Inside this issue Don’t miss NNI Goes Hollywood! T · PDF fileThe Trolley Song, As Time Goes By, Singin’ in the Rain, Moon River, Over the Rainbow, Time After Time, Miss Celie’s

The Trolley Song, As TimeGoes By, Singin’ in theRain, Moon River, Over the

Rainbow, Time After Time, Miss Celie’s Blues.That’s just a sample of the songs, gleanedfrom 80 years of movies, you can hear onSaturday, May 10 at the Intrigue ParkPlace Hotel, 1601 N. Universal Avenue.The evening begins at 6:30 with socialtime and a fine dinner, followed bymusic of the movies sung by AndreaPope and Angelo Cilia (back by popu-lar demand after last year’s “NNI GoesBroadway”). It’s a grand, tune-filledevening that will help NNI build strongneighborhoods. Table of 10 sponsorshipsare available at the following levels:

• “Presenting” at $5,000 • “Star” at $2,500• “Producer” at $1,500• “Director” at $750

Non-sponsor seating is $60 per ticket or $600 per table. Contributions are tax-de-ductible. Make checks payable to Northland Neighborhoods, Inc. Call Jim Rice at 454-2000if you have any questions.

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To improve the quality of life in the

Northland by collaborating with

residents, businessesand institutions to

empower neighborhoods tobuild and maintaintheir own healthycommunities. Wejoin with them in

absolute dedicationto finding solutions

and, in that collectivespirit, we will leave no

neighborhood behind.

The basic component of the“green” initiative is an energyaudit prior to beginning thehome repair. According toNNI executive director JimRice, the energy audit will ac-complish two important ob-jectives. “First, the auditcould direct a portion of the

NNI Goes Green:Home repair will have energy conservation component

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home repair to essential en-ergy-conserving actions suchas insulation and weatherstripping. Second, the auditwill give us a baseline for ac-curately measuring the en-ergy saving impact of therepairs. We will actually be

Northland Neighborhoods

News

Beginning in March,Northland Neighbor-hoods, Inc. (NNI)

will begin bundling energyconservation with its existinghome repair programs. Theprogram could mean sub-stantial energy savings forhome repair grant recipients.

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CHAMP gets $150,000 windfall

Food drive yields 1,883 items for Northland pantry

NNI was informedJanuary 31 by theKansas City Tax In-

crement Financing (TIF)Commission that an addi-tional $150,000 is availablefor the Chouteau Housingand Maintenance (CHAMP)home repair program in theWinnwood-Sunnybrook andChaumiere neighborhoods.The additional funding

comes from one of the twobond issues associated withthe Chouteau CrossingsShopping Center TIF. Al-though the $800,000 bondissue was originally intendedfor Winn Road improve-ments, the neighborhoodopted instead for park im-provements. Following thesuggestion of KCMO Coun-cilwoman Deb Hermann, the

new agreement called for anyremaining funds to go forcontinuation of CHAMP.The $150,000 will be dividedequally between Winnwood-Sunnybrook and Chaumiere.NNI expects to do at least 30home repairs from the wind-fall. That will bring the totalnumber of CHAMP homerepairs in the two neighbor-hoods to 270 since 2003.

able to tell home repair re-cipients and funders howmuch utility bills have beenreduced because of the re-pairs,” Rice says.

Rice noted that many of thehome repairs NNI alreadyperforms have positive en-ergy conservation features,including windows, roofs,siding, and new heating andair conditioning systems.“Monthly utility bill savingscan mean a great deal to lowand fixed-income residents,especially senior citizens,”Rice says. “It means an in-crease in disposable incomefor other essential items suchas food and prescriptiondrugs. About one-half of allNNI home repair grant re-cipients are senior citizens.

For the immediate future,NNI will absorb the cost ofthe energy audits from exist-ing home repair funds. ButRice says NNI has only amodest amount of existingfunding for home repair. “Wehave recently applied for a$500,000 federal grant to payfor energy-conserving re-pairs, the cost of the energyaudits, and the public educa-tion program NNI believes isa must if energy conservationis to become a widespreadhabit in the broader commu-nity.”

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Generous Northland individuals andneighborhoods donated a record-breaking 1,883 items to the annual

NNI food drive for the St. Benedict's Pantry.Seven neighborhoods and 6 individuals par-ticipated. The winning neighborhood wasChaumiere with 458 items; the winning indi-

vidual was Sgt. Danny Graves (representingShoal Creek Patrol Division’s TOPS unit)with 1,001 items. Other neighborhoods par-ticipating in this year’s food drive contestwere Gray Oaks, Greenhaven, Highland Gar-dens, Holiday Hills, Willow Brooke and Win-chester/Randolph Corners.

