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  • Gabe Lambert grieves the loss of his grandfather, with his children, Luka, 8, front, Anson, 6, back, and Mya, 7, right, at the site of house fire at 738 Strawberry Hill Road in Evansville on Wednesday, March 21, 2012. Donald R. Lambert, 81, perished in the fire that destroyed his home and his neighbor's home and damaged several others in the neighborhood. Lambert's son, Greg, not pictured, made and placed a cross to honor his father in front of the destroyed home.
  • Brig. Gen. William {quote}Tim{quote} Crosby presents a flag to Kitaira Jarvis, 11, daughter of Army Sgt. Barry Jarvis, 36, at Deer Creek Baptist Church in Tell City, Indiana on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010. Jarvis, a member of the 101st Airborne Division in Ft. Campbell, Kentucky, was one of six soldiers killed on Nov. 29 in Afghanistan when a rogue Afghan border policeman turned his gun on his American trainers as the group headed to shooting practice.
  • Jessica Wirth is tended to by the St. Mary's Medical Center staff as she makes her way to the chapel for a commitment ceremony to Daniel Lawrence, her partner of seven years, at St. Mary's Medical Center in Evansville on Thursday, January 13, 2011. Wirth had surgery on Wednesday and has advanced gastric cancer. With the help of family, friends and the staff at St. Mary's, the ceremony was put together in under twenty-four hours. Only two days later on Saturday January, 15, 2011, Jessica passed away at 7:35 p.m. surrounded by her family and friends. The couple has a son, Colton, 18 months.
  • {quote}It's dirty and wet but not damaged. I'm just so grateful they found it,{quote} said Judy Hudnall after a military flag, which belonged to her deceased brother, Jim Wolf, was found in a field not far from an Ohio River camp off Nugent Drive near Ellis Park in Henderson County, Kentucky, on Wednesday, February 29, 2012. A strong line of storms moved through the area early Wednesday morning destroying several river camp dwellings. Hudnall's brother, Gene Pickerill, not pictured, was one of the residents who lost his home.
  • A selection of Molly\'s favorite images from 2014.An image from the Gifford Youth Orchestra Family & Friends recital which honored Deborah Pelt at the Gifford Community Center in Vero Beach Sunday. (MOLLY BARTELS/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS)
  • Winifred Phillips, who is renting the home at 4901 Shady Pine Drive in Greensboro, is comforted by friends and neighbors after the home caught fire on Wednesday, December 13, 2006. Phillips sustained minor burns to her hand but was otherwise unharmed.
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  • Wes Mofield tries to stay dry as he stands in his grandmother's living room at 106 S. Weber Drive in Haubstadt, Ind. Family members believe a tornado hit the home when a line of severe storms blew through the area the night before.
  • Bea Belcher receives communion from Sister Carolyn Martin recently at St. John’s Home for the Aged, which is run by Little Sisters of the Poor, in Evansville. Belcher, who started in the independent living apartments in 1987, has been at the facility for 25 years. “They’ve always been so good to me here,” she said. Last spring the Little Sisters announced that they planned to withdraw from operating the home once they found a suitable sponsor to take over. They are still searching and continue to seek financial donations for the home.
  • {quote}I'm an old river rat. I wouldn't be comfortable living here if I wasn't,{quote} said Nate Smith,who canoes around his backyard,picking up items and bringing them to higher ground at his home along Cardinal Drive in Evansville on Tuesday. Recentrains have caused flooding of low-lying areas around Pigeon Creek. {quote}This is my environment too. I don't want it to get polluted. I fish in there,{quote} said Smith, who picked up a couple of tires and other would-be pollutants.
  • Tensions run high as Jeffery Williams, 6, back center, tries to keep Angel Tuell, 4, center, behind the caution tape before the 64th annual West Side Nut Club Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday at Mater Dei High School.
  • Angelica Fulchini, 13, back, gets in a nap, while fellow ballet dancer, Shanna Ward, 13, gives a hand massage to dancer Allegra Coryell, 15, before their end of the year classical ballet demonstration at the Grand Harbor Clubhouse in Vero Beach on Tuesday night. The girls were selected by audition to become members of Ballet Vero, a classical ballet school started just over a year ago. Lewis Grove, Director of Ballet Vero, realizes the potential of these top dancers. {quote}They have the potential to go wherever their dreams take them,{quote} said Grove.
  • Natasha Hedges, left, is overwhelmed after she and friend, Heather Houston, center, were in a car accident on Wednesday, December 23, 2009. Hedges waits with Houston who was waiting for treatment at St. Mary's Medical Center in Evansville.
