Press Release

The Kansas City Royals asked Buddie Butterfield to sit in the honorary "Buck O'Neill Legacy Seat" on Friday evening, July 22. Mr. Butterfield, the Founder of Buddie's Buddies Adaptive Golf, was honored for his hard work and dedication, serving area children, adults and veterans with physical and/or mental challenges. Buddie's Buddies is a 501 C-3 non-profit organization, whose purpose is to enhance the personal and physical growth of its participants with disabilities.

In 2007, Buddie's Veterans Adaptive Golf Clinics was developed with the full support of the Kansas City VA Hospital. Golf can be learned and enjoyed by anyone, regardless of age or disability, gender or economic status, therefore, we need your help to expose and involve more disabled veterans and active-duty personnel injured in the line of duty, to our adaptive golf programs.

Councilmember Will Swoffer died early Tuesday morning at Kansas City Hospice. He had been battling cancer since 2007.

Swoffer was first elected as Councilmember for Independence Council District 2 in 2004 and reelected in 2008.

*Will was a dedicated public servant and his service to his community will be greatly missed,* Mayor Don Reimal said. *He was in fact so dedicated to the City that even when his illness should have kept him home he came to the meetings and lived up to his service obligations to the community.

*You could always count on Will to consider all sides of the issue, voice his opinion and to vote for what he thought was best for his constituents and the community as a whole,* Mayor Reimal said.