Faith Leon, 2, takes advantage of the warm fall temperatures late Friday afternoon to draw a picture of a tree and sign her name. Temperatures are suppose to begin falling Sunday, dropping to 21 Sunday night. Monday's high in Parsons will be just above freezing at 36 degrees, then dropping to into the teens after nightfall.

The temperature was in the mid-50s Thursday night for the Parsons Christmas Parade in the downtown area.

Having spent Halloween at Children's Mercy Hospital. following a severe injury from a horse kicking him in the face, Emery Carpenter, 6, delights in lighting the Christmas tree at his own home. Emery had to undergo surgery to repair his orbital socket around his left eye that was shattered, and repair a deep fracture in his skull that resulted in a small tear in the sack around his brain.

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.