http://www.patrickdove.com/redicovering-home daily 0.75 2014-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411974432807-PZQBHSZI6QE17NSSOTNF/1227PDcambodiacover01.jpg Rediscovering Home Toro Vaun was born in 1977 in Cambodia during the height of power of the Khmer Rouge, headed by the communist dictator Pol Pot, which murdered nearly 2 million Cambodians during its five-year reign. Vaun spent most of his young life fleeing into the night with his family until finding relative safety in a refugee camp in Thailand. Finally, in 1992, Vaun and his family found passage to the U.S. and he never looked back. Vaun prospered over the years eventually settling down in the small West Texas town of Ballinger. But in the summer of 2011, after hearing of the death of his father, Vaun decided it was time to return to his homeland to discover what he had escaped, the unknowns he had left behind, the hidden strengths of his father and the resiliency of his homeland. Caption: After shaving his head in a ceremony to honor his parents, Toro Saniya Vaun prays in front of a shrine at Wat Preah Ang Thom in Cambodia. Vaun returned to his native country for the first time in almost 20 years to attend a funeral service for his father. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411974432807-PZQBHSZI6QE17NSSOTNF/1227PDcambodiacover01.jpg Rediscovering Home Toro Vaun was born in 1977 in Cambodia during the height of power of the Khmer Rouge, headed by the communist dictator Pol Pot, which murdered nearly 2 million Cambodians during its five-year reign. Vaun spent most of his young life fleeing into the night with his family until finding relative safety in a refugee camp in Thailand. Finally, in 1992, Vaun and his family found passage to the U.S. and he never looked back. Vaun prospered over the years eventually settling down in the small West Texas town of Ballinger. But in the summer of 2011, after hearing of the death of his father, Vaun decided it was time to return to his homeland to discover what he had escaped, the unknowns he had left behind, the hidden strengths of his father and the resiliency of his homeland. Caption: After shaving his head in a ceremony to honor his parents, Toro Saniya Vaun prays in front of a shrine at Wat Preah Ang Thom in Cambodia. Vaun returned to his native country for the first time in almost 20 years to attend a funeral service for his father. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411974524306-PWKI74YKEDHXOOJ7C3VK/1227PDcambodiacover03.jpg Rediscovering Home In an effort to learn more about his culture, Toro Saniya Vaun visits Cambodia's ancient temple Angkor Wat. Vaun has returned to his native country for the first time since immigrating to America in 1992. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411975674813-7CDLOHYZE064AJMZ1ZP3/1228PDcambodiagoinghome02.jpg Rediscovering Home At the end of a long night of conversation at his mother's house in Sisophn, Toro Vaun shows members of his family photographs of San Angelo, where Vaun currently resides, and the surrounding area of Texas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411974917700-JY2QBEJTJARVLKPDJ7AR/1227PDcambodiafuneral05.jpg Rediscovering Home Toro Saniya Vaun shares a laugh with his niece Sinat Vaun during a break in his father's funeral in Sisophon, Cambodia. This was the first time Vaun has been back in his birth country since immigrating to America in 1992. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411974483655-O5221W0E6N4JSEYF1EFI/1227PDcambodiacover02.jpg Rediscovering Home Toro Saniya Vaun leaps into the flowing waters of a river near his mother's home in Sisophon, Cambodia during a swimming excursion with family members. Vaun, born in 1977 in Cambodia at the height of the genocidal Khmer Rouge reign, went back to his native land for the first time in almost 20 years to attend his father's funeral. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411974569466-RK7ULBP4UKDKZFOMIN9E/1227PDcambodiacover04.jpg Rediscovering Home Toro Saniya Vaun stands in front of one of the bas-reliefs that stretches all the way around the central temple complex of Angkor Wat in Cambodia. Vaun, a native of Cambodia, traveled back to his birth country to say good bye to his father at his funeral, but regain some of his identity as a Cambodian. This is the first time Vaun has returned to Cambodia since immigrating to the United States in 1992. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411975759913-7RJB5FNCH6OWWS0CJX2L/1228PDcambodiagoinghome03.jpg Rediscovering Home Having only been in the country for just two days, Toro Vaun gets a little rest with family members at his mother's house in Sisophon, Cambodia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411974636579-5K8SKZG8UP70XNZ5THNJ/1227PDcambodiacover05.jpg Rediscovering Home On a recent trip, Toro Saniya Vaun walks down the main dirt road that runs through his birth village of Banteay Toup, Cambodia. Vaun has not seen his birth village since 1983 while fleeing clashes between the Khmer Rouge and the Vietnamese. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411975816854-KMWZYSLGX49BBQK4ZQ90/1228PDcambodiagoinghome04.jpg Rediscovering Home Within a few minutes of arriving at his birth village of Banteay Toup, Cambodia, Toro Vaun is greeted by an elderly man who recognized him from his childhood. The last time Vaun was in his village was in 1983 when his family was fleeing the area as fighting raged between Khmer Rouge loyalists, communist Vietnamese and Cambodia freedom fighters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411975879919-NYD1S5X9VMDHPH5SWGCQ/1229PDcambodiacountryside05.jpg Rediscovering Home If it is not being used for farming, most of the Cambodian countryside is dense jungle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411975946950-C1Y0O4OY6O5P1OQEYD0L/1229PDcambodiacountryside07.jpg Rediscovering Home Toro Vaun samples a few roasted crickets at a roadside food stand near Sisophon, Cambodia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411976020184-FM1XR8WE9Y0UN1OT3700/1229PDcambodiacountryside09.jpg Rediscovering Home Toro Vaun picks blossoms that will be used in a soup for dinner near a local swimming hole near his mother's house in