Curbside Leaf & Brush Pickup Fall 2024
2024-11-04
Up to 20 sacks/bundles of leaves & brush will be collected from each household
Branches up to 3” diameter, Bundles maximum 4 ft long and 2 ft diameter, Max 40 lbs
No grass clippings, no trash, no plastic bags or plastic tapes or plastic ropes
In case of rain, cover your yard waste with a tarp
There will be another curbside pickup on December 16th

Veterans Day Ceremony at the World War I Museum
2024-11-11 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago) | World War I Museum, Memorial Drive, Kansas City, MO, 64108, United States
The National World War I Museum will have a special ceremony to honor veterans at 10am (free) on November 11th.
There will also be discounted admission to the museum Nov. 8th through the 11th and a Vintage Military Vehicle Display on the southeast lawn Saturday the 9th and Sunday the 10th.
www.theworldwar.org/veteransday
City offices will be closed, and curbside trash & recycling services will be delayed to Tuesday

November 2024 CHNA Meeting
2024-11-21 18:30 - 19:30
This month’s meeting will be held in person at a location to be determined (check back closer to the date of the meeting) from 6:30 – 7:30 pm.
All are welcome to attend! Questions? Contact Stacey Kenyon at president@colemanhighlands.org

Curbside Leaf & Brush Pickup Winter 2024
2024-12-16
Up to 20 sacks/bundles of leaves & brush will be collected from each household
Branches up to 3” diameter, Bundles maximum 4 ft long and 2 ft diameter, Max 40 lbs
No grass clippings, no trash, no plastic bags or plastic tapes or plastic ropes
In case of rain, cover your yard waste with a tarp

Luminarias 2024
2024-12-24

March 2025 CHNA Meeting
2025-03-20 18:30 - 19:30

Easter Egg Hunt at Westport Roanoke Community Center
2025-04-12 12:00 - 14:00 | Westport-Roanoke Community Center, 3601 Roanoke Rd, Kansas City, MO, 64111, United States
This year the Westport Roanoke Community Center is putting on an egg hunt. So as not to conflict with this event, we will not be hosting our own neighborhood Egg Hunt, but instead are encouraging neighbors to attend this event and support KC Parks.
You can find all the info at the KC Parks website. There will be an Easter Egg hunt, Crafts, Face painting and raffles for the children to win prizes.

April 2025 CHNA Meeting
2025-04-17 18:30 - 19:30

May 2025 CHNA Meeting
2025-05-15 18:30 - 19:30

Volker Homes Tour
2025-05-17
Our neighbors to the south are putting on their second annual Volker Homes Tour!
For more information and to purchase tickets, visit: https://www.volkerkcmo.org/homestour

Coleman Highlands Neighborhood Yard Sales
2025-06-14
Saturday, June 14th is the date for this year’s neighborhood yard sales. If you’d like your address to be listed here, on social media, and in our June newsletter as a participating location, please contact us! We’ll have red signs up and down Karnes a few days before June 14th announcing the upcoming yard sales, but feel free to put up your own signs indicating your specific sale address.
Participating Addresses
The following addresses have confirmed that they’ll be participating in the neighborhood yard sale on Saturday, June 14th. Some residents may be holding their yard sales for longer than just Saturday and may have different “operating hours”. So make sure to cruise the neighborhood for individual sale signs for details.
944 West 32nd Ter
3405 Karnes Blvd
918 w 34th St
928 W 32nd Ter
942 W 32nd Ter
Rules for Participation
There’s no rules. Just have a yard sale on Saturday. You can start your yard sale Friday and run it through Sunday if you want to, but the official date of the Neighborhood Yard Sale is Saturday, June 14th. You can run your any hours that work for you! Standard yard sale hours seems to be in that 9-5 range, but we’re not making any laws about what hours you can run your own yard sale – everyone’s got busy lives and have their own schedules they need to work with. ☺️
A couple recommendations:

To ensure good foot traffic, please put signs out with your address, dates, and hours of your sale.
Post on social media, Nextdoor, etc for more reach (you can share our page’s post if that’s easiest).

