It’s Friday, Blue Valley!
🌦Today’s forecast: Partly sunny with more rain likely later this morning. High: 80. Low: 67.
🚨 Happening today
Tickets for Thundergong!, an annual Kansas City fundraiser spearheaded by Johnson County native Jason Sudeikis, go on sale later this morning.
The event, which began in 2017, will be put on at the Uptown Theater in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, on Nov. 11.
It’s a variety show-like mishmash of musical performances, comedy skits and more, that this year will feature Sudeikis, his fellow “Ted Lasso” actor Brendan Hunt, comedians Will Forte and Sam Richardson, along with the Kansas City-based 1980s tribute band Summer Breeze.
Thundergong! raises funds for Steps of Faith Foundation, a local nonprofit aimed at outfitting amputees with prosthetics. In six years of doing the event, Sudeikis and his friends have raised more than $2 million for the charity.
Tickets go on sale Friday morning at 10 a.m. Find out more here.
🗓 Weekend things to do
- “Spider-Man: Into the SpiderVerse” Live in Concert: Friday, 8 p.m., Yardley Hall at Midwest Trust Center [Tickets start at $25]
- Mikhail Voskresensky in concert: Friday, 7:30 p.m., 1900 Building on Shawnee Mission Parkway [Tickets from $10-30]
- Food Truck Frenzy: Saturday, 5-9 p.m., Lenexa City Center [More info]
🚀 Post’s top Thursday stories
- This year’s Best of Johnson County Food & Restaurants winners
- A saint’s holy relic will make tour stop at Leawood church
- How some Blue Valley students are helping combat ‘period poverty’
- This year’s Best of Johnson County Home Services & Supplies winners
- Kansas student Zaiylah Bronson was killed while pregnant. Deaths like hers are rising
📰 Other local news
- Woman charged in Fairway officer’s death back in court. Andrea Cothran, charged with first-degree murder in Ofc. Jonah Oswald’s shooting death in August, made a brief court appearance Wednesday and has her next court date set for November. [KMBC]
- KCI’s customer satisfaction ratings go up. Six months after the new terminal opened, an annual survey showed Kansas City International Airport’s overall customer satisfaction ranking jumped from 25th to 13th nationally. [Kansas City Business Journal
- Patrick Mahomes-owned Whataburger opening soon in Olathe. The star Chiefs quarterback is an investor in a group behind a major expansion of the Texas-based fast food chain in the KC region. [Kansas City Star]
📸 A thousand words
It’s not an emergency. Yesterday and today, the Overland Park Fire Department will be conducting “high angle rescue” training at the bridge near Nall and 191st Street. Photo via Twitter/@OverlandParkFD.