Sisophon, Cambodia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411976096184-L6DO2U5TE369IJZK3BQ7/1229PDcambodiatemple01.jpg Rediscovering Home Toro Vaun walks over a stone bridge that crosses a moat that surrounds Angkor Wat in Cambodia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411974963420-99OTVKJGNWP28G8OITSV/1227PDcambodiamuseum01.jpg Rediscovering Home As a way to reconnect with his past, Toro Saniya Vaun visits the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Cambodia's capital city of Phnom Penh. The museum was once a high school before it was converted into a torture prison by the Khmer Rouge where more than 17,000 people were killed in the late 1970s. Vaun, born in 1977, lived most of his young life in refugee camps trying to escape the fighting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411975070509-XIVPEAF9Y77A0FDAC4BW/1227PDcambodiamuseum03.jpg Rediscovering Home Toro Saniya Vaun takes a moment to himself as he tours the brick-lined cells at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The museum was the site of Security Prison 21, run by the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s. This was the first time Vaun, who spent most of his young life as a refugee, has seen the evidence in person of the violence his country endured under the Khmer Rouge dictatorship. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411975022511-3DR3O9YJSS99U2RKOTN7/1227PDcambodiamuseum02.jpg Rediscovering Home Toro Saniya Vaun observes large water cisterns used during torture sessions at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia during a recent trip back to his native country. The museum was once known as Security Prison 21 run by the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s. More than 17,000 people were tortured and killed at the prison. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411975129043-08SUJFLG4RQEML0DLOTI/1227PDcambodiamuseum05.jpg Rediscovering Home Toro Saniya Vaun talks with Chum Mey, one of the last remaining survivors of Security Prison 21, a notorious detention center run by the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s where more than 17,000 people were tortured and killed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411974687243-1HE27SIZY0Y1JGZNM7HQ/1227PDcambodiafuneral01.jpg Rediscovering Home Toro Saniya Vaun (right) sits with his mother, Lor Meas, as they observe the urn containing the ashes of Sanet Vaun, Vaun's father, at the family home in Sisophon, Cambodia. Vaun's father died in late June 2011 after a month of declining health. This was the first time Vaun had been back to his native country after immigrating to America almost 20 years ago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411974742552-FB0NE049CCJ8HU4ZZUB7/1227PDcambodiafuneral02.JPG Rediscovering Home Toro Saniya Vaun, along with his mother Lor and brother Tin, participate in a funeral ceremony for his father, Sanet, at the family home in Sisophon, Cambodia. Vaun returned to his native country for the first time since immigrating to America in 1992. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411974799967-3VQCQW639FHDF9TLKPMR/1227PDcambodiafuneral03.jpg Rediscovering Home Toro Saniya Vaun offers a gift to one of the nine Buddhist monks who prosided over his father's funeral at the family home in Sisophon, Cambodia. Vaun was unable to attend the first funeral for his father who died in late June 2011, but was able to attend the second service, a Cambodian tradition, held 100 days after. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411976419211-BSESP0ND473VRCXB4WPV/1230PDcambodiafuneral03.jpg Rediscovering Home Mourners gather at the Vaun Family home in Sisophon, Cambodia for the funeral of Sanet Vaun, father of San Angelo business owner Toro Vaun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411974857155-0HNCBEFMOZOQ15OBUE9P/1227PDcambodiafuneral04.jpg Rediscovering Home Toro Saniya Vaun and family and friends gather around a burning paper model of a house on the second day of Vaun's father's funeral at the family home in Sisophon, Cambodia. The model house was built to represent the accommodations Vaun's father will have in the next life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411976714966-7R0ED6AXGL9A5GLU0GK4/1230PDcambodiafuneral07.jpg Rediscovering Home The Buddhist monks presiding over the funeral of Sanet Vaun begin their chants at the Vaun family home in Sisophon, Cambodia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411976632263-SOPF9ZB3K71I2WRSYBDO/1230PDcambodiafuneral06.jpg Rediscovering Home Toro Vaun gives a deep bow of respect to family members on his father's side who he has never met. Vaun traveled back to his native Cambodia to attend his father's funeral in Sisophon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411976772788-AWKSEBEF5AZ612B85G9B/1230PDcambodiafuneral10.jpg Rediscovering Home Led by Lor Meas, funeral goers place rice in the bowls for the monks that presided over the funeral of Sanet Vaun, Meas' husband. San Angelo business owner, Toro Vaun, traveled back to his native Cambodia to attend his father's funeral. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411976250986-OPHJVUOA7T2K22L96LDV/1230PDcambodiafuneral01.jpg Rediscovering Home Toro Vaun shares lunch with family and community members who came to his father's funeral at the the family home in Sisophon, Cambodia. The funeral lasted for two days. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411976347667-PE1Z1KV2H37YUY6ESAT8/1230PDcambodiafuneral02.jpg Rediscovering Home Toro Vaun hugs his mother, Lor Meas, at the funeral for his father in Sisophon, Cambodia. Vaun has not been back to Cambodia since immigrating to America in 1992. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411976572362-IK6G6TRIGMJ23JYDKM4W/1230PDcambodiafuneral05.jpg Rediscovering Home Toro Vaun traveled back to his home country of Cambodia to attend the funeral for his father. Vaun has not been back to Cambodia since immigrating to America in 1992. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411976839347-ENOYY89TGE5DGIMKC606/1230PDcambodiafuneral12.jpg Rediscovering Home San Angelo businessman Toro Vaun shows photographs of his home in Texas to young family members during a break in his father's funeral at the family home in Sisophon, Cambodia. Vaun has not been back to his native country since immigrating to America in 1992. