photo by: Mike Yoder

Julie Branstrom, who directs the Douglas County Dental Clinic, has a side business making jewelry from sea glass. Branstrom and her family collect the glass on family trips to California.

photo by: Mary Reardon

Macy Raccoon likes to climb into baskets. She looks sweet, but it took nine staffers at the veterinary office to hold her down for a shot. She belongs to Sammie Stuber, 4. Macy's "aunt," Mary Reardon, Lawrence, took the photo.

photo by: Mark Fagan

Principals were among folks in the audience for the Monday, Sept. 19, 2011 meeting of the Central and East Lawrence Elementary School Consolidation Working Group. In the front row with her head down was Nancy DeGarmo, principal of New York School, working her iPad. In the back row, to the side of Lawrence school board members Keith Diaz Moore and Rick Ingram, were Principals Cris Anderson, of Kennedy School; Jeanne Fridell, of Woodlawn School; Lesa Frantz, of Pinckney School; and Tammy Becker, of Hillcrest School. Chris Bay, principal of Sunset Hill School, didn't make the picture, as he was sitting off to the side.

Sunny disposition: Erin Grosdidier, 10, stands in front of her grandpa Clete Grosdidier’s sunflowers on Sept. 4. Both are of Eudora. Erin’s grandmother, Mariann Bradley of Eudora, submitted the photo.

photo by: Kevin Anderson

Viktor Yushchenko, right, former president of Ukraine, is the recipient of the Dole Leadership Prize and was the featured fall speaker Monday at the Dole Institute of Politics. With him is Bill Lacy, director of the Dole Institute.

photo by: Mike Yoder

Kendal Pritchard, Lawrence Highs No. 2 singles player, competes during a Lawrence High quad Monday at LHS.

Mike Yoder/Journal-World Photo.KU golfer Dylan McClure finishes putting on hole #6 Monday, Sept. 19, during the KU Invitational golf tournament at Alvamar Golf Course.

photo by: Nick Krug

Caroline Chaboo, a researcher and Kansas University associate professor of entomology looks through specimen drawers of hemiptera bugs on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. Chaboo, with the help of others in the entomology division of Kansas University's Natural History Museum and graduate and undergraduate assistants, is creating a bug database of over one million species from the collection through a three-year grant funded by the National Science Foundation, totaling $1.2 million.