NNI’s Neighborhood Relations Committee celebrated a successful food drive (left toright) Marty Schuettpelz, Keith Nelson; Officer Aaron Benson, Sgt. Danny Graves,Mario Mayorga, Kay Fugate, Bill Sanders, Park Lightfoot

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Volunteers of the monthFebruary

Paula and Roger Brooks

MarchDave Dunlop

Paula and Roger Brooks generously donate their time toNorthland Neighborhoods because they want to make adifference in their community. Paula grew up in Kear-

ney, Missouri and Roger in Greenwood, South Carolina. Theymet when Paula vacationed in Myrtle Beach and marriedshortly after. Paula, Roger and their three children lived inLiberty, Missouri before moving back to Roger’s home town in1996. Roger was a police officer there. Paula, as Director of theUptown Greenwood Development Corporation, enjoyedhelping people, developing programs and organizing eventsalong with their three children. Paula and Roger taught Sun-day School, were Youth Leaders, co-directed Vacation BibleSchool, coached a range of sports, and helped mentor newcoaches.

Now back in Kansas City, Roger works for MTS Contractingin North Kansas City and Paula is Marketing Manager/Opera-tions Supervisor for liNKCity, North Kansas City’s new fiber-optic Internet service. Roger has coached baseball and he andPaula have volunteered for NNI and Lakewood PTA events.

Paula is currently a member of North Kansas City KiwanisClub and NNI’s EXCEL class. Together they are interested inbeing more involved in their local community through theirneighborhood association. They realize the importance ofkeeping a neighborhood healthy and realize that it takes com-mitment to achieve that. NNI applauds them for their manyvolunteer hours and for making a difference in other’s lives andin the community.

Quiet, sacrificial service. Servant leadership. That’sDave Dunlop’s style of volunteering. Over the lastseveral years, NNI has come to rely on Dave’s willing

-ness to be just a phone call away. Whether it’s re-viewing home repair projects, helping a 95 year-old citizen re-mediate code violations, or volunteering at the National NightOut Against Crime Kick-Off, Dave’s willingness to serve NNIhas been invaluable.

But Dave’s service to the community goes beyond NNI. Heserved his country on active duty in the Navy from 1954-1957and later as a reservist for 17 years. Dave volunteered with theRed Cross as a Disaster Action Team Coordinator for Clayand Platte Counties and is currently the Volunteer LogisticsCoordinator for the Greater Kansas City Chapter. He has re-sponded to disasters in five states and has worked on 30 homesover the past 7 years for Northland Habitat for Humanity. Heis a true asset to the community.


Linden West’s Jacob Hilworth donated his mother’s hairto Pantene’s Beautiful Lengths hair for wigs drive.

Spotlight on VolunteerismBy Reta Jo MitchellThe New Generation of Samaritans Loves Helping Others

“After the verb TO LOVE, TO HELP is the most beautiful verb in the world.” Bertha Voa hundred years ago certainly apply to children of today.

As in my earliercolumns about goodkids, examples of

helping still abound. Nonemore inspiring than the girlsof Linden West ElementarySchool who cut off their pig-tails to be used in wigs forcancer patients. In all, 402inches of blonde and brownand black hair were donatedby teachers and the girls.And by one boy who laugh-ingly told me that he had“scalped” his mom.

Helping hands at CrestviewElementary reach out every-where: picking up trash onEarth Day, writing caring let-ters to an Army medic in Iraqto share with his Level Threepatients—the most criticallywounded. One 5th grade girldonated her long tresses tomake wigs.

Harvester's food drive barrelsare a schoolhouse fixture, in-cluding at Oakwood Manor.To shine a spotlight on ourneighbors in need, theNorthland’s Teens AgainstHunger held a walkathonand a starvation party, going

without food for 24 hours.The kids, many from ParkHill South High School, alsocollected 736 pounds of foodfor Harvester's.

Winnwood Elementary’s 5th

graders did chores to raise800 dollars. With the money,a wish list and shopping re-search data, they then walkedto the Target Store andbought Christmas gifts fortheir adopted family. Besidescollecting 6,000 cans of soupfor the Northland ChristmasStore, Fox Hill Elementary’sstudents held a disc golf tour-nament for United Wayfunding, gathered mittensand gloves for a children’sshelter, and gave stuffed ani-mals to a nearby nursinghome. Meadowbrook Ele-mentary’s little kindergart-ners of teacher KathyJohnston were again at work,collecting pennies for Chril-dren’s Mercy Hospital.

Eastgate Middle School helda drive for books for theBackSnack program. St. PiusX High School juniorsDaniel and David Baileyamassed 2,000 books forChildren’s Mercy Hospital.West Englewood Elementarycollected food for the

Lutheran Ministries andfunds for United Way, sup-ported a battered women’sshelter and rang bells for theSalvation Army.

