-plussince, the company has
grown from one initialmember to the 40 on itsroster now.
Leslie co-owns thebusiness with silentpartner Weston Krska, whohandles the company’swebsite and technicalaspects.
“I livedoverseas in NewZealand and Iworked for abusiness that wasa part of a largetrade group likethis,” Leslie saidSept. 24 viatelephone fromhis Lee’s Summit
home/business. “I got tosee everything the owner
BUSINESSGroup loveLS man’s trade, barter company
seeking more membersBY TORIANO [email protected]
BARTER | page 7A
Tommy Leslie
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� Titan girls take second
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� Blue Springs defeats
Broncos in weather
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EDUCATION
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state resolution recog-
nizing Blue Ribbon
School selection | 3B
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2013 BUSINESS OF THE
YEAR IN THE
PARVUS CATEGORY.
7 p.m., 8:15 p.m.
and 9:30 p.m. Oct. 12,
in Downtown Lee’s
Summit. Take a tour of
four haunted and
historic spaces in
downtown Lee’s
Summit lead by
paranormal expert
Jason Offutt. Start the
tour with a wine
reception at Got Art
Gallery, 18 S.W. Third
St. Tickets are $10;
Reservations required
by calling call
816-246-6598 or via
e-mail at
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Haunted &
Historic
Spaces Tours
Finding a favorite at Summit Art Festival
TORIANO PORTER/the Journal
Alejandro Barajas, middle, of Lee’s Summit and wife Marcia Barajas, back to the camera, were joined by
children Alex, age 4, and Luna, 5, at the Summit Art Festival Oct. 5 in downtown Lee’s Summit. See more
photos on page 6A.
A plan to redevelop the southwest
corner of Third and Market streets in
downtown Lee’s Summit is going
forward despite opposition from a
downtown organization.
The Lee’s Summit City Council
voted 6 to 1, at its Oct. 3 meeting, to
accept the site plan and architecture
for a proposed clinic for orthodontist
Craig Grider. Council member Kathy
Hofmann voted no and Dave Mosby
was absent.
The initial vote to draft an
ordinance approving the project was
closer, 4-3, but Councilmember Ed
Cockrell switched his vote.
Cockrell said he thought the
building should be on the corner of
Third and Market, with most of the
parking to the west, first voting no
along with Hofmann and
Councilmember Allan Gray.
When the council had to consider
voting on the ordinance, Cockrell
said he’d expressed his opinion and
would change his vote as to not delay
the project. Gray also changed sides.
Downtown Lee’s Summit Main
St. Inc. opposed Grider’s plan, saying
the architecture and placement of a
3,000-square-foot building on the lot
didn’t conform to the recently
adopted downtown standards.
No one from that organization
contacted on Friday commented on
the vote.
Executive Director Trisha Drape
said she had missed the meeting
Thursday because she was busy
working preparations for the Lee’s
Summit Art Festival this weekend.
She said she needed to review the
meeting recording and documents
DOWNTOWN
GRIDER | page 2A
City
approves
addition at
Third and
Market
BY RUSS PULLEY
Something seemed
amiss to David McGehee
long before he and his
family made a trip to the
Missouri School Boards’
Association and Missouri
Association of School
Administrators joint fall
conference held at
Tan-Tar-A Resort at the
Lake of the Ozarks in
Osage Beach.
Joined by wife Andrea,
and 17-year-old daughter
Laura, McGehee’s hunch
stemmed from a little too
much excitement from
Laura about the trip.
“It was one of those
situations were a lot of
things were occurring
leading up to the
banquet that
made me
wonder,”
McGehee,
superintendent
for the Lee’s
Summit R-7
School District,
said Oct. 7, two
days after he was
selected by MASA as the
state’s superintendent of the
year. “You don’t expect
something to happen
because you don’t
want disappointment
in there, but certainly
I was surprised.
“As far back as a
couple of weeks ago
when my 17-year-old
daughter was excited
about going to the
Lake for shopping –
not only did she want
to go to the Lake to shop,
but she was excited about
the banquet and I found that
a little bit strange…I kind
of had an inkling a few
seconds before they made
the announcement.”
As the recipient of the
yearly award, McGehee
will represent Missouri in
the National
Superintendent of the Year
program conducted by the
American Association of
School Administrators.
