Photo archive for April 25, 2008
Jalayne Madeen brings her Mother's Day puppy to the Chi Omega carwash. View photo
Sarah Francis, Jessica France and Whitney Crockett try to get cars driving by to come to the Chi Omega car wash. View photo
Lauren Overesch hoses down a car for the Chi Omega carwash. All donations from the car wash will be donated to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. View photo
Emporia State’s Keith Hernandez stands outside Gym B in the ESU HPER Building, a place where both he and his father, Fred, practiced for their respective Hornet baseball teams 30 years apart. View photo
Emporia High senior Whitney Starr competes in the 100 yard butterfly during the EHS Girls Invitational Thursday, April 24. View photo
The Americus Pool’s circulation system isn’t functioning properly and doesn’t turn over enough. It also needs to be larger to handle the amount of water that needs to be filtered. View photo
Nick Gadino and Jena Johnson walk around the Americus Pool after explaining the problems that likely will shut the pool down for good after this season. Among the laundry list of things wrong with the pool, the liner is bubbling up and is failing. View photo
This diving board at the Americus Pool is one of the many things that are defective with the pool. The diving board isn’t up to current standards and needs to be replaced. The board will be removed in lieu of being replaced because the pool likely won’t open again after this season. View photo
Nick Gadino (left), of the city of Americus, and Jena Johnson, of the Save the (Americus) Pool Committee, talk about the condition of the pool’s filtration system. View photo
Emporia High’s Carissa Schmitz competes in the diving competition on Thursday at the EHS Invitational. Schmitz took first in the event. View photo
Area farmer Gale Fuller was lucky. He ordered his soybean seed before stocks ran low. He’ll be able to plant a crop this year. View photo
Emporia High senior Caitlin McGuire competes in the 50-yard freestyle during the EHS Invitational on Thursday. McGuire won the event in a time of 26.59 seconds for one of her two individual victories on the day. View photo