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The Providence Medical Center Wound Care Center will present a free Diabetic Foot Ulcer Seminar and Screening* at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 15, at Providence Medical Center 8929 Parallel Parkway, Kansas City, Kan. Local experts will present information on the role of diabetes in the development of foot ulcers and current treatments available for diabetic foot ulcers. Following the free educational seminar, the first 30 in attendance will be eligible to receive a foot screening to include: • Initial Diabetes Foot Assessment • Microfilament test (Checks for Peripheral Neuropathy of the foot) • Quantaflow Test (Checks for Peripheral Artery Disease)…

After some foggy conditions this morning, and the potential of drizzle in the region, there will be a slight, 20 percent chance of showers between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. today, according to the National Weather Service. Today’s high will be near 59 with an east wind of 5 to 11 mph, becoming north in the afternoon, the weather service said. Tonight, the low will be around 40 with partly cloudy skies and a north northeast wind of 8 to 10 mph, according to the weather service. Friday, it will be partly sunny with a high near 55 and an…

The Unified Government Commission will consider a resolution to purchase the property for the Healthy Campus project at its 7 p.m. meeting Thursday, Nov. 30, at the Commission Chambers, lobby level, City Hall, 701 N. 7th St., Kansas City, Kansas. The Healthy Campus topic also will be discussed at a 5 p.m. UG Commission meeting Nov. 30 at the fifth floor conference room of City Hall. According to the UG agenda, the proposed resolution would allow the UG administrator to exercise options to purchase property necessary to build the Healthy Campus project and to enter into contracts for pre-construction architecture…

by Alan Hoskins, KCKCC Shooting woes continued to plague Kansas City Kansas Community College’s young basketball team Wednesday night. Park University’s JV took advantage of 33.3 Blue Devil shooting for a 63-52 win at Parkville, KCKCC’s fifth straight loss on the road. The Blue Devils are right back in action on Friday night when they play host to North Arkansas in the second half of a doubleheader at 7 p.m. North Ark won the first meeting of the two teams 87-84 in Harrisonville. KCKCC opened a 5-point lead in the first five minutes in a first half that had three…

Two Unified Government committees are scheduled to meet Monday, with a discussion of a Google Fiber community program on the agenda. The Neighborhood and Community Development Committee meeting will begin at 5 p.m. Monday at City Hall, fifth floor meeting room, 701 N. 7th St., Kansas City, Kansas. The committee is scheduled to hear an update on Google Fiber’s Community Connections program. Alan Howze, UG chief knowledge officer, is scheduled to give the report. Also on the UG NCD Committee agenda are a resolution about the abatement of special assessments levied to finance public improvements for any property acquired by…

Two public meetings for the northeast area master plan are scheduled today. The meetings are at 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. Oct. 2 at the Quindaro Community Center, 2726 Brown Ave., Kansas City, Kansas. The meetings will be the same. Those attending will see an overview of a new initiative for the northeast area. There will be a discussion about neighborhood assets, issues and opportunities. A Miami County man was sentenced Monday to six months in federal prison for robbing a bank in Overland Park, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said. In addition he will serve two years on supervised release…

A former resident of Overland Park, Kansas, pleaded guilty today to aiding and assisting in the preparation and presentation of false income tax returns. The plea was announced by acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Beall for the District of Kansas. According to documents filed with the court, Alfred Reece, 58, owned and operated a tax preparation business in Kansas City. From approximately 2013 through 2015, Reece prepared federal tax returns for individuals, claiming false business income and losses, medical and dental expense deductions, job-related expenses, charitable…

An injury-accident was reported at 8:10 a.m. Oct. 28 on southbound I-635, just south of I-70 in Kansas City, Kansas. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol trooper’s report, a Honda Passport slowed for traffic and was rear-ended by a Hyundai Sonata. The Honda Passport then struck the left barrier wall. The driver of the Honda Passport, a 40-year-old Kansas City, Kansas, woman, was injured and taken to a hospital, the trooper’s report stated. The driver of the Hyundai Sonata, a 26-year-old Kansas City, Mo., woman, was not injured, according to the report. National Weather Service graphic After a chilly Halloween,…

The Kansas City T-Bones (54-42) knew that they needed to win to keep pace in the American Association Wild Card race before the game ever began Thursday night. By the middle of the ball game if it could go wrong it did go wrong for Kansas City in a 9-1 loss to the Sioux City Explores (43-52) at Mercy Field at Lewis and Clark Park in Sioux City, Iowa. The loss dropped the T-Bones a game back in the chase for a playoff spot with four games to play. It started out on a good foot for Kansas City taking…

Plans are being made to clean up the algae in Welborn Lake, although currently, funding is a snag. Window on the West Opinion column by Mary Rupert Some years ago we did stories about the algae covering Welborn Lake at 48th and Leavenworth Road, and the situation doesn’t seem to have changed too much since then. While some areas of the private lake look like they are being taken care of, such as the flowers under the sign and areas that are trimmed, so much green algae now covers the lake that it would be hard to imagine anyone being…