May 23, 2013
 Jamie Willey/Sun photo
Stephanie Philbrick puts her hand in her husband's, Trevor, while they ride on a flat-bed trailer to the Labette County High School prom on Saturday. The two seniors got married on Jan. 2 in Las Vegas.
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 Jamie Willey/Sun photo
Volunteers empty a trailer full of electronics on Saturday at Marvel Park to take them to the proper boxes during an electronic waste collection event sponsored by Southeast Kansas Recycling in cooperation with the city of Parsons, Kansas State University Research and Extension — Labette County and the University of Kansas — Lifespan Institute.
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 Volunteers empty a trailer full of electronics on Saturday at Marvel Park to take them to the proper boxes during an electronic waste collection event sponsored by Southeast Kansas Recycling in cooperation with the city of Parsons, Kansas State University Research and Extension — Labette County and the University of Kansas — Lifespan Institute.
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 Brian Walker, with the Kansas Food Bank, speaks to those gathered at Parsons Area Community Foundation grant awards program Thursday at the Parsons Senior Center. The Kansas Food Bank was given a $5,000 grant to help cover the costs related to its Food-4-Kids backpack program. This year, the Kansas Food Bank provided more than 5,300 backpack full of food to food insecure children in the USD 503 school district.
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 Third-graders gathered at the Parsons Arboretum to watch as two trees were planted.
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 Airbrush mural artist Billy Innes stands beside a mural he completed on a storage shed at Big Hill Lake promoting boating safety.
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 Airbrush mural artist Billy Innes stands beside a mural he completed on a storage shed at Big Hill Lake promoting boating safety.
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 Four-year-old Kinsey Bebb, of Altamont, shows the angel wing bracelet her mother got for her at the Friday fundraiser for Makenzie Forbes, to help her family with covering costs related to her medical expenses from the double lung transplant she received this month, due to her own lungs failing from her battle with cystic fibrosis. Learning of Makenzie's needs, Bebb has decided that in lieu of presents for her fifth birthday, she wants people to send the money to help Makenzie.
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 Four-year-old Kinsey Bebb, of Altamont, shows the angel wing bracelet her mother got for her at the Friday fundraiser for Makenzie Forbes, to help her family with covering costs related to her medical expenses from the double lung transplant she received this month, due to her own lungs failing from her battle with cystic fibrosis. Learning of Makenzie's needs, Bebb has decided that in lieu of presents for her fifth birthday, she wants people to send the money to help Makenzie.
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 Four-year-old Kinsey Bebb of Altamont shows the angel wing bracelet her mother got for her at the Friday fundraiser for Makenzie Forbes, to help her family with covering costs related to her medical expenses from the double lung transplant she received this month, due to her own lungs failing from her battle with cystic fibrosis. Learning of Makenzie's needs, Bebb has decided that in lieu of presents for her fifth birthday, she wants people to send the money to help Makenzie.
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