The Kansas State Fair Board agreed Tuesday to take bids on some construction and building upgrade projects on the fairgrounds, including a long-delayed estimated $2.37 million project at the Expo I horse exhibition center.
A few should be done in time for this year’s state fair, and others – including the Expo center – won’t start until it’s over.
Even then, however, at least two buildings on the grounds that are currently closed to the public – the Capper Building and the Bison Arena – will remain so, as will the Encampment Building dormitories.
Most of the Fair Board took an hour-long tour of the grounds Tuesday morning, before going into a several-hour retreat and then holding its May board meeting.
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Statue of Teresa Cuevas, founder of Mariachi Estrella de Topeka, will be a welcome presence in downtown Topeka
By The Editorial Advisory Board
We’re delighted to hear of plans for a statue honoring Teresa Cuevas in downtown Topeka, near Evergy Plaza.
Cuevas was a force of nature, and Tuesday was the 101st anniversary of her birth. Cuevas, as The Topeka Capital-Journal’s Tim Hrenchir reported, was “the driving force behind Mariachi Estrella de Topeka, one of the first all-female mariachi bands in the U.S.”
Hrenchir continued: “Her family is working with the Downtown Topeka Foundation to honor her legacy by having a bronze, life-sized statue of Cuevas, who died at age 93 in 2013, put up.”
Teresa Cuevas felt it was her destiny to keep mariachi music alive so future generations could enjoy it, says her granddaughter, Michelle Cuevas Stubblefield.
Tuesday will mark the 101st anniversary of the birth of Cuevas, the driving force behind Mariachi Estrella de Topeka, one of the first all-female mariachi bands in the U.S.
Her family is working with the Downtown Topeka Foundation to honor her legacy by having a bronze, life-sized statue of Cuevas, who died at age 93 in 2013, put up near downtown Topeka s Evergy Plaza.
Cuevas is to become the first woman honored with a statue along S. Kansas Avenue, Cuevas Stubblefield said.
Recalling ‘Cactus’ Jack Call, the Man Patsy Cline Came to KC to Honor
Tribute Show for Country Music DJ Was Cline s Final Performance Share this story Published March 4th, 2021 at 6:00 AM Above image credit: Mildred Keith shot the famous last photograph of Patsy Cline. (Contributed | Keith family)
Almost everybody knows the Patsy Cline-comes-to-Kansas City story.
Fewer people know the “Cactus” Jack Call story.
Cline died on March 5, 1963. She and three others, flying in a private plane, crashed in Tennessee on their way home to Nashville from Kansas City. Cline and several other country music stars had performed at three benefit concerts to assist the family of a popular disc jockey who had died from injuries sustained in a Jan. 24, 1963 car accident.
A view of Greenleaf Gardens by the author.
Last November, the DC Housing Authority (DCHA) selected a co-developer for its planned redevelopment of Southwest’s Greenleaf Gardens community and embarked upon a precedent-setting approach to engaging Greenleaf Gardens residents.
Now, DCHA has brought that co-development team into its first meetings with residents and stakeholders to explain the proposal that so inspired confidence in DCHA’s selection committee. Here’s what that proposal entails and how it relates to what DCHA required in its request for proposals (RFP).
The winning proposal
The co-development team Greenleaf District Partners, led by Pennrose, EYA, and the Bozzuto Group, has put forth a preliminary vision for a four-phase, 1,400-plus unit development covering the existing Greenleaf Gardens development, roughly between Third Street and Delaware Avenue from Eye to M Streets SW, and between First Street and Delaware Avenue from M to N Streets SW. Of the new constru