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🌡️ Heat Advisory: One More Day to Go
🎬 Tonight: The Goonies on the Lawn at Dusk
🎡 Fair Countdown: 2 Days
Tonight - Sunday, July 26
Cinema Sundays: The Goonies - starts at dusk, City Hall lawn
Tuesday, July 28 - FAIR OPENING DAY
Opening Ceremony - 12:00 noon at the flagpole
Fair Photo Contest entries due - 6:00pm, Administration Building
Annual Fair Parade - 6:30pm, Tonganoxie
Al Dyer Memorial Draft Horse Pull - 8:00pm, grandstand (free)
Looking ahead
First public Chiefs practice - July 30, St. Joseph
28th Annual Basehor Car Show - September 12, BLHS
Times can shift, so double-check the city and fair calendars before you head out.
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The Heat Advisory continues today and through Monday evening, with heat index values still reaching up to 110 degrees. Today's high lands near 96, and Monday climbs to 98 before the advisory lifts at 7pm.
One more day of the same playbook: hydrate steadily, limit midday outdoor time, and check on neighbors without reliable AC. Real relief arrives Tuesday, with a comfortably warm 94 - good timing for the fair's opening day.
🌡️ Heat Advisory: One More Day to Go
We're in the middle stretch of a three-day Heat Advisory that runs through 7pm Monday, with the National Weather Service still calling for heat index values up to 110 degrees during peak afternoon hours today and tomorrow.
The advice hasn't changed: avoid strenuous outdoor activity between roughly noon and 6pm, drink water on a schedule rather than waiting to feel thirsty, and never leave kids or pets in a parked vehicle even briefly. If you're headed to tonight's movie on the lawn, that's actually good timing - temperatures drop noticeably after sunset.
Quick Details
📅 In effect: Through 7pm Monday
🌡️ Heat index: Up to 110 degrees, both today and tomorrow
⭐ Relief: A cooler 94 arrives Tuesday
🎬 Tonight: The Goonies on the Lawn at Dusk
Cap off a hot weekend the Basehor way: Cinema Sundays brings The Goonies to the City Hall lawn tonight, starting at dusk once the day's heat finally breaks.
It's free, it's a classic, and an evening outdoors after sunset is one of the more pleasant ways to spend the last hours of this heat advisory. Bring lawn chairs or blankets, bug spray, and plenty of cold water.
Quick Details
📍 Location: City Hall lawn, Basehor
🕗 Showtime: Dusk
💵 Cost: Free!
🎡 Fair Countdown: 2 Days
Two days left. The Leavenworth County Fair's 100th anniversary opens Tuesday in Tonganoxie, and the timing works out well - the heat advisory lifts Monday evening, leaving a warm-but-manageable 94 for opening day.
Today's fair fact: Fair week traditionally draws thousands from across the county, and this year's centennial theme, "100 Years of Growing Together," nods to how the event has grown from a single downtown celebration in 1926 into five full days of exhibits, rides, and competition.
Last call for reader fair memories - hit reply if you've got one to share!
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