[Wikipedia] Bonner Springs, Kansas
Bonner Springs is a city in Johnson, Leavenworth, and Wyandotte counties in the State of Kansas, and part of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 7,314. Bonner Springs is reputed to be the first commercial center and permanent settlement in Kansas in the year 1812. Bonner Springs was incorporated as a City on November 10, 1898.
Bonner Springs is home to several national and regional attractions including the Providence Medical Center Amphitheather, the National Agricultural Center and Hall of Fame, and the annual Kansas City Renaissance Festival.
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The World of Wheat: An Educational Program from Northeast Kansas
Third- and fourth-grade students enrolled in the Gifted Students program in Leavenworth, Fort Leavenworth and Easton, however, are anything but average. Since November, 2008, more than 50 students from the Gifted Students program in each of the three districts have focused on wheat in a curriculum that covers math, science, history, geography, music and crafts.
The effort culminated with a public program featuring skits and music at the National Agricultural Center and Hall of Fame near Bonner Springs April 2
2019 Florida Agricultural Hall of Fame Honoree, Sam Killebrew
Mel Mains | Hall of Fame 2003 | Nebraska Broadcasters Association
A native of Holmesville, Nebraska, Mel Mains was born 10 days before the stock market crash of 1929. He graduated from Wymore High School in 1947, then spent one year at Doane College in Crete and then one year at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
At the age of 19, Mel began his broadcasting career in radio with KWBE in Beatrice, in June 1949. He also worked as the farm director and newscaster at KMA radio in Shenandoah, Iowa. After he was drafted in 1951, he worked for the army Hometown News Center in Kansas City, then for KIMO radio in Independence, Missouri and then KCTY-TV and WDAF AM/TV in Kansas City. He later served as the Executive Director of the National Agricultural Hall of Fame in Bonner Springs, Kansas, in 1959, as well as a public relations position in Kansas City from 1959 to 1961.
In November, 1961, Mel was hired at KOLN/KGIN TV in Lincoln. During the next 34 years, he anchored the evening news on Ten-Eleven for thousands of Nebraska viewers across the state. Mel Mains became an institution within the Nebraska media and a household name for Nebraskans. Mel appreciated the responsibility that came with delivering daily newscasts and being such a trusted member of the community.
After his retirement from KOLN/KGIN-TV in July, 1995, Mains remained active as a news broadcasters for KWBE radio in Beatrice, the same station he had worked for at the start of his career.
Mel Mains passed away on May 26, 2003, after a struggle with cancer. Mel said, I'd like to be remembered as a true friend that you could trust.....that's the way I want to be remembered. And certainly, he is.
2005 Georgia Agricultural Hall of Fame Recipient - W. A. (Bill) Roquemore
The Georgia Agricultural Hall of Fame was established in 1972 to recognize individuals making unusual and extraordinary contributions to agriculture and agribusiness industries in Georgia. Read more about W. A. (Bill) Roquemore at:
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Pierce 8mm Home Movies - 1967 - Norfleet School Trip - Scout Camp - Reel 26
Early Spring 1967 - John Pierce's 5th grade class from Norfleet Elementary School field trip to the National Agricultural Center and Hall of Fame in Bonner Springs, Kansas. Mom (Lenora C Pierce) with her tomato plants in our back yard at 6013 Raytown Road. Summer of 1967 - Swimming at the Lake of the Ozarks in Soap Creek across from Wulff Harbor Resort south of Gravois Mills, MO. My sister, Debbie Ann Rohaus (Pierce) playing her guitar. The original Bad Johnny playing his new Conn cornet. Mom hanging up clothes. Swimming at the point with Great Uncle George Watt (1907 - 1994) and Great Aunt Pearl (Gaugh) Watt who were on my Mom's side of the family. Fishing with Debbie on the dock. Fishing at Bennett Spring State Park for rainbow trout. First year at the H. Roe Bartle Scout Reservation in Osceola, MO. I think our BSA 469 troop's camp was called Fort Union in the new edition called Frontier that was near Iconium, MO. Our campmaster was Van Vogel. Our scout troop was out of the Blue Ridge Trinity Lutheran Church in Raytown, Missouri. Star Trek on prime time TV. John Pierce getting bicycle ready for a Boy Scout Roundup event in downtown Kansas City at the Municipal Auditorium.
Plans for new development near Kansas Speedway in Bonner Springs
The success of KCK's Village West officially spread into a new city - Bonner Springs.
Triple R Properties LLC plans a $64 million mixed-use project at the corner of 118th and State Avenue, in the shadows of the Kansas Speedway.