Donating Leftover Yard Sale Items
There are many local charities that would love to receive your donations! Below are just a few.
Redemptorist Center: Free Curbside Pickup of Clothing, Household Goods, Toys, Books, Furniture, etc.
This year Coleman Highlands Neighborhood is partnering with Redemptorist Center for curbside donation pickup. If you have leftover items you’d like to donate after the yard sales are over on Saturday, you may place them at the curb and label them “Redemptorist Center Donation.” The Redemptorist Center will send a van to collect donations. The center will take just about anything usable that you would like to donate—clothes, household items, furniture, toys, books, etc.
Flourish: Furniture Bank
Flourish offers free furniture for low income families. They do charge for furniture pickup because the furniture they provide to families is given to those families free of charge, so they do need to offset the costs of vehicle maintenance and furniture transport. Find out more about Flourish and how to schedule a pickup.
Scraps KC: Arts and Crafts Supplies
Our friendly neighborhood crafting thrift store down on Roanoke, Scraps KC, takes donations of any usable craft items. Art and fabric paints, brushes, screen printing supplies, yarn, fabric, papers and canvases, drawing supplies, woodworking tools and supplies, office supplies, classroom supplies for teachers, and more! You’ll have to deliver these to Scraps, but it IS just down the way and if you need help getting stuff there, please contact the Coleman Highlands Board and one of us will be happy to help you deliver.
Habitat Restore KC: Home Improvement Items
Habitat Restore KC will take donations of building materials, fixtures, and appliances in good working condition, as well as furniture, interior and exterior paints, and hardscaping/landscaping materials like pavers, garden edging, lawn decor and statuary, etc. You can schedule a free pickup or drop items off at one of the local Restore locations (the Deramus location is probably the closest, and that’s also around the corner from both household hazardous waste drop-off, one of our recycling centers, and also the Missouri Organic leaf and brush drop-off, so if you’ve got a lot to get rid of after your yard sale, you can do it all in one trip).

June 2025 CHNA Meeting
2025-06-18 18:30 - 19:30
This month’s meeting will be held in person at Westport-Roanoke Community Center from 6:30 – 7:30 pm.
All are welcome to attend!

Spring Dumpster Day 2025
2025-06-28 08:00 - 12:00
From 8 AM – Noon, Saturday June 28th, four dumpsters will be available to neighborhood residents. Two will be designated for trash and two designated for yard waste.
LOCATION
All dumpsters will be located at 32nd Terrace and West Coleman Road.
PROHIBITED ITEMS

Tires
Household Hazardous Waste (paint, oil, chemicals, pesticides)
Water Heaters
Flourescent Lights (including CFLs)
Refrigerators
E-Waste (monitors, computers, household electronic items with internal compornents like mercury and other heavy metals)
Plastic bags are not permitted in the leaf and brush dumpsters

REMEMBER

Sign in with a volunteer.
Set potentially reusable items and scrap metal on the curb next to trash dumpsters for our local scrappers.
RECYCLE CARDBOARD AT THE CURB. Don’t bring it to the dumpster, please.
You can pay your dues for 2023 to a volunteer if you haven’t already for this year!

Independence Day Parade & Picnic - 2025
2025-07-04 10:30 - 14:00
Coleman Highlands has a fun Fourth of July planned, including an appearance by KCFD! This year’s 4th of July Parade and picnic will happen from 10:30am – 2pm, Friday July 4th. We’ll kick off the parade at 10:30 and at the end of the parade we’ll be grillin’ and chillin’!
Parade Details
The parade starts at 10:30 at the corner of Coleman Road and Karnes Boulevard, riding the full length of Coleman/West Coleman. Children, pets, bicycles, musicians, and unique vehicles are encouraged! Prizes will be given for the most festive participants.
Picnic Details
The potluck picnic will be after the parade on West 33rd Terrace near the intersection of West Coleman Road.
Food: CHNA will grill hot dogs and provide drinks, plates, and utensils. Attendees should bring side dishes to share.
Seating: Seating will not be provided — feel free to bring lawn chairs.
This annual tradition is made possible by the efforts of our volunteers and the support of our Neighborhood Association members. If you haven’t submitted dues this year, you can do so online.