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411975221511-MYPKT1EL71BTKSQGXTI2/1227PDcambodiatransform01.jpg Rediscovering Home An emotional Toro Saniya Vaun kneels before his mother, Lor Meas, and asks for her blessings as he prepares to shave his head at Phnom Kulen in Cambodia. It is considered a great sacrifice to shave one's head in Cambodian tradition. Vaun shaved his head to honor his mother and father. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411975277920-AP3V5QP5JJEG5CMCL3Y2/1227PDcambodiatransform02.jpg Rediscovering Home Toro Saniya Vaun kneels as the high priest of Wat Preah Ang Thom, a small temple at the top of Phnom Kulen in Cambodia, shaves his head in a ceremony Vaun decided to do to honor his parents. Vaun traveled back to his native Cambodia for the first time in almost 20 years to attend his father's funeral. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411975358126-9U6RVZWKDVV1WS46EV2J/1227PDcambodiatransform03.jpg Rediscovering Home Toro Saniya Vaun climbs the stairs to the top of Wat Preah Ang Thom in Cambodia as his mother, Lor Meas, follows behind. Vaun had just concluded a ceremony in which he shaved his head to honor his parents. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411975421363-4B70BFTXH70N9EMP665K/1227PDcambodiatransform04.jpg Rediscovering Home Toro Saniya Vuan places his hands on a reclining Buddha statue almost 20 feet in length as he prays at Wat Preah Ang Thom, a small temple atop Phnom Kulen in Cambodia. Vaun traveled to the mountain, considered to be the most sacred in Cambodia, to participate in a ceremony in which he would shave his head. Vaun, a native Cambodia who has not set foot in his birth country in almost 20 years, decided to shave his head in honor of his parents and the risks they took to keep their family safe during the country's time of war. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411975583447-UET84RXSO7FKBZ3BMDMH/1228PDcambodiabackpage.jpg Rediscovering Home Toro Vaun stands at the base of a waterfall on Phnom Kulen in Cambodia after participating in a ceremony where he had his head shaved in honor of his parents. This trip to his birth country marks the first time he has returned since immigrating to America in 1992. http://www.patrickdove.com/back-from-the-darkness daily 0.75 2015-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1412877034159-215H0LL4PPH5R5SSK2DQ/1103PDmcduffee39.jpg Back from the Darkness Qualities of the spirit often save people from being defeated by the hard breaks in life, and the spirit of competition saved Chad McDuffee, an injured veteran of the Iraq War, from the darkness of anger and despair his wounds and battle experience brought down on him. The Ballinger native's participation in the Warrior Games, and soon after the Valor Games Midwest, revived his spirit, helped him keep depression and fear at bay, and put love and respect back in his family life. This is his story.   Caption: Chad and Jaslyn McDuffee share a ride on the Ferris Wheel on Chicago's Navy Pier. The McDuffees traveled to Chicago from their home in Ballinger so Chad could participate in the 2013 Valor Games Midwest, a Paralympic event for wounded veterans. McDuffee lost the use of his right foot after sustaining an injury while on deployment in Iraq in 2006 and dreams of earning a spot on the U.S. Paralympic National Team in time for the 2016 games in Brazil. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1412877034159-215H0LL4PPH5R5SSK2DQ/1103PDmcduffee39.jpg Back from the Darkness Qualities of the spirit often save people from being defeated by the hard breaks in life, and the spirit of competition saved Chad McDuffee, an injured veteran of the Iraq War, from the darkness of anger and despair his wounds and battle experience brought down on him. The Ballinger native's participation in the Warrior Games, and soon after the Valor Games Midwest, revived his spirit, helped him keep depression and fear at bay, and put love and respect back in his family life. This is his story.   Caption: Chad and Jaslyn McDuffee share a ride on the Ferris Wheel on Chicago's Navy Pier. The McDuffees traveled to Chicago from their home in Ballinger so Chad could participate in the 2013 Valor Games Midwest, a Paralympic event for wounded veterans. McDuffee lost the use of his right foot after sustaining an injury while on deployment in Iraq in 2006 and dreams of earning a spot on the U.S. Paralympic National Team in time for the 2016 games in Brazil. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1412018465706-LFH0KJG2FCUNSB6YFWHB/0705PDchadmcduffee03.jpg Back from the Darkness Chad McDuffee works on his shot put skills during a training session at Ballinger High School. McDuffee, an Army combat veteran, sustained an injury to his right foot while deployed in Iraq which caused him to retire from the military. McDuffee now competes as a paralympic athlete in track and field and will be heading the the 2013 Valor Games in Chicago in August. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1412018122355-LD7C33V4V4U0VW315Y0X/0705PDchadmcduffee01.jpg Back from the Darkness Chad McDuffee (right) shares a light-hearted moment with his son Chaz, 2, during a training session at Ballinger High School. McDuffee is an Army combat veteran who suffered what would become a career-ending foot injury while deployed on his first tour in Iraq. To cope with the anger of losing the use of his right foot, McDuffee now competes in track and field events and will be heading to Chicago for the 2013 Valor Games. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1412018386032-WJTD0K9UML7PFBG446NU/0705PDchadmcduffee02.jpg Back from the Darkness Chad McDuffee, an Army combat veteran, works on his shot put skills at Ballinger High School Friday morning. McDuffee suffered what would become a career-ending foot injury while deployed on his first tour in Iraq. McDuffee now competes as a paralympic athlete in track and field and will be competing at the 2013 Valor Games in Chicago in August. