Photo archive for October 1, 2007
WAW Book Awards View photo
Red Rocks View photo
WAW Book Awards View photo
B-29 Bombers View photo
WAW Book Awards View photo
WAW Book Awards View photo
EHS Homecoming View photo
EHS Homecoming View photo
EHS Homecoming View photo
EHS Homecoming View photo
EHS Homecoming View photo
EHS Homecoming View photo
Harvest Days View photo
Harvest Days View photo
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Wires hang out of where lights should be to illuminate a steep and worn set of stairs that lead to apartments on a second floor. View photo
Steep and worn stairs lead to the second floor of an apartment building. There are no lights to illuminate the stairs at night. View photo
Natalia Barb shows the mold that is growing in her carpet along with the rusted and damaged air conditioner in her bedroom closet. The mold is so bad that at one point Barb had a mushroom growing out of her carpet. View photo
Emporia High Senior football players enjoy the bonfire on Sept. 28 at the Lyon County Fairgrounds. View photo
Missouri Southern running back Renard Johnson (43) tries to avoid the rush of Emporia State’s Emmanuel Howard (21) and Keith Maples (93) during Saturday’s game in Joplin, Mo. Johnson rushed for 148 yards and a touchdown to help Southern to a 42-19 victory over the Hornets. View photo
MSSU's Alley Broussard powers his way into the end zone during Saturday nights game against Emporia State at Fred Hughes Stadium in Joplin. View photo
Missouri Southern quarterback Adam Hinspeter gets the pass off in spite of the Emporia State defense during Saturday night’s game in Joplin. Missouri Southern defeated ESU, 42-19. View photo
The Emporia High freshmen float for Homecoming parades down Commercial Street Friday evening. The Class of 2011's float won first place. View photo
Spectators of all ages were entertained by the Rostvit Twins at Hartford Harvest Days. The twin sisters are from Colorado Springs, Colo. They are a ventriloquist and singing act. The sisters have performed their act all over the country and in over 100 different languages. View photo
The Neosho Rapids Lyons Club annual haunted house was represented by an "interesting thing" Saturday in the parade during Hartford Harvest Days. The haunted house is an annual fund-raiser put on that draws people from all over the area. The dates set for this year are Oct. 19-20 and Oct. 26-27. View photo
Jeremy "Hubba" Jenkins of Americus throws candy out of the back of his father Jason's '66 Chevy Pick Up during the parade. The pick up was originally Jason's grandfather's, the late Red Lyons. View photo
Long time owner of Bill's Hardware, Theda Wolford, was the Parade Grand Marshal this year at Hartford Harvest Days. She has been on the Hartford Harvest Day committee since it began 17 years ago. Wolford was driven through the parade by Jessica Wilson. View photo
Juniors Megan Wacker and Michelle Perez laugh while participating in a three-legged race during Emporia High's Homecoming Relays. View photo
Emporia High’s Michaela Reynolds (left) runs with the lead pack during Saturday’s 4-kilometer race of the Rim Rock Classic in Lawrence. Reynolds finished second behind Blue Valley Northwest’s Laura Roxberg (1486). View photo
Clint Bowyer, right, rides with Michael Waltrip in a Ford Mustang to their race cars before the start of the Nextel Cup Lifelock 400 at the Kansas Speedway. Bowyer started 10th in the race while Waltrip started 11th. View photo
Members of Clint Bowyer’s pit crew rush to change tires and put gasoline into Bowyer’s Chevy Monte Carlo during a pitstop Sunday afternoon at the Kansas Speedway. View photo
Kylie Miller and Troy Pierce were crowned the Emporia High Homecoming King and Queen before Friday night’s game at Welch Stadium. For more photos of EHS Homecoming festivities, see Page 10. View photo
Children laugh after playing a game with Sarah Weeks at the William Allen White Children’s Book Awards. Weeks’ book, “So B. It,” won the award for sixth- through eighth-grade. View photo
Andrew Clements explains during the William Allen White Children’s Book Awards on Saturday at White Auditorium how the cover art of his book, “The Report Card” was made. View photo
Nick Gronseth, left, gives a tour of William Allen White’s home to Jim Meeks, Gin Wong and Karl Samuels. The three men were on the original crew of the William Allen White B-29 bomber that flew in World War II. Before heading off to combat 62 years ago, they visited Red Rocks to see Sallie White, William Allen White’s widow. View photo