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mindyricketts > Brent Randel, Ottawa, Kan., an installer for Midwest Connections, Inc., ascends a tower near Lane to install Internet for Central Heights. The school has been without Internet and e-mail service, which it is heavily dependent on, for more than a week after its wireless Internet provider closed its doors. Franklin County agreed to allow the school's new provider to place a transmitter on its tower. The commissioners formally approved the contract this morning.

mindyricketts > Erica Red Corn, a second year KU Med student, was diagnosed with a type of cancer called Ewing Sarcoma, which affects the bones, when she was 15. She still wears a brace on her leg and has scars above her left knee and on her upper left thigh. She also had pieces of both lungs removed. Her then boyfriend, now husband, Alex's father brought her the blanket she is wrapped in when she was in the hospital for treatment. Alex's family is Osage. The portrait was taken by David Morris, who was working on series of portraits of people in Kansas City, after Erica lost her hair during teatment.

mindyricketts > Wayne Coyne, lead singer of The Flaming Lips, performs at the Wakarusa Music Fesitval in Lawrence, Kan.

mindyricketts > Photo illustration created to accompany a story about alcohol and dating.

mindyricketts > Spencer Lott uses his handmade puppets to perform in shows at the University of Kansas as well at birthday parties, libraries and corporate events. "This is what I want to do," Lott said. "At the moment college is kind of getting in the way because I could be doing this professionally."

mindyricketts > About 85 head of cattle make a run down Main St. Saturday morning during the Old West Cowboy Days Parade in Ottawa, Kan.

mindyricketts > White Owl and Julia Lee, a junior at the University of Kansas, demonstrate what While Owl terms the "White Owl dance" on the steps of Wescoe Hall in Lawrence, Kan. White Owl and Lee have announced their engagement and plan to wed in late July or August.

mindyricketts > From left, Bob Hughes, 15, Veronica Hemmelia, 19, Jenn Rome, 12, and Zeke Taylor, 15, concentrate on practicing new steps as their teacher calls them out during ballroom dancing lessons.

mindyricketts > Ashlea LaPlant, 15, center, puts her head in her hands in exasperation as she tries to think of a birthday gift for her boyfriend. LaPlant and her friends, Daniel Stevenson, 15, left, and Corisa Rakestraw, 14, went to the Great Mall in Olathe to shop at stores that werent available to them in Ottawa.

Brent Randel, Ottawa, Kan., an installer for Midwest Connections, Inc., ascends a tower near Lane to install Internet for Central Heights. The school has been without Internet and e-mail service, which it is heavily dependent on, for more than a week after its wireless Internet provider closed its doors. Franklin County agreed to allow the school's new provider to place a transmitter on its tower. The commissioners formally approved the contract this morning.

> Brent Randel, Ottawa, Kan., an installer for Midwest Connections, Inc., ascends a tower near Lane to install Internet for Central Heights. The school has been without Internet and e-mail service, which it is heavily dependent on, for more than a week after its wireless Internet provider closed its doors. Franklin County agreed to allow the school's new provider to place a transmitter on its tower. The commissioners formally approved the contract this morning.

Brent Randel, Ottawa, Kan., an installer for Midwest Connections, Inc., ascends a tower near Lane to install Internet for Central Heights. The school has been without Internet and e-mail service, which it is heavily dependent on, for more than a week after its wireless Internet provider closed its doors. Franklin County agreed to allow the school's new provider to place a transmitter on its tower. The commissioners formally approved the contract this morning.

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