Bonner Springs Chieftain (Newspaper) - October 30, 2003, Bonner Springs, Kansas iN il 75 SERVING BONNER EDWARDSVILLE AND THE KAW VALLEY SINCE 1896 THURSDAY OCTOBER SKIRTS Deja Vu Bonner Springs falls to Thomas setting up win scenario Schlagle Autumn is officially here Hay rides prove to be a fun and relaxing autumn activity Mayor vetoes riverfront park move RACHEL KEESEE BONNER SPRINGS The creation of a riverfront park in Bonner Springs remains in the A proposed drafted by Council mem ber Debe Ward would create a riverfront development committee in place of the Riverfront Park Task The task force was created in May 2001 to study development possibilities for a park along the The proposal raised issues as to what differences a committees responsibilities would be and whether the city had ever approved moving ahead with a riverfront which again took the fore front of the City Councils meeting After the Council voted 53 to create a riverfront Council members Doug Jeff Harrington and Archie Sanders voted against creating the commit But Mayor Clausie Smith said Monday night he would review the ordinance the Council had approved before he signed I have problems with the makeup of the com he On the mayor decided he will veto the Smith indicated even at a workshop preceding the Council meeting that he did not see a reason to create a riverfront park committee in place of the task He said the task force would have the same responsibilities to assess the development without needing to change the task Sales tax numbers are rising RACHEL KEESEE AND JOSHUA ROBERTS STAFF WRITERS The area is growing commercially and sales numbers are proving that The sales tax revenue area cities and municipalities received in September showed a dramatic increase from last according to the latest information released by the Kansas Department of In Bonner Edwardsville and Wyandotte sales tax numbers have increased as well as revenue gen from commercial sales in Base hor and Leavenworth In was generat ed in Bonner an increase of 50 percent from September when the sales tax amounted to For the fiscal year July 03 to Sep tember the city has in sales a percent increase from fiscal year when was realized in sales according to the Department of Tillie Bonner Springs director of said that increase is a little higher than it should One thing that happened last year is we had a vendor whose money we werent she We got five months worth of tax from this vendor in December that we gotten starting in So when I did my I put them in the month we gotten The Depart ment of Revenue probably didnt do So in theyll probably show us with a sharp But sales tax revenue numbers still show a significant increase for September as compared to last year 27 the explanation for the increase is the new businesses in town that werent here last she From a city budget LaPlante said the city had been able to adjust its planned sales tax income for 2003 from million to mil we got to adjust up instead of down at a time when a lot of cities Bonner grocer turns 100 JOHN BEAL SHAWNEE If its true that a wealthy man will always have then Noel Brewer must be rich indeed 400 to 500 sent him cards and other missives of good will on his last His last by the was his 100th the retired Bonner Springs grocer spent it with his wife of 19 The Brewers live in a new patio home in western Shawnee they left their former home in Mission and moved to Shawnee in who was bom and grew up in north central came to Bon ner Springs in 1956 and opened a small The business moved several times before set tling in what today is Brewers Price a 57000squarefoot opened in Along the way his Kenneth joined him in the They worked er until Kenneth died in Brewer retired in the store is operated by his Quentin and the husband of Brewers Quentin Brewer is the fifth generation of Brewers in the grocery his grandfather The elder Brewer came to the Kansas City area in the He worked first for and then for During World War II he worked at the North American Aviation plant in the Fairfax Industrial making He was turned down for military serv ice during the war because of an injured After the Brewer purchased his first gro cery store in the Argentine neighborhood in Kansas He sold that store to move to Bonner Springs in KEVIN See Page 3A NOEL founder of Brewers Price embraces his Brewer turned 100 on 23 Guest tax receipts up JOSHUA ROBERTS In hotel goers in Wyandotte County paid in transient guest sales A month in that figure rose to And then the hammer or more the water park In receipts for transient guest sales tax accounted for according to the Kansas Department of Youve just seen the first effects of the Great Wolf Hotel and Water Thats the said Don Den Wyandotte County Thats right around their peak sea The Great Wolf Lodge is located at 10401 Cabela Drive in Kansas inside the Village West enter and tourism The lodge includes 281 rooms and a square foot water The only municipalities accounting for more transient sales tax than Wyan dotte County are Overland Tope ka and But that may not last for Two more hotels inside the Village West entertainment district hope to capitalize on the momentum created bv the tourism K7 meeting vital for area cities See JOSHUA ROBERTS This weeks meeting regarding the Kansas Highway 7 corridor may have provided a glimpse of whats in store for next week when representatives of cities along the highway meet with the Kansas Department of From to representatives of cities along K 7 Basehor and Bonner Springs included will meet at the department of transportation office in Bonner Springs to discuss the future of the high In preparation for die 4 Basehor city officials and developers met 28 with Fred an engineer for the Unified Government of Wyandotte The meeting between the sides stemmed from a similar meeting at Bon ner Springs City Hall earlier this officials and developers from Bonner Leavenworth and Wyandotte counties gathered to dis cuss each others needs and wishes for the This weeks meeting boiled to whats been argued for years concerning K7 freeway or express should the highway be improved to accommodate a free flow of traffic as provided by a or should the highway be adapted to high light commercial and residential devel For the sake of a freeway is a highway with no intersec See Page 3A Chieftain wins awards for ads The Chieftains advertising staff racked up the awards at this years Kansas Press Association ing The Chieftain won second place among newspapers in its circulation category in General The newspaper won first place awards in political advertising for an ad by former Mayor Steve Bren eman and in ad series for a series run for Commercial State A third place in Professional Ser vices and an honorable mention in Adaptable Promotions rounded out the Advertising representative Teresa Thompson accepted the awards at special KPA luncheon 24 at the Doubletree Hotel in Overland Riverview developer exhausts mayors patience JOHN BEAL EDWARDSVILLE Edwardsville Mayor Stephanie Eickhoff has given notice to developers of the proposed Riverview Corridor Project make some progress or get out of the In brief remarks at Monday nights City Council Eickhoff said she had informed officials of based in of her decision earlier in the Her statement came as David a resi dent of the rose to speak during the public comment part of the as he has done the last several Before he could begin to Eickhoff told him she had served notice on Carmac earlier in the Im tired of them wasting your time and she During the last several City Council residents of the Riverview area had reported frus tration in getting the developer to return their tele phone Later in the Eickhoff said she was frus with Carmac for not returning residents tele phone calls and frustrated with state officials for taking so long to rule on application for special financing for the The million project proposal envisions using Sales Tax Accelerated or STAR to finance the This type of approved by state legislators last permits using sales tax revenues to finance con struction projects costing more than application meets all the criteria specified in the Its not that complicated an she Officials previously have said to qualify for such a project must have a statewide eco nomic foster tourism and at least The unveiled by city officials in called for construction of an indoor sports an indoor track and athletic a resort hotel and other restaurants and retail businesses in a area just south of Interstate 70 from three eighths of a mile west of 100th Street to Interstate with the base of the T extending south to Kansas The base of the T would include homes and a golf City administrator Doug Spongier was at a loss to explain the delay in getting the project approved by the lieutenant which is required for the STAR Its a new Spangler We submitted the first plan of any Spangler was I think were making some progress up he Were going to keep But the in a telephone interview the day after the said the citys official agreement with Cannae had and if Cannae is not See Page 3A CALL US 913 4224048 FAX 913 4224233 EMAIL EDITOR
