The day in photos, May 14, 2011

photo by: Richard Gwin

Bridge players, including, clockwise from front left, Shari Krentzel, Clarice Broz, Eldon Herd and Marilyn Martin, gather up to five times a week to play at a suite in the North Lawrence outlet mall. Often more than 50 people, many from outside Lawrence, come together to play the game.

photo by: Richard Gwin

Former World War II code talker Samuel Tsosie Sr. came from Winslow, Ariz., to watch his daughter Lavern graduate from Haskell Indian Nations University Friday, May 13, 2011.

A new sign is being created for display in front of Langston Hughes School, 1101 George Williams Way.

photo by: Douglas County Fire Medical

The 1955 American LaFrance pumper truck drives in a parade down Massachusetts Street in 1988. The pumper is awaiting restoration.

photo by: Nick Krug

Doug Nickel, a coordinator of multimedia advertising at Kansas University, cruises down Jayhawk Boulevard on his way home from work Tuesday, May 10, 2011. Nickel has biked to work since 1996, and to KU since 2008, when he began working there.

photo by: Nick Krug

Lawrence High senior Neel Patel puts the finishing touches on a model airplane he designed in an engineering class at LHS Friday, May 13, 2011, his final day of high school. Patel plans to socialize with his friends in the two weeks until graduation, which he admits will feel "kind of weird."

photo by: City of Lawrence

Crews work on pouring cement as part of the reconstruction of Kasold Drive from Clinton Parkway to 31st Street.