July 2025 CHNA Meeting
2025-07-16 18:30 - 19:30

Dance In the Park
2025-09-06 17:30 - 21:30 | Roanoke Park
City in Motion Dance Theater, Inc. together with area Neighborhood Associations is proud to announce the 26th annual Dance in the Park! The concert will be presented on Saturday evening, September 6, 2025 in the tranquil setting of Roanoke Park in midtown Kansas City, just off Karnes Blvd & Roanoke Rd. (Rain date Sunday September 7, 2025.)
This FREE show kicks off at 5:30 pm a warm-up fair, featuring local area vendors, games and snacks, 6:30 pm begins with a interactive group performance. Main show begins at 7 pm. Dance groups include City in Motion Dance Theater and a variety of local contemporary and ethnic dance groups. Performance is invite-only. For more information, please contact kcdanceinthepark@gmail.com.
Bring a blanket, picnic, lawns chairs and the whole family! Dance in the Park annually thrills crowds of 1,000+ audience members. This annual performance is a chance for the Roanoke neighborhood and visitors from the metropolitan region to experience an exciting performance of Kansas City’s unique dance companies and a sense of community. Dance in the Park is produced by City in Motion Dance Theater in partnership with the Coleman Highlands, Roanoke, Volker & West Plaza neighborhoods. We rely solely on the support of businesses, donations and grants to produce Dance in the Park. Your sponsorship, program advertisement, donations and/or volunteer hours will be a clear signal that you care about our community and want to be actively involved in it! For more information about volunteering, please contact kcdanceinthepark@gmail.com.

Fall Neighborhood Picnic
2025-09-13 17:00 - 21:30
This year’s annual Fall Picnic is September 13th, 5pm – 9:30pm, at 32nd and West Coleman Rd. We’ll have a live band and will be providing hamburgers, hotdogs, and beverages — please bring a side dish! Also, we are in need of volunteers to help with setup and teardown. Please contact Amado Tamayo to volunteer and/or coordinate any items you may be able to lend for the picnic.
We’re looking for neighbors who can lend us the following for the event:

Coolers
Pop-up tents
6 or 8ft folding tables for food

We’re also looking for volunteers to:

Help with setup (setup usually starts around 3pm)
Help with teardown (9:30pm)

Mobile Music Box Concert
2025-09-13 18:00 - 20:00 | Roanoke Park
Join members of the KC Symphony, performing a free outdoor Chamber Music concert in Roanoke Park, weather permitting, on a Mobile Music Box stage. Find out more on the Kansas City Symphony’s website.

September 2025 CHNA Meeting
2025-09-17 18:30 - 19:30

Jazz in the Valley
2025-09-27 15:00 - 20:00 | Penn Valley Community College, 3201 Southwest Trfy, Kansas City, MO, 64111, United States
About the festival
This free, music-filled evening takes place in the parking lot in front of the Cater Art Center on the corner of 33rd & Southwest Trafficway. It honors the legacy of Kansas City jazz while bringing some of today’s finest jazz talent to our campus! Jazz in the Valley is more than a festival – it is a celebration of community, culture, and rich heritage.

Free parking will be available in the MCC garage on Pennsylvania Avenue, between 32nd and 33rd St.
Attendees are welcome to bring lawn chairs, blankets, water bottles, or coolers (just leave the alcohol, pets, tobacco, and weapons at home).
Food trucks will be onsite serving local crowd favorites.
If the weather is inclement, the event will move inside the Campus Center.

