May 25, 2013
 Colleen Surridge/Sun photo
St. Paul High School students entertained area veterans Friday with a variety of musical numbers during the 2012 Veterans Day Tribute.
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 Jamie Willey/Sun photo
Myrtle Shue pets Heidi on Thursday afternoon while Labette Community College nursing student Misty Bolejack holds the terrier mix from Proud Animal Lovers Shelter. Bolejack took the dog to Elmhaven East nursing home for a visit through a new program started by PALS.
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 Colleen Surridge/Sun photo
Labette County High School senior Nikki McElroy fries pickles to sell to classmates during lunch hour Wednesday to promote the upcoming musical about Elvis, “All Shook Up,” and raise funds for the family and consumer science program.
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 Colleen Surridge/Sun photo
Labette County High School senior Nikki McElroy fries pickles to sell to classmates during lunch hour Wednesday to promote the upcoming musical about Elvis, “All Shook Up,” and raise funds for the family and consumer science program.
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 Colleen Surridge/Sun photo
Parsons High School students Josh Burns (playing Edna), Brock Willard (Wilbur) and Allison Hudson (Tracy) participate in dress rehearsal Wednesday for the upcoming musical, “Hairspray,” to be performed at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Parsons Municipal Auditorium.
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 Jamie Willey/Sun photo
Brown Bishop Post No. 704, Veterans of Foreign Wars, commander Henry Gatewood of Parsons answers questions from Labette County fourth-graders during a program on Americanism Wednesday morning at the post. There were 266 students and 28 teachers at the event.
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 Colleen Surridge/Sun photo
Robert Folk casts his ballot at the polling station in the basement of the Parsons Municipal Building during Tuesday’s general election. Polling workers throughout Parsons reported polls were very busy throughout the day. Many voters reported waiting in line between 15 and 35 minutes to check in and receive a ballot.
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 Colleen Surridge/Sun photo
Members of the Chetopa, Bartlett and Edna United Methodist churches, along with members of the Cowboy Junction Church in Vinita, Okla., perform a skit about the heritage of the Old West and circuit-riding preachers during Circuit-Riding Preachers Heritage Sunday in Edna.
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 Jamie Willey/Sun photo
(From left) Zack Shaw, Marlee Mikel, Jakob Smith and Elyse Clevenger enjoy their root beer floats in Holly Norman’s third-grade class at Meadow View Grade School Friday afternoon. The school celebrated the 50th day of school with staff and students dressed up in 1950s fashion, wearing poodles skirts, white T-shirts and rolled-up jeans. The students had a skating limbo contest and learned about life in the ’50s by watching old TV clips and playing games such as jacks, marbles and Mr. Potato Head. Some classes ate candy such as Boston Baked Beans, Bottlecaps, Sugar Babies, Lemonheads and wax bottles. At the end of the day, the kindergarten through sixth-grade classes joined each other in the gym for a sock hop.
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 Colleen Surridge/Sun photo
Delia Lister of Pittsburg Nature Reach holds a bearded dragon for Guthridge School students to touch during a visit Friday to teach students about reptiles.
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