• About Us
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
Monday, March 1, 2021
23 °f
Platte
49 ° Wed
49 ° Thu
49 ° Fri
48 ° Sat
The Platte County Landmark Newspaper
  • Home
  • Local News
  • Opinion
  • Landmark Live!
  • Looking Backward
  • Home
  • Local News
  • Opinion
  • Landmark Live!
  • Looking Backward
No Result
View All Result
The Platte County Landmark Newspaper
No Result
View All Result

Winter sports leagues canceled by Platte City

Ivan Foley by Ivan Foley
November 17, 2020
in Platte County
youth basketball
20
SHARES
506
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare via Email

The City of Platte City announced this week that it has canceled two of its largest indoor winter recreation programs due to the impact of the COVID virus.

The winter youth basketball and adult volleyball programs have been canceled effective immediately. The city will begin to issue full refunds the week of Nov. 17 with all refunds to be completed by Nov. 30.

RelatedNews

Republican women to meet via Zoom

Contractor chosen for new Buck O’Neil Bridge

Health department gets much less than requested

Participants not receiving their refund by the end of November should contact City Hall at 816.858.3046 or finance@plattecity.org

The city makes this decision with a great deal of regret, stated D. J. Gehrt, city administrator in an email notice sent to participants, coaches and parents on Friday, Nov. 13.

The statement continued that “the city is cancelling this year’s youth basketball season and adult volleyball program due to the rapidly increasing incidence of COVID-19 transmission throughout the Kansas City metropolitan areas. This cancellation notice is a follow-up to the city’s earlier decision to delay the practice start date until Nov. 16th hoping that the transmission trend lines would begin to decrease. Unfortunately, the transmission trend lines have continued to move sharply upward over the past two weeks and are unlikely to abate during and after the Thanksgiving holiday.

“This cancellation decision was not made lightly and is being taken because of the increased level of difficulty for the city to meet its responsibility to provide a safe environment for program participants,” Gehrt said.

Gehrt added that the decision was based on the continued increase in transmissions, the expressed concerns of healthcare professionals regarding the safety of indoor sports, the age and level of effectiveness of the Civic Center air filtration system and the practical difficulties of disinfecting a very old gym between each game and practice.

A further concern was the anticipation that teams are likely to find it difficult to maintain enough available players and coaches in the event that the Thanksgiving holiday causes an even higher level of viral transmission, Gehrt indicated.

Tags: covid-19platte cityplatte county
Ivan Foley

Ivan Foley

Ivan Foley is owner/editor/publisher of the Platte County Landmark. Foley has been on the news beat in Platte County with The Landmark for 38 years, specializing in local government issues and accountability journalism. He has penned multiple award-winning investigative pieces. He provides weekly observations and editorial commentary in his Between the Lines column and serves as host of Landmark Live, a light-hearted videocast featuring newsmakers and events in the Northland. During his time at the helm of The Landmark, the newspaper has been awarded on multiple occasions for General Excellence in the Missouri Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest. In 2016, Foley won the Tom and Pat Gish Award, a national honor given by the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Kentucky for displaying courage, tenacity and integrity in rural journalism. A big fan of the Chiefs and Royals, Foley resides in Platte County not far from KCI Airport.

Related Posts

45 Years Ago–February 27, 1976

by Ivan Foley
February 26, 2021
0

Mr. and Mrs. Allen Buxton of Weston announce the birth of their daughter, Valerie Sue, on Sunday, Feb. 22, 1976 at St. John Hospital in Leavenworth. Mrs. Buxton formerly worked at Bobbi's Hair Fashions in Platte City. Doug Hunt, Platte...

30 Years Ago–March 1, 1991

by Ivan Foley
February 26, 2021
0

The Platte City Chamber of Commerce Thursday heard Mayor Steve Wegner deliver a "State of the City" address. The KCI Conference of Schools, hosted by Smithville R-2 School District and Parents as Teachers, will present "The Power of Positive Parenting"...

15 Years Ago–February 23, 2006

by Ivan Foley
February 26, 2021
0

The call to serve his country has come once again for State Rep. Jason Brown of Platte City. Brown, a member of the United States Army Reserves, told The Landmark that he has been called to fulfill a one year...

Praise for local road district

Praise for local road district

by Landmark Digital Staff
February 26, 2021
0

EDITOR: One of the best examples of taxpayer dollars at work has to be credited to the Parkville Special Road District  for providing excellent road cleaning during the lethally frigid weather. Against continued below zero temperatures, even more bitter wind...

Next Post
Painting party

Giving Tuesday Painting Party

Popular News

  • Vaccine shot

    Around 1,700 shots to be offered in the next week

    16 shares
    Share 6 Tweet 4
  • City ‘finds’ 2,300 records, gives them to Jason Maki

    15 shares
    Share 6 Tweet 4
  • Why the urgency for R-3 bond issue?

    15 shares
    Share 6 Tweet 4
  • County health department eases restrictions

    13 shares
    Share 5 Tweet 3
  • Investigations, rolling outages and building south

    8 shares
    Share 3 Tweet 2
  • About Us
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
Call us at 816-858-0363

Copyright © 2019-2020 The Platte County Landmark Newspaper - All Rights Reserved

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Subscribe Online
  • Local News
  • Opinion
  • Landmark Live!
  • Looking Backward

Copyright © 2019-2020 The Platte County Landmark Newspaper - All Rights Reserved

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Create New Account!

Fill the forms bellow to register

All fields are required. Log In

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In

Add New Playlist