WEEKLY/SEMANAL - KANSAS CITY, MO

Members of the Kansas City Police Department sat down with local children Nov. 19 at Ollama Coffee House on Southwest Boulevard for a chat and question-and-answer session focused on life on the police force. The Mattie Rhodes Center has built a name for itself in more than a century of serving vulnerable populations in Kansas City. Now, for the second time in a little more than a decade, it has been named as one of two Bank of America Neighborhood Builders awardees.

Kansas City’s Hispanic community is once again mourning the loss of one of its greats. Robert “Bob”Soltero aka Uncle Bob, a longtime board member at the Guadalupe Centers (GCI) and the founder of the Tony Aguirre Scholarship Golf Tournament, which now bears Soltero’s name, died this week following a lengthy illness.