Best of the Blade photo gallery: May 17-23

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

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

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

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