Last Ride

Last Ride
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George Barrett, 69, center, shares a laugh with Mark Williams, left, and John Long of the Blue Knights motorcycle club following a ride with the club down route 24 on the back of Long's Harley Davidson. The club teamed up with Community Hospices of America and Barrett's family to surprise him with the granting of his wish for one last ride on a motorcycle. "I'd like to say if it measures between a one and a 10 I'd give it a 20," Barrett said to Hospice worker Mary Kay Lockridge following the ride. DAVID ZENTZ/JOURNAL STAR

Last Ride

Last Ride
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George Barett, 69, rides down route 24 South on the back of a Harley Davidson driven by John Long, president of the Peoria chapter of the Blue Knights motorcycle club, on Tuesday evening, fulfilling Barrett's wish for one last ride on a motorcycle before he dies. Community Hospices of America teamed up with the club and Barrett's family in a surprise granting of his wish. "I'd like ot say if it measures between a one and a 10, I'd give it a 20," Barrett said of his ride. DAVID ZENTZ/JOURNAL STAR

Airshow

Airshow
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Paula Makepa and Kwane Mukwada, right, watch under the shade of their umbrella as one of the three Yak 52 TW airplanes of Aerostars USA zooms by during the River City Air Expo 2006 Prairie Air Show at the Greater Peoria Regional Airport on Sunday. The team is known for flying tight, graceful aerobatics in their 400 horsepower, WWII-type planes. DAVID ZENTZ/JOURNAL STAR

Sight Seeing

Sight Seeing
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A.J. Hallor, 11, of Peoria takes a look through a SOFLAM laser target designator for laser-guided bombs with the help of Air Force Sgt. Rick Boyer of the 169th ASOS as Sgt. John Oliver talks with other attendees of the River City Air Expo 2006 Prairie Air Show on Sunday. Hallor's family regularly attends the event and this year was particularly lucky when his mother won free tickets on the radio. DAVID ZENTZ/JOURNAL STAR

Filing Suit

Filing Suit
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Kimberly Wallis, 30, of Virginia shows her left hand from which her thumb and pinky finger were severed in a meat-skinning machine at Cargill Meat Solutions where she works. She says the accident occurred as a direct result of being distracted by persistent sexual harassment by a co-worker and has filed suit against the company for not helping to remedy the situation. Her thumb has been reattached but is not functional. DAVID ZENTZ/JOURNAL STAR

Relief

Relief
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Soaked to the bone, Ashley Howard, 19, splashes her boyfriend, James Hunt, 22, as they stop to play in the Gateway Fountain while taking a walk in the heavy rains that passed through Peoria Wednesday afternoon. The much needed rain brought temporary relief from a weeklong heat wave with temperatures in the high 90s. DAVID ZENTZ/JOURNAL STAR

Junior Golf

Junior Golf
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Colin Evers, 8, tees off on the first hole of Detweiller Golf Course while golfing with his family. DAVID ZENTZ/JOURNAL STAR

Junior Golf

Junior Golf
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Caitlin Evers, 12, tees off while golfing at Detweiller Golf Course with her familly. DAVID ZENTZ/JOURNAL STAR

Junior Golf

Junior Golf
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Andie Evers, 4, golfs with her siblings and friends at Detweiller Golf Course. Nearly 5, her parents started her at the age of 3. DAVID ZENTZ/JOURNAL STAR

Frosty Paws

Frosty Paws
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Ice cream truck, Chicago, Ill.

Starman

Starman
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Laurent Piau, 34, a research associate in the University of Chicago Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, poses in the Laboratory for Astrophysics and Space Research on the University of Chicago campus in Chicago, Ill., USA, on Wednesday, June 21, 2004. Piau has proposed a new idea that may help explain the discrepancy between predicted and observed levels of Lithium 7 in the galaxy's oldest stars. DAVID ZENTZ/WPN

We're Having a Heat Wave

We're Having a Heat Wave
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Left to right, Ashley Webster, 9, Tai'breisha Davis, 8, and Domenique Cooper, 8, wrestle over control of the garden hose while keeping cool in a kiddie pool on the 1000 block of S Hickory Street on a scorching hot Sunday afternoon. Temperatures reached the high 90s. DAVID ZENTZ/JOURNAL STAR

Southwestern Appeal

Southwestern Appeal
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Joe Parkin, right, shares a laugh with Jim Unsicker in the Indian art gallery White Buffalo that Parkin has owned and operated along the river front for four years. On Monday, the city began offering free two-hour parking in the lot across from Waterfront Place on Water Street. Parkin is pleased with the change. "If I'd set out there for an hour, I'd see at least two, three, four cars back out and leave," he says of cars that approached the parking gate. "Those are potential customers. I think it's bound to help." DAVID ZENTZ/JOURNAL STAR

Looking to the Future

Looking to the Future
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Theresa Hart, 44, sits at home with her 3 foster children. A school bus driver during the school year, she recently earned her GED through a district 150 program at Valeska Hinton and wants to become an early childhood education teacher there someday. DAVID ZENTZ/JOURNAL STAR

Flying High

Flying High
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Visitors to the Heart Of Illinois Fair whip through the air on the Dream Machine on a hot and sunny Sunday, July 9, 2005. The fair continues at Exposition Gardens through July 15. DAVID ZENTZ/JOURNAL STAR

Steergirl

Steergirl
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Lindsey Hinshaw, 17, of Hudson, leads her prize-winning angus steer away to be cleaned following the jr. steer show at the Heart Of Illinois Fair on Sunday, July 9, 2005. Hinshaw's steer, which she raises on her family's farm, was the reserve champion while her cousin's was the grand champion. The family tours the state's many fairs throughout the summer. The fair continues through July 15. DAVID ZENTZ/JOURNAL STAR

Cowboy

Cowboy
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Cabe Hinshaw, 4, leans against a corral while hanging out with his cousins at the the Heart Of Illinois Fair on Sunday, July 9, 2005. The fair continues through July 15. DAVID ZENTZ/JOURNAL STAR

Lung Numbing

Lung Numbing
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Paul Stoneking, 78, uses a nebulizer with lidocaine to numb his airways prior to undergoing a bronchoscopy using the Super Dimension Bronchos Navigational Bronchoscopy at Methodist Hospital on Thursday, June 8. The new system allows doctors to probe further into the lungs than before. DAVID ZENTZ/JOURNAL STAR

Bronchoscopy

Bronchoscopy
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Interventional pulmonologists Dr. Patrick Whitten, left, performs a bronchoscopy on Paul Stoneking, 78, of Green Valley using the Super Dimension Bronchos Navigational Bronchoscopy as Dr. John Ulvestad, right, and RN Pete Craig assist at Methodist Hospital on Thursday, June 8. "It's much easier on the patient," Whitten says of the new procedure, which enables doctors to look much deeper into the lungs. DAVID ZENTZ/JOURNAL STAR