![]() Sherri Spare’s second grade students learned about soil during a visit to the Soil Tunnel Trailer parked at Garfield Elementary School Thursday. The trailer, which cost $60,000 to fashion, is owned by the Miami County Conservation District, but is loaned out to other districts that contribute to its maintenance.
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![]() Steve Fienen and Tonya Phillips practice for the upcoming Kaleidoscope Theatre production of "I Remember Mama," which will be performed at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Carnegie. Admission is $4 for adults and children age 13 and older and $2 for children age 12 and younger. Tickets will be available at the door an hour before show times.
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![]() The Kaleidoscope Theatre is preparing for its production of “I Remember Mama,” a humorous look at a family coping in the early years of the century in San Francisco. The cast had a dress rehearsal Wednesday night at the Carnegie Arts Center, 17th and Broadway.
“I Remember Mama” will be performed at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Carnegie. Admission is $4 for adults and children age 13 and older and $2 for children age 12 and younger. Tickets will be available at the door an hour before show times. This will be the last production for theatre director Tony Munoz.
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![]() Five-year-old Josie Kendrick looks on as her mother Bethany Kendrick checks in at the polling station at the First Baptist Church in Parsons. Kendrick wants to encourage her daughter to exercise her right to vote when she is finally old enough to do so.
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![]() Despite a spring snow and temperatures dropping below freezing at the beginning of spring, high temperatures at the end of the week and over the weekend led to trees beginning to leaf out, blossoms covering bushes and trees and spring flowers showing bright colors such as these daffodils on lawns and fields around town.
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Mark Van Leeuwen stirs fish while Rick Smith waits for the time to remove some from a fryer Friday evening at the St. Francis Catholic Church parish hall in St. Paul. The two were volunteering during the annual Good Friday fish fry to raise money for the St. Paul Christmas parade. Volunteers fried 100 pounds of fish, mostly flathead catfish that they caught, while other volunteers served the fish and side dishes inside the parish hall.
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Jason Walton of CBS, a subcontractor for Garney Construction, helps make adjustments to a hammer held on the end of a crane’s boom. The hammer was driving in sheet pilings on the dam at Lake Parsons Thursday. The city of Parsons signed a $513,980 contract with Garney Construction for the valve repair project at the lake. Both companies are in Kansas City, Mo.
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Art Lamely and Sue Hemming spend time with Lamely’s horse Big John during a respite at the Parsons State Hospital and Training Center stables. The two live in a two man-tent and travel from town to town on horseback, with two pack horses in tow, stopping in towns to pick up work when needed to buy more supplies. Art had become ill and they needed a few extra days for him to recover before heading south. People at PSHTC helped get Art to a veterinarian and assisted the two in many other ways the last several days. See story in Local News.
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Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins, R-Kansas, talks about U.S. debt during a stop in Parsons on Wednesday. See story in Local News.
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