September 2005
Photos for September 29, 2005
Lansing defender Steve Parker clears the ball with a header during the first half of Lansing's 2-0 loss to Mill Valley.
Lansing defender Josh Robinson battles a Mill Valley player for control of the ball during the Lions' 2-0 loss Thursday.
Lansing goalkeeper Alex Burton snuffs out a shot by a Turner forward.
Lansing goalkeeper Alex Burton collides with a Turner forward as Burton prevents a goal during Lansing's 2-0 victory.
LHS junior defender Josh Robinson battles a Turner player for control of the ball late in the second half of Lansing's 2-0 victory.
LHS junior Steffen Schumann collides with Turner's goalkeeper during Lansing's 2-0 victory on Wednesday evening.
Senior midfielder Mike Bayless blows past a Turner midfielder as he pushes the ball up the field.
Lansing Middle School teacher Sheila Martin measures the distance from the starting point to the place where this car, made of a banana, three potato-slice wheels and one cucumber-slice wheel stopped. The car went 6 feet, 5 inches.
Brian Jones and Tommy Corum let their potato-and-cherry-tomato car slide down the ramp. Cars with cherry tomato wheels didn't fare as well as their makers had hoped; this one went only 5 feet, 4 inches, the shortest distance in the class.
The building at 501 N. Main St. is shuttered. The 7-Eleven store that had occupied the site since 1978 closed its doors Tuesday. Corporate officials attributed the closing to the amount of property the site will lose to a widening project on Main Street that will begin later this year. Another business down the road, Babe and Grayce's Antiquables, is trying to relocate because of the impact of the widening on its current building.
Cole Firestine lets his potato-and-lime car zoom down the ramp as his partner, Heather Wiehe, left, and teacher Sheila Martin watch. The car went 6 feet, 1 inch.
Nichole Stickle decorates her cucumber-and-cherry-tomato car before testing it.
Joey Lennox puts cherry tomato wheels on his cucumber car.
Andy Walter adds a gold sticker to the zucchini car.
Megan Dike tests her zucchini car with orange and apple wheels before putting the car to the test. Her partner, Andy Walter, watches to make sure the wheels don't fall off.
Mycheala Taylor watches as her partner, Brandon White, tries to make a brussels sprout into a wheel for their car.
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What are you looking forward to most with the warming weather this spring?
Just getting out of the house and playing with the kids.
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