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24 June 10

Berclair Elementary kindergarten teacher Allison Warren moves her students from the classroom to a computer lab. Warren, in her first year with her own classroom, took a class disruption and turned it into a lesson on aerodynamics and mathematics that helped elevate the disruptive students into class leaders.
   
Aevar Jonsson, 15, and Patrick Wang, 16, run through a choreographed fight scene with wooden staffs during the Tennessee Shakespeare Company's "The Play's the Thing" summer camp held at Hutchison School. The camp, open to kids ages 10-17, allowed students to explore the world of Shakespeare's Macbeth by playing rolls within it, including stage combat and acting. The Tennessee Shakespeare Company has a two-week intensive workshop for the same age group beginning July 12. For more information call 901-759-0604 or visit tnshakespeare.org.
   
Suo Ng places her hands on the alabaster base of the Jade Buddha for Universal Peace outside the Quan Am Monastery on South Goodlett near Winchester. Ng traveled all the way from Australia to be among the thousands that witnessed the statues unveiling in Memphis.
     
  
A Memphis Police Department officer plays taps during the graveside service for West Memphis officer Bill Evans at Crittenden Memorial Park. Hundreds of police vehicles filled the cemetery with officers from as far away as Chicago and New York to honor the fallen officer
   
West Memphis Chief of Police Bob Paudert is comforted by his officers one by one as he joins the entire force for roll call for the first time since his son, Sgt. Brandon Paudert, and officer Bill Evans where gunned down during a routine traffic stop last week.
   
Robert Garrigus is hit in the face with his club after tossing it on 18 when he was eliminated from the first of a four hole playoff in the St. Jude Classic. Garrigus entered the final hole with a three stroke lead but was eliminated from the playoff with Lee Westwood and Robert Karlsson.
     
  
Robert Garrigus and his caddie, Mark "Shoestring" West try and get a good look at the 18th green from behind a tree in the rough during the first hole of a four hole playoff to close the St. Jude Classic. Garrigus entered the final hole with a three stroke lead but was eliminated from the playoff with Lee Westwood and Robert Karlsson.
   
Triathlete Mike Jolly, of White Hall, Ark., covers his eyes with his hands while trying to get as much rest as possible before he hits the water for the 2010 Memphis in May Triathlon at Edmund Orgill Park in Millington.
   
A sea bird with oil soaked legs struts in the shallow surf while skimmers try to contain oil a few hundred yards off shore on Orange Beach in Alabama. Locals said the beach is so crowded this time of year that it is difficult to find a place to sit, instead vast expanses were desolate with the exception of cleaning crews.
     
  
Jodi Hamner does her best to ignore the cleaning crews working around her as she enjoys the sun on Okaloosa Beach near Destin. Large tar balls, some as big a six inches across, began washing up in isolated areas while other large stretches stayed clear. Hamner, who was vacationing, said she usually visits Orange Beach in Alabama but chose to relocate her vacation to Destin because the oil that began washing up in Gulf Shores last week.
   
(l-r) Hawa Dia, 10, holds up siding and watches as classmate Briana Caldwell, 12, secures it with a screw and a little help from Victor Lightning at Streets Ministries on Vance. The pair, along with the rest of Coral Thomas's 5th grade class from Graves Elementary were constructing a small home in the If I Had A Hammer Program. The program reinforces math and teamwork skills while talking about the importance of getting a solid education.
   
Barbara Schroeder helps spread friend Kathy Howard's family photos to dry out in the sun. Many of the photo were of or shot by her late grandfather. Howard, who was not home when the waters rose inside her home on Tecumseh in Millington, recalled waking up in the same home on Christmas morning in 1987 as flood waters filled the house.
     
  
(from left) Josh Hefner and Tommy Herter add additional seasoning to crawfish steaming hot fresh out of the boil during the 18th annual Rajun Cajun Crawfish Festival benefiting Porter-Leath downtown on Sunday. More than 10,000 pounds of mini crustaceans were cooked up a served.
   
Freda Oakley weeps on her husband Ronnie's shoulder during the Sixth Annual Fallen Heroes Memorial Service at the Fallen Heroes Monument in Memorial Park Cemetary. The couple are the parents of flight nurse Misty Brogdon who died in the Hospital Wing helicopter crash in March.