Westside Community Action Network
Neighbors + Businesses + Social Services +
Faith Groups + Government Together
2130-B Jefferson Street, Kansas City, MO 64108
Office: 816.842.1298   Fax: 816.842.1241   E-mail: westcan@crn.org
 

• Watch the Westside's New Urban Orchard and Community Garden Grow! Friday, June 25th, 2010 (press release)
   
• Community group, KC police to receive national award, Kansas City Star, The (MO) - Thursday, October 15th, 2009, Link
   
• Lynda Callon, director of the Westside Community Action Network , received the Alvin Brooks Award for outstanding community leadership. Kansas City Metropolitan Crime Commission, October 6th 2009, Link
   
• Christmas story is retold in the saga of KC’s day laborers, By MARY SANCHEZ, The Kansas City Star, Thursday, 25th, December 2008, Link
   
• Community Center hosts Christmas Party, Dos Mundos, Dec. 10-17, 2008, Link
   
• Bank of America Charitable Foundation presents thousands in local grants, Local Hero Lynda Callon, a community organizer at the Westside Community Action Network Center, battles youth violence, Kansas City Star, The (MO) - Tuesday, October 14, 2008, Author: MARK DAVIS, The Kansas City Star
   
• Westside hosts back-to-school pep rally, Dos Mundos, Written by By Lilia Garcia Jimenez and photos by Esaul Orozco and courtesy of Heart to Heart, Thursday, 28 August 2008, Link
   
• Lynda Callon is more than up to the task of running the Westside Community Action Network, The Kansas City Star, Michael Humphrey, Sunday, June 29th 2008, Link
   
• KC Police Program Reaches Out to Hispanics, KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP), 7/17/08, Link 
   
• Westside, Kansas City, Missouri, Locals drive the efforts to revive the spirit of an older neighborhood without pricing out the original residents, Cottage Living, Link
   
• KC neighborhood work cited, The Kansas City Star, Joe Robertson, Mon, Dec. 24, 2007 10:15 PM Link
   
• Community Fears Crime Increase If Center Closes, Last Edited: Wednesday, 28 Nov 2007, 10:28 PM CST, Created: Wednesday, 28 Nov 2007, 10:15 PM CST, MyFox Channel 4
   
• CAN Center facing rent problems, Reported by: Amy Hawley, Email: hawley@nbcactionnews.com
  Last Update: 11/28 12:17 pm
   
• Los artistas del grafiti remozaron la antigua Plaza de Niños TRADUCE PATRICIO H. LAZEN, Hispanic News, Link
   
• Westside CAN Center makes Christmas brighter for immigrants, by Emilliano Buendia, Dos Mundos, December 21st. Link 
   
• Lynda Callon receives the Urban Hero Award (Downtown Council), which honors small businesses and individuals who have improved the quality of life Downtown, Link
   
• common-sense POLICE approach to immigrants, By BARBARA SHELLY, The Kansas City Star, Link
   
• Day Laborers: Improving the Quality of Life for Laborers, Employers, and Neighbors
   
• Decades of work produces an amazing West Side story, By JERRY D. REECE Guest Columnist The Kansas City Star, December 14 2004 
   
• Community Center works to improve Westside neighborhood, the Catholic Key, By Marty Denzer
  Catholic Key Reporter, 25 June 2004, Link
   
• New day labor site hopes to solve old problems By MARY SANCHEZ The Kansas City Star
  Kansas City Star - November 27, 2003 - Mary Sanchez, Link
   
• West Side Sorry, The new Tony Aguirre Community Center gets its neighbors worked up, not worked out. By Patrick Dobson, Article Published Aug 10, 2000, Link
   
• West KC residents ready for new chapter in library service, Kansas City Business Journal - March 17, 2000 by Leslie Zganjar Contributing Writer, Link