Megan Warner is
definitely a person we need on the Shawnee City Council to represent Ward 4.
Her life began
at Shawnee Mission Medical Center, now Advent, and she grew up in the
neighborhood of 69th and Stearns. After graduating HS she joined the US
Army Reserves, served eight years including a one year deployment in Operation
Iraqi Freedom II (2003-2004). As a heavy equipment operator (mostly with HETs),
she was eventually honorably discharged as a Staff Sergeant (E6).
Her college
education was at JCCC and Friends University in Wichita maintaining a 4.0 GPA
at both. After college she worked as a police dispatcher in Prairie
Village while living in Shawnee.
Upon returning
from her military duty in Iraq, and while living in Shawnee, she took classes
to become a real estate appraiser. She earned her state appraisal
certification and MAI designation for appraisers. Megan is the owner of
Keystone Appraisals here in Shawnee.
In 2006 she
married Jeremy and they moved to Olathe where she opened her own real estate appraisal business in 2012. They moved back to
Shawnee in 2020. Here they raise their four children. Having
volunteered for many years to be foster parents they adopted two of their
foster children. This means that these two children could live a normal family
life as opposed to being shuffled around the foster system. The family
attends the Reformed Presbyterian Church in Shawnee. Community involvement includes volunteering for Shawnee's
Neighbors Helping Neighbors. She also volunteers for Catholic Charities
and Mission Southside, helping refugee women to learn English.
As a city, we
would benefit from her experiences as a business owner, a combat veteran, an
engaged community volunteer, and a wife and mother.
Unlike her
opponent, Laura Burchfield, Megan has spent her life in JoCo and mostly in
Shawnee. Her opponent moved to Shawnee only two years ago after spending
fourteen years out of state and out of the country. We need someone more
familiar with local happenings to represent us.
For the record,
I'm a Ward 4 resident and Megan gets my vote!!!!
