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20140328 - Week in Photos March 23 to 29, 2014

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Danielle Guerra - dguerra@shawmedia Exotic animal veterinarian Susan Brown, of Batavia, receives a kiss from a young alpaca while petting another alpaca that the younger one has bonded with. Brown said that the young alpaca has started trying to nurse off of the older female but her milk has dried up because of malnourishment.
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Danielle Guerra - dguerra@shawmedia Exotic animal veterinarian Susan Brown, of Batavia, receives a kiss from a young alpaca while petting another alpaca that the younger one has bonded with. Brown said that the young alpaca has started trying to nurse off of the older female but her milk has dried up because of malnourishment.

  • Katie Dahlstrom - kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com<br /> A group prays at the First Lutheran Church in DeKalb before they start a 40-minute walk as part of the Lenten Prayer Walk the church will host every Friday through Good Friday.
  • Katie Dahlstrom - kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com<br /> Deb Askelson, from left, and Cathy Foelske, the parish nurse for the First Lutheran Church in DeKalb start their 40-minute walk outside the church. Every Friday leading up to Good Friday, Foelske will lead a Lenten Prayer Walk at 10 a.m.
  • Danielle Guerra - dguerra@shawmedia Volunteer Sarah Jane Provenzano pets a fainting goat they have named "Pita" in the goat enclosure in the barn they are bing cared for in Maple Park on Friday. "Pita" is one of the animals that Kane County Associate Judge Elizabeth Flood ruled Thursday evening that can be returned to former owner Stacy Fiebelkorn. Fiebelkorn, of Hampshire, was charged March 5 with cruelty to animals and neglect of an owner's duties.
  • Danielle Guerra - dguerra@shawmedia Exotic animal veterinarian Susan Brown, of Batavia, receives a kiss from a young alpaca while petting another alpaca that the younger one has bonded with. Brown said that the young alpaca has started trying to nurse off of the older female but her milk has dried up because of malnourishment.
  • Danielle Guerra - dguerra@shawmedia A fainting billy goat looks at the camera while he's receiving care in Maple Park on Thursday. The goat has lice, possibly mange, and is malnourished. He is one 93 animals impounded from a petting zoo belonging the Stacy Fiebelkorn earlier this month.
  • Danielle Guerra - dguerra@shawmedia Senior Stephanie Holbrook works on a batik canvas during teacher Chad Gregory's AP 2D design class at DeKalb High School on Tuesday. The designs of the batik are made with hot wax to preserve the canvas and fabric dye applied for color.
  • Danielle Guerra - dguerra@shawmedia Alayna Gersic, a senior is Isabelle Kovarik's AP chemistry class, double checks her measurement during an equilibrium lab Tuesday at DeKalb High School.
  • Danielle Guerra - dguerra@shawmedia Using red dye on her batik, senior Stephanie Holbrook works during teacher Chad Gregory's AP 2D design class at DeKalb High School on Tuesday. DeKalb High School offers four different AP art concentrations.
  • Monica Maschak - mmaschak@shawmedia.com<br /> Halle Martin, 12, a seventh grader at St. Mary's School in Sycamore, controls her Automated Remote Controlled Hazardous Entry Equipment (ARCHEE) during the 2014 Illinois Junior Academy of Science – Northern Region V Science Fair Regional Project Session Semi-Finals at the Holmes Student Center at Northern Illinois University on Saturday, March 22, 2014. The Genoa-Kingston Fire Department allowed Martin to use their facilities to test her project and insured her safety in doing so. ARCHEE is designed to put out fires.
  • Monica Maschak - mmaschak@shawmedia.com<br /> Gary Richardson, 13, an eighth grader from West Field Community School, sits next to his poster on "An Aphid's Life" (left) as he waits for the lunch break to end during the 2014 Illinois Junior Academy of Science – Northern Region V Science Fair Regional Project Session Semi-Finals at the Holmes Student Center at Northern Illinois University on Saturday, March 22, 2014.
  • Monica Maschak - mmaschak@shawmedia.com<br /> Spectators mosey through the rows of posters and projects at the 2014 Illinois Junior Academy of Science – Northern Region V Science Fair Regional Project Session Semi-Finals at the Holmes Student Center at Northern Illinois University on Saturday, March 22, 2014.
  • Monica Maschak - mmaschak@shawmedia.com<br /> Emily Comer, freshman at University of Iowa and Sycamore alumna, puts sticky notes all over boyfriend and Sycamore junior Justin Otte's car as a creative way to ask him to Sycamore's Turnabout - a Sadie Hawkins-type dance - while Otte was at track practice on Friday, March 21, 2014.
  • Katie Dahlstrom - kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com<br /> The Illinois Department of Public Health and the Envrionmental Protection Agency are investigating this tank and hose system that has been pumping sewage from the Cortland mobile home park onto the ground for weeks.
  • Danielle Guerra - dguerra@shawmedia Volunteer Laura VanDerSnick feeds two of the four most malnourished miniature horses Friday in Maple Park. Equine veterinarian Dr. Nicole Wessel said that the horses were skin and bones and the tan horse may possibly be pregnant.
  • Monica Maschak - mmaschak@shawmedia.com<br /> Instructor Krissy Lowe helps Heidi Wood, 10, prep her horse, Ringo, to ride during an Advanced Spring Break Horse Camp at Runaway Ranch in Sycamore on Tuesday, March 25, 2014.
  • Monica Maschak - mmaschak@shawmedia.com<br /> Olivia Willrett, 15, mounts her horse, Windsor, during an Advanced Spring Break Horse Camp at Runaway Ranch in Sycamore on Tuesday, March 25, 2014.
  • Monica Maschak - mmaschak@shawmedia.com<br /> Maria Carpino, 12, rides her horse, Beau, during an Advanced Spring Break Horse Camp at Runaway Ranch in Sycamore on Tuesday, March 25, 2014.
  • Monica Maschak - mmaschak@shawmedia.com<br /> Ron Walters, a consultant hired by the school to help improve the campus' future, presents some ideas that are already taking shape during a Northern Illinois University Bold Futures Workshop in the Sky Room on Monday, March 24, 2014.
  • Monica Maschak - mmaschak@shawmedia.com<br /> Cassie Lowe, 19, preps her horse, Blaze, to ride during an Advanced Spring Break Horse Camp at Runaway Ranch in Sycamore on Tuesday, March 25, 2014.
  • Monica Maschak - mmaschak@shawmedia.com<br /> Northern Illinois University junior Gladys Sanchez writes down ideas to improve the student retention rate during a group activity at a NIU Bold Futures Workshop in the Sky Room on Monday, March 24, 2014.
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