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Jamie Willey/Sun photo A Westar Energy crew replaces a power pole near the Parsons Historical Museum on Monday afternoon.
Jamie Willey/Sun photo A Westar Energy crew replaces a power pole near the Parsons Historical Museum on Monday afternoon.
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Courtesy photo John Noltensmyer of the Southeast Kansas Audubon Society prepares a house on Corning Avenue for the arrival of purple martins to the area. Parsons is the Purple Martin Capital of Kansas.
Courtesy photo John Noltensmyer of the Southeast Kansas Audubon Society prepares a house on Corning Avenue for the arrival of purple martins to the area. Parsons is the Purple Martin Capital of Kansas.
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Colleen Surridge/Sun photo Garland and Shirley Sapp take advantage of Friday’s warm temperatures and sunshine to work at their home in the 1500 block of Belmont, cleaning leaves out of their yard, pruning shrubs and cleaning out flower beds in preparation for the arrival of spring.
Colleen Surridge/Sun photo Garland and Shirley Sapp take advantage of Friday’s warm temperatures and sunshine to work at their home in the 1500 block of Belmont, cleaning leaves out of their yard, pruning shrubs and cleaning out flower beds in preparation for the arrival of spring.
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Jamie Willey/Sun photo A city worker moves dirt in a playground on the east side of Forest Park Thursday. The city is removing all of the old mulch in the play area, leveling the surface and then re-mulching it. The playground will be closed until the project is complete.
Jamie Willey/Sun photo A city worker moves dirt in a playground on the east side of Forest Park Thursday. The city is removing all of the old mulch in the play area, leveling the surface and then re-mulching it. The playground will be closed until the project is complete.
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Jamie Willey/Sun photo Oscar Gilliard adjusts a camera while Steve Rampani prepares to put the camera down a manhole to inspect a sewer line Wednesday afternoon on South 13th Street. The two work for ADS Environmental Services, a Huntsville, Ala.-based company, out of its St. Louis office. The city of Parsons contracted ADS to inspect each manhole in the city as part of an Environmental Protection Agency compliance order. The inspections will help the city determine what sewer lines need to be replaced or relined. The two ADS employees said they began work here on Tuesday and expect the work to take about six months. City staff estimated there are 1,250 manholes in Parsons. The city will pay ADS $67 per manhole.
Jamie Willey/Sun photo Oscar Gilliard adjusts a camera while Steve Rampani prepares to put the camera down a manhole to inspect a sewer line Wednesday afternoon on South 13th Street. The two work for ADS Environmental Services, a Huntsville, Ala.-based company, out of its St. Louis office. The city of Parsons contracted ADS to inspect each manhole in the city as part of an Environmental Protection Agency compliance order. The inspections will help the city determine what sewer lines need to be replaced or relined. The two ADS employees said they began work here on Tuesday and expect the work to take about six months. City staff estimated there are 1,250 manholes in Parsons. The city will pay ADS $67 per manhole.
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Colleen Surridge/Sun photo Labette County High School building trades students worked Tuesday to build a wheelchair ramp for fellow student Jason Beach, who is returning home today after being seriously injured in a vehicle accident Jan. 15. Beach has been undergoing treatment and rehabilitation the last two months for the injuries he sustained.
Colleen Surridge/Sun photo Labette County High School building trades students worked Tuesday to build a wheelchair ramp for fellow student Jason Beach, who is returning home today after being seriously injured in a vehicle accident Jan. 15. Beach has been undergoing treatment and rehabilitation the last two months for the injuries he sustained.
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Hannah Chrisman of Thayer practices the proper way to hand a shotgun to Brittnee Foster of Mound Valley as Scott Leamon, Cherokee County game warden for the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism, watches on Sunday at the Parsons Arboretum. The two girls were taking a hunter's education class taught by the KDWPT Saturday and Sunday.
Hannah Chrisman of Thayer practices the proper way to hand a shotgun to Brittnee Foster of Mound Valley as Scott Leamon, Cherokee County game warden for the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism, watches on Sunday at the Parsons Arboretum. The two girls were taking a hunter's education class taught by the KDWPT Saturday and Sunday.
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Colleen Surridge/Sun photo With time off from school, Samuel Brewer, Aidean O’Banion, Tanner Perez and Sean O’Banion play on the teeter-totters in Forest Park Friday afternoon.
Colleen Surridge/Sun photo With time off from school, Samuel Brewer, Aidean O’Banion, Tanner Perez and Sean O’Banion play on the teeter-totters in Forest Park Friday afternoon.
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Colleen Surridge/Sun photo As workers wrapped up their day Friday, a Crossland Construction worker paints a steel beam inside what will be the first floor of the new health science building at Labette Community College.
Colleen Surridge/Sun photo As workers wrapped up their day Friday, a Crossland Construction worker paints a steel beam inside what will be the first floor of the new health science building at Labette Community College.
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Colleen Surridge/Sun photo Parsons Recreation Commission director Gary Crissman uses one of the new bicep machines in the Arvon Phillips Community Center’s newly expanded fitness/weight room. The facility has more then 25 new pieces of equipment.
Colleen Surridge/Sun photo Parsons Recreation Commission director Gary Crissman uses one of the new bicep machines in the Arvon Phillips Community Center’s newly expanded fitness/weight room. The facility has more then 25 new pieces of equipment.
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