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20130705 Week in Photos June 30 - July 6, 2013

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Felix Sarver – fsarver@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Courtney Denison (left), director of Big Brothers Big Sisters and Matt Peeples (right), Monsanto's Waterman site manager, display the $6,000 grant the Family Service Agency received from the Monsanto Fund on Monday, July 1, in DeKalb. The grant will help the Big Brothers Big Sisters program serve more schools in the DeKalb and Sycamore area.
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Felix Sarver – fsarver@shawmedia.com

Courtney Denison (left), director of Big Brothers Big Sisters and Matt Peeples (right), Monsanto's Waterman site manager, display the $6,000 grant the Family Service Agency received from the Monsanto Fund on Monday, July 1, in DeKalb. The grant will help the Big Brothers Big Sisters program serve more schools in the DeKalb and Sycamore area.

  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Officer Jared Burke heads to his vehicle parked in front of his home before the start of his shift in DeKalb, Ill. on Thursday, June 27, 2013. Burke, who lives on North Eleventh Street with his family, is taking part in DeKalb's resident officer program.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> DeKalb police officer Jared Burke mows the lawn at his home on North Eleventh Street in DeKalb, Ill. on Thursday, June 27, 2013. Burke and his family moved into the house in September 2012 and are taking part in DeKalb's resident officer program.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> DeKalb police officer Jared Burke removes a shrub from his front yard ahead of some landscape work at his home on North Eleventh Street on Thursday, June 27, 2013. Burke and his family moved into the house in September 2012 and are taking part in DeKalb's resident officer program.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Imtihaan Hardy, 5 of Sycamore, points to a cluster of trees while his mother, Qiana Hardy, looks on during a scavenger hunt at Potawatomi Woods Forest Preserve in Kirkland, Ill., Monday, July 1, 2013. The Hardy family as well as three other homeschool families gathered for a nature walk at the forest preserve.
  • Felix Sarver – fsarver@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Courtney Denison (left), director of Big Brothers Big Sisters and Matt Peeples (right), Monsanto's Waterman site manager, display the $6,000 grant the Family Service Agency received from the Monsanto Fund on Monday, July 1, in DeKalb. The grant will help the Big Brothers Big Sisters program serve more schools in the DeKalb and Sycamore area.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> (From left to right) Homeschool children including Saige Ruback, 5, Michael Jaros, 6, and Javier Pfeifer, 5, react to a harvestman, or daddy-longlegs, during a nature walk at Potawatomie Woods Forest Preserve in Kirkland, Ill., Monday, July 1, 2013.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Patty Ruback, of DeKalb, gathers a group of homeschooled children before a nature walk at Potawatomi Woods Forest Preserve in Kirkland, Ill., Monday, July 1, 2013.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> On Tuesday morning, 30 students who spent part of their summer in a two-week class learning the Chinese language and culture put on a performance to a crowd of parents at DeKalb High School.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Johann Kalb, known more commonly as Baron de Kalb, is seen on the mural "Its Merits Recommend It…" located on the Van Orthopaedic & Spine Surgery building on the corner of First Street and Lincoln Highway in downtown DeKalb. Muralist Olivia Gude led a group of painters to create the work in 1999.<br /> <br /> Tuesday, July 2, 2013
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> Charlotte Sharp, 8, shows off the words she has learned in Chinese to a crowd of parents at DeKalb High School on Tuesday, July 2, 2013. Sharp was one of 30 students who spent part of their summer in a two-week class learning the Chinese language and culture.
  • Monica Maschak - mmaschak@shawmedia.com<br /> Sam Jones, 82, a resident at Grand Victorian in Sycamore, plays taps on his trumpet by the flag poles in front of the assisted-living home on Tuesday, July 2, 2013. Jones, a Korean Way Veteran, has been playing taps every night at 6:45 p.m. since he moved to the home two years ago. "I play for the veterans and those that died," Jones said.
  • Rob Winner – rwinner@shawmedia.com<br /> <br /> DeKalb resident Will Brown uses a hoe to turn over soil and to remove weeds from his garden at the DeKalb Garden Rental Plots located on West Dresser Road on Wednesday morning. "I find it relaxing," said Brown who has rented a plot for about seven years. Brown grows cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, onions and squash on his plot.
  • Monica Maschak - mmaschak@shawmedia.com<br /> Sami Simms, 5, of Sycamore, blows bubbles while she waits for fireworks at the Fourth of July celebration at Hopkins Park in DeKalb.
  • Monica Maschak - mmaschak@shawmedia.com<br /> Fireworks dance across the sky for the Fourth of July celebration at Hopkins Park in DeKalb.
  • Monica Maschak - mmaschak@shawmedia.com<br /> Marissa McMurray, 6, pedals as fast as she can on a toy-size tractor at the Kirkland Festival on Independence day. The festival runs through Sunday, July 7.
  • Monica Maschak - mmaschak@shawmedia.com<br /> Gene Bellinger, with the American Legion Post 66, prepares to post the colors with a U.S. Air Force flag for the Fourth of July celebration at Hopkins Park in DeKalb.
  • Monica Maschak - mmaschak@shawmedia.com<br /> Mackayla Downing, 4, of Rochelle, rides in the front seat of a mini coaster at the Kirkland Festival on Independence day. The festival runs through Sunday, July 7.
  • Monica Maschak - mmaschak@shawmedia.com<br /> Lexie Lannom and boyfriend Joshua Kunke, of Rockford, ride the Tilt-a-Whirl at the Kirkland Festival on Independence day. The festival runs through Sunday, July 7.
  • Monica Maschak - mmaschak@shawmedia.com<br /> Ventriloquiest Sandi Sylver and her New Yorker puppet, Shari Carey, teach the audience how to speak without moving their lips at the Kirkland Festival on Independence day. The festival runs through Sunday, July 7.
  • Monica Maschak - mmaschak@shawmedia.com<br /> Daymian Harvel, 7, pulls a weighted sled as far as he can on a pedal tractor at the Kirkland Festival on Independence day. The festival runs through Sunday, July 7. Harvel received first place in his age group for pulling the sled the furthest distance.
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