Youths with the Kaw Valley Soccer Association took part in some training with Sporting Kansas City players and training staff Thursday. KVSA has been selected as an exclusive affiliate of the Sporting Juniors Program.

Photo by Joe Preiner

Youths with the Kaw Valley Soccer Association took part in some training with Sporting Kansas City players and training staff Thursday. KVSA has been selected as an exclusive affiliate of the Sporting Juniors Program.

Photo by Joe Preiner

Youths with the Kaw Valley Soccer Association took part in some training with Sporting Kansas City players and training staff Thursday. KVSA has been selected as an exclusive affiliate of the Sporting Juniors Program.

Photo by Joe Preiner

Youths with the Kaw Valley Soccer Association took part in some training with Sporting Kansas City players and training staff Thursday. KVSA has been selected as an exclusive affiliate of the Sporting Juniors Program.

Photo by Joe Preiner

Youths with the Kaw Valley Soccer Association took part in some training with Sporting Kansas City players and training staff Thursday. KVSA has been selected as an exclusive affiliate of the Sporting Juniors Program.

Photo by Joe Preiner

A Kaw Valley Soccer Association youth takes a shot on Sporting Kansas City's Luke Sassano Thursday. KVSA has been selected as an exclusive affiliate of the Sporting Juniors Program.

Photo by Joe Preiner

Youths with the Kaw Valley Soccer Association took part in some training with Sporting Kansas City players and training staff Thursday. KVSA has been selected as an exclusive affiliate of the Sporting Juniors Program.

Photo by Joe Preiner

Youths with the Kaw Valley Soccer Association took part in some training with Sporting Kansas City players and training staff. KVSA has been selected as an exclusive affiliate of the Sporting Juniors Program.

Photo by Joe Preiner

Youths with the Kaw Valley Soccer Association took part in some training with Sporting Kansas City players and training staff Thursday. KVSA has been selected as an exclusive affiliate of the Sporting Juniors Program.

Photo by Joe Preiner

Youths with the Kaw Valley Soccer Association took part in some training with Sporting Kansas City players and training staff Thursday. KVSA has been selected as an exclusive affiliate of the Sporting Juniors Program.

Photo by Joe Preiner

Giving each other a big hug, McClouth seniors Kayle Blevins 16, left, and Katy Taylor 16, console each other as the town of McClouth mourned on Thursday, June 2, 2011, at the McLouth United Methodist Church. The community was honoring Justin Johnston, a McClouth junior who was shot and killed on a school trip to Costa Rica.

Photo by Richard Gwin

From left, Kiana Hernandez 12, and Jessica Rogers 12, holding a candle for a candlelight vigil on June 2, 2011 in the United Methodist Church as McLouth bonded together across from the high school to memorialize Justin Johnston, 16 a McLouth High School junior who died while on a trip to Costa Rica.

Photo by Richard Gwin

The town of McLouth bonded together on Thursday June 2, 2011 in the Methodist Church across from the high school to memorialize Justin Johnston, 16, a McLouth High School junior who died while on a trip to Costa Rica.

Photo by Richard Gwin

This undated handout image provided by the Agriculture Department shows the department’s new healthy eating symbol: My Plate. The Agriculture Department says its new healthy eating symbol that replaces the food pyramid will show Americans that nutrition doesn’t have to be complicated.

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Michael Robbins of Lawrence rides for the first time on a new 1 3/4-mile mountain bike path in North Lawrence June 2, 2011. The trail was recently completed by Art King and members of the Lawrence Mountain Biking Club.

Photo by Mike Yoder

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Kirk Thompson of Topeka was introduced Thursday as new director of Kansas Bureau of Investigation

Photo by Scott Rothschild

Jeff Edwards stands next to an alkaline hydrolysis device that uses lye and heat to dissolve a body as an alternative to burial or cremation. Proponents say it’s more environmentally friendly than traditional cremation, but skeptics question the safety and social implications of sending someone’s remains down the drain.

AP Photo | Edwards Funeral Home

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Glen Walker answers questions about newspapers.

Photo by Mark Fagan

Amanda Soelter answers questions about newspapers.

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Deanna Bowman answers questions about what she considers a newspaper.

Photo by Mark Fagan

Jillian Rodrigue, assistant director of Douglas County Emergency Management drops a plumb line gauge into the Kansas River to measure the river's flood stage Thursday, June 2, 2011. The county will take measurements every four hours until Saturday morning to monitor the river level. Rodrigue measured the river level at 15-feet, 8-inches at 2:30 p.m., up from 15-feet, 3.5-inches at 10:30 a.m.

Photo by Mike Yoder

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Sidewalk chalk on the south side of the capitol building expresses the feelings of Kansas Arts Commission supporters.

Photo by Scott Rothschild

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Sidewalk chalk on the south side of the capitol building expresses the feelings of Kansas Arts Commission supporters.

Photo by Scott Rothschild

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McLouth High School student Justin Johnston, 16, was shot and killed Thursday, June 2, 2011, while on a trip to Costa Rica with the school's Spanish Club.

McLouth School District

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John Hawkes, who was nominated for a best supporting actor Academy Award for his role in "Winter's Bone" plays Lawrence artist Stan Herd, who in 1994 attempted a massive earthwork on a piece of land in New York's Upper West Side.

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A robin sits on a sign in one of the many garden plots at the Demonstration Gardens at the Douglas County Fairgrounds Master Gardeners help maintain the plots.

Photo by Kevin Anderson Lawrence Journal World

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Jane Kuwana was weeding on the Demonstration Gardens at the Douglas County Extension grounds Thursday. Volunteers were getting the grounds ready for the Master Gardeners garden tour this weekend. Maintaining gardens is one fo the ways Master Gardeners can donate their time back to the community.

Photo by Kevin Anderson Lawrence Journal World

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Jane Kuwana was weeding on the Demonstration Gardens at the Douglas County Extension grounds Thursday. Volunteers were getting the grounds ready for the Master Gardeners garden tour this weekend.

Photo by Kevin Anderson Lawrence Journal World

The U.S. National Weather Service predicts the Kansas River in Lawrence will crest near flood stage Friday afternoon or Saturday morning.

U.S. National Weather Service

Sara Brown and her husband, Paul Steinle, prepare for a video interview with the publisher and editors at the Lawrence Journal-World Thursday, June 2, 2011. Brown and Steinle are with WhoNeedsNewspapers.org and are visiting one newspaper in each state to report how newspapers are recasting themselves in the digital age and to document what unique community roles newspapers fulfill.

Photo by Mike Yoder

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Amidst a year that includes exhibits in Kansas City, Mo. and Philadelphia, Lawrence artist Aaron Storck is also the first recipient of the Lawrence Arts Center's project-based residency. His current project is a mixed-media show will open in late June.

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Stellar service: Elisabeth “Betty” Scribner of Lawrence (NARFE Chapter 378) was presented a “Citation For Distinguished Service” on April 4 from the National Headquarters of National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association. The award was recognition for the work Scribner has done to increase membership in the organization. Linda Surritte submitted the photo.