Photos for March 21, 2006

The Kaw Valley Force 13U girls team poses with their medals after finishing third at the TRYSA Coca Cola Classic in Emporia. The team is coached by Amadou "Kay" Diaw and Monica Ruiz is his assistant. The team played really tough team defense and had a big 3-0 win over an Omaha Gladiator team and a 1-1 tie with the River City Crush out of Wichita to advance to the semi-finals. Their run in the tournament ended with a 0-2 loss to a red hot Lady Cats Purple team that had scored 19 goals in its first three games of the tournament.

Keith Meyers/Submitted to Game

The Hurricanes coach Mark Unruh gives his team a pep talk
during half time of their game on Saturday. From left to right- Jacob
Unruh, Francisco Flores, Cade Burghart, Braden Solko, Jake Barker,
Wesley Cox, and D.J. Davis.

Beth Burghart/Submitted to Game

The Hurricanes Cade Burghart and Wesley Cox proudly show off
their medals after the last game of the season.

Enforcers get pumped up with coach Pat Watkins for their game Oct. 9 at Heritage Park.

Colleen Harrel/Submitted to Game

The Enforcers won their 11U division of the girls age group at Heartland Soccer with a record of 7-0-1. The had a goal differential of 47 GF with only 4 GA (2 scored against them in their first game, a 3-2 win). They won the Kansas Cup tournament in Lawrence the weekend of Sept. 16-18 with a record of 4-1, and went 1-1 in the rain-shortened Governor's Cup tournament in Topeka on Oct. 1. They will be playing in the Toyota Heritage Invitational Tournament in Olathe the weekend of Nov. 5-6.
Pictured are team members as follows: Back row left to right: Coach Pat Watkins, Abbey Casady, Bailey Harrell, Molly Ryan, Rylee Fuerst and Chelsea Casady. Front row: Carly Davis, Elena Auer, Madeline Dieker, Kylie Dever, Emilie Padgett and Abby Gillam. Not pictured: Anna Kate Kleibohmer and Daniella Smith.

Thanks to many friends who have inquired about our well being during the recent record rainfall and floods on Kaua'i. We are fine and our properties are relatively unaffected. This photo shows me on a lot that has been in our family since the 1960s and the heavily flowing waterfall across the valley, a tributary of the Wailua River.

Kindergarteners at Pinckney Elementary dress as pioneers as part of their Kansas Day celebration.

Submitted by Michelle Heller

Some other friends from Monroe, MI that we found between games. They told me I could post this as long as they each got a copy. Most of them are Big Ten fans but I don't hold that against them, and they often hang around to help me cheer on the Jayhawks.

Submitted by Jared Grillot

The Jayhawks tip off against Bradley in the famous Palace of Auburn Hills. Isn't the view great from up here?

Submitted by Jared Grillot

Now it's MY turn for a great photo opportunity. I recognized his voice long before I actually SAW that he was there. For me and so many others, there is no other "Voice of the Jayhawks" than Max. Thanks Max!

Submitted by Jared Grillot

Big Jay and the Rock Chalk Dancers put on a show at the pre-game Pep Rally for the crowd of alumni and other fans.

Submitted by Jared Grillot

She just had to get a shot with a cheerleader. She has aspirations, after all.

Submitted by Jared Grillot

She also meets up with an old friend. She last had her picture taken with Big Jay back when she was 5.

Submitted by Jared Grillot

My daughter gets to meet her very favorite. She had been talking about Christian Moody all morning, so having him walk by was too good to pass up.

Submitted by Jared Grillot

AD Lew Perkins liked my sunglasses so much he just had to try them on! Very stylish!

Submitted by Jared Grillot

We had to make sure our traveling buddy is safe for the trip! Now, off to the Palace!

Submitted by Jared Grillot

Not being too presumptious, am I?

Submitted by Jared Grillot

My daughter and I ready to head to the Palace for a whole day of basketball. We watched all four games!

