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  Avila University Hosts Town Hall Meeting with Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser  
                   
  Kansas City, MO    
January 27, 2010
  
 
Avila University will host a Town Hall meeting with Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 3, in Whitfield Center on the university’s campus. Local residents and community members are invited to participate in this discussion of issues facing the city’s government.

This will be Mayor Funkhouser’s 63rd town hall meeting since being elected in March 2007. He is interested in meeting and hearing from Kansas City residents about the issues they consider the most important.

“Avila University is pleased to welcome members of our local community to campus to learn more about the issues that impact our city and to have their voices heard,” said Ron Slepitza, Ph.D., president, Avila University. “We are pleased the mayor has brought this important town hall meeting to our campus.”

For more information, please contact Linda Morris Shaffer, chief marketing & communications officer at Avila University, at 816/501-2422 or via email at linda.shaffer@avila.edu.

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Avila University is a private, co-educational, values-based liberal arts institution founded by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, offering undergraduate, graduate, and adult degree programs. Avila University is located at 119th and Wornall Rd in southwest suburban Kansas City, Mo.