Friends of Searcy Creek

05/12/2017

Searcy Creek Greenway and Hidden Valley Park master plan open house. May 18th.

05/12/2017

Searcy Creek Greenway and Hidden Valley Park master plan layout. Plan includes multi-use trail from MO HWY 210 to Claycomo. Searcy Creek Parkway connections from Parvin Road to Topping Elementary and from 48th Street to Maple Park Middle School. It also includes a woodland dog park and adventure trail, multiple pocket parks/playgrounds. Around Maplewood Elementary an Outdoor Educational Center and an arboretrum.

04/18/2017

Join Friends of the River KC as we launch Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month with an epic Life Saver Battle at Berkley Riverfront Park benefiting local children's charities.

03/10/2017

Beautiful fall day at Hidden Valley Park. More trail being built in the Northland by volunteers with Urban Trail Co.

04/07/2016

Check out this transformational project. This is a game changer for the vivon road cooridor. Please leave a comment and share with your neighbors.

We welcome your feedback on this. Comments from the public will be shared with project sponsors and the evaluating committee. If you wish to be contacted directly about your comment, please note this. Comments can be viewed by all visitors.

03/04/2016

Kcmo Piac's 2015 recommendations for District 1. GREAT year for Maplewood Elementary - North Kansas City School District and Ravenwood Elementary. Maplewood will be receiving $285k curbs and sidealks and Ravenwood $60k for sidewalks. Maplewood has already recieved $250k from the Searcy Creek TIF so their total investment this year will be $535k.

02/13/2016

Friends of Searcy Creek has taken the pledge to be a Park Champion. Check out the National Recreation and Parks Assocaition page to see how you too can become a
http://www.nrpa.org/Park-Champions/

01/09/2016

09/14/2015

Thank you to Tony's Kansas City for helping bring attention to the lack of sidewalks around Maplewood Elementary.

Check this IMPORTANT report on a lingering bit of local blight and lack of infrastructure that impacts every neighborhood in this town. Heck, out North they don't even have sidewalks near schools. This is important considering Kansas City is under a FEDERAL MANDATE FOR SIDEWALK ACCESSIBILITY despite…

09/14/2015

Kansas City Community Activists Work for Years to Roads Around Maplewood Elementary

The Northland News was recently contacted by Jason Withington. Withington is a community activist that lives in the Northland in Kansas City. He has been working for three years to get the roads im…

09/14/2015

Parents push for change in North Kansas City neighborhood deemed unsafe for kids to walk to school

Students at one North Kansas City elementary school can't walk to school because it's so dangerous. Now, parents are working to change that with what they say is a simple solution.

09/14/2015

These Kansas City Kids Can See Their School — But They Can't Walk There

It’s the kind of story that’s a little hard to believe until you visit the neighborhood. Just after 8:00 a.m., a school bus stops on North Freemont Avenue