Updated Jul 05, 2012 @ 09:30 PM
A look back at the month of June in images.
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The noon sun shines over the Crawford County Courthouse in a fisheye view of the building on Thursday afternoon. The courthouse was dedicated 90 years ago today and underwent an exterior renovation 20 years ago.
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Pittsburg Post 64 shortstop Sam Gilbert fields a bouncer Thursday afternoon during the season opener against Nevada in the Pittsburg American Legion Wood Bat Tournament at JayCee Ballpark.
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“Bella”, owned by Landon Hise of Hulbert, Ok., makes a leap of more than twenty feet during one of her jumps in the DockDogs Big Air competition Friday morning. The event is one of the activities taking place this weekend during the Good Ol’ Days festival in Fort Scott.
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“Hershey” retrieves his toy after making a leap during a practice session Friday morning.
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“Manny,” a 4-year old yellow Labrador retriever owned by Jeremy Gnefkow of Blue Springs Mo., makes a splash during the DockDogs Big Air competition Friday morning. The event will continue Saturday during the Good Ol’ Days festival in Fort Scott.
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Yellow Labrador retriever “Lil’ Texas,” 2, owned by Sandy Goodson of Dallas, Texas, stretches out in a leaping attempt to reach her toy during Big Air competition Friday.
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“Lizzie,” a 9-year old yellow Labrador retriever, leaps after a toy tossed by owner Sandy Goodson of Dallas, Texas, during competition in the DockDogs Big Air veteran division Friday morning. The event is one of the activities taking place this weekend during the Good Ol’ Days festival in Fort Scott.
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Six-year-old chocolate Labrador retriever “Hershey,” owned by Ray McCarty of Kansas City, Mo., makes a practice jump before his DockDogs competition Friday morning in Fort Scott. Hershey learned the sport while living in Pittsburg.
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Laverne and Ella Bockelman, residents of Via Christi Village, celebrated their 71st wedding anniversary on Friday. They were married June 1, 1941, in Hepler and say that they would happily do it all over again.
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Paul Macaroco, who works for Johnson & Johnson Orthopedics, removes a casting mold from the furnace in the Kansas Technology Center’s foundry Tuesday morning. Macaroco is one of 30 students and metal casting professionals who are taking part in the center’s metal casting institute, an annual event that is the industry’s official workshop.
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People gathered by the dozens at Pittsburg State University’s bell tower Tuesday afternoon to witness the transit of Venus, the last time it will occur until the year 2117. A transit of Venus occurs about every 100 years when the planet passes directly between the sun and Earth. The event generally happens in twos — there was another transit in 2004. Here, Tuesday’s transit is magnified 80 times through one of the physics department’s catadioptric telescopes, which use lenses and curved mirrors as opposed to lens-only dioptric telescopes. The photo was taken using a cell phone's camera pressed against the telescope's eyepiece.
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Matt Brown gives his son Gabriel, 2, some help to view the transit of Venus in one of the telescopes set up at Pittsburg State University as siblings Lily, 5, and Jayden, 4, wait for their turn Tuesday evening.
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Adela Rohner, 5, with the assistance of her grandmother Linda Foxwell, peers into a telescope at Pittsburg State University to get a view of the transit of Venus Tuesday evening.
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Four-year-old Amanu Harrigan enjoys a puppet show about a boy who travels to space at the Pittsburg Public Library earlier this week.
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Above: Pittsburg Senior Babe Ruth baserunner Luke Marquardt steals third base Wednesday evening against Columbus at JayCee Ballpark. Right: Pittsburg first baseman Tanner Ellis makes a catch to record an inning-ending out against Columbus. Right: Pittsburg batter Colton Gilbert connects for an RBI single to tie the game up at 1-1 Wednesday evening against Columbus at JayCee Ballpark.
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Jayne Jones, Riverton High School physics, physical and Earth sciences teacher, Alan Shinn, Uniontown High School math teacher, and Duane Ford, Uniontown High School chemistry, physics and physical sciences teacher, use a toy car in Pittsburg State University’s Yates Hall to develop a lesson to teach students how to measure distance and speed. They are part of a 15-teacher workshop the university is hosting to teach teachers how to use the modeling approach to teaching, which they hope will get students more involved in the learning process.
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Rotary Orioles runner Darien Boyd slides into second base for a steal Thursday night. Boyd would later advance to third on a wild pitch and score on a RBI single by Dalton Gromer.
