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Kristen Hale, from Shawnee, peruses the selection of greeting cards at the new Walgreens in Bonner Springs. The store officially opened Friday, March 12.

Photo by Melissa Treolo

An elusive "Golden Trout" brings some added excitement to Wyandotte County Lake's fishing season this year. The lucky angler who catches the Golden Trout will win over $4,000 worth of prizes.

Bonner Springs Police Detective Vickie Fogarty (left) is the VFW Post 6401’s law enforcement officer of the year. Fogarty was honored during Monday night's City Council meeting by Post Commander Jim Jenkins (center). Lt. Rick Schubert (left) also offered his congratulations.

Photo by Melissa Treolo

A bulldozer pushes a large pile of bottles out of the way to make room for more bottles to come at the Ripple Glass recycling plant. The plant sees up to 20 tons of bottles per week.

Photo by Melissa Treolo

Victoria Rowley

Nancy Johnson, Bonner Springs Senior Center director, died Saturday, March 6 after battling both lung and brain cancer. A celebration of life in her honor has been planned from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 13, at the Lake of the Forest Clubhouse, with a special tribute at 3 p.m.

Photo by Nicole Kelley

Adm. Mike Mullen, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, speaks at Fort Leavenworth about leadership and the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.

Photo by Melissa Treolo

Bonner Springs Mayor Clausie Smith speaks to this year’s Mayor’s Youth Council during their March 4 meeting at Bonner Springs High School. The students involved in the group attend monthly meetings where Smith provides them with an update about city government.

Photo by Nicole Kelley

Bonner Springs High SChool business teacher Joe LaCicero gives a presentation to the Bonner Springs-Edwardsville Chamber of Commerce about a new job assistance program for students he is starting.

Photo by Melissa Treolo

David Porter, 9, of De Soto, aims and fires during the BB gun competition Saturday at Camp Naish. The two-day shooting sports competition drew more than 160 4-H’ers from throughout the state of Kansas.

Photo by Melissa Treolo

Interested parties gather during an open house last month around a chart showing phases of construction of a new interchange at Kansas Highway 7 and Johnson Drive. This past week, representatives from businesses in the area met with transportation officials to express their concern about access issues during the construction.

Photo by Caroline Boyer

A bulldozer pushes a large pile of bottles out of the way to make room for more bottles to come at the Ripple Glass recycling plant. The plant sees up to 20 tons of bottles per week.

Photo by Melissa Treolo

With only 10 questions, the 2010 Census form is one of the shortest in history and only takes about 10 minutes to complete. We turuned to the bureau's Web site, census.gov, for this week's Five Questions about the census.

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VFW Post 6401 commander Jim Jenkins, at right, presents detective Vickie Fogarty with the law enforcement officer of the year award during Monday night's City Council meeting.

Photo by Melissa Treolo

Savannah Moss, 6, left, De Soto, and Catherine Grosdidier, 10, Eudora, right, help package meal bags Saturday for Haiti at Eudora Elementary School. A volunteer group called Numana Inc. organized the Kaw Valley Feeding Haiti event to prepare more than 164,000 meals to ship to Haiti.

Photo by Mike Yoder