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4rr WWWKANSASCITYC0M -f -i -I -'t-1 J'l 1 I'' aWCAL IjllE KiaLNSlciinrY: THURsb pogc jjl CASINO: TWo plans on table fi1 1 5 INTEREST CHECKING NATIONWIDE ATMs Nffi ejMHUWRVj 'i HiiyiiMRMi fi ihj yy i Holland stressed that he was simply ralsing the question not propping ah actual delay in die process Nevertheless he add other commissioners ex- pressed1 displeasure thafcKan-sas- Entertainment's proposal did not guarantee a boteL The commission at one time envisioned a casino that would serve as a regional dravgwith hotel and convention spade And although the Perm Hot lywood casino does coroe with a hotel its meeting space is $000 square feet hardly enough to attract even a moo-erate-size convention r' "If sa pretty hard pill to swallow" Mayor Joe Reardon conceded 10 reach Mark Wlabe call 816-234-7745 or send e-mail to mwlebctestarcom FROMM tales tax and gaming revenues comparable to revenue tiona for the Penn Hollywood casina The state would receive $443millioa The sh-strapped budgets ofthe ttate -and die Unified Government could use money like that But at least oiie commissioner wondered Whether the government would be bet-ter served by waitihg nntil die economy improve to tee if more proposals with mote revenue come forward "Does it make tense to be receiving bsdt at what most economitts say ir rede bottom?" Commissioner Mark Holland asked Monday when the commission heard details about each proposal m'y Requirements per statement cyde: Receive e-statement 1 1 direct deposit orACH 15 debit card transactions 1 1 v- Security Bank of Kansas City First Bank of Missouri I Citizens State Bank of Valley View Bank The Mission Bank Bank of Lee Summit Industrial State Bank I- Student goes back to the beach with D-Day vets PHOTO COURTESY OF (AURA MCDONALD On her trip td Normandy Laura McDonald has spent tlma with Austin Cox 90 a D-Day veteran fought into Germany "I may never have the opportunity to lay'down my life for my McDonald said "but these men they actually did that and thinking about that is very moving to But she said nothing could have prepared her for seeing tears stream down Cox cheeks at the Cambridge American Cemetery in England where he searched the tombstones for the names of Army buddies who didn't return home with him Horn the moment she learned that The Greatest Generations Foundation had selected her as one of 20 from among 240 applicants McDonald knew this trip would be emotional for her and one she would never forget It already has had an impact cm her plans for the future "I know I just want to be a nurse I want to be a missionary McDonald said "I want to impact lives on an international To contact Mari Rom Williams caH816-234-44S or send e-mail to mdwlRlamstestarcom veterans and about her journey to Normandy to honor the bravery of soldiers who fought and died there On the trip two students spend a day with a veteran then rotate to a different veteran The trios become fast friends thought it would take a few days for the students to warm to the veterans and the vets to die students but it has been instant and incredible to watch students pushing veterans in wheelchairs helping diem get around and listening to their Sue Head executive director of The Keeter Center for Character Education at College of the Ozarks said this week by phone from England McDonald by phone from England said she spent her first day with Sgt Austin Cox who served in the 29th Infantry Division The 29th engaged in the fighting in die hedges of Normandy taking heavy casualties hut eventually helping capture the city of St Lo Cox now 90 and living in Crisfield Md landed on Omaha Beach cm D-Dayand mandy to participate in international commemoration of the 65th anniversary of D-Day June 6 1944 Along the way they are visiting cemeteries museums and battle sites Including Utah Beach Omaha Beach Pointe du Hoc and Pegasus Bridge The partnership with the college fits with the foundation's key missions said Timothy Davis foundation president "In addition to our mission to get veterans back' to their battlefields we're all about educating new generations about the Wbrld War 0 era" Davis said Students and veterans are expected to bond Thles of war and lost friends are expected to be told "I vividly remember my Dad telling us stories" McDonald said grandfather was a Canadian and served in die Canadian military as an artilleryman for five years over the period erf World Warfl "Before D-Day he had been stationed in England1! and was there when the German air force raided London Her mother fatherserved in the Army Air Cups during Wirld War but was never in combat When those stories were She Joins some In France to mark the invasion's 65th anniversary By MARA ROSE WILLIAMS The Kanwsaty Star Alone in her college dorm room in April Laura McDonald read through a stack of letters written more than six dec-ades ago to a young Wbtid Whr II soldier Growing up in Summit and Kansas Gty die 20jyear-old College of die Ozarks student had heard many stories about her grandfathers and then military service during World War EL She had confiscated the letters from ah old box that had been tucked in the bade of her closet As she read the letters sent from home to her paternal grandfather who was among the troops that followed up the initial attack at Normandy on D-Day she became overwhelmed with honor pride and curiosity about the war and die men who fought it This week through a part nership between the College Of the Ozarks of Point Lookout Mo and The Greatest Generations Foundation McDonald is with 19 of her schoolmates and 10 World War veterans on a journey from London to Nor ing their experience in journals and on electronic blogs "It such an honor for me to participate in this McDonald saidT hope to be able ft) record as much as I can This is the last generation of these veterans and their stories will die with thefn unless we pass them bn" She said she hoped that decades from now ho dorm-room experience would be played out again perhaps by her chU-drcn reading bet words about the' war at told to he by the told McDonald was a and silent listener Now questions Questions she never had the chance to ask her grandfathers both of whom died many years after the war but before she was bom Questions about the bonds formed among a military band of young brothers far from home in a war Questions she now is asking veterans who were there oh Omaha Beach where approximately 1400 casual ties of that war occurred This will be the first time that American German and British veterans return "fo-Sf' aether to the battle site and the first time veterans make file trip paired with college stu- doits charged with document TT' i I iTiirjteygit mmvmm mmmss (At rZT" Free health screenings Carboostor soot installation 'A Givobwqys Rodio Disney WE ARE CLEARING OUT ALL EXISTING FINE JEWELRYTD CREATE A NEW EXCITING FINE JEWELRY DEPARTMENTS Great for Roses! 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