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Photos for December 27, 2003
Joan Miller, a member of the Prairie Acres Garden Club, opens a gift at the club's holiday party. The celebration was Dec. 16 at Alvamar Country Club.
Berta Call, Eudora, left, and Barb Learned, Lawrence, played their autoharps during a holiday celebration at the Watkins Community Museum of History, 1047 Mass. The museum had a "Sweet Exchange" on Dec. 17. Members of the community shared holiday cookies and candies.
Lois Zaremba, president of Prairie Acres Garden Club, shows the new program book to club members. The Lawrence organization had a holiday party Dec. 16 at Alvamar Country Club.
Kansas University marching band piccolo players, from left, Jenny Jaimes, Overland Park sophomore; Julie Dreier, Columbia, Mo., freshman; and Mindy Hodson, Topeka freshman, perform during the Tangerine Jam in downtown Orlando, Fla. The event was a pep rally for Kansas University and North Carolina State University fans. The trio, who played on Sunday, traveled to Florida with the band for the Tangerine Bowl.
Shiloh Crews, Lawrence, 12, left, and Dorthy Pennington, Lawrence, talk about the music for the Men's Chorus Christmas dinner at St. Luke A.M.E. Church, 900 N.Y. Last Saturday's event included refreshments and entertainment.
Felix Karlin, left, and Mark Klug, both of Lawrence, attend a chili feed and country dance at the Knights of Columbus Club, 2206 E. 23rd St. The Catholic community sponsored the Dec. 19 event to benefit the Lawrence Habitat for Humanity.
From left, Lawrence residents Phillip Godwin, Norman Leary and Norma Leary pose for a picture at the Watkins Community Museum of History. They attended a "Sweet Exchange" Dec. 17 at the museum, 1047 Mass. Community members shared their favorite holiday cookies and candies and listened to Christmas carols.
John and Deanna Callewaert, Lawrence, attend a chili feed and country dance, a benefit for the Lawrence Habitat for Humanity. The event was Dec. 19 at the Knights of Columbus Club and sponsored the Lawrence Catholic community.
Leann Johnson, vice president of Prairie Acres Garden Club, prepares the tables for the club's holiday party. The club celebrated the holidays Dec. 16 at Alvamar Country Club, 1809 Crossgate Drive.
The Mangino family, from left, Mark, 3, his father, Matt, Mark's twin sister, Melina, 3, Monica Galmarini and grandmother Connie Mangino bask in the revelry at the Tangerine Jam, a pep rally for Kansas University and North Carolina State University fans. Connie is the mother of KU's head football coach Mark Mangino; Matt is his brother. The Manginos, of New Castle, Pa., attended the Tangerine Bowl festivities last weekend in Orlando, Fla.
Band friends and family, from left, Trish Cottrell, Mary Cottrell, Ashley Isbell and Kay Isbell enjoy the Heart of America Marching Festival at Kansas University's Memorial Stadium. Mary Cottrell and Ashley Isbell are in the Lawrence High School Marching Band.
Renee Sweets, left, and her husband, John Sweets, of Lawrence, wait for check-in at Kansas City International Airport in Kansas City, Mo. A power outage hit Terminal B on Friday, causing delays of up to three hours.
Ryan Hemming, 3, left, and his brother, Aaron, 5, both of Lawrence, know the real test of remote control trucks is how they perform in the great outdoors. The two took their trucks Friday morning to Broken Arrow Park with their father, Ron Hemming.
Chicago Bulls' Kirk Hinrich (12) tries to shoot on Cleveland Cavaliers' Zydrunas Ilgauskas (11) as Kedrick Brown, left, watches in the first quarter Friday in Cleveland. Hinrich had 12 points, eight rebounds in six assists in a Chicago victory.
California's Daymeion Hughes, left, grabs the facemask of Virginia Tech's Marcus Vick. California won the Insight Bowl, 52-49, Friday night in Phoenix.
Bowling Green quarterback Josh Harris celebrates his team's victory in the Motor City Bowl. Bowling Green defeated Northwestern, 28-24, Friday in Detroit.
Kansas State players deplane after arriving for the Fiesta Bowl. The Wildcats, who touched down Friday in Phoenix, will face Ohio Jan. 2 in the Fiesta Bowl.
Certified organic beef cattle eat hay on Nick's Organic Farm in Adamstown, Md. They were pictured Wednesday, a day after a case of mad cow disease was found in Washington. Certified organic cattle cannot be fed animal byproducts, which are the suspected cause of mad cow disease.
Shirley Wheeler, Lawrence, picks out wrapping paper on sale at SuperTarget in south Lawrence. Shoppers flocked to stores Friday for post-Christmas discounts on seasonal items.
The newly redeemed Ebenezer Scrooge (Gary Neal Johnson) celebrates Christmas at the home of his nephew Fred in Missouri Repertory Theatre's production of "A Christmas Carol." The play ends its holiday run with two performances today.
Michael Jackson talks to "60 Minutes" correspondent Ed Bradley, left, in an interview conducted Thursday at a Los Angeles hotel. The interview is scheduled to be broadcast Sunday on CBS, Sunflower Broadband channels 5 and 13.
A man receives treatment for hydrogen sulfide inhalation Friday in Kaixian, 211 miles northeast of southwest China's Chongqing Municipality. At least 191 people have died after a natural gas well burst Tuesday, forcing 41,000 people to flee.
A rescue worker searches for victims Friday after devastating mudslides swept through a Greek Orthodox camp in the Waterman Canyon area of the San Bernardino, Calif., mountains on Thursday. Searchers slogging through deep debris found two people dead Friday and were looking for as many as 10 other people after a drenching Pacific storm unleashed a mudslide in the forested foothills recently scorched by wildfire.
Jon Ruhlen visits with his parents, David and Betty Ruhlen, of Lawrence. Friday, the Emporia State University English student packed up his belongings to join his unit at Fort Riley, where he will train for February duty in Iraq.
Grieving, injured Iranian women embrace after an earthquake in the Iranian city of Bam, 630 miles southeast of Tehran. The death toll from Friday's quake was at least 5,000.
The medieval fortress of the 2,000-year-old city of Bam, Iran, is seen in this photo taken in September 2003. An earthquake devastated Bam on Friday, leveling more than half the city's houses and its historic mud-brick fortress.
A mourning Iranian mother and her child cry for their families who were killed in a destructive earthquake in Bam, Iran. The devastating 6.5-magnitude quake struck at 5:28 a.m. Friday, an hour that found almost all of the city's 80,000 residents in their beds on the Muslim day of rest.
Despite a bleak budget outlook and other challenges, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is looking forward to the Jan. 12 start of the Kansas Legislature's 2004 session. In a state that leans heavily Republican, Sebelius says being a Democrat allows her to build coalitions.
JUDY CARMAN, of mclouth, has written "Peace to All Beings: Veggie Soup for the Chicken's Soul." Carman, co-founder of Animal Outreach of Kansas, is shown above during a recent animal rights demonstration at Eighth and Massachusetts streets.
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