
An elf on stilts takes a quiet moment in between entertaining the crowds at the annual lighting of the Newport Christmas tree in Jersey City on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013.
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(Left to right) Eden and Rock Ward carefully climb a log to join their parents Erin and Jeff while they practice their fly fishing techniques on August 11 in Oregon's Opal Creek Wilderness.
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Danna Barrett feeds some of her 600 ostriches at the Rooster Cogburn Ranch in Picacho, Ariz.
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Audience members cheer as Jack Manley defeats Dash Venture in a match at West Coast Wrestling Connection's 11th Anniversary Show at the Scottish Rite Center on Sunday, March 6, 2016.
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Logan Decker adjusts his helmet before the Best in the West soap box derby race on Saturday, May 26, 2018, at Bush's Pasture Park. This was Decker's first soap box race; loaner cars are available from the Salem Soap Box Derby Club for those who call ahead.
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Penney Salivar soothes the last ewe to be sheared at the Bar 47 Ranch outside of Bisbee, Ariz., on Feb. 19. After three days, Salivar had sheared 118 sheep for friends and ranchers Deb and Dennis Moroney.
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Swegle Elementary students congratulate McKay High School senior Fatima Preciado on Wednesday, June 8, 2016. Preciado and ten other McKay seniors who attended Swegle came back to visit for a parade of honor.
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Stephen Hladik, performing as Wilbur Turnblad, waits backstage at a Bayonne High School drama society rehearsal for its production of Hairspray on Tuesday, March 25, 2014 in Bayonne High School.
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Hannah Hart, wife of Lance Cpl. Ty Hart, hugs the flag she was presented with at an honor burial for the Marine on Sunday, April 17, 2016. Hart was one of 12 Marines who died in a January training exercise.
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Students from West Salem High School hold signs bearing the names of victims of the Feb. 14 school shooting in Parkland, Fla., as they walk out of class for a nationwide demonstration for gun safety in schools on Wednesday, March 14, 2018.
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Kelly Dirksen sticks his arm deep into the water to grab lamprey as a team of four harvest the fish from Willamette Falls on Monday, July 9, 2018, in Oregon City. Dirksen is the fish and wildlife program manager for The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, which operates one of the region’s largest lamprey restoration projects.
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Particpants at the Dirty 6 Mud Run jump through a wall of fire during the race on March 12. Once they lept over the flames, contestants battled the water from a fireman's hose trying to knock them over in the mud.
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Craig Dee plays guitar outside of his home on the banks of the Willamette River on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017. Dee says he is unable to sell the house as it is in the path of the proposed Third Bridge in Salem.
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Hoboken Historical Museum's Swingin' Speakeasy fundraiser Photobooth patrons at the Hoboken Historial Museum's "Swingin' Speakeasy" themed fundraiser at the Hoboken Elks Club on Saturday, March 22, 2014.
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