Articles from October 2011 issue of Johnson County Lifestyle Magazine.
Article Katherine Bontrager | Photography Brian Turner Brittany’s problems started early: A dad who was non-existent, a small town with little to do and a crowd of kids bent on making their own, often destructive, fun. The slight-framed brunette was on drugs and getting into trouble at home and at school. Placed in foster care, …
During the winter Olympics earlier last year, the sport of curling took the world by storm. Millions of viewers were riveted to the television to learn more about this obscure sport, with many admitting they were seeing it played for the first time. Local residents are surprised when they learn that Kansas City has its …
Sound like a typical daily blog entry from a high school band director? Well, it is if that band director is Steve Adams. Now in his 26th year as the band director at Shawnee Mission South (and a 1979 graduate of SMS who played the trombone), Steve is instrumental—no pun intended—in leading SMS’s symphonic band …
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