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1412018541081-53CRRGUCBAQRAM6WOM4S/0705PDchadmcduffee04.jpg Back from the Darkness Chaz McDuffee, 2, helps his father Chad with a discus Friday morning during a training session at Ballinger High School. Chad McDuffee is an Army combat veteran who suffered a foot injury while deployed in Iraq. Now, technically classified as a below-the-knee amputee, McDuffee competes in track and field events as a paralympic athlete and is headed to Chicago in August to compete in the 2013 Valor Games. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1412018674682-LFDZ75QHX2XDC59L21UK/0705PDchadmcduffee06.jpg Back from the Darkness Chad McDuffee works on his shot put technique Friday morning at Ballinger High School. McDuffee, 30, is an Army combat veteran who suffered what would become a career-ending foot injury while deployed in Iraq. To cope with the anger and depression of losing the use of his right foot, McDuffee turned to track and field and has been competing as a paralympic athlete in events such as the seated shot put, discus, javelin and power lifting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1412018773582-N3DSXNXTSP7QLTSNLM42/0705PDchadmcduffee07.jpg Back from the Darkness Chad McDuffee walks back to the throwing circle after retrieving his discus Friday morning during a training session at Ballinger High School. McDuffee, an Army combat veteran, has taken up competing in track and field events as a paralympic athlete after suffering a foot injury while deployed in Iraq. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1412018898318-UZLYB1CJ9OI4B754VWWD/0705PDchadmcduffee08.jpg Back from the Darkness Chad McDuffee sits with his wife Jaslyn in their Ballinger home as their youngest child, Cade, plays. McDuffee, an Army combat veteran, was injured during his first tour in Iraq and has now lost the use of his right foot. "It was difficult to watch him go through the process of rehabilitation," said Jaslyn McDuffee. "But since he started competing in track and field events, his smile has come back." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1412019041111-63CLMMWLPCNC4LNFSYMF/0705PDchadmcduffee09.jpg Back from the Darkness In just his first year competing in track and field events as a paralympic athlete, Chad McDuffee has earned several medals including two gold medals at the Endeavor Games at the University of Central Oklahoma. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1412020683573-TVXWMTA4LI9NAFQAJE09/1103PDmcduffee20.jpg Back from the Darkness Chad McDuffee begins packing the family car to make the long drive to Chicago for the 2013 Valor Games Midwest in Chicago. McDuffee, a former Army sergeant, suffered a career-ending injury to his right foot and took up training for paralympic games as a way to cope with his physical and mental disabilities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1412020761256-X986DIYOHH9NXTR4E8MV/1103PDmcduffee25.jpg Back from the Darkness While packing the family car for the cross-country drive to Chicago, Chad McDuffee received a phone call from Operation Homefront, an organization the provides emergency financial aid and other assistance to the families of service members and wounded warriors. The call was to inform McDuffee that the organization was going to provide funds for a specialized athletic throwing chair, a piece of vital equipment for his training, so that he could pursue his dream of training for the U.S. Paralympic National Team. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1412020588174-6D1XW55PM1TK7DQW36VS/1103PDmcduffee19.jpg Back from the Darkness Chad McDuffee packs the family car for the long drive to Chicago as his wife Jaslyn plays with their sons Chaz and Cade in the driveway of their Ballinger home. McDuffee took up training for the Paralympic Games as part of his rehabilitation after suffering a career-ending injury to his right foot while deployed in Iraq with the Army. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1412873932974-IFS87JB9W2FY7TYTXOU2/1103PDmcduffee26.jpg Back from the Darkness Jaslyn McDuffee breaks down in tears after her husband Chad informed her that Operation Homefront was going to provide the funds for his specialized athletic throwing chair. The organization provides emergency financial aid to families of service members and wounded warriors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1412019966040-1PWIGRFG2URPUS3L2FIR/1103PDmcduffee06.jpg Back from the Darkness Chad McDuffee (left) walks hand-in-hand with his four-year-old daughter Alana and wife Jaslyn as they make their way to the South Lot of Soldier Field in Chicago for the cycling competition of the 2013 Valor Games Midwest. McDuffee, an Iraq War combat veteran with the Army, suffered a career-ending injury in 2006 to his right foot when his convoy was struck by an improvised explosive device. Now, McDuffee competes in paralympic games to help his cope with being disabled physically and mentally. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1412019274319-9LB9SX2E9HQ472VBBGXX/1103PDmcduffee03.jpg Back from the Darkness Chad McDuffee, an Iraq War combat veteran, receives a kiss from his four-year-old daughter Alana before his competition in the cycling competition at the 2013 Valor Games Midwest in Chicago. McDuffee, who had previously never competed in cycling, qualified for the finals in his division and came in fifth place. "That was just a ton of fun," McDuffe said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1412019501480-3CM6CO62WIBDLJYTHAXP/1103PDmcduffee05.jpg Back from the Darkness Cheering from the sidelines, Divad Briones (left), Jaslyn (center) and Alana McDuffee, 4, look on as Chad McDuffee speeds by on a recumbent bike during the cycling competition at the 2013 Valor Game Midwest in Chicago. McDuffee, an Iraq War combat veteran, suffered an injury to his right foot during deployment rendering it useless but has found paralympic competition as a way to cope with his disability. