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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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Colleen Surridge/Sun photo Parsons High School sophomore Derik Morris and junior Isaiah Hicks measure the distance for break lines for a race truck they and other students in Dave Ferguson’s auto II class are building.
Colleen Surridge/Sun photo Parsons High School sophomore Derik Morris and junior Isaiah Hicks measure the distance for break lines for a race truck they and other students in Dave Ferguson’s auto II class are building.
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Colleen Surridge/Sun photo Parsons High School sophomore Jesse Perry and senior Brett Marquardt complete body work by sanding the front fenders of the race truck auto II students are building.
Colleen Surridge/Sun photo Parsons High School sophomore Jesse Perry and senior Brett Marquardt complete body work by sanding the front fenders of the race truck auto II students are building.
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Jamie Willey/Sun photo A Labette Health Ambulance Service worker sprays a house fire for a moment before feeding the hose to a Parsons firefighter at a vacant home at 816 S. 24th on Tuesday. Firefighters were called at 11:11 a.m. to the fire. The house was engulfed in flames when they arrived. The fire was under control at 11:51 a.m. The house owned by LaToya Fields of Moorhead, Miss., was estimated to be a total loss, firefighters said. The cause of the fire is under investigation by Parsons fire and police departments. Anyone with information about this or any other fire should contact Parsons police at 421-7060 or email tips@parsonspd.com.
Jamie Willey/Sun photo A Labette Health Ambulance Service worker sprays a house fire for a moment before feeding the hose to a Parsons firefighter at a vacant home at 816 S. 24th on Tuesday. Firefighters were called at 11:11 a.m. to the fire. The house was engulfed in flames when they arrived. The fire was under control at 11:51 a.m. The house owned by LaToya Fields of Moorhead, Miss., was estimated to be a total loss, firefighters said. The cause of the fire is under investigation by Parsons fire and police departments. Anyone with information about this or any other fire should contact Parsons police at 421-7060 or email tips@parsonspd.com.
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Colleen Surridge/Sun photo Labette County Farm Service Agency executive director Kitra Cooper hands Leslie Gossard a door prize during Tuesday’s Women in Agriculture Conference at First Baptist Church, Altamont.
Colleen Surridge/Sun photo Labette County Farm Service Agency executive director Kitra Cooper hands Leslie Gossard a door prize during Tuesday’s Women in Agriculture Conference at First Baptist Church, Altamont.
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