Westside Community Action Network
Neighbors + Businesses + Social Services + Faith Groups + Government Together
2136 Jefferson Street, Kansas City, MO 64108
Office: 816.842.1298   Fax: 816.842.1241   E-mail: westcan@crn.org
 

The following Westside Community Action Network (CAN) Centers events are scheduled:

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ANNUAL CALENDAR

• What: Back To School Pep Rally-A Celebration of Learning
• Where: Irene H. Ruiz Bibiloteca de las Americas, 2017 W. Pennway, KCMO.
• When: Thursday, August 21st, 2008, 4 PM, Link
  
  
   
• Summer Movies on the Westside
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Wednesday, June 18 – Observation Park - Happy Feet
  
  Thursday, July 17 – Sacred Heart Area – Monster House (we're still working on an exact location)
  
  Friday, August 15, Tony Aguirre Community Center - Grease (In the gymnasium) Flyer  Link
  
  
  
• What: 3rd Annual Westside Old Fashioned Family Fall Festival
  Where: On the lawns of the Tony Aguirre Community Center and the Irene Ruiz Branch library
  When: Saturday, October 25th, 2008, 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Link
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• What: Westside Family Urban Campout
  Where: Observation Park (19th Holly)
  When: Saturday, September 27th, 2008, 4:00 pm Saturday to 10:00 a.m. Sunday, Link
  
  
  
  
  
• Is cabin fever getting to you? Are you sick and tired of looking at the same old stuff? Getting on each other's nerves? Well here's something to do while waiting for spring. Get ready for the Annual Westside Neighborhood Yard Sale
  Saturday, May 17th, 2008 (the weekend after Mother's Day)
  Start sorting and tagging and piling up in neat piles, Flyer
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  You can do this in front of your house or you can join neighbors who want to be along West Pennway in front the Aguirre Community Center
  
  Tell your neighbors, tell your friends, tell your family, tell your friends
  
  If you want to help with flyers or signs - contact us at the WCAN Center
  
  
• Celebrate Spring with the Stone Lion Puppets
  This is a FREE family festival celebrating the environment with art
  It's a celebration in honor of Rachel Carson, environmentalist and author of Silent Spring - Commemorating her 100th birthday
  
  Where: Tony Aguirre Center, 2050 West Pennway, KCMO 64108 816.784.1300
  When: Saturday, March 29
  Time:  10am - 3 pm
  
  Puppet shows, musical performances, puppet making class, environmental science projects, mural painting , build a forest
  Birthday cake and more
  
  Special performance by the Garcia School Marching Band
  
  This is a collaboration of Stone Lion Puppets/Mattie Rhodes Art Center
  Funded in part by the KCMO Neighborhood Tourism Development Fund
  www.stonelionpuppets.org 816.221.5351
   
• Bunny Trail Bulletin:
  
  The Easter Bunny will be stopping by the Tony Aguirre Community Center, Saturday, March 22nd, 2008 from 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
  Join us for crafts and games and a snack and then hunt for Easter Eggs
  The Easter Egg Hunt is geared towards those youngsters 11 years of age and younger - Contact: Sharon Gottschalk, Director 816.784.1300. Link
   
• Fundraising Event to Benefit The
  Westside Community Action Network: At the Pi Gallery, Thursday, March 6, 2008, 419 E 18th, (between Oak & Locust), 5:00 - 7:00 p.m., Scott Burnett, burnett.scott@gmail.com, (816) 365-6664
   
• Westside KIDS Pancake Breakfast December 29th, 8 AM -11 AM, come have breakfast at the Tony Aguirre Center, Chef Sharon will make the pancakes - all you can eat - play in the gym, Link
   
• Mayor's Christmas Tree Party
  Saturday, December 8th, 2007
  Tony Aguirre Community Center
  11:00 - 3 PM
  
  If you need to register for a toy through the U.S. Marine Corps "Toys For Tots" program, please fill out an application at the Tony Aguirre Center or the Westside CAN Center. This program is for children 0-15 years of age. Registration ends Friday, November 23, 2007.
  
  - Reindeer & Elf Games 11am - 3pm
  - Crafts
  - Visit with Santa Claus
  - Hot Dogs, Cookies, Holiday Punch
  
  Toys For Tots toys will be distributed beginning at 2:00 PM - but we know you'll want to get there earlier for the games and crafts and visit with Santa
   

• Hit a Homerun for your Health at T-Bones Stadium, Flyer...
   
• Butterfly Day On The Westside
  We’re going to Plant a Butterfly Garden
  Saturday, June 2, 2007
  10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
  Tony Aguirre Community Center
  2017 West Pennway,
  
  Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, Monarch butterflies used to stop on the Westside, kind of like a big motel – on their journey to Mexico in the fall and returning to Canada in the spring. Then it happened that the trees and plants that they could eat were destroyed and the Monarchs stopped coming to the Westside. Help us bring the Monarch’s back to our neighborhood. On Saturday, June 2nd we’re going to plant Phase 1 of our butterfly garden at the Tony Aguirre Community Center.
  
  Meet Gulliver the Monarch Caterpillar – He is the mascot for Monarch Watch which is an educational outreach program based at the University of Kansas that engages citizen scientists in large-scale research projects.. We hope to register our butterfly garden as an official Monarch Butterfly Waystation. You can learn more about Monarch Butterflies and this program by exploring their website http://monarchwatch.org/index.html
  
  Children’s craft project
  Children’s butterfly parade
  Plant the butterfly garden
  Take home plant
  Join us for lunch………and more
  Link
  
  For more information call Sharon Gottschalk – Tony Aguirre Community Center, 816.784.1300 or Westside CAN Center 816.842.1298. or westcan@crn.org. (www.westsidecan.org )
   
• (WOW) Walking On Wednesday Starts on May 9th, 2007 @ 6PM. Walkers of the Westside...
   
• Dear Neighbors,
  We are planning a Westside Neighborhood Garage Sale for Saturday, May 19, 2007. If you wish to participate please let us know so we can make a map of participating households, agencies or businesses. Deadline to be included on the the map is May 11th. Please forward this e-mail to those who may be interested in participating - see attached flyer
   
• Free Chess Lessons, Introductory Lesson, Friday’s @ 6:00 PM, Ruiz Branch Library, 2017 West Pennway, Kansas City, MO, 64108. If you would like to join Jorge and volunteer to teach Chess and form a Chess Club – contact Julie Robinson at Ruiz Branch Library –816.701.3587 or Lynda Callon – Westside CAN Center 816.842.1298, Link
  
   

Please CALL or E-mail the appropriate contact person for more information. Thank you.