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1412874302921-000NSLXZI7HPJL6EMAUM/1103PDmcduffee30.jpg Back from the Darkness Chad McDuffee speeds around the track set up in the South Lot of Chicago's Soldier Field during the cycling competition at the 2013 Valor Games Midwest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1412876998552-9RID44K286DIBIHH6C3Y/1103PDmcduffee38.jpg Back from the Darkness Chad McDuffee walks with his nephew Divad Briones (left) and wife Jaslyn and daughter Alana during a family outing to Chicago's Navy Pier. The McDuffees traveled to Chicago from their home in Ballinger, Texas so Chad could compete in the 2013 Valor Games Midwest, a paralympic athletic event for wounded veterans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1412876913911-H1YWT8CFP90G7WFAI5GC/1103PDmcduffee37.jpg Back from the Darkness Chad McDuffee holds on to his nephew Divad Briones as they make their way through the various lines for rides during a family outing on Chicago's Navy Pier. McDuffee and his family went Chicago for the 2013 Valor Games Midwest where McDuffee competed in paralympic events to pursue his dream of making the U.S. Paralympic National Team. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1412874362830-KV9PUJO57TSYBAJ9VVL8/1103PDmcduffee31.jpg Back from the Darkness Strapped into a specialized throwing chair anchored to the ground, Chad McDuffee competes in the sitting discus competition at the 2013 Valor Games Midwest in Chicago's Armour Square Park. McDuffee, who has aspirations of trying out for the U.S. Paralympic National Team, had a throw of 19.45 meters, earning him a silver medal in his division. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1412874125638-T0I5ELFWILU2O3KSITT3/1103PDmcduffee29.jpg Back from the Darkness Chad McDuffee talks with fellow Valor Games Midwest competitor and Army veteran Noah Galloway (left) as they prepare for the shot put competition at Armour Square Park in Chicago. Galloway, the keynote speaker of the 2013 Valor Games Midwest opening ceremony, lost his left arm and leg to an IED attack while serving in the Army in Iraq. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1412876835076-JOU3OW3KC5ET1NULLPGC/1103PDmcduffee34.jpg Back from the Darkness Chad McDuffee prepares for his first toss in the sitting shot put competition at the 2013 Valor Games Midwest in Chicago. McDuffee's longest throw was 9.12 meters earning him a a gold medal in his division. "I could have done better," McDuffee said after his final throw. "Something felt off." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1412020244234-FXO57JWX2WYT4DY7YS96/1103PDmcduffee07.jpg Back from the Darkness Chad McDuffee gives a big smile after receiving a gold medal in the sitting shot put competition at the 2013 Valor Games Midwest in Chicago. McDuffee would go on to earn a silver medal in the sitting discus that same day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1412020345811-SXHH0L4B2EDH16J56HK2/1103PDmcduffee11.jpg Back from the Darkness Chad McDuffee gets a high five from his daughter Alana after earning two medals on the second day of competition at the 2013 Valor Games Midwest in Chicago. McDuffee earned a gold medal in sitting shot put and a silver in sitting discus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1412020452854-TZ316SXTB7D28MWLRWU1/1103PDmcduffee14.jpg Back from the Darkness Chad McDuffee and his wife Jaslyn share a tender moment after McDuffee was award a gold medal for his efforts in the sitting shot put at the 2013 Valor Games Midwest in Chicago. McDuffee also won a silver in the sitting discus and a gold in powerlifting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1412020523908-RZ1JCJMGFIURL3CWQFMX/1103PDmcduffee17.jpg Back from the Darkness Retired Army combat veteran Chad MCDuffee walks with his wife Jaslyn through Armour Square Park on Chicago's soutside on the final day of competition at the 2013 Valor Games Midwest. McDuffee, who suffered career-ending injuries to his right foot while deployed in Iraq, took up training for paralympic games as part of his rehabilitation and now has aspirations of making the U.S. National Paralympic Team in time for the 2016 Brazil games. http://www.patrickdove.com/sports daily 0.75 2017-12-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411667015800-BSO0ZIJJJRHSDAR5M6V7/1030PDmatchrope01.jpg Sports Tuf Cooper dismounts his horse after roping the first calf in a match roping contest against 16-year roping veteran Cody Ohl at the 57th annual Autoplex Roping Fiesta in San Angelo, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010. Each competitor will rope twelve calves and the roper with the fastest overall time wins a custom belt buckle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411667015800-BSO0ZIJJJRHSDAR5M6V7/1030PDmatchrope01.jpg Sports Tuf Cooper dismounts his horse after roping the first calf in a match roping contest against 16-year roping veteran Cody Ohl at the 57th annual Autoplex Roping Fiesta in San Angelo, Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010. Each competitor will rope twelve calves and the roper with the fastest overall time wins a custom belt buckle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411667102640-15Z9VQG0M2RUEP9G140C/1211PDrichlandsprings22.JPG Sports Richland Springs High School's Denim Reeves leaps over a teammate to advance the ball through the defense of Sterling City during the Conference 1A Six-Man Division II state championship game in Abilene. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411667169977-B5K8UV18QWYFKZ2XE8OE/1113PDchsfootball32.jpg Sports The Central High School sideline erupts in cheers after Stefan Fields intercepted an El Paso Franklin pass Saturday at Ratliff Stadium in Odessa. Fields ran the ball back to the 1-yard line setting up a Whitney Darby touchdown on the next play. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411667232910-SJNP1MBZAQ0BSQIDA2Y5/1108PDasusoccer01.jpg Sports Angelo State University's Jenny Kotowych (12) tries to put a head on the ball in front of the net off a corner kick Friday afternoon during a game against West Texas A&M in a semifinal round of the Lone Star Conference Women's Soccer Tournament in San Angelo. ASU lost 1-0 to the No. 4-seeded Lady Buffs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411667326291-XL0NN9IK5IBYLSD5GE08/0916PDasuvolleyball13.jpg Sports The Angelo State volleyball team celebrates the final point scored to complete a three-game sweep of Tarleton State Thursday night at the Junell Center. The Belles gave the TexAnns their first lost of the season. