Northeast News
February 11, 2015

Letter to the Editor:

Stop bad mouthing our Northeast Neighborhood! We have a very diverse neighborhood! Look at all the new neighborhood stores and businesses. I have been an Historic Northeast resident for 52 years. A new grocery store is filling in for the Price Chopper that left. Many people, seniors and all, around that area don’t drive. A grocery store on the Avenue has a Chinese man who can speak Spanish!

When the declining congregation of Budd Park Christian Church closed, it was sold to the Jesucristo El Buen Pastor. It is a multicultural congregation with almost 200 people in attendance and a daycare open to the public. Many meetings are held with different organizations, including the police. And I see the police up and down the Avenue. This helps give the young people many options for different activities. Many of the rooms of the church were remodeled, especially where the Boy Scouts had their meetings. There are now computer labs the young people can use. Because of the new population, Holy Cross now has services at two different times.

The two other Catholic churches, one on Campbell and the other on Benton, also have not closed! The one on Benton now has a Boy Scout Troop. The money for Budd Park Christian Church was used for a camp for young people to go in Linwood, Kan. Also, women go there twice a year on the weekends for study and fellowship.

My family all graduated from Northeast High. My oldest daughter is a nurse, the next daughter a Lt. Col. in charge of the National Guard, my third daughter is a Special Ed teacher and my son is a banker in Overland Park. Their neighborhood did not determine their future. Watch the news and hear what’s going on in Blue Springs, Lee’s Summit and Overland Park. It isn’t much different than the Northeast.

Naomi,

Proud Northeast Resident