Church celebrates its 100th year

New St. George Serbian Orthodox Church is consecrated in Lenexa

BY LINDA CRUSE Special to The Star

St. George Serbian Orthodox Church celebrated both a new birth and a 100th birthday on Saturday.

The church, which has been a fixture in Kansas City, Kan., for a century, consecrated its new home in Lenexa. About 325 people gathered for the ceremony.Clergy from throughout the Midwest joined church members and guests at the consecration, liturgy and celebration at 11001 Greenwood. A dozen priests and bishops were among the guests. More...


K-ACTE 2006 State Awards Program

The Kansas Association for Career and Technical Education state awards program seeks to promote excellence in career and technical education by recognizing individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to the field, programs that exemplify the highest standards and organizations that have conducted activities to promote and expand career and technical education programs.

Neil Fisher
Kansas Building Systems, Inc.
Carl Perkins Humanitarian Award
State winner (Nominated by KNRS)
 

USD 450 OKs construction

By Barbara Hollingsworth
The Capital-Journal

Concerns of cost overruns continued Tuesday for school board members in Shawnee Heights Unified School District 450.

Board members in a special meeting Tuesday morning approved a $3.36 million bid with Kansas Building Systems for work that will be done at the Shawnee Heights High School 9-10 building.


KSU students earn funds

MANHATTAN -- More than 4,000 Kansas State University students are scholarship recipients for the 2005-06 school year.

Chris Dean Terrill, Auburn   -$2,000 Kansas Building Systems Inc. Construction Science Scholarship


County to weigh Expocentre bids

The Capital-Journal

T OPEKA ( June 9, 2005 ) Shawnee County commissioners today will consider awarding bids for more than $2 million worth of capital improvements at the Kansas Expocentre.

County facilities management director Jon Forrestt said four local contractors -- KBS, Kelly Construction, Rinner Construction and Senne Co. -- have submitted bids. Forrestt said bids were for about $2.25 million from KBS, $2.38 million from Rinner, $2.39 million from Senne and $2.44 million from Kelly. All were below the project budget of $2.5 million, he said....


Businesses honored by chamber care about more than the bottom line

By Morgan Chilson
Special to The Capital-Journal

TOPEK A , KS ( May 22, 2005 )Three Topeka businesses have shown creativity, community commitment and sales growth to win the 25th annual Chamber of Commerce Small Business Awards.

Chamber/GO Topeka Recognize Three Businesses

Kansas Building Systems, Inc., Mize Houser & Co., and Reliable Car Shop were recognized Wednesday, May 25, at the 25th Annual Small Business Awards presentation


KSU - West Seaton Renovation Committee Member - Daniel Allen Foltz


GO Topeka
|Despite the less than robust national economy, the mood in Topeka's economic development community could not have been brighter. Leading the charge is "GO Topeka ," a non-profit organization ...