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THURSDAY • MAY 22 • 2014
LAWRENCE HIGH GRADUATION
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IN FOREGROUND MATTHEW ROOD, LEFT, AND ELSA REGAN, RIGHT, toss their caps at the conclusion of the Lawrence High School commencement Wednesday at the school.
Anticipation, enthusiasm, support from loved ones mark ceremony We’ve got to go out there and change lives, make magic and do extraordinary things.”
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As the graduating seniors at Lawrence High School lined up before Wednesday night’s commencement ceremony, there was a lot of the normal talk about where they were supposed to stand and exactly what they were supposed to do. But many of the students already had their minds focused far into the future as they looked forward with anticipation about the next adventure in their lives. Some had already lined up scholarships with plans to pursue college degrees. Others, like Felipe Avila, said they were looking forward to going to trade school, while his friend Alex Ayala spoke of plans to attend Johnson County Community College to study game design.
— LHS graduate Calia Lowery
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“We’ve got to go out there and change lives, make magic and do extraordinary things,” Lowery said. “We’ve got to go FAMILY AND FRIENDS CHEER and take photographs as out there and show them graduates pass by during the Lawrence High School how great we are.” commencement at the school on Wednesday. Also chosen to speak was Sarah Smoot, who recalled that as small l List of 2014 graduates, page 7A children, many imagined l For a gallery of graduation photos, visit growing up to be cowboys, ljworld.com. princesses or astronauts. “Now some people want to be accountants, teachAnd then there were cided to enlist in the Navy. ers — Lord help you — and those like Calia Lowery, Whatever their plans were parents,” she said. “Or, if one of the two student for the future, Lowery you’re like me, you still commencement speak- urged them to go with enPlease see LHS, page 6A ers, who has already de- thusiasm.
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By Peter Hancock
Joyce Williams is glad somebody notices the drought is still affecting residents of this part of the state. She and her husband, Mel, raise grassfed beef north of Lawrence. Their farm ponds haven’t recovered from the severe drought of 2012, and they can get water only from two or three of the roughly dozen ponds on their property. “I don’t even talk about the drought anymore. Peo- Brownback ple really don’t believe me, especially in town,” Williams said. “It’s an extreme problem for us. We are praying hard for rain over this holiday weekend.” Someone who has realized the problems
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Topeka — Scott Morgan, of Lawrence, filed Wednesday to challenge Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach in the Republican primary, saying he wants to restore sanity to the office and stand up to what he calls “bully” tactics. Morgan said residents Morgan were frustrated by the conservative Kobach’s performance, suggesting he was neither interested in the job “nor very good at it.” However, Morgan said he realized Kobach had support in Kansas and any challenge would be difficult. “I’m not delusional,” Morgan said. Morgan, 56, is a former Lawrence school board president and was chief of staff for
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