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A
Hello
I'm
Chris
Hernandez.
This
is
the
weekly
report.
A
look
at
news
from
the
city
of
Kansas
City
Missouri
work
continues
on
the
downtown
streetcar
system
and
recently
the
Kansas
City
streetcar
authority
revealed
the
name
and
branding
for
the
new
downtown
streetcar
line.
The
simple
and
immediately
recognizable
name.
Casey
streetcar
has
been
chosen
along
with
an
original
brand
icon,
word
mark
and
color
palette.
The
icon
provides
a
uniquely
Kansas
City
twist
on
the
International
streetcar
icon.
It
incorporates
a
friendly
feel
with
the
modern
look
of
the
streetcar
vehicles
the
city
has
ordered.
A
It
is
designed
to
work
with
the
upcoming
regional
transit
rebranding,
while
making
it
easy
for
visitors
to
use
the
streetcar
to
see
images
of
the
approved
brand
identity,
visit,
KC,
streetcar
website
or
KCMO
gov.
Do
your
kids,
like
big
shiny
trucks,
bring
them
to
truck
apalooza
September
20th
in
parade
park?
This
fun
and
educational
event
will
showcase
more
than
35
city
vehicles,
including
KCMO
police
and
fire
department
equipment.
K.
Cpd's
mounted
patrol
will
also
be
on
hand.
A
B
Hi
I'm
Heidi
downer,
with
Kansas
City,
Parks
and
Recreation
September
is
a
great
time
to
be
outdoors
and
Casey
parks
offers
lots
of
activities
from
which
to
choose
celebrate
the
commencement
of
youth
soccer
season
and
the
completion
of
phase
2
construction
for
swope
soccer
village
on
Friday
September
12
at
four-thirty
p.m.
the
complex
is
located
at
63rd
and
Lewis
road
in
beautiful
Swope
Park
back
in
November
of
2013
phase,
one
of
the
village
opened
in
time
to
host
the
big
12
conference
soccer
championship.
B
Today,
the
village
features
six
additional
full-size
synthetic
soccer
fields,
upgraded
restrooms
concessions
and
parking.
A
new
art,
sculpture,
tripled
blom
by
local
artists.
Jake
balcom
of
metal
design
commissioned
as
part
of
the
city's
one
percent
for
art
program
will
also
be
unveiled
follow
at
swope
soccer
via
Twitter
for
details,
art
and
music
combined
for
a
fun
weekend.
September
12
to
14
along
the
banks
of
brush
creek
stroll
the
Creekside
walkways
from
the
plaza
eastward
and
enjoy
artists,
painting
landscapes
and
cityscapes
for
a
juried
competition
on
sunday
from
3
to
7
p.m.
B
local
bands
perform
in
the
theiss
park.
Amphitheater
the
concerts
are
free,
bring
lawn
chairs
and
refreshments
and
enjoy
visit.
Brush
Creek
art
walk
org
for
the
complete
lineup
support.
Our
city
of
fountains
88
paintings
of
local
fountains
by
67
artists
are
available
for
purchase
in
an
online
auction
running
September
5th
thru
25th
at
KC,
fountains
org.
B
The
paintings
can
be
viewed
online
and
in
person
at
the
Buttonwood
art
space
located
at
30
13
main
half
of
the
proceeds
from
the
auction
will
go
toward
the
wish
upon
a
fountain
campaign
to
renovate
fountains
in
need
of
critical
repair.
Is
your
family
up
for
an
adventure
if
so
make
plans
to
camp
out
Friday
night
sep,
tember
9
team
in
Swope,
Park
Casey
parks
will
supply
basic
camping
equipment
and
organize
hikes
food,
music,
archery,
canoeing
fishing
and
more.
The
program
called
wonders
of
outdoor
wildlife
is
thirty
dollars
per
family
and
has
limited
registration.
C
In
addition
to
solving
the
crime,
KCPD
has
always
taken
an
active
role
in
linking
the
families
of
homicide
victims
to
services
available
to
help
them
through
an
extremely
difficult
time
at
the
direction
of
chief
Forte.
This
victim-centered
approach
has
now
been
expanded
to
reach
families
that
are
impacted
by
any
violent
crime
with
the
creation
of
the
victims
assistant
unit
director,
Doug
wisher
explains
the.
D
Staff
is
consists
of
sworn
officers
at
this
point
and
there's
four
of
them
and
what
they
do
is.
They
are
assigned
currently
aggravated
assaults
to
contact
victims
by
phone
predominantly,
and
they
basically
provide
assistance
in
in
three
ways.
If
there's
crisis
intervention,
that's
required,
they'll
help
with
that
they're
trained
to
do
that
other
than
that
they're
going
to
give
the
victim
rights
information
and
compensation
information
that
is
required
by
state
statute
of
our
police
department
to
provide
victims
if
a
victim
of
an
aggravated
saw,
for
example,
has
been
shot.
