Lee’s Summit’s Pastry Queen: Nicolette Foster
At just 18-years old while taking classes at UMKC, and needing a job, Nicolette Foster walked into McCormick & Schmick's Seafood and Steaks where she was hired as a...
Growing Farmers Market Demands New Space
by Donnie Rodgers, Jr.The Downtown Lee's Summit Farmers Market was planted at the corner of 2nd and Douglas in 1991 as part of the newly formed Downtown Lee's Summit...
Kids in the Kitchen at The Cooking Station
by Heather ThompsonTiffany Crowther, owner of The Cooking Station, grew up in Tennessee, but her parents were originally from Kansas City and just after her high school...
LSEDC Sets Sights on Business Attraction
by Rick McDowell The Lee’s Summit EDC has undergone a strategic overhaul over the past three years. In 2016, the LSEDC staff reimagined the organization from the inside...
One Good Meal: Serving Lee’s Summit for 23 Years
by Jordan StraitsOne Good Meal has 130 clients, 11 delivery routes, nine board members, 10-15 daily volunteers, five days a week, and one passionate woman behind it...
Don Kahan’s Half Century of Selling Cars, Giving Back
by John Beaudoin Don Kahan has said that his “location became my vocation.” That's because the 50-plus-year resident and auto expert has literally lived over his...
LSEDC Development Update
by Rick McDowellThe Lee's Summit Economic Development Council is best known for its mission of promoting and enhancing the City of Lee's Summit as a model community for...
Four generations of family owned business
by Heather ThompsonI had the opportunity to sit down and talk with Mike Smith, president of Twin Lakes, for an afternoon of stories. Born a business man, he encourages...
Summit Lanes Celebrates 50 Years of Family Fun
by Heather ThompsonWhile much surrounding the outside of Summit Lanes bowling alley has changed over the last fifty-plus years, the people on the inside have remained...