What did you personally take away from Goran Hunjak’s speech?

Jake Owen will be playing at Whiskey Tango at 10 p.m. Friday in Grain Valley (Doors open at 5:30, with opening band Echo Creek starting around 7). Owen’s venture into country music has not been a casual walk in the park, but an outright sprint from 2006 to now with a record deal with RCA, a successful first release, “Startin With Me” and his second CD, “Easy Does It.” He has toured with a long list of superstars and garnered his first Grammy, Academy of Country Music and Country Music Association nominations. His current single is “Eight Second Ride.”

Angie Knight, co-founder of the Marian Hope Center and a speech-language pathologist. An Independence-based nonprofit organization, the center helps children with special needs through holistic programs, including children with autism. Visit marianhopecenter.org for more information.

Kodie Burns is a senior at Grain Valley High School. He is playing the King in this fall’s production of “Cinderella.” A honor roll student at Grain Valley, this is the second theater production for Burns who was also in 2008’s “Footloose.”

Douglas R. Horn founded The Horn Law Firm in Independence in 1990.
Horn is a member of the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys, the American Association of Justice and the Governors Highway Safety Association. The Horn Law Firm (www.hornlaw.com), is located at 19049 Valley View Parkway, Suite J in Independence, 64055.

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Umbreit is park supervisor at George Owens Nature Center in Independence. A “Weed Warriors” event is planned for 10 a.m. to noon Nov. 11. Volunteers will remove bush honeysuckle and Japanese honeysuckle. Call 816-325-7115 for details. The park is at 1601 S. Speck Road, across from Pioneer Ridge Middle School.

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