The day in photos, August 18, 2011

photo by: Mark Fagan

Myrone Grady, school resource officer, and Lynn Harrod, assistant principal, monitor students as they head to buses in the parking lot at South Middle School.

photo by: Mark Fagan

A message on Julie Rea's phone helps her stay on message at South Middle School.

photo by: Nick Krug

Tammie Riccardo, Lawrence, lies on a balance ball in an exercise designed to help stretch muscles around scar tissue left from a double mastectomy, during a therapy session in May with occupational therapist Dana White at Kreider Rehabilitation Services South, 3510 Clinton Place. Kreider Rehab South will be moving into the LMH South building next door as part of a $594,000 renovation project that was approved Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011, by the LMH Board of Trustees.

You say tomato: Bill and Betty Leslie, Lecompton, are pictured Aug. 3 with their tomato plants outside of their home. Their plants are producing a bumper crop. Bonny Fugett submitted the photo.