June 19, 2013
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Retiring USD 503 Superintendent Linda Proehl addresses the graduates of the Parsons High School Class of 2013 during commencement on Sunday. See story in Local News.
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Safe Haven Outreach Mission Inc. volunteer Mark Brown makes an adjustment to a makeshift cardboard house set up in Forest Park as part the organization’s annual Tent City fundraising event.
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Labette County High School freshman Justin Sexton sits under the shelter that he and fellow Boy Scouts, along with relatives, built on the playground of Meadow View Grade School with some of his former teachers, Becky Cole (left, seated), Karla Viranda (right, seated), Crystal Stevens (white shirt), Stephanie Dwyer (red shirt) and Amy Eaton (pink shirt), and PTO president Jeremie Hodge. The shelter was Sexton’s community service project that was required for him to earn his Eagle Scout badge. The PTO funded the project. See story in Local News.
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Following the men’s softball throw, Paul Walden, Bryce Commons, Nathaniel Alloway and Matt Murphy receive medals from Erie High Charter School student volunteers during the Special Olympics Kansas West track and field events that EHCS hosted Wednesday for the first time. Commons placed first, Walden second, Alloway third and Murphy fourth. Alloway attends Parsons High School, while the other three contenders attend Pittsburg High School. See story in Local News.
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Haylee Lang returns for a second time to examine a cow’s brain that Labette Community College professor Barthi Sudarsanam had on display in her classroom for third-grade students visiting during the annual LCC science day Tuesday. See story in Local News.
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Meadow View Grade School afternoon preschoolers take a break from watching “FernGully” Tuesday in Nicki Vanderford’s class. The preschoolers and their parents made cars out of cardboard boxes, laundry baskets and plastic storage containers for the “drive-in” movie. They also ate popcorn with their milk.
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Labette County High School principal Marty Anderson congratulates graduate Jaieden Winter while Skip Landis, USD 506 superintendent, waits at commencement Saturday morning in Altamont.
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Labette County High School senior Patience Hosey (right) and Dontae Johnson (left) exchange a good-luck bump of the hands as the seniors were filing into commencement. Jason James watches the exchange.
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Labette Community College president George Knox introduces graduate Tyler Davis at Friday night’s 88th annual commencement ceremony. Davis, who earned his degree in mathematics and is a member of the All-Kansas Academic Team, was one of two student speakers at the graduation.
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Baileigh Boydston, a Parsons High School sophomore, loads the last tub of donated food into a U.S. Postal Service vehicle Friday afternoon for the 21st annual National Association of Letter Carriers Food Drive. An estimated 302 pounds of food were donated from PHS, and Parsons generally gives about 4,500 pounds of food during the drive, which includes residents leaving cans of food in sacks at their mailboxes today. Nationally, more than 1 billion pounds of food have been donated. This food was headed to Labette Assistance Center for its food pantry.
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