Best of the Blade: April 21-27

The Blade Staff

April 29, 2019

: A Mud Hens’ fan cheers his team against the Columbus Clippers during their game at Fifth Third Field on Sunday, April 21, 2019. THE BLADE/AMY E. VOIGT

: Ty Eigner, center, is introduced as the new Bowling Green State University hockey coach by BGSU President Rodney Rogers, left, and BGSU Director of Athletics Bob Moosbrugger, right, Tuesday, April 23, 2019, at the Stroh Center in Bowling Green, Ohio. THE BLADE/JEREMY WADSWORTH

: Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz speaks about 2347 Glenwood Ave., behind, which is a Lucas County land bank home on Wednesday, April 24, 2019. The home will soon be put on the market for sale. THE BLADE/AMY E. VOIGT

: Hundreds of people near the site of the egg-dropping in the wind created by the helicopter. A few hundred plastic eggs are dropped symbolically at the Church on Strayer in Maumee, Ohio on April 21, 2019, after the church decides to not allow the children onto the wet grass. Instead, the children, ages preschool through fifth grade, receive a bag of plastic eggs filled with candy, toys, and/or cash from volunteers at the registration tables after the event. The Blade/Jetta Fraser

: Bryan Lloyd, Retail Director at Rise Toledo, talks about opening the first medical marijuana dispensary in Toledo Thursday, April 25, 2019, at Rise Toledo in Toledo, Ohio. THE BLADE/JEREMY WADSWORTH

: Woodward High School choir students rehearsing at the school in Toledo, Ohio on April 25, 2019. The 78 students who comprise the Choraliers will be attending the Ohio Music Education Association’s State Competition on April 27, the first time in memory that Woodward is in the state level competition. 32 of the students have learning and/or emotional disabilities. [Because of the way the Choraliers were scheduled, those students are dispersed among four different choir periods. So some of the students who are going are not pictured, and some of those pictured are not in the Choraliers.] The Blade/Jetta Fraser.

: St. Francis’ Sam Kasza is hit by Clay pitcher Palmer Yenrick during a TRAC baseball game at the Oregon Municipal complex in Oregon, Ohio on Wednesday, April 24, 2019. THE BLADE/LORI KING

: Kloe Shaffer, 5, laughs while swinging at Wildwood Preserve MetroPark in Toledo, Ohio on Thursday April 25, 2019. THE BLADE/REBECCA BENSON

: From left: Case workers Tunisia Thompson, Holly Potter, Waynard Jones, Calvin Moss, Dayna Riley, Crishanna Osley and Latoyia Johnson hold candles to represent six children who were murdered last year, and first responders during the 2019 Child Memorial at Lucas County Children’s Services on Friday, April 26, 2019. THE BLADE/LORI KING

: Workers look down a sinkhole that has closed North Detroit Avenue at Fernwood Avenue in Toledo on Tuesday, April 23, 2019. THE BLADE/KURT STEISS

: Jenella Hodel carries a drip torch through part of the dune during a prescribed fire at Wildwood Preserve Metropark in Toledo, Ohio on Wednesday April 24, 2019. THE BLADE/REBECCA BENSON

: The oak forest room during renovations of the Toledo Zoo Museum at the Toledo Zoo in Toledo on Thursday, April 25, 2019. The exhibit is what a forest floor would look like from an ant’s perspective, with the wildlife and plant models on exhibit being 24 times larger than reality. THE BLADE/KURT STEISS

: Addison Reynolds, 7, presents Private Michael Mollenkopf with the Life Saving Award for saving her life during a fire in January of last year on Prouty Avenue during The Toledo Fire & Rescue Department Awards & Recognition Ceremony Tuesday, April 23, 2019, at St. Clements Hall in Toledo, Ohio. THE BLADE/JEREMY WADSWORTH

: Toledo resident Christiano Valentin (cq) watches workers on the Anthony Wayne (High Level) Bridge, reflected on his glasses, from Middlegrounds Metropark in Toledo on Tuesday, April 23, 2019. Valentin works as a cement mason, but had the day off and wanted take in the view of the city and bridge. THE BLADE/KURT STEISS