Sen. John Vratil, R-Leawood, outlines a bill about eminent domain. Vratil spoke Monday at the Statehouse, where senators gave initial approval to a bill that would local governments' ability to force someone to sell their property so it could be used for economic development.

Tim Wilson, father of Kimberly Wilson, and his wife, Carol, are working to raise awareness of a "pass out game" that's popular with teens but proved fatal to their daughter. Recently a Pennsylvania school prevented publication of a story about the game.

The tail section from the wreckage of a small plane that crashed lies near a storage unit that was engulfed in flames in Branson, Mo. The plane crashed about 12:30 p.m. Monday near a busy street, killing all four people aboard. Federal aviation investigators will begin examining the wreckage today.

Gov. Kathleen Sebelius urges lawmakers to pass a school finance bill during a news conference Monday in her office at the Statehouse in Topeka. The governor has called for expanded gambling to pay for the school funding increases.

A big snowman, a little snowman and a shopping cart create a work of art on a residential street Monday in Lincoln, Neb. Parts of Nebraska got up to 25 inches of snow through Monday, and the Nebraska Legislature canceled its session for today.

The Rev. Joseph Rembert stands at the altar where Rosa Parks' body lay during a memorial service last fall at St. Paul A.M.E. church in Montgomery, Ala. Lampert has spoken out against a bill that would pardon Rosa Parks and others who were arrested during the Civil Rights Movement.

John Powell uses a rope to raise a bag of food into the rectory of St. Augustine Church in New Orleans. The New Orleans Archdiocese has closed the parish but will keep the church open, and Powell and others have taken up residence in the rectory in protest.

The Balad air base boasts an Olympic-size swimming pool, seen from a Black Hawk helicopter, among its amenities. Balad, the former Iraqi air force academy, has become the logistics hub for all U.S. military operations in Iraq.

U.S. soldiers eat meals from Burger King, in al-Asad Air Base, 100 miles west of Baghdad, Iraq. As the construction work goes on in full scale at the Balad U.S. Air Base and handful of other installations, it is difficult to say whether U.S. forces in Iraq are in for a short term or long term stay.

Dr. David Smith, center, stands outside the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic with his wife, Millicent Buxton-Smith, and former IT manager Bob Student in San Francisco. "Dr. Dave" opened the clinic in 1967 but quit last month when a new CEO made changes to increase the clinic's financial accountability.

Irvin Lai, of the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, looks over the site of a subway expansion where remains from an old Chinese cemetery were found. Lai says the Metropolitan Transit Authority should rebury the bodies at Evergreen Cemetery, one of the area's oldest and grandest burial sites.

Raiden Hartman, 3, left, helps his mom, Veronica, build a family of snowmen at their home in Hays. Up to 10 inches of snow fell Monday afternoon in western Kansas. Eastbound Interstate 70 was closed between Colby and the Colorado border and westbound from Hays to the border. In the eastern part of the state, however, the expected snow did not materialize by late Monday. For a complete forecast, see page 8B.

Fred Hunt/Hays Daily News

Ashli Hill, left, works to get open during an AAU tournament at South Junior High. At 6-foot-4, the eighth grader usually has a tremendous size advantage over opponents.

The statue of George Mason on the campus of George Mason University sports a basketball jersey and yellow pom-pom. The statue was decorated Monday in Fairfax, Va., in honor of the school's berth in the round of 16 of the men's NCAA Tournament.

New Mexico's Dionne Marsh, left, and teammate Julie Briody try to block out Baylor's Abiola Wabara in the second half. Baylor won, 87-67, in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on Monday in Tucson, Ariz.

A tanker truck is loaded with ethanol at the Golden Grain Energy ethanol plant in Mason City, Iowa. The Energy Department recently announced that it was concerned the U.S. ethanol industry would be unable to meet the rising demand for corn-derived fuel. But the industry refuted the announcement and said it was creating "unnecessary fears in the marketplace."