SCHOOLS
SURPRISE, SURPRISE!
LS R-7 official named top
superintendent in state
BY TORIANO PORTER
MCGEHEE | page 8ADavid McGehee
Legendary screen actors Sylvester Stallone
and Arnold Schwarzenegger are the big name
stars of the upcoming action film “Escape Plan,”
but a Lee’s
Summit man will
have a role in the
movie set for
nationwide
release Oct. 18.
Rob Fuller, a
1989 graduate of
Lee’s Summit
High School, will portray the role of a skinhead in
a movie that also includes known Hollywood
actors Jim Caviezel, Vincent D’Onofrio, Vinnie
Jones and rapper and part-time actor 50 Cent.
The plot revolves around a character played by
Stallone, who is a structural-security expert who
finds himself set up and incarcerated in the
world’s most secret and secure prison that he
designed himself. Stallone’s character has to use
his skills and know-how to escape with help from
the inside.
“I think I got picked because I did everything
that they asked,” Fuller, who’s image is included
in a poster promoting the movie and in various
trailers for the film, said of how he was selected
for the role. “I just kept my mouth shut and kept
doing what I was doing. I went from four days on
the set to six weeks. If you plan things out in your
head, it will work out. I saw so many people try to
talk to Stallone and I knew that my window would
be short, so I literally thought everything out in
my head that I wanted to say to him. That’s why
FILM
FULLER | page 3A
THE MUSCLE
Lee’s Summit man featured
in new Hollywood film
TORIANO PORTER/the Journal
Lee’s Summit resident Rob Fuller is riding high
these days with credits in two films set for re-
lease, including a big-budgeted action film
starring Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwar-
zenegger that debuts nationwide Oct. 18.
BY TORIANO PORTER
6Amount of weeks Lee’s Summit
resident Rob Fuller spent on the
set of the action film “Escape
Plan” starring Sylvester Stallone
and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Mayor Randy Rhoads twice cast tie-breaking votes
at a Lee’s Summit City Council meeting as members
deadlocked on issues, disagreeing over whether the city
is being business friendly.
Rhoads voted against a proposal to deny Hy-Vee at
301 NE Rice Road a special-use permit to use trailers
for temporary storage, which led to a compromise to
allow the trailers.
He also voted to approve extending the Missouri 150
Overlay District to the western city limit. The
regulations are already in place surrounding the M-150
and Missouri 291 intersection.
Rhoads said he remembers only voting a few times
previously, so twice in one evening was unusual.
COUNCIL
LS approvesMissouri 150plan afterlong debate Members also differ overtemporary storage trailers
BY RUSS [email protected]
M-150 | page 5A
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� The Journal is honoredfrom awards from Missouri Press | 2A
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� $700 raised for SusanG. Komen by LSW thea-ter department | 4B
� Trailridge Elementarycelebrates 20 years ineducation | 5B
INSIDE
2013 BUSINESS OF THEYEAR IN THE
PARVUS CATEGORY.
8 p.m., Sept. 11-14
and 2:30 p.m. Sept. 15 at
Cultural Arts Center at
MCC Longview.
Tickets available at the
door, online at
summittheatregroup.co
m and at both Lee’s
Summit Hy-Vee
locations.
ON TAPSummit
Theatre Grouppresents
“The Guys”
The first test of how
strictly Lee’s Summit will
enforce its new architectural
standards for downtown is
underway.
A proposal for a dental
office, by Lee’s Summit
orthodontist Craig Grider,
prompted some objections
by Downtown Lee’s Summit
Main Street, Inc. and by
Planning Commission
members who don’t like
modifications he is seeking
for the project at 101 SW
Third St., on the corner of
Third and Market streets.
The City Council is
expected to hold a hearing
on the project on Sept. 19.
The Commission voted
5-4, Aug. 27, to recommend
denial of approval for the
redevelopment where
Grider would relocate his
practice. Grider said he was
surprised at the vote.
“I think we’ve got a
project that’s pretty good
and a vast improvement
over what’s there now,”
Grider said.
He intends to tear down a
former gas station that’s
been vacant for some time,
and erect a one-story brick
building.
