Friday afternoon, students at Central School in Lincoln were treated to a magic show as they wrapped up their Red Ribbon Week observance.
Magician Richard Landry performed first at Northwest School in the morning, then at Central in the afternoon.
Landry incorporates age-appropriate motivational presentations with his magic. For this show the emphasis was on living a drug-free life.
The 218 students at Central range in age from kindergarten to fifth grade. For their last day of Red Ribbon Week, kids wore red. According to Ribbon Week coordinator and teacher Kendall Martin, children dressed in special ways each day of the week as part of the fun of learning to be drug-free.

Pictures by Nila Smith

There was a sea of red on the gymnasium floor as kids assembled for the magic show.

This young lady is looking for balloons, but all she gets is a brightly colored bag, again and again and again!

Kids helped Landry work his magic by doing the finger dance.

This young man assists with the magic paper trick.

The kids are mesmerized by the magician.

Landry's rabbit Snowball went on vacation, so Landry used a drawing on a cloth as a substitute for his pet.

But with assistance from this young man, Snowball literally appeared out of nowhere inside his custom-made "shower."

Throughout the show, the kids were amazed by all that Landry showed them and very responsive to all he had to say about staying drug-free.

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