Colleen Surridge/Sun photo Civil rights activist Alveda King, director of African-American outreach for Priests for Life, is accompanied Friday on the Parsons Municipal Auditorium stage by Parsons High School students LaKeisha Love and Matt Thande, who helped her illustrate the value youths should place on intimacy with others and the respect they should have for themselves. King gave her presentation to about 100 students from Coffeyville, Independence, Altamont and Parsons. The public is invited to attend a free presentation by King at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Parsons Municipal Auditorium.

Colleen Surridge/Sun photo Labette County Commissioner Lonie Addis and Parsons City Manager Fred Gress visit with Great Plains Development Authority CEO Dan Goddard during his farewell reception Friday.

Colleen Surridge/Sun photo Adam Ball, 13, cleans leaves from the gutters along the roof of his home at South 13th and Appleton on Tuesday.

Courtesy photo Galesburg Middle School eighth-grader Colton Brown competes in a Chanute chess tournament in which he placed fifth.

Jamie Willey/Sun photo Corey Woodard of Conway, Ark., looks at NFL T-shirts while shopping at Jock’s Nitch Friday morning.

Jamie Willey/Sun photo Derek Horton, 18, of Parsons walks Thomas, a 4-year-old black Labrador mix available for adoption at Parsons Animal Lovers Shelter. Horton volunteers at PALS through Parsons High School. PALS has reduced its adoption price for Labs and Lab mixes to $25 until the end of the year.