Representatives from the Wal-Mart store in Lawrence recently attended Thanks

Back row, from left, Caitleen Desetti and Kelsey Taylor and, front row, from left, Micaela Riley, Payton Shambaugh and Berit Conway explored a creek area during Hidden Valley Day Camp June 27-July 1 in Lawrence. Caitleen and Kelsey were among 38 program aides who attended a weekend training before the camp. During camp, they served as buddies for the younger girls.

The Pilot Club of Lawrence recently donated a new refrigerator and 00 to the ECKAN Douglas County Community Center. From left are Jeanette Collier, ECKAN coordinator; Carol Taylor, seated, ECKAN assistant coordinator; and club members Alietha Beckman, Carolyn Kirby, Cheryl Healey, Onas Waltho, Tricia Boyd, Diana Boyd and Norma Leary, president.

Members of the Toni Morrison Society gathered for a meeting in Cincinnati from July 9-14. Among those attending were, back row, from left, Carolyn Denard, founder of the Toni Morrison Society and associate dean of Wells College in Aurora, N.Y.; Trudier Harris, Sitterson professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, who was Kansas University English 2005 distinguished visiting scholar for the Multicultural Literature Institute in July; Maryemma Graham, president of the Toni Morrison Society and KU professor of English; and Nobel-prize winning novelist Toni Morrison, sitting.

These Douglas County 4-H'ers attended 4-H Discovery Days in Manhattan. They were among 500 4-H'ers from across the state who spent four days on the Kansas State University campus. The focus of Discovery Days was to emphasize career and leisure opportunities through classes. From left are: Wesley Callahan, Palmyra 4-H; Callie Fishburn, Lone Star 4-H; Morgan Trowbridge, Pioneer 4-H; Jackie Hewins, Jayhawk 4-H; Whitney Box, Eudora 4-H; Mary Cox, Eudora 4-H; and Jessica Gibler, Four Leaf Clover 4-H.

Girl Scout leader Lauren Buskirk, second from right in back row, and her unit play Down

DaisIes, Brownies, Juniors and Camp Aides hurl food at each other July 1, the last day of Hidden Valley Day Camp in Lawrence. Leader and parents, at right, take pictures of the annual tradition. Among items that were slung around: cooked rice, spaghetti, scrambled eggs and beans.

A member of the Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Department hoses down Girl Scouts after their traditional food fight at Hidden Valley Day Camp in Lawrence. The theme of this year's camp was CSI: