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A
Hi
everyone
I'm
Chris
Fernandez,
and
this
is
the
weekly
report,
a
look
at
news
from
the
city
of
Kansas
City
Missouri,
the
orangatang
have
a
new
home
at
the
kansas
city,
zoo
the
six
million
dollar
3,400
square-foot
orangutan
canopy
open
last
week.
The
project
was
funded
by
the
voter-approved
zoological
district.
Along
with
many
donors.
The
space
highlights
fascinating
aspects
of
the
orangutans
while
challenging
their
dexterity
and
their
intelligence.
B
We
love
creating
community
gardens
with
our
orchards,
and
one
of
the
reasons
we
particularly
like
doing.
That
is
because
a
vegetable
bed
is
something
that
produces
the
year.
You
put
it
in
the
I
own.
Our
fruit
trees
are
going
to
take
four
or
five
years
for
them
to
really
get
to
maturity
where
they're
producing
fruit.
So
in
the
meantime,
we
can
work
with
the
neighborhood
to
get
vegetables
growing
and
get
them
in
their
kitchens
and
teaching
them
how
to
prepare
fresh
vegetables
from
the
garden
agriculture.
C
Is
incredibly
important
in
Missouri
and
being
able
to
understand
how
you
grow
produce,
how
you
process
and
eat
food?
Imagine
the
nutritional
value
that
we
can
have.
We
can
harness
if
we
are
able
to
understand
how
food
is
produced
and
thus
how
it
can
be,
how
it
can
taste
when
it's
at
its
peak
ripeness
or
what
we
could
do
with
it.
As
we're
preparing
an
urban
agriculture
offers
opportunities
to
develop
him
to
develop
our
community
in
being
putting
land
in
and
repurposing
it
in
the
agriculture
food.
E
Think
that
we're
a
tipping
point
in
agriculture,
where
people
are
starting
to
understand
the
need
to
be
to
have
a
realist,
realistic
understanding
of
where
their
food
comes
from,
and
we
don't
need
food
Shep.
A
thousand
miles
to
our
plate.
We
need
to
be
doing
is
supporting
our
local
communities
and
getting
the
food
from
our
neighbors
into
our
communities
so
that
we
can
have
healthy
alternatives
from
the
people
within
our
city.
E
F
Recycling
in
Kansas
City
is
easy.
Curbside
recycling
is
a
convenient
way
to
recycle
many
common
household
items
and
it's
free.
If
you
live
in
a
Kansas
City
household
recycling
is
voluntary.
Recyclables
are
picked
up
each
week
with
your
regular
trash
pickup.
You
will
need
a
KC
recycles
bin.
It
signals
the
truck
to
stop.
Bins
are
available
at
Westlake
hardware
stores
and
price
chopper
grocery
stores
in
South
parts
of
the
city,
trash
and
recycles
are
picked
up
by
one
truck.
These
specialized
trucks
have
two
compartments
within
the
truck
one
for
trash
and
one
for
recyclables.
F
There's
a
lot.
You
can
recycle
newspapers,
aluminum
steel
cans,
plastic
containers,
one
through
seven,
which
include
items
like
plastic,
milk,
jugs,
soda
bottles,
yogurt
tubs
and
margarine
containers
be
sure
to
check
the
number
inside
the
chasing
arrow
symbol
on
the
bottom
of
the
container.
You
can
also
recycle
most
paper
products,
including
clean
mixed
paper
like
milk
or
juice
cartons,
juice
boxes,
junk
mail,
cardboard,
cereal
or
other
dry.
Food
boxes.
There's
no
limit
on
recyclable
collection,
while
the
KC
recycles
been
signals,
the
truck
to
stop.
If
needed,
you
can
place
extra
recycles
in
cardboard
boxes.
F
Paper
bags,
laundry
baskets
or
rubber
tubs
next
to
the
KC
recycles
bin.
Remember
there
are
some
items
you
can't
put
near:
Ben,
glass,
plastic
bags,
styrofoam
styrofoam,
egg
cartons,
paper,
towels
or
tissues
are
some
items
that
should
not
be
placed
in
a
recycle
bin,
glass,
styrofoam
and
other
items
are
accepted
at
the
city's
three
recycling
locations
check
our
website
for
locations
and
operating
hours.
Ripple
glass
also
has
numerous
glass
recycling
locations
throughout
the
city.
F
Look
for
the
big
purple,
bins
or
Google,
ripple
glass
for
locations,
motor
oil,
automotive
fluids
or
containers
for
household
hazardous
material
are
also
items
that
should
not
be
placed
in
your
recycle
bin.
These
items
may
be
disposed
of
at
the
city's
household
hazardous
waste
facility.
So
just
remember
the
3
R's
reduce
reuse
and
recycle
for
more
information
about
the
city's
recycling
programs
visit
our
website
at
KCMO
gov
and
searched
Casey
recycles
to
watch
additional
FYI
kc
videos
visit
our
website
at
KCMO,
gov
and
search
FYI
Casey.
G
Well,
here
we
are
at
brush
creek
here
at
the
opening
of
another
one
of
our
minerals
as
part
of
the
map
at
program,
the
mural
arts,
initiating
transformation.
This
mural
is
coming
home
to
brush
creek
done
by
robin
case.
We
are
excited
to
open
up
this
latest
mural
for
our
mapping
program,
and
this
is
really
one
of
what
we
hope
will
end
up
being
hundreds
of
murals
across
the
city.