Performance Schedule

3 p.m. – Chalis O’Neal
Chalis O’Neal is an artist and musician born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. O’Neal picked up the trumpet at the age of eleven and began studying music at Paseo Academy of Fine and Performing Arts. Chalis majored in Jazz Studies with a minor in Classical Trumpet under the direction of Jazz legend Bobby Watson at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
O’Neal’s main influences range from Wynton Marsalis, Miles Davis, Roy Hargrove, Harold O’Neal to Soul and R&B. His playing style creates a soulful and creative approach to improvisation, bringing a dynamic energy to each performance. O’Neal’s eclectic style ranges from jazz venues to theatre work with the New Theatre Restaurant performing and acting in the Broadway show of The Buddy Holly Story. O’Neal also has burlesque experience with Quixotic Cirque Nouveau. Chalis also is the lead trumpeter for the Afro futuristic band Arquesta Del SolSoul.
O’Neal has had the opportunity to perform with artists like Bobby Watson, Jeff ‘“Tain” Watts, Harold O’Neal, Tivon Pennicott, Marcus Strickland, Stephen Scott, Ben Williams, Lewis Nash, Curtis Lundy, Lonnie McFadden, Dan Thomas, Sullivan Fortner, Lisa Henry, and David Basse.

4 p.m. – 18th & Vine Jazz Academy Collectives
Presented by the American Jazz Museum, the Kansas City Jazz Academy offers high-quality jazz education for middle and high school students looking to strengthen their musical skills beyond what is typically available in school music programs. Rooted in Kansas City’s rich jazz legacy, the Academy provides a supportive environment for young musicians to develop confidence, creativity, and community through jazz.

5 p.m. – Kansas City Kansas Community College Advanced Jazz Combo
Directed by Brett Jackson, the Kansas City Kansas Community College Advanced Jazz Combo includes several of the music program’s best instrumental jazz musicians. They have performed all over the Kansas City Metro and received an excellent rating at the 2024 Wichita Jazz Festival. Many of these musicians also perform professionally in the Kansas City Jazz scene.

6 p.m. – Will Matthews
Three-time Grammy-winning guitarist Will Matthews, a Kansas City native, has been the driving guitar force of the legendary Count Basie Orchestra since 1996, carrying on the legacy of Freddie Green. Inspired early on by his grandfather’s Delta blues playing, Matthews grew into jazz under the guidance of Kansas City mentors and the great recordings of Wes Montgomery, George Benson, and Kenny Burrell.
Over his career, Matthews has shared the stage with icons such as Nancy Wilson, George Benson, Chick Corea, Wynton Marsalis, and Patti Austin, performing at major festivals and concert halls around the world—including for President Bill Clinton’s inauguration and First Lady Michelle Obama at the American Jazz Museum.
His recordings with the Basie Orchestra include multiple Grammy-winning albums (Live at Manchester Guild, Count Plays Duke, Basie Swings the Blues), and his own projects—Solo and Count on Swingin’— showcase his mastery of swing, blues, and soulful groove. When not touring, Matthews leads his own ensembles, including The Saturday Night Trio, Mood Swings, and the B-3 Organ Project.

7 p.m. – Jaylen Ward Project
Drummer, composer, producer, and Audio Engineer, has his roots in south KC, growing up in a musical household. He has been awarded the National Down Beat award for best Jazz trio (2025) and Audio Engineering (2024).
Throughout his career, he has performed with artists such as Bobby Watson, Logan Richardson, Tia Fuller, Harold “Spike” Bonhart of the Four Tops, Lonnie Mcfadden, Tivon Pennicott, Sean Jones, Isaiah Colier and the Chosen Few, Ben Vangelder, Adam Larson, Peter Schlamb, Eddie Moore, Dominique Sanders, Lynn Seaton, and many more.

Around the World Fall Porch Parties
2025-10-11
This annual (usually) event, started by neighbor Amy Bhesania, celebrates the diversity of our neighborhood. Each year, four homes volunteer to open up their porches (or sometimes driveways, backyards, etc) to the neighborhood as hosts of roving culinary festivities. Hosts serve light snacks and a signature beverage based on the cuisine of a country of their choosing.
We’ve had Germany, Greece, Viet Nam, France, Mexico, England and many other countries represented for past porch parties. Please stay tuned over the coming weeks for announcements on participating homes, start and end times, and countries represented for this year.
Hope to see you there!