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411667396153-F0KB356R571F0TL5DGZO/0927PDtlcachristoval02.jpg Sports The Christoval High School Cougars go through pregame warmups Friday night before a game against Texas Leadership Charter Academy in San Angelo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411667632314-DDLJ3MNDRS6VYOXW0FMV/0911PDlvfootball8.jpg Sports Lake View High School students cheer on the Chiefs during a home game against Amarillo Caprock at San Angelo Stadium. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411691466689-TGNZG4DEW6AT18I4QRBT/0905ChiefsBW.jpg Sports The Lake View High School Chiefs walk off the field after pregame warmups at San Angelo Stadium. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411667730396-OTNCH0WZOQ06VYV7QKPI/0717PDpartnership1.jpg Sports Daryl Cates hits his ball out of the green-side bunker on the 10th hole at the Bentwood Country Club Men's Partnership tournament in San Angelo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411667825864-DDYF51VE7FG1KJK3KFS5/0911PDasufootball2.JPG Sports Angelo State's Sebastian Lafaele (center) and Godwin Ubah take the helmet off of Texas A&M Commerce quarterback Adam Farkes during the first half of play in Saturday's Harvey Martin Classic at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411668091744-W872BMYUDLFIWVEL8ZB1/0420PDstategym19.jpg Sports Central High School head boys gymnastics coach Kern Arrott celebrates as Eddie Martinez sticks his landing on the high bar Saturday morning at the Texas High School Gymnastics State Meet in Rockwall. Martinez was given a score of 8.65 for his effort. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411668249609-HQGJQWS7Y3HX8VG3GGGY/0423PDwallbaseball01.jpg Sports Wall High School's Grant Eubank is greeted on the field by teammate Austin Frey after a 14-0 win over Coleman Tuesday afternoon in a District 6-2A game that ended after five innings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411668292226-1K9V2WCWABILKFQGYVE5/0502PDmudrun03.jpg Sports A runner in the TimeClock Plus Down and Dirty Mad Dash goes feet first into a pond of mud on the last obstacle of the race held at the San Angelo State Park. Nearly 500 people participated in the three-mile race. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411668353946-5B5X24S95Q5U0Z2THO52/0316PDladycatsoccer1.jpg Sports Central High School's Jessica Hinshaw (21) and Midland's Madison Scribner (16) vye for the ball near mid-field during the Lady Cats' final game of the season at San Angelo Stadium Tuesday afternoon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411691528653-N4MYZDH4IGYT0M0JB0LF/Central4BW.jpg Sports Members of the Central High School Tex-Anns make their way to the field at San Angelo Stadium. The Tex-Anns are the oldest high school kick-line in the state of Texas.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411668810221-XX2GE72H4TPNUHB3CJ4K/0513PDstatetrack06.JPG Sports Water Valley High School's Dylan Doss cools off after crossing the finish line in the Class 1A boys 3200-meter run Friday morning at the State Track and Field Meet in Austin. Doss finished in first place with a time of 9:35.13. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1513984592868-MY40EPK8U8K1VJ1T0T8N/0825VeroOscar02.jpg Sports As storm clouds roll into the area, the Vero Beach High School varsity cheerleaders cover their heads form the precipitation Friday, Aug. 25, 2017, as the Fighting Indians prepare to play Oscar Smith High School in Chesapeake, Virginia. Vero Beach won the game 28-21. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411669057457-MBNC1DJ5FTPN2RT8MQ6J/0301PDwallstate01.jpg Sports Wall High School's Stella Doyle hugs fellow teammate Allie Dierschke at mid-court after beating Brock 48-44 in the Class 2A state championship Saturday afternoon at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin. This is the first state basketball championship for the Lady Hawks in school history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411691560237-0O9PQPGJLSBALPHXD0N9/Sonora1.jpg Sports The Sonora High School football team makes their way onto the field Friday night for a game against Wall in Sonora. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1413841279146-JAB1ZNEEFRPTVK9EKEZ7/0223PDrodeo29.jpg Sports A lone saddle bronc rider circles the Foster Communications Coliseum as pyrotechnics explode as part of the opening ceremony for the eighth performance of the 82nd San Angelo Stock Show & Rodeo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1417025801505-0ASUOGFRM1Z31UNIHGFD/1025PDasueastern07.jpg Sports Angelo State University's Dakarai Pecikonis reaches to put the ball across the goal line Saturday night during a Lone Star Conference game against Eastern New Mexico at LeGrand Stadium at 1st Community Credit Union Field in San Angelo. Pecikonis was ruled down by contact at the 1-yard line. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1513984596112-EST3OYRZEFY0FEIUVW8I/0818VeroViera38.JPG Sports Vero Beach High School's Ryan McDonough carries the American flag as the Fighting Indians take the field Friday, Aug. 18, 2017 for their Kickoff Classic against Viera at the Citrus Bowl. Vero Beach won 42-30. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1513984606687-5AQSWY8TH7NGMVWD2XH3/MetsCards25.JPG Sports New York Mets infielder Neil Walker signs autographs for fans Friday prior to a spring training game against the St. Louis Cardinals at Tradition Field in Port St. Lucie. http://www.patrickdove.com/taming-the-wildcat daily 0.75 2015-04-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411978316453-1REL7D9DU8SWQ1MDX8HK/0418PDwildcatfire02.jpg Taming The Wildcat In the spring of 2011, portions of West Texas were suffering through one of the harshest droughts in recent memory. In combination with high temperatures and gusty winds, a small fire in Coke County on the Wildcat Mountain Ranch quickly became too much for local fire authorities to control and had to call in surrounding agencies for help. The Wildcat Fire quickly jumped from a 540-acre fire to a 42,000-acre fire in one day as it made its way across the open range. More than 200 fire and emergency agencies eventually assisted in the blaze that spread out across 159,308 acres, cost more than $2 million to contain and burned for 14 days. Caption: A U.S. Forest Service firefighter looks on as fires re-ignited during the day Monday due to the extreme dry weather and the high temperatures. The hills in southeast Coke County made it difficult for firefighters to reach the flames. