🌾 Championship Weekend

BIG Weekend for Wichita

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Landon Huslig
August 01, 2025

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Good morning, Wichita!

Good luck to Lunden Esterline out of Andover who is currently tied for the lead in the Junior PGA Championships (ahead of Tiger Woods’ son)!

Let's get to it!

- Landon

Aftershocks and NBC Championships

This is a big weekend for Wichita

Tomorrow is the NBC World Series Championship BACK DOWNTOWN at Equity Bank Park which should be nostalgic for some people.

On Sunday at 3pm at Koch Arena, the Aftershocks (Wichita State’s alumni team) will play for $1 MILLION!!

Let’s pack the arena and fit 10,506 people back in the Roundhouse to support the boys! Tickets are already moving fast, so I’d get yours today.

Together with Equity Bank Park (and the Wind Surge!)

It’s officially August which means Ballpark Nights are almost here!

That’s right, big time concerts on the big time field.

Get your tickets today!

LOCAL BUSINESS

Opening

  • Chicken Chicken (24 hour drive thru, the 2nd location) - 922 E 13th St N - Now Open

  • Mai BBQ (Vietnamese) - Food Truck - Now Open

  • Teriyaki Madness (asian fusion restaurant) - 3801 N Ridge Rd at Shops at Avante (same strip as Just a Sip/ Papa’s , Bricks & Minifigs) - Opening in August

  • Newt’s Eatery (sandwiches, soup, wraps, pizza, Mac & cheese) -Opening the chain at 10310 E 13th st at Waterfront this fall - from Scott & Jenny Hatchett

  • Midwest Dance Mechanix - Expanding to Andover - Grand Opening Extravaganza 8/9 from 9:30am - 3:30pm

Closing

Wichita Brewing Company

Congrats to one of our favorites, Wichita Brewing Company, on 14 years!

Come out and celebrate tomorrow!

Food Network

Wichita has had some success on the Food Network in recent years.

The most recent local chef to make it “big” is Chef Kevin Lebron from Larcher’s Market. He was just on Supermarket Stakeout!

STARTUP

Alexandria Van Sickle

Groover Labs does an excellent job providing entrepreneurs with space, tools, and support to build their dreams.

Check out an interview with local entrepreneur Alexandria Van Sickle!

David Hogan

Did you catch our podcast with David Hogan?

CIVIL

Cheney Lake

Cheney Lake is now officially full as of Sunday afternoon! It raised more than 7 feet in less than 20 days. This is the first time it has been full since July 13th, 2022.

Public Pools

School is coming up, but we’re still in the dog days of hot summer (with a brief break this weekend that sticks around hopefully).

But did you know that you can rent out City of Wichita public swimming pools?

LOCAL

Peach Fest

The 6th annual Peach fest at Blood Orchard Brewing Co is tomorrow starting at 10am! It is $10 for adults, $5 for kids and kids under 5 are FREE!

Mark your calendar!

Stay tuned for some awesome events coming up like:

Downtown Wichita Action Plan

The Final Open House and kick off of Phase 3 for the Downtown Wichita Action Plan is on 8/27. Come out and have your voice heard.

ICT Ball Busters

There may be a new Pinball Wizard…errr Witch(?) in the house.

There is a new women’s pinball league on Wednesdays at The Arcade.

Fly ICT

Eisenhower Airport had a record number of travelers in June with 180,605 travelers (up over 176,506 in July 2024).

ICT EXTRA

Top clicks of the week 🖱️

Wichita State Grant

WSU just received a renewed $20 million grant as part of the AI Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning.

Pooch Party

Stay tuned for the pooch party at Rock River Rapids in Derby on 8/16 so your pups can get out and have some fun.

Football

College football is headed back to Equity Bank Park!

Flag Football

Maize High and Maize South High will both offer girls flag football for the 2025 fall season.

Click the banner above to view the full event calendar

Weekend

First Friday 8/1

Friday 8/1

Saturday 8/2

Sunday 8/3

LIVE MUSIC

Don't see your concert or show here?

That's it for today! Send this to someone who would love to watch the Aftershocks win a milli. Also for those of you that read this far, want to grab one of our new hats?

Thanks!

- Landon