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Watco Nationals starter Jake Webb throws a pitch Thursday night against the Rotary Orioles in a Frank German contest at Wild Red Berry Field. Webb earned the victory for the Nationals and supported himself with a 3-for-3 and four RBI night.
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Nikki Webster, Pittsburg, holds Pierce, seven months, out to his father, 1st Lt. Andrew Webster while big sister Ella, 2, looks on in her father’s arms at a homecoming at Topeka’s Forbes Field on Thursday morning. Pierce was born while Andrew was deployed on a shortened nine-month deployment with Kansas Agribusiness Development Team 4 to Afghanistan’s Laghman province.
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Soldiers from Kansas National Guard's Agribusiness Development Team 4 return home to a hangar full of family and friends Thursday morning at Forbes Field in Topeka after serving a nine-month mission to Afghanistan teaching agriculture and business that could affect an estimated 60,000 Afghans. Many of the soldiers are from Crawford County, and it is believed to be the return of the last major deployment of local soldiers.
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The Cope family from Leavenworth waits for the arrival of Sgt. Steven Cope Thursday morning at Topeka's Forbes Field as he returns from a nine-month deployment to Afghanistan's Laghman province. Lacy Cope holds Brayden, 1, while Katlynn, 6, waves the "Welcome Home Daddy!" sign and Evan, 3, keeps an eye out for his dad.
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Jocelyn, 4, swings around her father, Sgt. Joshua Karhoff, Claremore, Okla., while her sister, Amelia Grace, 1, laughs after a homecoming ceremony Thursday morning at Hangar 680 in Topeka’s Forbes Field. Karhoff was one of 60 returning soldiers from Agribusiness Development Team 4’s deployment to Afghanistan.
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A field just south of the Cherokee-Crawford County line burns Thursday afternoon. Many fields are being burned this time of year as some area farmers are using fire to provide a number of agricultural benefits.
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Commerce Bank hitter Ryan Cedeno hits a two-run single in the bottom of the third, helping Commerce Bank achieve its 12-1 run-rule win Friday night over CCBA at JayCee Ballpark. Cedeno drove in three runs at the plate and struck out nine on the mound.
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Priest, a yellow Labrador owned by Nick and Ashley Long, takes a refreshing dip in a kiddie wading pool after participating in the first Southeast Kansas Humane Society Bark in the Park walk Saturday morning in Lincoln Park.
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Chelsey, owned by Pam and Sam Hohl of Wier, takes in her surroundings Saturday morning in Lincoln Park.
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Paw art was one of the numerous activities available for the dogs and puppies to take part in during the first Southeast Kansas Humane Society Bark in the Park Saturday morning in Lincoln Park.
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Area residents take their dogs on a walk around Lincoln Park during the first Southeast Kansas Humane Society Bark in the Park Saturday morning.
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Ranger, a dachshund brought by Danielle Dickinson, walks high above the ground across a beam on an agility course set up as one of the activities for dogs to take part in during the first Southeast Kansas Humane Society Bark in the Park Saturday morning in Lincoln Park.
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Mattie, brought to the event by Susan and Paige Badart cools off in a kiddie wading pool Saturday morning in Lincoln Park.
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Eleven year old Snickers, up for adoption at the Southeast Kansas Humane Society, patiently holds still as his front paws are painted to make art that will adorn his kennel during one of the activities at the first Kansas Humane Society Bark in the Park Saturday morning in Lincoln Park.
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Pittsburg Post 64 runner Joe Wimmer slides into home for the first run of the game Saturday against Tulsa Tide Black in the Pittsburg Legion/Fort Scott CC Classic at JayCee Ballpark.
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Post 64 shortstop Matt Standlee throws on to first for a groundball out Saturday against Tulsa Tide Black.
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Raymond and Betty DeVoss take a moment to view the new Veterans’ Memorial Saturday morning after a dedication at the Frontenac City Cemetery. Raymond is a member of John F. Derby American Legion Post 43 in Frontenac and served in the navy during WWII and the army during the Korean War.
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Pittsburg Post 64 second baseman Blake Vail turns a first-inning double play against the Neosho Wildcats during their Pittsburg Legion/Fort Scott Community College game Sunday at JayCee Ballpark.
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Pittsburg Barracuda swimmer Bree Smith (middle lane) won her heat Sunday in the 11-12 100-yard freestyle with a time of 1:25.68 but finished 26th overall in the event. Smith entered the Mickie Moback Invitational with a seed time of 1:32.69.
