March 2008
Photos for March 5, 2008
State employees walk through a new addition to the Statehouse. The stone corridor is a new addition to the building and is underground.
Kansas Speaker of the House Melvin Neufeld, pointing, talks about the House of Representatives chamber during a tour in the west wing of the newly renovated Kansas State Capitol in Topeka.
The G-Force Jets Senior High All-Star team won the national championship in its division in January at the Nation's Best National Cheerleading Championships. The squad includes girls from Lansing, Lawrence, Jefferson County, Bonner Springs and LeCompton. The team, including Lansing High student Bobbi Walden, is pictured with its national championship trophy. The team is coached by Jimmy Godfrey, assistant coach of the cheer squad at the University of Kansas.
Four Lansing students earned a total of 12 medals in the Missouri Valley Swimming Championships, Feb. 22 - 24, in Lawrence. They are, front row, from left: Hannah Hecht, Matt Holden, Shyann Winkler, and back row, Kurt Weber. Weber, Lansing High sophomore, placed second in the 200-yard butterfly (2:20.42), third in the 200-yard individual medley (2:10.08), third in the 400-yard individual medley (4:39.90), fourth in the 100-yard butterfly (1:00.76), fourth in the 100-yard freestyle (53.74), fifth in the 200-yard freestyle (1:58.40) and sixth in the 50-yard freestyle (24.53). Hecht, LHS freshman, placed seventh in the 200-yard breaststroke (3:03.32). Winkler, Lansing Middle School eighth-grader, placed first in the 50-yard freestyle (27.58), sixth in the 100-yard freestyle (1:01.55) and eighth in the 200-yard backstroke (2:37.62). Holden, Lansing Elementary School student, placed seventh in the 100-yard backstroke (1:39.97).
Capt. Aaron Cornett, 1996 Lansing High School graduate, distributes wooden toys to Iraqi children while on a routine presence patrol in Samarra, Iraq. Cornett is part of an 11-man military advisory team assigned to train and mentor the 4-1-4 Iraqi Army Battalion. The toys were donated by a church in Denver, and the effort was organized by Cornett's sister, Misty, a 1994 LHS graduate. Cornett was deployed in May 2007 and will return this April. He lives in Lansing with his wife Jenni and daughter Millie, 9, and he is the son of Terry and Becky Cornett, Lansing.
KC Wolf, above, mascot for the Kansas City Chiefs, welcomes students of Lansing Intermediate School into the auditorium Friday, Feb. 29. In conjunction with Dr. Seuss' birthday, LIS kicked off state assessment tests by inviting KC Wolf to the school to give a motivational speech.
Grace Edmonds, left, 6, tries on the "Cat in the Hat" hat she made Friday, Feb. 29 in art class. Edmonds and other Lansing Elementary Students participated in Dr. Seuss activities all day in honor of the writer's birthday, which is on March 2.
Tia Jackson
Kale Pettis
Linda Gable
Kelly Lilleston
Chris Aus
Chris Hill, center in front row, signed his letter-of-intent on Feb. 7 to play NCAA Division I football at the United States Naval Academy.
Cindy Geiger
Delores Alexander
Freddie Ortiz, left, and Skylar Perez, both Lansing High School freshmen, look at a display case full of weaponry at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City. As part of a cross-curriculum project, LHS freshmen took a field to the World War I museum, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and the American Jazz Museum.
Lansing High School freshmen listen to a presentation about medical care problems while visiting the National World War I Muesum. Students visited the museum to do research for a project that is required of all the freshmen.
Former Cubmasters of Pack 3165 gather with over 300 other people Saturday, Feb. 23, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of scouting in Lansing back in 1958. The former Cubmasters in attendance were: (front row left to right) Howard (Howie) Kings; Andy Matzeder, the first Cubmaster; Karl Gibson; (second row left to right) Dan Golden; Dean Moburg; (third row left to right) Paul Icke; Dan Mosier; Doug Lilly; (fourth row left to right) Ron Bishop; and Loren Russell.
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Talking points
What are you looking forward to most with the warming weather this spring?
Just getting out of the house and playing with the kids.
