RAYMORE, MO – The City of Raymore is participating in SevenDays® of Kindness April 20-28, 2026. 

SevenDays® encourages people to overcome hate by promoting kindness and understanding through education and dialogue. The initiative was created after a white supremacist murdered Bill Corporon, his grandson Reat Underwood and Terri LaManno at Jewish sites across Overland Park on April 13, 2014. 

SevenDays® Executive Director Kelly Murphy was present at the March 9 City Council meeting where Mayor Turnbow read a proclamation making April 20-28 SevenDays® of Kindness in Raymore. 

Themes for focusing on kindness each day include: love, discover, others, connect, you, go and onward.

Learn more about SevenDays® at sevendays.org

PROCLAMATION

Whereas, SevenDays® Make a Ripple, Change the World works to overcome hate by promoting kindness and understanding through education and dialogue; and,

Whereas, SevenDays® provides opportunities encouraging all people to participate in activities that promote and practice kindness; and,

Whereas, SevenDays® 2026 will commemorate its its second decade focused on teaching kindness and making a ripple to change the world; and,

Whereas, SevenDays® 2026 begin its events on Monday, April 20, and will feature the Ripples of Kindness Breakfast on Thursday, April 23–a celebration of youth and the announcement of the sixth annual Ripple of Kindness honorees– and will continue through Tuesday, April 28; and,

Whereas, SevenDays® continues its daily themes of Love, Discover, Others, Connect, You, Go and Onward as we bring people from walks of life together to overcome hate with acts of kindness; and,

Whereas, the memories of three wonderful and unique people, Reat Underwood, Dr. William Corporon, and Terri LaManno, will be honored through kindness and understanding; and,

Whereas, SevenDays® expands its acts of compassion, acceptance and understanding to all who gather; and,

Whereas, we fully support and encourage all in the City of Raymore, including residents, businesses, organizations and visitors, to come together during the SevenDays® to act more kindly and be more understanding of differences, thereby making the world a better place, one ripple at a time.

NOW THEREFORE , I, Kristofer P. Turnbow, Mayor of the City of Raymore, Missouri, do hereby proclaim April 20 through April 28, 2026, as

SevenDays® of Kindness 

In the City of Raymore and urge all citizens to engage in acts of kindness throughout the week and remember the events of April 13, 2014, not only for the losses of that day but also for the significance of the powerful and enduring vow to overcome hate with kindness.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the City of Raymore to be affixed this 9th day of March, 2026.

Kristofer P. Turnbow, Mayor

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