No cause is too remote totouch our children’s hearts.St. Charles School raisedover a million pennies tohelp Guatemalan fami-lies who lost homes ina mudslide, with sup-port from Meadow-brook andNorthview Elemen-tary Schools and Oak

Park High. Children fromNorth Cross UnitedMethodist Church recycledpaper for funds to build wellsin impoverished Mozam-bique.

Kids are very mindful ofhealth needs. Students fromNKC, Oak Park, Win-

netonka and Oak ParkSouth High Schoolswalked all night toraise over 85,000dollars for cancer re-search. Maple Park

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Donating their hair to make wigs for cancer patients were(left to right) front row: students Leona Toney, VictoriaBarriga, Erica Pham, Hannah Wooley, Bailey Brewer,Paige Ferguson; back row: teachers Denee Noble, EmilyBryant, Lori Riddle; students Harrison Hayworth, KylieFolsom.

a Von Suttner’s words of over

Middle School raised fundsfor the American Heart Asso-ciation through an exercisemarathon called “Hoops forHealth.”

Several schools support ourmilitary. NKC High School’sautomotive technology stu-dents raised funds to equipcombat vehicles with betterlighting to detect roadsidebombs. Northgate MiddleSchool students Katie Kirtleyand Anna Boyle founded asupport group that sendsCare Packages to troops andalso raised 445 dollars tohelp meet needs of militaryfamilies.

Topping Elementary col-lected peanut butter, crack-ers and cookies to send tothe soldiers in Iraq alongwith letters of encourage-ment and appreciation.Among the thank-you com-munications received was afilm showing shepherds andcamels in the Iraqi country-side.

A true expression of caring isthat of Clay County’s 4-HTeens Taking Action Club.They collect medical equip-ment for the uninsured, sewblankets for kids in foster

care, and support children ofdeployed troops throughOperation: Military Kids.

Boy Scout Troop 357 contin-ues to assist with theYMCA’s swimming programfor the handicapped, serve asSalvation Army Bell Ringers,and faithfully volunteer atthe Northland’s RecyclingCenter.

In their humanitarian en-deavors, children are guided

by the adults in their lives,and by the simple wish “tofeel good about themselves,”Winnwood 4th graderNicholas Kern explained.

And then, added SamanthaStapleton-Barrett, anotherWinnwood 4th grader: “Peo-ple will think we are nice.”

March 2008

This summer, Kansas City Parksand Recreation will introduce “SeeA Movie, See Kansas City”. With

the Frontyard Features Company, Parksand Recreation will present movies inneighborhood parks from April to Octo-ber 2008.

According to Parks Director MarkMcHenry, the movies will help bringneighbors together and build strongercommunities. “Many neighborhoods willuse the movies to create new traditionsand showcase community services,”McHenry says. The commitment is mini-mal: choosing and paying for movie rights($125-$250) and spreading the word inthe neighborhood. Neighborhood associ-

ations can sell concessions and sponsor-ships to help cover expenses.

To encourage participation, the Parks De-partment will waive park permit fees for“See A Movie, See Kansas City” in KCparks. Frontyard Features will help recruitsponsors and advertising, secure movierights, market the event, provide staff andstate-of-the-art equipment, including a20’ X 18’ outdoor screen.

To take advantage of this opportunitycontact Martin Casas, Frontyard Features(314)664-4330, [email protected] orHeidi Downer with the Parks and Recre-ation, 513-7527,[email protected].

Movies in the parks can bring neighbors together


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NNI Board of Directors

Officers

Mary Jo BurtonPresident

Bill SandersVice President

Misty Dawn CaseySecretary

Tom SchweitzerTreasurer

Board Members

Angela Betts

Charles Chamberlin

Lory Daniels

Dick Davis

Mike Duffy

Dan Fowler

Park Lightfoot

Kevin Masters

Mario Mayorga

Keith Nelson

Marty Schuettpelz

Neighborhood Clips

March senior workshoplets you “ask a nurse aboutyour noggin!”

The February senior work-shop was all about the heart.The March meeting is aboutthe noggin…uh, the head.Or, more precisely, the brain.The March 12, 9 a.m. sessionwill be led by a geriatricpsych RN. Presented by Tri-County Older Adult MentalHealth Services, the work-shop will feature Penny Shaf-fer, who has 30 years ofnursing experience and spe-cializes in geriatric mentalhealth. A national speakerand a frequent contributingauthor in “50 and Better”and “Best Times” publica-tions, Penny has developedseveral hospital based andoutpatient services for sen-iors with dementia and hasserved as a mental healthconsultant to nursing homesand assisted living facilitiesacross western Missouri andeast central Kansas for manyyears. She has taught de-mentia care for theAlzheimer’s Association andsits on numerous panels forelder mental health, abuseand neglect issues.