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411978316453-1REL7D9DU8SWQ1MDX8HK/0418PDwildcatfire02.jpg Taming The Wildcat In the spring of 2011, portions of West Texas were suffering through one of the harshest droughts in recent memory. In combination with high temperatures and gusty winds, a small fire in Coke County on the Wildcat Mountain Ranch quickly became too much for local fire authorities to control and had to call in surrounding agencies for help. The Wildcat Fire quickly jumped from a 540-acre fire to a 42,000-acre fire in one day as it made its way across the open range. More than 200 fire and emergency agencies eventually assisted in the blaze that spread out across 159,308 acres, cost more than $2 million to contain and burned for 14 days. Caption: A U.S. Forest Service firefighter looks on as fires re-ignited during the day Monday due to the extreme dry weather and the high temperatures. The hills in southeast Coke County made it difficult for firefighters to reach the flames. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411977052278-QUFQWL0Q6V0WSY6A1E67/0417PDwildcatfire02.jpg Taming The Wildcat Coke County Sheriff Wayne McCutchen goes door-to-door in Bronte, Texas enforcing a manditory evacuation as a massive wildfire moves it's way north toward the town. The order was later canceled. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411977411044-ZJDT8QXCE1SUF64IN40R/0417PDwildcatfire08.jpg Taming The Wildcat Richard Buchanan packs the family van, heeding a mandatory evacuation order in Bronte, Texas. A wildfire was quickly moving north toward the town. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411977098214-99DOH7T369PRVR02G1D6/0417PDwildcatfire03.jpg Taming The Wildcat Allison Buchanan carries a family pet to the car as her parents and siblings heed a mandatory evacuation order in Bronte, Texas because of a fast-moving wildfire 10 miles to the south. The family was headed to a friend's house in Winters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411976950181-EGCOAJBBVUFLRMVQOPF2/0417PDwildcatfire01.jpg Taming The Wildcat Eldorado volunteer firefighters Shay Parker (left) and Michael Jenkins wait by the side of the road for their next orders as a massive wildfire moves across open ranch land 10 miles south of Bronte, Texas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411977161152-YYBKRAUT4BW0GY6DM0D1/0417PDwildcatfire04.jpg Taming The Wildcat Eldorado volunteer firefighters Michael Jenkins (from left), Shay Parker and Jerry Jones fill the tank on one of their trucks as they fight a wildfire 10 miles south of Bronte, Texas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411977267644-DG6A036TAEY2K3CSDORQ/0417PDwildcatfire06.jpg Taming The Wildcat Volunteer firefighters from Eldorado receive their orders as a wildfire moves north toward Bronte, Texas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411977356521-OJ3DSJUVB943C6N16HPI/0417PDwildcatfire07.jpg Taming The Wildcat Firefighters from Howard County receive orders for their next move at a staging point in Bronte, Texas. Firefighters from across the state converged on the town as a massive wildfire raced across open ranch land. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411977441687-HGQY8BVUTGGF26192YLW/0417PDwildcatfire09.jpg Taming The Wildcat Firefighters begin to position themselves along FM 2662, 10 miles south of Bronte, Texas to battle the fast-moving Wildcat Fire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411977475427-5PC0DQHEHVDPPSX02GAK/0417PDwildcatfire10.jpg Taming The Wildcat Eldorado volunteer firefighter T.J. Rodriguez talks with fellow firefighters over the radio as they begin to battle the Wildcat Fire along FM 2662 south of Bronte, Texas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411977540650-WDIK3AFJ1Z8B8UN72RKU/0417PDwildcatfire11.jpg Taming The Wildcat Eldorado volunteer firefighter Shay Parker runs back to his truck as crews begin to move into position to fight a fast-moving wildfire along FM 2662 south of Bronte, Texas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411977605840-YMS8OS6APZEPC01I9ND3/0417PDwildcatfire12.jpg Taming The Wildcat A bulldozer begins to make a fire break line as a fast-moving wildfire sweeps across open range land near Bronte, Texas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411977645535-QCMM3CV54F90POKAA2UF/0417PDwildcatfire13.jpg Taming The Wildcat The Wildcat Fire was quickly approaching the town of Bronte, Texas prompting officials to order a mandatory evacuation of the town. The order was eventually canceled. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411977685809-MFX13PJCR484VW1M7I92/0417PDwildcatfire14.jpg Taming The Wildcat Eldorado volunteer firefighters Chuck Jones (from left), Miguel Flinn and Adrian Martinez look on as a wildfire begins to move across open pastureland 10 miles south of Bronte, Texas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411977729996-CTF7XJE18LNNDTVEEML2/0417PDwildcatfire15.jpg Taming The Wildcat A fast-moving wildfire makes it way across range land 10 miles south of Bronte, Texas. Officials ordered a mandatory evacuation of the town, but later canceled the order. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411977797249-H702IU6EQ9RM19JRZEYS/0417PDwildcatfire16.jpg Taming The Wildcat Volunteer firefighters from Eden begin to make their way to the fire line off of FM 2662 south of Bronte, Texas as a wildfire sweeps its way across the area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411977841691-DWUIGMOBHW0S9PJYCD78/0417PDwildcatfire17.jpg Taming The Wildcat Smoke, dirt and ash blows through a staging area for fire crews as a wildfire burns 10 miles south of Bronte, Texas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411977876599-H843N0NT11WFJWSZJXLK/0417PDwildcatfire18.jpg Taming The Wildcat Smoke and ash begin to blow across FM 2662 as a wildfire approaches Bronte, Texas from the south. