photo by: Jason Dailey/Lawrence Magazine

Referee Jim LaPoint works the sideline in this 2010 file photo. LaPoint, also a KU professor, has officiated more than 2,000 soccer games at the college and high school level.

photo by: Kevin Anderson

Cynthia Shaw is a birder and member of the Jayhawk Audubon Society.

photo by: Kevin Anderson

Lawrence magician Gene Kean performs some magic with a guillotine on principal Jeanne Fridell at Woodlawn School.

photo by: Kevin Anderson

Fourth-grade students Cole Phillips, left, Shakarah Barfield and Lexie Lockwood react as Lawrence magician Gene Kean performed some magic with a guillotine on principal Jeanne Fridell at Woodlawn School. Kean was performing ahead of a benefit show Saturday at Lawrence Arts Center, 940 N.H., with the International Brotherhood of Magicians Kansas City Ring.

photo by: Kevin Anderson

Christina Maki, Lawrence, considers her relationship with her stepfather, Shawn Roe of Olathe, as more of a dad-daughter relationship.