June 19, 2013
 The Rev. Nicole Schwartz admires the case built by Parsons Amateur Woodworker's Society members John Arabia, Raymond Newby and Don Combs to display a stained glass window saved from the original Faith United Methodist Church building that was completed in 1969, but burned after it was struck by lightning in 1981.
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 J.R. Allen, manager of Jock's Nitch in downtown Parsons, waits on Tanner and Kendra Barcus Friday night during the Moonlight Madness event.
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 A LaForge and Budd Construction crew smoothes concrete poured earlier in the morning Friday for the footing of the west abutment of a new low-water dam for the city of Parsons water treatment plant. The dam is being built on Labette Creek near the plant directly downstream from the dam that was built more than 100 years ago.
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 At 93, Leona Cruse continues to practice the fine art of hand-stitched quilting, working on a baby quilt for one of her great-grandchildren in Texas.
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 Jamie Willey/Sun photo
Kindergartners in Chelsey Crager’s class at St. Patrick Catholic School listen to a book on the first day of school Wednesday.
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 El Dorado Correctional Facility Warden James Heimgartner and Secretary of Corrections Ray Roberts visited the former corrections camp in Oswego Monday.
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 Kacie Wright, prepares the bulletin board in her Garfield School classroom for her new class of second grade students that will be arriving next week.
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 Before starting classes at Guthridge School in two weeks, Levi Seely, 9, gets his hair cut by hair stylist Linda McClelland during Body Beautiful's offer for free back-to-school hair cuts Thursday evening from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
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 Following tradition, Parsons High School senior Ry'Eshna Webber paints her designated parking spot in front of the high school Wednesday afternoon
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