The
reason
why
the
mapping
program
is
so
important
is
because
it's
providing
an
opportunity
to
do
two
things.
G
One
is
to
beautify
our
city
and
the
other
is
to
help
our
youth
it
beautifies,
because
it
takes
walls
where
there
may
be
no
programming
or
it
may
be,
a
wall
that
is
prone
to
graffiti
and
tagging
and
really
doing
something
beautiful
with
it.
We
know
that
when
you
have
a
wonderful
mural
many
times,
people
will
step
away
from
that
because
of
the
artistry
involved,
and
they
don't
want
to
ruin
that,
and
that's
certainly
the
case
with
this
mural
here
can.
I
J
I
I
K
L
H
Well,
thank
you,
councilman
wagner
for
inspiring
the
city
to
take
on
your
old
projects,
and
you
know
I'm
very
fortunate
to
be
at
Mattie
road
center,
where,
when
you
think
of
creativity,
nurturing
artists,
you
look
to
the
Mattie
Rhodes,
Art,
Center
and
I
know:
phil
has
exhibited
at
the
Community
Art
Gallery
that
we
have
on
the
west
side.
So
you
know,
for
us:
I
really
want
to
acknowledge
the
work
of
Alicia,
Gambino
and
JT.
H
Both
of
them
have
put
countless
hours
into
going
out
and
visiting
the
sites
measuring
the
site's
pricing
it
all
out
and
managing
the
dollars
and
working
with
the
park
staff.
So
I
want
to
commend,
obviously
my
second
family,
the
park
department
of
the
cooperation
to
make
all
of
this
happen.
So
for
us
this
just
speaks
to
Who
Matt
erode
Center
is
it's
about
service
to
our
community
and
if
there's
a
way
to
bring
attention
to
artists
like
Phil
and
others,
and
to
how
people
celebrate
the
rich
culture
and
diversity
that
we
have
in
Kansas.
H
M
Thank
you,
John
and
I
want
to
thank
you
feel
for
being
so
great.
Come
on
to
this
project.
I
appreciate
all
the
artists
that
worked
with
us
either
the
murals
that
are
already
completed
or
as
we're
moving
into
the
future
into
the
summer,
because
this
is
a
new
initiative.
I
do
realize
having
been
a
communion
journalists
that
hey
wasn't
called.
M
You
know
we're
moving
forward
this.
This
was
to
start.
This
is
just
a
little
start
for
us
to
open
to
more
artists
calls
for
artists
other
sites
and
I
want
to
really
thank
our
development
coordinator
JT.
He
did
a
lot
of
work
on
this
hopping
between
sides
working
with
artists
and-
and
he
just
did
a
really
really
great
job
I'm
here
and
can't
wait
until
we
are
able
to
unveil
the
young
ones
by
the
end
of
the
summer.
We
should
have
six
in
total
and.
G
So
we
hope
to
see
walls
like
these
all
over
our
city
very
soon,
but
the
second
thing
that
we
are
very
excited
about
is
the
opportunity
for
our
youth.
We
talked
many
times
about
building
the
skills
for
the
future
and
the
skills
for
our
kids.
Well,
the
reality
is
that
it's
not
just
the
technology
arts,
but
it's
the
arts,
where
we
need
to
develop
those
skills
as
well.
Murals,
take
a
lot
of
different
skills,
very,
very
specific
skills,
and
so
the
opportunity
to
match
up
establish
artists
with
youth
is
what
map
it
is
all
about.
N
A
K
Is
Don
wilkinson
I'm,
an
artist
I
work
under
a
pseudonym
moi,
which
stands
for
the
minister
of
information,
so
they
sent
out
this
list
of
different
kinds
of
charts
that
that
they
wanted
people
to
respond
to
and
there's
several
them.
That
spoke
to
me
like
what
would
the
what
would
the
person
in
the
audience
when
they're,
given
this
presentation
about
you
know
how
the
city
is
doing,
what
would
blow
it
or
the
average
person?
How
would
they
really
like
to
see
this
chart?
We.
A
All
know,
city
leaders
use
data
to
determine
how
to
spend
tax
dollars
and
how
to
solve
problems.
We
think
our
charts
are
artistic,
so
the
city
issued
a
call
for
artists
to
reinterpret
some
of
the
charts
and
graphs
used
in
actual
meetings
here
at
City
Hall.
This
exhibit
is
the
first
community
project
of
the
newly
formed
office
of
culture
and
creative
services.
It
also
celebrates
the
five-year
anniversary
of
the
office
of
performance
management
which
produces
analyzes
and
reports
out
that
data.
We
hope
the
exhibit
also
sparks
awareness
of
city
services.
A
This
exhibit
will
showcase
10,
local
artists
and
creative
teams
so
join
us
on
june.
Fifth
cycle
in
the
city
was
a
big
success.
Thousands
of
residents
turned
out
to
cycle,
walk
and
enjoy
ward
parkway
for
an
open
street
festival
between
63rd
Street
and
Gregory
Boulevard
for
three
hours
on
a
saturday
afternoon
on
May
sixteenth,
the
event
included
demonstrations
like
stunt
riders,
children's
bike,
safety
learning
areas
and
other
times
of
outdoor
fun.
One
resident
told
us
afterwards
in
an
email
quote:
it
was
100%
awesome.