He originally wanted to
use synthetic stone corners
and brick facade, but
changed his plan after
meeting with city staff,
which also strongly urged
locating the building close
to the property line on Third
DOWNTOWN
Proposed development deniedPlanning Commission rejects plan 5-4, but final decision is up to City CouncilBY RUSS [email protected]
DESIGN | page 5A
Lee’s Summit has the noted distinction
of being one of the most bicycle-friendliest
communities in the nation having received
a Bronze Bicycle Friendly Community
designation from the League of American
Bicyclists late last year.
Despite the merit, sometimes things
happen.
Case in point: a Sept. 3 accident
involving a 17-year-old on his bike who
was struck by a motorist as he headed
westbound in the westbound lanes of
Colbern Road approaching Douglas Road
He was struck from behind by a car
traveling in the same direction.
According to Lee’s Summit Police
officials, the driver indicated that due to
the sunshine glare, she was unable to see
the cyclist in the roadway.
The accident was the fifth one involving
a cyclist this year and five cyclists were
also involved in vehicle collisions in 2012.
Perhaps some of the
SAFETY
RUSS PULLEY/the Journal
Bicyclists using the Longview Loop, an on-road, designated bike path shared by Lee’sSummit and Kansas City, has wide shoulders across the dam at Longview Lake thathelps avoid conflicts between cyclists and motorists, who all are supposed to obey thesame traffic laws. But sometimes they need to share the road, which can lead to acci-dents.
Rules of the RoadPolice, community advocates reiterate theimportance of traffic, bicycle safety
BY TORIANO [email protected]
BICYCLE | page 2A
Opening night
Courtesy photo
Mike Dodig and Lindsey Dragen in a dramatic scenefrom Summit Theatre Group’s “The Guys,” whichopens tonight at the Cultural Arts Center at MCCLongview. Performances continue on Sept. 12-14 at 8p.m. and Sept. 15 at 2:30 p.m. Tickets available at thedoor, online at summittheatregroup.com and at bothLee’s Summit Hy-Vee locations.
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It’s evident summer is upon Lee’s Summit when the community not only celebrates Independence Day, but residents also converge on the Downtown Lee’s Summit Farmers Market, named the No. 1 Farmers Market in the state of Missouri. The market is open every Wednesday and Saturday from April to November.JuLy
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Labor Day
Grandparents Day
PICCADILLY GALA
Rosh hashanahfirst Day of AutumnOkTOBERFEST
Patriot Day
Downtown Lee’s Summit is the place to be in the fall, in part because of the popular two-day Oktoberfest celebration, which the Lee’s Summit Chamber of SEPTEMBER
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During the annual Boos & Barks Halloween Parade, you never know what you might see — little girls transformed into peacocks or dogs with wings. Every October, families and dogs are welcome to parade OCTOBER
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through Downtown Lee’s Summit, trick-or-treat at shops and win prizes for best costumes.
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Veterans Day
Daylight Saving Time Ends
Thanksgiving Day
HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE
MAYOR’S TREE LIGHTING
The mayor of Lee’s Summit kicks off the holiday season every year in November when he flips the switch to turn on the Mayor’s Christmas Tree and all of the hundreds of lights throughout Downtown Lee’s Summit. Santa and Mrs. NOVEMBER
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Claus also make an appearance to visit with children.
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Lee’s Summit Historical Society &Museum220 SE Main Street, Lee’s Summit, MO 64063
Phone: 816-363-9718Saturday 10-4 and by appointment
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Ballet performances of “The Nutcracker” are a holiday tradition in many countries, as well as in Lee’s Summit. This ballerina brings the “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” DECEMBER
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to the streets for the community to enjoy during one of Downtown Lee’s Summit’s many holiday events.
You can help us make a difference in the lives of our neighbors by :• Donating Canned Goods & Non-Perishable Food Items
• Providing School Supplies & Financial Gifts• Giving Quality Clothing & Home Items to our “Community Thrift Store”
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See the difference for yourself when you explore historic Downtown Lee’s Summit, a nationally award-winning Main Street.
With nearly 45 eclectic specialty stores and dozens of dining and entertainment options, as well as more than 100 special events
and cultural activities annually, Downtown Lee’s Summit is where you’ll experience more of everything.
Yours Truly,
Welcoming...