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  • Gloria Emrani, 13, right, and Aida Emamghorashi, 8, left, leap over four consecutive fires during a celebration of the Persian New Year, or Norooz, in Greensboro on Tuesday, March 13, 2007. Jumping over the fire is supposed to cleanse the jumper so that they can start the New Year with a purified mind, body, and soul.
  • Firefighters work to extricate Janet Sipes, center, from her Honda Accord after a head-on collision with a Ford Ranger on Indiana 57 in northeastern Vanderburgh County on Thursday, January 8, 2009. Both Sipes and Matthew Ackerman, the driver of the Ford Ranger, were taken by ambulance to St. Mary's Medical Center for treatment.
  • The Wall That Heals, a 300-foot half-scale replica of the actual Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., has been at the Indian River County Fairgrounds in Vero Beach since Wednesday, January 25, 2017. The traveling display is free and open to the public, 24 hours a day until 4 p.m. on Sunday, January 29, 2017. This national traveling memorial honors the more than three million Americans who served in the U.S. armed forces during the Vietnam War and its walls bear the names of the more than 58,000 men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice. Vero Beach is The Wall’s only Florida stop.
  • Local citizens waiting in an over flow area are reflected in a door window at the entrance to the Indian River County Commission chambers at the County Administration Building in Vero Beach on Tuesday, December 14, 2004. The commission held a public hearing on a proposed moratorium that would delay rezonings and site plan approval for new residential areas. Indian River County Sheriff's deputy, Christian Mathisen, top right, monitored the chamber, which was at capacity.
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  • {quote}I'm just really proud of him. I always know that if there's a fire he'll be on the inside not on the outside. The people are in good hands,{quote} said Deborah Spindler who with her daughter, Jana, watches as her husband, Don, is interviewed by local media after receiving an award with three others for their heroics in saving two small children from a house fire last fall. Spindler clutches her husband's award after the ceremony at the Evansville Fire Department building on Thursday, March 1, 2012.
  • Images from Indian River State College's School of Cosmetology where {quote}Seussical the Musical{quote} cast members got their hair dyed Monday in Fort Pierce. The musical runs June 17 - June 21 at the Port St. Lucie High School auditorium.(MOLLY BARTELS/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS)
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  • A selection of Molly\'s favorite images from 2014.An image from Praise on the Marina in Fort Pierce on Sunday, August 31, 2014.(MOLLY BARTELS/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS)
  • Lessie Overstreet calms her son, Christopher Russell, 3, during the 11-hour bus ride from a Red Cross shelter in Crestview, Florida, to their new home in Vero Beach, Florida. Displaced from their home in Mississippi by Hurrincane Katrina, Overstreet and her family relocated to Florida with the help of Vero Beach businessman, David Kravitz, who raised over $40,000 to help families who were left homeless after the hurricane.
  • Dana Mace, center, and her husband, Ron, right, lead the Lion of Judah Praise Warriors in a dance during a fish fry fundraiser in Riverside Park in Vero Beach. The event, which was organized by New Hope Ministries, is a fundraiser for youth pastor, Jerry West, who was diagnosed with stage 3 cancer several months ago. West does not have health insurance and needs to have a bone marrow transplant.
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  • Isabel Lu, 9, right, watches as her sister, Katherine Lu, 11, left, and Katherine Minor, 10, center, perform during the movement part of their audition for {quote}Charlie and the Chocolate Factory{quote} at the Greensboro Cultural Center on January 6, 2007.
  • Wabasso resident, Ardile Black, works in her prized garden behind her house recently. Black, 85, lives with her husband Charles, 91, in a house she inherited from relatives over two decades ago. The aged couple is no longer able to take care of the necessary maintenance on such an old house.
  • {quote}I think it's an outstanding exhibit,{quote} said Ed Seeley, Security Supervisor for the Vero Beach Museum of Art. {quote}It's unfortunate that many of our winter friends, who have left to go north for the summer, will not see it.{quote} The exhibit, 'Studio Glass Then and Now,' includes pieces by Dale Chihuly and Harvey K. Littleton.
  • Whitney Johnson, 6, cleans up around some of the destruction at her grandmother's home at 106 S. Weber Drive in Haubstadt, Ind. Family members believe a tornado hit the home when a line of severe storms blew through the area the night before.
  • I couldn't publish their names but I did get their story. He has Alzheimer's and is still married to a woman outside the nursing facility where he lives. He doesn't remember his wife but he does know the woman sitting next to him on the couch. She lives in the same nursing facility and also has difficulties with her memory. He sees her everyday and everyday they spend time together on the couch holding hands. Because he is still married, some of the other residents look down on their relationship.
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