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CCBA pitcher Drake Markley shows the form that shut the door on Pizza Hut in the bottom of the fifth inning Tuesday night at Al Ortolani Field. CCBA squandered a 10-0 lead only to go ahead 11-10 in the fifth and hold on for an one-run win in Don Gutteridge League play.
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Pizza Hut runner Bryce Barto slides into second for a stolen base Tuesday night against CCBA during a Gutteridge League thriller at Ortolani Field. Barto would eventually score the game-tying run on a single by Andrew Stewart.
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Seven-year-old Lily Graham helps decorate a May pole Tuesday afternoon in Memorial Auditorium. Graham will play Little Red in Friday’s Pittsburg Community Theater Junior Starz production of “Totally Red!”
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Seven-year-old Keller Erwin rehearses his part as the wolf in Memorial Auditorium Tuesday afternoon. The Pittsburg Community Theater Junior Starz is hosting a production of “Totally Red!” Friday evening.
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Tom Barta, with Xtreme Turf Makeover, of Shawnee, looks over the rubber being thrust out of a field vacuum Wednesday at Pittsburg State’s Carnie Smith Stadium. All the rubber infill is being vacuumed out of the field in preparation for the removal of the FieldTurf and the installation of Mondoturf over the next seven weeks or so.
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Ed Barta, left, drives the bin while Ed Huggins, right, vice president, both of subcontractor Xtreme Turf Makeover, drives the field vacuum while beginning the process of replacing the turf at Carnie Smith Stadium on Wednesday.
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Pittsburg No. 2 catcher Hannah Drenik slides into third after moving forward on an overthrow. Drenik hit a double which scored Sarah Lundberg in the third and Drenik herself would later score on a wild pitch. Despite the best efforts of Drenik, Pittsburg lost 7-3 to Colgan in a High School League softball game Wednesday evening at the PSU Sports Complex.
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Colgan first baseman Jordan Fleming gloves a ball Wednesday evening during a High School League game between Colgan and Pittsburg. Colgan defeated Pittsburg 7-3.
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Mike Newman, of Quality Floors, uses a machine to scrape the carpet glue off the floors of Room 309 at Pittsburg High School on Thursday. The carpet in the rooms is being replaced this summer with new tile.
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Justin Troutman, of Pittsburg Interiors, lays tile in Room 310 on Thursday as part of a reflooring project in about a dozen rooms at Pittsburg High School this summer. The project also includes retiling and replacing the fixtures in a set of bathrooms.
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Pittsburg Post 64 designated hitter Dylan Gromer connects with a fourth-inning single Thursday against the Nebraska Sluggers at Al Ortolani Field. Gromer would later score to tie the game at 1-all during a 5-4 victory in eight innings.
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Post 64 baserunner Bryce Burdette slides across home plate to tie the game up at 4 after getting on base with a one-out single in the seventh. Sam Gilbert hit the single to score Burdette and Post 64 would go on to win the game in extras on a walk-off walk by Burdette.
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Doug Page, foreground, and Chaden Taylor, background, work with classmates to keep balloons in the air during an exercise taught by fitness instructor Lacy Mikrut at Pittsburg Community Middle School as part of USD 250’s Youth Wellness Camp on Thursday.
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From left, Ed and Billie Newbery, Jean Hurlbert and Susy Sanders explore the garden of Darlene Brown and Paul Hanney during the Pittsburg Garden Tour Saturday morning.
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Gary W. Peterson of Arcadia enters the “Garden of Weed’n” owned by Eva Smith of Chicopee Saturday morning during the Pittsburg Garden Tour.
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A butterfly searches a plant for a meal at the “Garden of Weed’n” Saturday.
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Debbie Grimaldi of Pittsburg, Becky Willard of Girard and Terri Johnson of Frontenac tour the garden of Fred and Judy Spigarelli Saturday afternoon in Frontenac.
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A bumble bee lifts off from a plant with legs full of pollen Saturday morning at the garden of Darlene Brown and Paul Hanney Saturday.
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Carly McAtee, 3, Pittsburg, splashes into the pool at the bottom of the frog slide on a hot mid-June day at the Pittsburg Aquatic Center on Monday. McAtee was at the pool with her mother and older sister. Temperatures are expected to reach into the 90s for the rest of the week.
