June 18, 2013
 Members of NARCOA, a national organization of railroad enthusiasts who collect railroad inspection cars, met in Altamont early Saturday morning to begin the John Spahn Memorial Motorcar Excursion. The 84-mile trek to Pittsburg and back was to honor Spahn, one of their members, who died last year at age 35. Members from various states joined in the excursion, loading a total of 17 motor cars onto the railroad tracks at Huston Street, to begin the day-long event.
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 Members of NARCOA, a national organization of railroad enthusiasts who collect railroad inspection cars, met in Altamont early Saturday morning to begin the John Spahn Memorial Motorcar Excursion. The 84-mile trek to Pittsburg and back was to honor Spahn, one of their members, who died last year at age 35. Members from various states joined in the excursion, loading a total of 17 motor cars onto the railroad tracks at Huston Street, to begin the day-long event.
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 St. Paul second-grade students participate in a group exercise of passing a hula hoop, while holding hands in a circle. The activity was one of six the students participated in Friday during the Food and Field Olympics.
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 Parsons High School's Health Occupations Students of America classes, as well as other student volunteers, helped with a blood drive Friday in the auxiliary gym at the school. About 70 appointments were set for the day, though walk-ins were welcome. Syvauna Hinman-Mitchell is giving blood while HOSA student Serena Shaw stays with her. Both students are seniors.
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 Sherri Spare’s second grade students learned about soil during a visit to the Soil Tunnel Trailer parked at Garfield Elementary School Thursday. The trailer, which cost $60,000 to fashion, is owned by the Miami County Conservation District, but is loaned out to other districts that contribute to its maintenance.
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![Steve Fienen and Tonya Phillips practice for the upcoming Kaleidoscope Theatre production of "I Remember Mama," which will be performed at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Carnegie. Admission is $4 for adults and children age 13 and older and $2 for children age 12 and younger. Tickets will be available at the door an hour before show times.](http://matchbin-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/public/sites/281/assets/3U3K_play_three.jpg "Steve Fienen and Tonya Phillips practice for the upcoming Kaleidoscope Theatre production of "I Remember Mama," which will be performed at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Carnegie. Admission is $4 for adults and children age 13 and older and $2 for children age 12 and younger. Tickets will be available at the door an hour before show times.") Steve Fienen and Tonya Phillips practice for the upcoming Kaleidoscope Theatre production of "I Remember Mama," which will be performed at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Carnegie. Admission is $4 for adults and children age 13 and older and $2 for children age 12 and younger. Tickets will be available at the door an hour before show times.
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 The Kaleidoscope Theatre is preparing for its production of “I Remember Mama,” a humorous look at a family coping in the early years of the century in San Francisco. The cast had a dress rehearsal Wednesday night at the Carnegie Arts Center, 17th and Broadway.
“I Remember Mama” will be performed at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Carnegie. Admission is $4 for adults and children age 13 and older and $2 for children age 12 and younger. Tickets will be available at the door an hour before show times. This will be the last production for theatre director Tony Munoz.
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 Five-year-old Josie Kendrick looks on as her mother Bethany Kendrick checks in at the polling station at the First Baptist Church in Parsons. Kendrick wants to encourage her daughter to exercise her right to vote when she is finally old enough to do so.
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 Despite a spring snow and temperatures dropping below freezing at the beginning of spring, high temperatures at the end of the week and over the weekend led to trees beginning to leaf out, blossoms covering bushes and trees and spring flowers showing bright colors such as these daffodils on lawns and fields around town.
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Mark Van Leeuwen stirs fish while Rick Smith waits for the time to remove some from a fryer Friday evening at the St. Francis Catholic Church parish hall in St. Paul. The two were volunteering during the annual Good Friday fish fry to raise money for the St. Paul Christmas parade. Volunteers fried 100 pounds of fish, mostly flathead catfish that they caught, while other volunteers served the fish and side dishes inside the parish hall.
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