Baldwin City resident and Shawnee Mission school district teacher Steve Pierce has a budding pasta sauce and produce business.

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Ryan Osburn 16, who works at Bartz Brother's fireworks stand at the Tee Pee Junction, tested some sparklers Monday evening, in preparation for the Fourth of July.

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Amrutha Ravikumar, Lawrence, owns Cosmos Indian Store at 734 Massachusetts St.

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Richard T. De George, is distinguished professor of philosophy and co-director of the International Center for Ethics in Business at the University of Kansas. De George, has retired from teaching but not from research. He is working on the eighth edition of "Business Ethics," his classic textbook that has since been translated for use in China, Japan, Russia and Serbia.

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Richard T. De George, is distinguished professor of philosophy and co-director of the International Center for Ethics in Business at the University of Kansas. De George, has retired from teaching but not from research. He is working on the eighth edition of "Business Ethics," his classic textbook that has since been translated for use in China, Japan, Russia and Serbia.

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Large cumulus clouds pass over a construction worker installing roofing on the new offices for Treanor Architects at 1040 Vt. on Monday. The $2.2 million project will create a new downtown office headquarters for the Lawrence-based company and will enable all of its Lawrence employees to work in the new building.

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Robert F. St. Peter, president and chief executive officer of the Kansas Health Institute, speaks with Jay Angoff, director of Health and Human Services, Region 7; and Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger speaks with Tom Bell, president and chief executive officer of the Kansas Hospital Association. Earlier, the officials discussed the health care reform decision by the U.S. Supreme Court during a forum put together by the Kansas Health Institute on Monday at the Ramada Inn in Topeka.

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Gov. Sam Brownback and Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer on Monday cut a ribbon to symbolize a reorganization of two social service agencies. The ceremony took place before more than 100 people outside the Statehouse.

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KU debate coach Scott Harris works with Hunter Goh, of Bakersfield, Calif., at KU's Debate Camp in early July. Harris runs several camps every year for high school debaters, in addition to his regular college-level teaching and coaching duties.

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Party in the Park will feature many Lawrence restaurants strutting their stuff. Erica Krause (foreground), holds a pizza and Crimson Phog beer, while DeAnn Young shows off a brat and Wave the Wheat beer, all courtesy of the 23rd Street Brewery.

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A special exhibition of Turkish kilims, on display this week at the Spencer Museum of Art, expresses the history, culture and tradition of the people who crafted them.

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"Impending Future Bus," by Randy Regier

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Cory Berkland, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry is pictured on Monday, July 2, 2012 in his lab at the Multidisiplinary Research Building, 2030 Becker Dr. Becker is deleloping ways for administering pharmaceuticals by way of a ventilator.

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Journal-World staff picks for favorite coaches with Kansas University ties.

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The Salvation Army at 10th and New Hampshire streets.

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Etta is the pet bantam chicken of Meryl Carver-Allmond, who submitted the photo.

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Pictured from left are Jyl Haynes, wife of Dave Haynes, of Lawrence; their three daughters-in-law, Alyson Haynes, Jennifer Haynes and Emily Haynes; and their three daughters, Andrea Bergholtz, Heidi Bridges and Kristen Mort, at the wedding reception of son Timothy and Emily Haynes in Elk City on May 25. Dave Haynes submitted the photo.

Craig Harper, a flight instructor at the Lawrence Municipal Airport, left, observes student Jacob Schneider, De Soto, during a pre-flight inspection of a plane June 19, 2012.

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The Wildeman family has a large patio that includes a cooker, grill and fireplace area as well as an outdoor kitchen nearby. Pictured on the patio from left are Ashley, Terry, Garrett, Morgan and Sheila Wildeman. Terry, a carpenter, built the fireplace.

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Marilyn Clark, right, had an outdoor oven constructed by area stonemason Keith Middlemas designed like a small cottage. It includes a wood-fired oven and a built-in slide out grill. Clark is joined by friends on her patio from left, Mike and Kitty Johnson and Marianne and John Wilkinson.

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Marilyn Clark had an outdoor oven constructed by area stonemason Keith Middlemas for her backyard patio. The cottage structure includes a wood-fired oven and a built-in slide out grill. Clark says she cooks in it often in the summer because it doesn’t heat up the house.

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