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Kansas City, Kansas
Kansas City is the third-largest city in the state of Kansas, the county seat of Wyandotte County, and the third-largest city of the Kansas City metropolitan area. It is part of a consolidated city-county government known as the Unified Government. Wyandotte County also includes the independent cities of Bonner Springs and Edwardsville. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 145,786. It is situated at Kaw Point, which is the junction of the Missouri and Kansas rivers. It is often abbreviated as KCK to differentiate it from its namesake Kansas City, Missouri.
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Clint Roush - Ag Hall of Fame
Oklahoman Clint Roush receives the Governor’s Achievement Award for a lifetime of dedication and achievement in agriculture.
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Kansas (listen) is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name (natively kką:ze) is often said to mean people of the (south) wind although this was probably not the term's original meaning. For thousands of years, what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Native American tribes. Tribes in the eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys. Tribes in the western part of the state were semi-nomadic and hunted large herds of bison.
Kansas was first settled by European Americans in 1812, in what is now Bonner Springs, but the pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850s, in the midst of political wars over the slavery debate. When it was officially opened to settlement by the U.S. government in 1854 with the Kansas–Nebraska Act, abolitionist Free-Staters from New England and pro-slavery settlers from neighboring Missouri rushed to the territory to determine whether Kansas would become a free state or a slave state. Thus, the area was a hotbed of violence and chaos in its early days as these forces collided, and was known as Bleeding Kansas. The abolitionists prevailed, and on January 29, 1861, Kansas entered the Union as a free state. After the Civil War, the population of Kansas grew rapidly when waves of immigrants turned the prairie into farmland.
By 2015, Kansas was one of the most productive agricultural states, producing high yields of wheat, corn, sorghum, and soybeans. Kansas, which has an area of 82,278 square miles (213,100 square kilometers) is the 15th-largest state by area and is the 34th most-populous of the 50 states with a population of 2,911,641. Residents of Kansas are called Kansans. Mount Sunflower is Kansas's highest point at 4,041 feet (1,232 meters).
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Kansas (listen) is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name (natively kką:ze) is often said to mean people of the (south) wind although this was probably not the term's original meaning. For thousands of years, what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Native American tribes. Tribes in the eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys. Tribes in the western part of the state were semi-nomadic and hunted large herds of bison.
Kansas was first settled by European Americans in 1812, in what is now Bonner Springs, but the pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850s, in the midst of political wars over the slavery debate. When it was officially opened to settlement by the U.S. government in 1854 with the Kansas–Nebraska Act, abolitionist Free-Staters from New England and pro-slavery settlers from neighboring Missouri rushed to the territory to determine whether Kansas would become a free state or a slave state. Thus, the area was a hotbed of violence and chaos in its early days as these forces collided, and was known as Bleeding Kansas. The abolitionists prevailed, and on January 29, 1861, Kansas entered the Union as a free state. After the Civil War, the population of Kansas grew rapidly when waves of immigrants turned the prairie into farmland.
By 2015, Kansas was one of the most productive agricultural states, producing high yields of wheat, corn, sorghum, and soybeans. Kansas, which has an area of 82,278 square miles (213,100 square kilometers) is the 15th-largest state by area and is the 34th most-populous of the 50 states with a population of 2,911,641. Residents of Kansas are called Kansans. Mount Sunflower is Kansas's highest point at 4,041 feet (1,232 meters).
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Norman Ernest Borlaug (; March 25, 1914 – September 12, 2009) was an American agronomist and humanitarian who led initiatives worldwide that contributed to the extensive increases in agricultural production termed the Green Revolution. Borlaug was awarded multiple honors for his work, including the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal.
Borlaug received his B.S. in forestry in 1937 and Ph.D. in plant pathology and genetics from the University of Minnesota in 1942. He took up an agricultural research position in Mexico, where he developed semi-dwarf, high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties. During the mid-20th century, Borlaug led the introduction of these high-yielding varieties combined with modern agricultural production techniques to Mexico, Pakistan, and India. As a result, Mexico became a net exporter of wheat by 1963. Between 1965 and 1970, wheat yields nearly doubled in Pakistan and India, greatly improving the food security in those nations.Borlaug was often called the father of the Green Revolution, and is credited with saving over a billion people worldwide from starvation. According to Jan Douglas, executive assistant to the president of the World Food Prize Foundation, the source of this number is Gregg Easterbrook's 1997 article Forgotten Benefactor of Humanity. The article states that the form of agriculture that Borlaug preaches may have prevented a billion deaths. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 in recognition of his contributions to world peace through increasing food supply.
Later in his life, he helped apply these methods of increasing food production in Asia and Africa.