D
The
detective
in
the
case
will
try
to
find
the
suspect
and
work
the
case
try
to
get
it
to
court
for
trial,
but
in
the
meantime
the
victim
has
medical
bills
from
the
wound
may
have
need
for
trauma.
Counseling
all
these
kind
of
things
that
that
our
result
of
the
crime
that
occurred
maker
may
May
resound
into
a
cascade
of
services
that
they
need,
and
what
we
do
is
we
try
to
hook
them
up
with
services
that
our
community
already
provides.
D
Who
can
provide
everything
from
basic
needs,
shelter,
food,
clothing,
childcare,
transportation,
and
then
we
have
a
lot
of
partners
that
are
helping
us
with
with
mental
health
counseling
for
trauma,
counseling
grief,
counseling,
spiritual
counseling,
that
kind
of
thing
we've
had
we've
had
a
victim
advocate
and
Jennifer.
Miller
who's
done
this
for
many
many
years,
so
she's
been
doing
it
over
20
years
and
her
focus
has
been
predominantly
with
homicide,
victim's
family
survivors
of
homicides
and
it's
been
very
effective
and
we've
we've
understood
and
I
think
chief
understood
how
effective
that
is.
D
But
we
really
need
to
expand
beyond
just
homicide,
victims,
families
and
having
a
staff
to
be
able
to
do
what
Jennifer
does
with
additional
victims
like
aggravated
assault,
robberies,
sex
crimes
and
and
all
the
violent
crimes
are
out.
There
will
really
help
us
be
able
to
touch
a
lot
more
people,
the
victim
assistance
specialist
they
are.
Although
there
are
police
officers
and
detectives,
they
are
really
trained
to
become
in
a
very
real
sense,
an
entirely
different
element,
but
we've
had
our
Police
Department.
D
If
you
look
at
Jennifer
Miller
and
see
what
she
does
they're
going
to
mirror
what
she
does
Community
Relations
is
a
huge
piece
of
this.
The
whole
point
of
the
chief
with
one
of
his
strategic
plan
objectives
was
to
expand
community
policing
to
the
entire
department.
So
by
doing
this
in
the
investigations
Bureau,
it's
a
it's
a
piece
that
hasn't
been
there,
expanded
to
the
extent
that
we
we
now
can
do
it
and
we
know
it
works.
It
worked
with
Jennifer.
Miller
will
continue
to
work
with
her,
so
we're
giving
her
some
additional
help.
The.
C
E
For
the
first
time,
this
skate
park
was
made
possible
through
a
grassroots
effort,
skating
community,
bringing
awareness
to
the
public
and
make
it
awareness
to
kids
very
Park,
born
to
build
a
skateboard
park,
his
first
built
in
25
and
add
2
and
2
12
Jimmy
Lawson
who's
behind
me
here
was
our
project
major
picture
that
will
happen,
design
team
and
the
construction
contractors
to
make
that
happen.
Magyar
here
today
and
all
I'm
going
to
do
now
is
turn
the
podium
over
to
Tony,
Hawk
I.
E
Skate
apart,
we
kind
of
show
people
what's
up
modern
skateboarding
and
inspire
them
to
either
better
ourselves.
Do
a
clinic
here
today
is
that
I
would
work.
Oh
we're
going
to
do
an
exhibition,
so
we
have
much
rider.
They
all
have
different
expertise,
so
they
can
cover
the
gamut
of
all
the
style,
skating,
kind
of
show
the
kids
what's
kid,
but
the
older
people
younger
well
everyone's
kid
at
heart
escapes,
yes,
Michael.
C
E
C
C
E
F
F
A
A
Organizations
interested
in
applying
for
neighborhood
tourist
development
fund
grants
are
strongly
encouraged
to
attend
an
informational
workshop
on
Tuesday
September
30th
from
6
to
8
p.m.
at
the
Kansas
City
Public
Library,
plaza
branch
at
4801,
Main
Street
organizations
that
attend
will
receive
an
application
packet
with
the
NT
DF
eligibility
and
funding
applications.
Please
note
that
several
requirements
for
applying
have
changed
and
old
applications
will
not
be
accepted.
Completed
applications
are
due
wednesday,
October
15th
for
more
information.
A
Please
contact
vanessa,
husky,
neighborhoods
and
Housing
Services
Department
at
8,
165,
13,
32
37,
don't
forget
to
download
a
podcast
of
discrimination
report.
It
don't
ignore
it.
This
is
a
weekly
radio
show
hosted
by
the
city's
Civil
Rights
Division
of
the
human
relations
department.
It
airs
live
on
KP
RT,
1590
a.m.
every
saturday
at
11am,
and
it
focuses
on
a
different
discrimination
topic
each
week
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