YMCA and LCU spell a job well done. LCU students worked with the Lincoln Area YMCA this week during the Lincoln Christian University "Week of Evangelism." Dr. Mark Mangano of LCU and 12 students worked with the Y doing mission work at the YMCA Activity Center on Wyatt Avenue and also in the downtown office. As a thank you, the YMCA held a pizza party for the group at Sorrento's.

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A "hole" lot of work has just begun. Workers tamp down a gravel bed in a new foundation hole, preparing for the pre-made walls of a new home at the corner of College and Peoria Street to be brought into place.

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This undated photo provided by Christie's auction house shows Jasper Johns' "Flag," a pop art rendition of the American flag, created in the 1960s, that author Michael Crichton bought from the artist in 1973. The painting is one of many in Crichton's collection that will go on the auction block during Christie's post-war and contemporary art sale in New York on May 11-12.

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