Beginning this month:Home Ownership Made Easier

Is home ownership some-thing you dream about, butthe process sounds like anightmare? Do the words“equity”, “escrow,” and “vari-able rates” sound confusing?Then you need to sign up forthe three-part homeowner-ship class offered by North-land Neighborhoods, Inc.and University of MissouriExtension. No matter whereyou live or where you want tolive, this class will prepareyou to own a home. Datesfor the next series of classesare March 12th, 19th and26th from 6-9 p.m. (A lightdinner will be provided at5:30 p.m.) Cost for the seriesis $25. For more informa-tion, call Jennifer Presberryat 816-454-2000.

Check out NNI at Northland Business Fair

For the second year, NNIwill participate in the North-land Regional Chamber ofCommerce Business FairMarch 19, 2008 at the KCIExpo Center, 11730 N. Am-bassador Drive. Drop in from1 to 5 p.m. and catch NNI’sbooth along with the hun-dreds of other interestingand informative offerings ofNorthland businesses and in-stitutions.

Ravenwood schedulesspring and fall garage sales

Looking for that old chairthat can be brought back toglory with a little elbowgrease? Or that piece ofkitchenware or garden toolyou just have to have?Ravenwood’s Neighborhoodgarage sales can satisfy yourshopping itch. The springsale is April 26 and 27, 8 a.m.to 5 p.m., followed by the fallsale September 13 and 14, 8a.m. to 5 p.m. The shoppingquest begins at 59th Terraceand North Brighton.

Neighborhood Round-table to feature KC capitalimprovements

On Tuesday, March 25th,NNI will host Pat Klein,manager of the Capital Im-provements Office, for theNeighborhood Roundtable.Pat will be discussing PIACand taking questions con-cerning the process. PleaseRSVP to Jennifer Presberryat [email protected] by calling 454-2000.


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NNI Staff

Full-Time

Jim RiceExecutive Director

James CianciarusoDirector of Planning andDevelopment

Christy HarrisDirector of Housing Services

Jennifer PresberryManager, Community Development

Janet ShafferCommunity DevelopmentCoordinator

Part-Time and Contract

Jenny EllisAdministrative Support

Pearl BrownAdministrative Support

Pat EstesHousing Assistant

Lola McCloudSpecial Projects

It’s election season: register to vote at NNI

With important local ini-tiatives looming and a na-tional election just aroundthe corner, it’s time to reg-ister to vote. You can dothat quickly and conve-niently at NNI, 3015 NEVivion Road (next toTires Plus). Bring proof ofidentity and address.Don’t miss your opportu-nity to participate in thegreat gift of Americandemocracy.

Neighborhood residents overflowed NNI’s meeting room at a February 19 meetingsponsored by KC Councilpersons Deb Hermann and Bill Skaggs. The public meeting,second in a series, was devoted to the obviously hot topic of Kansas City road projects inthe 1st Council District. A third meeting is scheduled for March 18, 8:30 a.m. at NNI.

Your home is one of thebiggest investments you willever make. Maintaining andenhancing its value should be ahigh priority. Once you havepurchased your home andmoved in, too often you areconfronted with the dilemmaof how much you need toknow to be a capable home-owner. With that in mind,NNI will partner with the Uni-versity of Missouri Extensionto present the HomeWorks:Maintaining Your Housing In-vestment workshop series. Thisworkshop is designed to focus

on home maintenance andplanning for repairs. TheHomeWorks program will betaught by two specialists fromthe University of Missouri Ex-tension—Marsha Alexanderand Carole Bozworth. The se-ries will be taught at NNI’s of-fices on March 4, March 11,and March 18 from 6:30-8:30p.m. One folder per householdwill be distributed at the firstsession for $7.00. Pre-registra-tion is required and space islimited, so please RSVP earlyto Jennifer Presberry at 816-454-2000.

Register now for HomeWorks series


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Public Meetings at NNI March 2008

Tuesday 3/4 HomeWorks 6:30 p.m.


Wednesday 3/12 Senior Workshop 9:00 a.m.

Wednesday 3/12 Homebuyer Education 6:00 p.m.

Thursday 3/13 Greenhaven Neighborhood 7:00 p.m.

Monday 3/17 NNI Board Meeting 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday 3/18 Northland Roads Meeting 8:30 a.m.


Wednesday 3/19 Cop Talk at North Patrol-1101 NW Barry Road 6:00 p.m.

Wednesday 3/19 Homebuyer Education 6:00 p.m.

Tuesday 3/25 Neighborhood Roundtable 6:00 p.m.

Monday 3/31 Meet Your Councilpersons 6:00 p.m.


Documents

Inside this issue Don’t miss NNI Goes Hollywood! T · PDF fileThe Trolley Song, As Time Goes By, Singin’ in the Rain, Moon River, Over the Rainbow, Time After Time, Miss Celie’s