Get involved

Join the Journal-World Teen Advisory Board

New members are welcome to get involved with the J-W Teen Advisory Board, now with approximately 40 members. Students in fifth through 12th grades are invited to attend. We look for story ideas and also assign stories to interested writers.

The teen board will tour the News Center, 645 N.H. at 7 p.m. Thursday; call Steve Rottinghaus at 832-7254 or Christy Little at 832-6361, or send e-mail to teens@ljworld.com if you’d like to attend.

The board has its next regular meeting at 7 p.m. Jan. 19 at the News Center.

Contest

It’s time to enter ‘Rooms That Rock’

The Journal-World Teen Advisory Board is having its second annual “Rooms That Rock” contest. Submit up to three photos of your bedroom and write 100 words or less on the style or theme of your room. Three winners will be featured in 18 & Under and on “Home and Away” on Sunflower Broadband Channel 6.

Those who submitted photos last year are welcome to enter the contest again.

Send photos to the Journal-World c/o 18 & Under, 645 N.H., Lawrence 66044 or by e-mail to teens@ljworld.com. Call Steve Rottinghaus at 832-7254 or Christy Little at 832-6361 if you have questions.

The entry deadline is Jan. 14.

submissions

Send in your poetry

18 & Under is accepting original poetry for publication. Send yours to teens@ljworld.com.

‘Summer’s Radiance’
The sun kisses my skin
As I bask in this plush, pink inflatable raft.
My toes dangle into the turquoise-blue pool water,
Cooling them from the sun’s lustrous glow.
Around the swimming pool, vibrantly painted flowers sway,
Dancing to the song of summer.
In the titanic trees behind me,
Birds chorus in the afternoon’s freshness
As tiny insects trudge
Alongside the ground’s mountainous pebbles.
Today, I am this summer day.
Beaming and refreshed,
I am released from yesterday’s rumbling storms.

— Jordan Ferguson is a student at Lawrence High School.