November 2015 • 72nd Edition
Holiday Season Opener in Brookside Brookside will be kicking off the “Holiday Season Opener” at 5pm on Thursday, November 12th in the park at 63rd and Brookside Blvd. During the opening celebration, choirs from neighboring schools, along with the Holiday Trombones, will be performing beginning at 6pm. Father Christmas, The Price Choppers, The Grinch and Santa will be present and will help ring in the start of the holiday season. Complimentary treats, hot chocolate and coffee will be provided along with a holiday gift drawing. Be sure to check out all of the promotions each store is offering that evening! Open houses and holiday sales will be found at your favorite shops all weekend long. Get a $10 Brookside gift card for every $100 you spend in the Brookside shopping district from 5pm on Thursday, November 12th until close of business Sunday, November 15th. (*Limit of one $20 gift card for $200 purchase per individual) You can take your receipts and redeem your gift cards at Michael Forbes Grille, 128 W 63rd Street. Buy $50 in Brookside gift cards at Bank Midwest and get a free $10 gift card during the holiday season and ending December 31st.
Waldo’s “Shop Small Saturday Crawl” The shops in Waldo will hold a “Shop Small Saturday Crawl” to promote “Small Business Saturday.” Grab a friend and join us as we shop ‘til we drop in Waldo! Please check www.waldokc.org for a list of participating stores. Win Waldo Bucks to spend at participating businesses. An array of items, gift cards and merchandise will be awarded as a grand prize after the event. Please pick up a Shop Small Saturday Crawl passport at any participating store in Waldo before November 28th. The crawl will take place from 10am2pm, but we encourage you to shop the whole day through! Once you have visited and found all the fun gifts you were looking for, you can stop by Family Bicycles, 7337 Broadway, with your validated passport to collect your Waldo Bucks. Not only can you purchase one-of-a-kind items, but you are giving back to your neighbors and community, and helping Waldo continue to be one of the best neighborhood shopping areas! Southtown, Waldo and Brookside all encourage you to shop small on Saturday, November 28th. American Express has partnered with small businesses across the country to help promote this important cause.
Lookin’ Good! Congratulations to the shops along 7441-7447 Broadway for being chosen as Waldo’s Best for November! It is amazing how much difference new, efficiency windows and contemporary doors and locks can make. When you add a fresh coat of paint the entire building is transformed. The enhanced look enticed Brookside Betty’s, a new clothing store (7443), to relocate to Waldo! The existing businesses also benefiting from the face-lift include Cook Insurance Agency (7447), Hiles Two (7445) and City Looks, LLC (7441). This stretch of businesses offers one-stop shopping for new fashion, protection and decorations for your home as well as a way to look your best. Property owner Diane Botwin of Botwin Commercial Development has been in business for 29 years and thrives to foster and promote strong and stable local businesses. Funds from the Waldo Community Improvement District’s Storefront Improvement Grant program helped supplement the $28,000 project. Thank you all for making Waldo look its best!
Volunteers Help Shepherd’s Center Central Sparkle Located on the corner of 52nd Street and Oak Street, Shepherd’s Center Central has been helping older adults live a healthy, happy, and engaged life for the past 43 years. Executive Director Pam Seymour, a staff of 16 and countless volunteers help make this wonderful organization successful. While maintaining a beautiful house and grounds, Shepherd’s Center is focused on making older adults’ lives a little easier. Volunteers and staff deliver “Meals on Wheels,” teach classes, provide Medicare counseling, transport homebound older adults, and run the office. Normal wear and tear can take its toll on a 100-year-old home. In 2014, Lori Stark and Jayson Seymour led a team of determined volunteers to restore the grounds and make it a neighborhood “showpiece.” Volunteers pulled weeds, cleaned the brush away, and planted bushes, hostas, shrubs and flowers. A beautiful flowering butterfly garden was placed on the North lawn. The new lawn was then dedicated to long-time volunteer Dorothy Phoenix. If you are looking for a great place to volunteer, please contact them at 816-444-1121 or enjoy reading their mission at www.sccentral.org. Thank you, Shepherd’s Center, for all you do for our community. Your attention to detail beautifully shines in Southtown!
