May 18, 2013
 Colleen Surridge/Sun photo
New Garfield School student Justice Wertz decorates a Christmas tree ornament at one of the Santa Stations teachers organized Thursday. The stations allowed students to choose from six different activities to make gifts for their families.
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 Colleen Surridge/Sun photo
After talking about what would be possible and impossible to fit inside the Christmas bags Kim Spielbusch handed out to her kindergarten class at Lincoln School, Kyler Evans (left) and Xenia Rush pulled open their bags on the count of three to discover what was inside them.
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 Jamie Willey/Sun photo
Dr. Ron Finley hands a gift bag to George at a Christmas party sponsored by the Parsons Kiwanis Club on Oak Cottage at Parsons State Hospital and Training Center. The Rev. Richard McCandless, Warren Marlow and Finley brought cake and ice cream as well as the gifts to the residents of Oak Cottage. McCandless, who organizes the event, said this is the 25th year the club has sponsored the party. The club also has monthly birthday parties at Oak Cottage when every resident with a birthday in the month gets gifts. McCandless said the club sponsors the parties to let the residents know that the community cares about them.
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 Bea Rizza spends time with Chance, an old ranch horse that had been abandoned on a rural Erie homestead, along with a wild mustang and her 10-month-old filly. Rizza is fostering Chance for Rainbow Meadows, Equine Rescue & Retirement Inc. until a home can be found for him to live out his remaining days.
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 Agnes Parker was joined by her son, Tom Parker of Thayer, for her 101st birthday reception at Prairie Mission Retirement Village Saturday afternoon.
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 A.I.M. Art In Motion Dance Studio dancers rehearse a piece Saturday morning for that evening's holiday recital at the Parsons Municipal Auditorium. Pictured are (from left) Gracie Brown, Emma Novak-Scott, Haylee Morrison, Fiona Bartelli, Gracie Workman and Grace Stafford. The studio, which offers classes including tap, ballet, jazz, hip-hop, pointe and parent-tot creative movement, for boys and girls age 2 through high school, is located at 113 S. 18th. Saturday's was the studio's ninth recital.
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 Crossland Construction worker Zach Dickinson of Webb City, Mo., works around sparks flying at the new health science building at Labette Community College Friday.
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 Crossland Construction worker Zach Dickinson of Webb City, Mo., works around sparks flying at the new health science building at Labette Community College Friday.
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 Livy Ogle and Brandon Figura make strands of old-fashioned garland out of popcorn and cranberries in Robin Jarrett’s third-grade class at Garfield School Thursday afternoon. The garland will be used to decorate a Christmas tree and the windows of the stone house at Tolen Creek Park during Saturday’s Christmas at the Old Stone House. The event, which will run from 1 to 3 p.m., also will feature homemade cookies, hot cider, a visit from Santa Claus, candy canes for children and rides on a horse-drawn wagon.
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 Keaton Nance (left) and Reese Barger, both sixth-graders at St. Patrick Catholic School, sing a song during the school's Christmas program Wednesday night at Parsons Municipal Auditorium.
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