Annual CHNA Meeting 2025
2025-10-15 18:30 - 19:30 | Westport-Roanoke Community Center, 3601 Roanoke Rd, Kansas City, MO, 64111, United States
Our annual meeting will be held at Westport-Roanoke Community Center at 6:30pm, Wednesday, October 15th. We will be electing new folks to the Board of Directors, should anyone wish to join. It’s also a great way to get involved, get better acquainted with your neighbors, and learn more about your community. Hope to see you there!
All are welcome to attend!

Ghouls' Night Out at Westport-Roanoke Community Center
2025-10-17 18:00 - 20:00 | Westport-Roanoke Community Center, 3601 Roanoke Rd, Kansas City, MO, 64111, United States
Get into the spooky spirit by dressing in your best costume and see if you live to tell the tale of the Ghouls Night Out! Kids can safely trick or treat along the trail, show off their costume in the parade, play gruesome games, and enter the Ghoul House if they dare.
Activities include a bouncy house, bobbing for pumpkins, fossil dig, pumpkin painting, and more!
All activities are free except for the Ghoul House. The Ghoul House is $5/person and can be bought in advance or day of. Purchase tickets here by going to the Special Events tab and add the ticket.
6 p.m. | Event Starts
7 p.m. | Costume Parade

Fall Dumpster Day 2025
2025-10-25 08:00 - 12:00
From 8 AM – Noon, Saturday October 25th, six dumpsters will be available to neighborhood residents. Three will be designated for trash and three designated for yard waste.
LOCATION
All dumpsters will be located at 32nd Terrace and West Coleman Road.
PROHIBITED ITEMS

Tires
Household Hazardous Waste (paint, oil, chemicals, pesticides)
Water Heaters
Flourescent Lights (including CFLs)
Refrigerators
E-Waste (monitors, computers, household electronic items with internal compornents like mercury and other heavy metals)
Plastic bags are not permitted in the leaf and brush dumpsters

REMEMBER

Sign in with a volunteer.
Set potentially reusable items and scrap metal on the curb next to trash dumpsters for our local scrappers.
RECYCLE CARDBOARD AT THE CURB ON REGULAR TRASH DAY. Don’t bring it to the dumpster, please.
Haven’t paid your dues this year? Volunteers will be available to accept dues checks, cash, Venmo, PayPal, or you can pay online. Please make checks out to Coleman Highlands Neighborhood Association. Suggested dues are $50.

November 2025 CHNA Meeting
2025-11-19 18:30 - 19:30

Luminarias 2025
2025-12-24
More Info TBA…

January 2026 CHNA Meeting
2026-01-21 18:30 - 19:30 | Westport-Roanoke Community Center, 3601 Roanoke Rd, Kansas City, MO, 64111, United States
This month’s meeting will be held at the Westport-Roanoke Community Center from 6:30 – 7:30 pm.
All are welcome to attend! Questions? Contact Board President Javier Perez.

February 2026 CHNA Meeting
2026-02-18 18:30 - 19:30 | Westport-Roanoke Community Center, 3601 Roanoke Rd, Kansas City, MO, 64111, United States

March 2026 CHNA Meeting
2026-03-18 18:30 - 19:30 | Westport-Roanoke Community Center, 3601 Roanoke Rd, Kansas City, MO, 64111, United States

Spring Curbside Leaf & Brush Pickup
2026-03-23
Leaf and brush curbside collection occurs annually in the Spring and Fall, with three (3) collections per year. Collection ensues in the afternoon and evenings after regular trash and recycling collection. If sacks and bundles are not collected on the scheduled trash day, please leave them on the curb for collection the following day.

Sacks and bundles should be placed at the curb by 7:00 a.m. on the regularly-scheduled trash day, but not before 3:00 p.m. on the previous day.
No more than 20 sacks and bundles per household.
Sacks and bundles must not weigh more than 40 pounds each.
Use only paper lawn debris sacks. No plastic bags.
If you seal the sacks, use masking tape only; do not use plastic or duct tape.
No grass clippings. No trash.
All branches must be bundled. Branches must not be more than 3 inches in diameter.
Bundles of branches must not be more than 2 feet in diameter and not more than 4 feet long.
Use twine or jute rope to tie bundles; do not use wire or plastic tape.
If wet weather is forecast, cover sacks and bundles with clear plastic.