All Your Shipping Needs Located in Brookside, The UPS Store, 6320 Brookside Plaza, is locally owned and part of a network of independent owners. They strive to maintain small business operations for the shopping center and other Brookside merchants. With direct UPS shipping rates with no handling fees and/or no service charges, you will pay the cheapest shipping rates while supporting a local business at the same time. The UPS Store can also handle all your regular and/or holiday shipping and packing needs and if you need packing services, they have certified packing experts able to provide you with the proper size boxes and all packing materials to make sure your items arrive in their original condition. The ability to ship with all carriers whether it is UPS, FedEx, US Mail, DHL, or freight, makes the shipping process hassle-free! With the holidays right around the corner, it is good to know there is a reliable, local shipping service in the neighborhood. If you are looking for holiday cards, black and white copies or a private mailbox service, you are in luck! Owner Eric Corp and staff work diligently to provide you the best service possible. Please call 16-363-3456 or stop by for any of your shipping needs. Thank you to Brookside’s UPS Store for being our November highlight. Don’t forget to stop in for all your holiday shipping!
KCSourceLink at Southtown Planning Center KCSourceLink is taking its show on the road to better serve entrepreneurs and business owners in all parts of the metro area. KCSourceLink staff will office out of different Resource Partner locations every Tuesday afternoon to better serve each geographic area.** "We've been talking with our KCSourceLink Resource Partners, and we think this will be a great way to bring the resources of the network to the entrepreneur, and to more actively promote our network of 240+ service providers," said Jenny Miller, KCSourceLink network builder. Office hours will be from 1-4 p.m. with no appointments necessary. KCSourceLink staff will meet with business owners, assess their needs and make referrals to the appropriate resources in the KCSourceLink network. Each person will leave with an action plan tailored to their individual situation. The network is made up of nonprofit, government and educational organizations whose services are typically low or no cost. The initial meet with KCSourceLink staff is free. This outreach is in addition to the referral services KCSourceLink provides through the hotline, 816.235.6500, and through the website, www.kcsourcelink.com. The entire schedule can be found at http://www.kcsourcelink.com/blog/blog/2015/10/16/the-network-builder-is-in!-catchjenny-for-office-hours-during-nov.-and-dec **Tuesday, December 1st from 1pm to 4pm at the Southtown Planning Center** 6814 Troost Avenue
Buy a Pie, Help a Child Each year Gillis, a local nonprofit that works with kids and families, raises funds through a pie sale around the holidays. Pies for a Purpose makes giving Tippin's pies easy! Dating back to 1870, Gillis is actually the oldest non-profit in Kansas City. Every $15 gift certificate is redeemable for any flavor Tippin's pie at any metro-area Hen House Market thru January 15, 2016. $6 of every pie purchased will benefit the children and families served at Gillis and partnering center, Marillac.
Trick or Treat Street A special thank you to all of the volunteers who helped make Brookside’s Trick or Treat Street such a success! This year was certainly spooktacular! With more than a thousand little trick or treaters, this year’s was one of the best yet! It was a fun scene to see all the unique costumes and see Brookside fill up with such excitement. This year was extra special with all of the young girls and boys dressed as their favorite Royals player. Everyone was scurrying through to get home with enough time to catch the first pitch of game 4. The unity of Brookside was paralleled to the city’s love for their “boys in blue.” We can’t wait to see everyone out again next year for another fun Halloween!
Southtown, Waldo, Brookside Monthly Events Monthly Luncheon:
Upcoming Events:
Wednesday, November 18, 11:45am Guest Speaker: Southtown’s New Executive Director
Thursday, November 12, 5pm Brookside’s Holiday Season Opener
Location: St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church; 6401 Wornall Terrace
Ceremony from 6pm to 7:30pm in the park at 63rd and Brookside Boulevard.
Catered by: Gates BBQ $12/person
Saturday, November 28, 10-2pm Waldo’s Shop Small Saturday Crawl
Required RSVP– Limited seating By Nov.16th 523-5553 or natalie@southtown.org
Please check waldokc.org for participating businesses Mike’s Wine & Spirts hosted the October PM Networking.
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