The Shawnee Dispatch / Kevin Anderson

Kevin Anderson is a photographer with the Bonner Springs Chieftain, Basehor Sentinel, Shawnee Dispatch and Lansing Current. Kevin joined the staff as chief photographer for The Shawnee Dispatch, Bonner Springs Chieftain and The Basehor Sentinel in December 2002. Before that, he was with the Kansas City Star for almost 16 years as a staff photographer and photo editor. Kevin attended the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He grew up in Omaha and despite the new West Coast offense, he is still a Husker fan.

Recent photos

Students crowd a hallway at Mill Valley High School between classes last week. The school has an estimated enrollment this year of 1,013 students, which is above the school’s posted capacity. In all, the De Soto school district projects it will have about 400 more students in 2008-09 than in 2007-08.

Jennifer Battles was looking for cooking and decorating books Monday at the Shawnee library on Johnson Drive. Battles added that she and her family just moved to the area recently and she was trying to find new recipe ideas as a means to cutback eating out.

With a canopy of green overhead, runners Nick Foster (left) of Westport and Margaret Hill were part of a group that hit the rolling trails recently at Shawnee Mission Park.

Shawnee Fire officials continue to investigate a Saturday morning fire at the Fox Run Apartments. The fire spread from a first-floor apartment. It took firefighters more than four hours to control the blaze. No injuries were reported.

The Super Slide at the Tiblow Days carnival was just super for Gracia Mumbeny (left), LAnce Guess and Gradi Mumbeny of Kansas City, Kansas.

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Talking points

How often do you go to the library?

“I almost never go there at all — only with my wife, Kim. She checks out, I’d say, at least three books a week. The kids go with her, and she teaches them how to find things.”

— Chris Lopez

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