Dogs peek over a gate at Pups Paradise Doggy Daycare and Boarding in Sylvania on Sunday, May 19, 2019. THE BLADE/LORI KING
Best of the Blade photo gallery: May 17-23
The Blade Staff
May 25, 2019
Clay’s Tiffany Stevens (14), center, jumps on Brianna Pawlaczyk (21) after winning the Division I district softball final against Springfield at Rolf Park softball complex in Maumee, Ohio on Friday May 17, 2019. Clay defeated Springfield 3-1. THE BLADE/REBECCA BENSON SPT D1soft18p
A pre-race flyover by a C-17 Globemaster III from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton. Chandler Smith wins the rain-shortened ARCA Menards Racing Series Sioux Chief PowerPEX 200 presented by Federated Car Care at Toledo Speedway in Toledo, Ohio on May 19, 2019. The Blade/Jetta Fraser
Traffic begins to collect at a red light as drivers head south on State Route 25 (North Dixie Highway). Although most of the drivers were in automobiles, a man driving a tractor was among those at the diverging diamond, which serves as an interchange of State Route 25 (North Dixie Highway) at I-475/U.S. 23 in Perrysburg, Ohio, on Thursday, May 23, 2019. Photographed looking north. THE BLADE/KURT STEISS
Kelsey Rigsby, 15, right, hugs Elizabeth Hanley, 15, as they cry together during a vigil for Majestic Karcsak at Clay High School in Oregon, Ohio on Monday May 20, 2019. Karcsak was killed in a fatal car crash last Thursday. THE BLADE/REBECCA BENSON
People pray for St. John’s student Noah Tolson, who was hospitalized after being hit by a car on Tuesday while he was on a run, during a prayer service Friday, May 17, 2019, at St. John’s Jesuit High School in Toledo, Ohio. THE BLADE/JEREMY WADSWORTH
Andrew Slife of Perrysburg Township Fire Department feels his way through cords and wires as part of a training exercise for BGSU’s State Fire School in Toledo, Ohio on Monday May 20, 2019. Firefighters are blindfolded as they feel their way through a course to help with problem solving skills when they are in the field. THE BLADE/REBECCA BENSON CTY fireschool20p
DeVeaux Elementary School sixth grader Charles Sarver after his first throw of the softball competition. Start High School hosts the Special Olympics competition at the school in Toledo, Ohio on May 17, 2019. It is the Sixth year that Toledo Public Schools has hosted the event. The Blade/Jetta Fraser
Third grader Calvin Marko watches as Toledo Police Officer Emily Myles sprays whipped cream on his ice cream during an ice cream party provided by the Toledo Police Department at Elmhurst Elementary School Wednesday, May 22, 2019 in Toledo. The class, along with a class at at Glendale-Feilbach Elementary School, came up with the name, ‘Cops and Cones,’ for the police department’s ice cream truck which will hit the streets early this summer. THE BLADE/DAVE ZAPOTOSKY
First grader Jahron Jeffries is the first in his class to finish the Army crawl obstacle during Washington Local’s Greenwood Elementary event “Greenwood Mudder” at GM Powertrain Park in Toledo on Tuesday, May 21, 2019. The event is a fundraiser for the Greenwood PTO. THE BLADE/LORI KING
Paul Eck views tree that fell on his home in the 2400 block of Valentine Street in East Toledo after a storm hit the area Thursday, May 23, 2019. The tree brought down power lines though Eck still had power. THE BLADE/DAVE ZAPOTOSKY
Laura Hohman of Sandusky sports her Frieda Falcon footwear as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Communications. The 294th Bowling Green State University commencement in Bowling Green, Ohio on May 18, 2019. Bachelor degrees were bestowed upon students from the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Musical Arts. The Blade/Jetta Fraser
Olivia Jones, 11, right, looks back at her sister Florence Jones, 12, before taking off in their first small engine plane ride during TPS’s annual Aviation Expo at the TPS Aerospace Center in Swanton on Sunday, May 19, 2019. THE BLADE/LORI KING
Dogs peek over a gate at Pups Paradise Doggy Daycare and Boarding in Sylvania on Sunday, May 19, 2019. THE BLADE/LORI KING
Sylvania resident Mike Romano, who was fishing, shields himself from a torrential downfall at Orlander Park on Sunday, May 19, 2019. THE BLADE/LORI KING
Toledo’s Ben Storm (19) celebrates the first Walleye goal during the sixth game of the ECHL Western Conference finals series of Kelly Cup playoffs between the Toledo Walleye and Tulsa Oilers at the Huntington Center in Toledo on Monday, May 20, 2019. THE BLADE/KURT STEISS SPT Walleye21p