Uncompensated endorsement forthcoming.
Had an opportunity to check out the new Char Bar restaurant at Creekside in Parkville recently. The food was outstanding.
Normally a trip to any barbecue spot for me means the order will be ribs. But on this night at Char Bar I switched it up and went with the burnt ends. Great choice. They were the best burnt ends I’ve ever enjoyed, very tender, very full of flavor. The Char Bar sauce options they have on your dining table–one spicy and one sweet–were both top notch, as well.
If barbecue is in your wheelhouse, you’ll definitely want to check out Char Bar. It’s at 15348 Old Town Dr., Parkville.
City Hall in Platte City, also known in some circles as Peyton Place, posted on its Facebook page the date and time of its first “listening session.” Last week we mentioned they had talked about this at a recent work session. Mayor Tony Paolillo indicated the listening session would be run by City Administrator Marji Gehr, who appears to be one of the mayor’s best friends and even friendly with his friends. With Gehr and a variety of actions related to her job being the subject of much conversation around town, and Gehr the subject of a recent closed executive session of the board of aldermen, serving as host of a listening session has the potential to make things more interesting than expected.
Here is the posting on the city’s Facebook page:
“Mark your calendars! The first Platte City Listening Session is scheduled for February 5th starting at 5:30pm at City Hall. Community members are invited to express thoughts, ideas and concerns to city officials. See you there!”
Whoever made the post must be really excited about it because they threw in an exclamation point.
Anyway, it’s time to start thinking of some questions that could be asked at the city’s listening session. There are plenty of options. Periodically between now and Feb. 5, we’ll provide some sample questions you might want to consider.
Here are a few softballs to consider. We won’t even get into the soap opera behavior inside City Hall just yet but that’s coming.
•Why is Mayor Tony Paolillo so detached, out-of-touch and embarrassingly unaware of the most basic current events going on within the city?
•Does the mayor ever actually pay attention to anything other than what’s going on in his personal world?
•Has the mayor ever been passionate about anything involving the city? He seems to be passionate about wearing the same flamboyant Christmas jacket (which totally does not fit his personality) to every wintertime event for four years now but has he ever been passionate about a matter of importance?
•Why does the mayor trust the personal judgment of City Administrator Marji Gehr when most everyone else inside and outside City Hall does not?
•Why has the city moved some events off of Main Street instead of maintaining the same number or adding events to Main Street?
•Will the city be more focused on returning/adding events to Main Street now that the mayor is in the process of purchasing a Main Street business/building? If so, will that be intentional or just a coincidence?
“It sounds like Peyton Place.” It’s an old school expression. Maybe you’ve heard it. Maybe you haven’t. Google is always your friend and Google will tell you that Peyton Place was a 1956 novel that was adapted again in 1964, in what became a prime time television series for 20th Century Fox Television. The TV show ran until 1969, and the term “Peyton Place” entered the American lexicon “describing any small town or group that holds scandalous secrets.”
The Landmark received a phone call this week from a Kansas City media outlet that has been reading our reporting on personnel drama at Platte City City Hall and wanted to have a background conversation on the topic. Stay tuned.
Business owners and building owners, something to be aware of:
Fire inspections are beginning in businesses within Platte City and surrounding geographical areas within the Central Platte Fire Protection District. Restaurants and day cares will be the first businesses to be getting a visit from the fire department for inspections, says Troy Miller, fire chief, in a front page story in your Landmark this week.
“We don’t intend on inspecting with an iron fist,” Miller says.
He said inspections aren’t necessarily a new thing for Central Platte Fire but previously inspections were only performed on a complaint basis. “Meaning when something fire hazard related was brought to our attention an inspection was scheduled and performed to correct the issues.”
Questions? Direct them to Miller at tmiller@centralplattefire.com or call him at 816-858-2231 ext. 101.
After celebrating the win on the Washington Commanders under their projected win total, it’s almost time to recommend some NCAA basketball futures bets for you. Last year we recommended Connecticut two months before the NCAA tournament and it hit. We had $20 on UConn at 25-1 odds, which made for a nice little $520 payday after they won the title the first week of April.
Soon, the goal is next week, I’ll have around four NCAA basketball championship recommendations for you. Just for fun, I’ll likely put $25 or so on each to see if we can cash another winner in April.
(Find Foley watching old Peyton Place episodes and noticing the similarities to Platte City’s City Hall. Email ivan@plattecountylandmark.com)