Photo archive for July 16, 2007
J.T. Johnson, 10 fishes during the Olpe Downhome Festival. View photo
From left, Roger Steinke, Mike Davis, and Rick Kuhlmann grill hamburgers and hotdogs for the Olpe Downhome festival's concessions. View photo
Families enjoy each others company by the lake during Olpe Downhome Days. View photo
Elizabeth Schierling, 6 plays in an inflated playground children frequented during Olpe Downhome Days. View photo
From left: Ralph Schellhamer, Wilma Lindsey, and Betty Rust are one of the many who square danced at Olpe Downhome Days. View photo
Haley Kingsly, 9, gets her face painted by Melissa Wichmann during Olpe Downhome Days. View photo
Olpe residents Beth Skalsky and her son Blake, 18 months, have a picnic during Olpe Downhome Days. View photo
From right: Carol Beam assists Hanna Wecker, 10, and Garett Pimple, 7, make sand art. View photo
Bethany Neal competes in a watermelon eating contest at the Farmers Market's 25th Anniversary celebration on Saturday morning. View photo
The Emporia Aquatic Club’s Maggie Hatfield competes in the butterfly in this weekend’s Last Chance Meet at the Jones Aquatic Center. Hatfield, who competes in the 8 & Under Division, won six individual events at the meet. View photo
Emporia’s Jordan Metz prepares to swim the backstroke at the Last Chance Swim Meet at the Jones Aquatic Center. View photo
This memorial marker, which was unveiled Sunday, sits where the former Miller High School used to stand. The marker was made of 258 bricks from the original school. Each brick represents one of the 258 graduates of the school. On the top is an etching of the school in granite. View photo
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Rick Melgren, left, son of Homer Melgren, who graduated from Miller High School in 1942, joins Ronald Fredrickson, who attended the school in 1945 and 1946, at a table to look at MHS memorabilia. View photo
Forget the Three Tenors — meet the three tubas. From left, Patrick Sheridan and Sam Pilafian of Arizona State University and Jeff Hodapp of the Emporia Municipal Band play “A Bugler’s Holiday” during the municipal band’s concert before the Kansas Bandmasters Association in Wichita on Friday. View photo
Lyon County Road and Bridge workers pack up their equipment and head home Friday after laying down new asphalt on Road 240. View photo