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411977915551-L2PVZR4VGY8UA94F38AN/0417PDwildcatfire19.jpg Taming The Wildcat Firefighters wait for a wildfire to move closer before putting it out on FM 2662 south of Bronte, Texas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411977974583-BM684IPE8T37YJWTOJ4V/0417PDwildcatfire20.jpg Taming The Wildcat A tanker filled with fire-retardant material flies in low over a wildfire site in Coke County. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411978032714-TVVN3J58JLOFO2S09WBO/0417PDwildcatfire21.jpg Taming The Wildcat Fire crews battle a wildfire in open range land 10 miles south of Bronte, Texas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411978101741-04DR2VMXKHINNU8NNTWC/0417PDwildcatfire22.jpg Taming The Wildcat The Wildcat Fire continues to rage through open pastureland 10 miles south of Bronte, Texas. Officials ordered a mandatory evacuation of the town, but later canceled the order as winds shifted to fire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411978270830-0ITESGBLMGSXSLFLP3U8/0418PDwildcatfire01.jpg Taming The Wildcat A U.S. Forest Service helicopter drops a load of fire-retardant material near a home in Coke County to ward off an advancing wildfire that re-ignited Monday afternoon. The rugged terrain made it difficult for firefighters to reach the flames, having to rely on aircraft. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411978362992-8P4P9DX6H5WCPJ2P2DZY/0418PDwildcatfire03.jpg Taming The Wildcat Thick plumes of smoke and ash fill the sky over southeast Coke County Monday afternoon due to an advancing wildfire. Crews continued to battle the blaze from the air due to the hilly terrian in the area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411978401526-IL08RH7DYARNTFA02XF4/0419PDwildcatfire01.jpg Taming The Wildcat Florida-based U.S. Forest Service members Jarrod Nobels (left) and Chuck Harden look on as a helicopter dumps mud onto burning trees near the roadside of U.S. 277 north of the Goodyear Proving Grounds Tuesday afternoon. The Wildcat Fire had at the time consumed more than 150,000 acres. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411978217391-YWQZB1NP0NP58B3KVQQ6/0417PDwildcatfire24.jpg Taming The Wildcat A tanker begins to drop fire-retardant material to keep a fast-moving wildfire from advancing across FM 2662 south of Bronte, Texas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411978438942-3FJJ8E8B8AWD724Y8V7K/0419PDwildcatfire02.jpg Taming The Wildcat A McDonald-Douglas DC-10 dumps 12,000 gallons of fire-retardant material on the east side of U.S. 277 Tuesday afternoon just in case the advancing Wildcat Fire managed to jump the road. The tanker made three passes, each time having to fly back to Midland, Texas to take on a new load. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411978499926-E1K60TU2DLYZI9JSMLAX/0420PDwildcatfire01.jpg Taming The Wildcat Colorado-based U.S. Forest Service members Marcus Olsen (from left), Bill Ross and James Habiger look for hot spots along U.S. Highway 277 Wednesday afternoon. "We've worked too hard the last couple of days to let this re-ignite and compromise the line," said Bill Ross, a 27-year veteran firefighter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411978558605-XSG80PLV29WRSW882OJZ/0420PDwildcatfire02.jpg Taming The Wildcat James Habiger, of the U.S. Forest Service, looks for hot spots along U.S. Highway 277 Wednesday as fellow firefighter Marcus Olsen backs him up with the water hose. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411978633294-ZCPT83MIZJ0W6BGBPZIO/0420PDwildcatfire03.jpg Taming The Wildcat A Verizon crew works to remove a fallen tree burned in the Wildcat Fire from telephone wires on State Highway 208 Wednesday afternoon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411978675928-H3N833B7EIDKAMFOWO0O/0421PDhughstone01.jpg Taming The Wildcat All of Hugh Stone's land, roughly 13,000 acres, was burned by the recent Wildcat Fire. "We've got about 15 to 20 miles of perimeter fence to rebuild," Stone said. http://www.patrickdove.com/life-take-three daily 0.75 2014-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411978733226-NLAQ9HRECCNJZWUB9UHS/0904PDcantutransplant02.jpg Life... Take Three Susan Cantu was born a fighter. Plagued with life-threatening ailments and failing kidneys at birth, Susan's father, Ernie, donated one of his kidneys so that she could live. The kidney lasted for about 10 years until it was time to find another donor. Miraculously, a donor was found through their church, Paul Ann Baptist in San Angelo. Her second kidney lasted another 10 years until a glitch in the MediCare system prevented Susan from getting the necessary anti-rejection drugs to keep the kidney functioning. Susan lost her second kidney and would have to undergo dialysis treatments for a year before another church member, Courtney Beach, was tested as a match and decided to donate a kidney. Susan's life can be seen as a rehearsal on a movie set. With the donation of a third kidney, this is Susan Cantu's life.. take three. Caption: Susan Cantu, 20, looks out over a koi pond at Six Flags Fiesta Texas in San Antonio. Cantu is in San Antonio to undergo her third kidney transplant since birth. Cantu has been going to dialysis treatments three time a week since losing her second transplanted kidney a year ago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411978733226-NLAQ9HRECCNJZWUB9UHS/0904PDcantutransplant02.jpg Life... Take Three Susan Cantu was born a fighter. Plagued with life-threatening ailments and failing kidneys at birth, Susan's father, Ernie, donated one of his kidneys so that she could live. The kidney lasted for about 10 years until it was time to find another donor. Miraculously, a donor was found through their church, Paul Ann Baptist in San Angelo. Her second kidney lasted another 10 years until a glitch in the MediCare system prevented Susan from getting the necessary anti-rejection drugs to keep the kidney functioning. Susan lost her second kidney and would have to undergo dialysis treatments for a year before another church member, Courtney Beach, was tested as a match and decided to donate a kidney. Susan's life can be seen as a rehearsal on a movie set. With the donation of a third kidney, this is Susan Cantu's life.. take three. Caption: Susan Cantu, 20, looks out over a koi pond at Six Flags Fiesta Texas in San Antonio. Cantu is in San Antonio to undergo her third kidney transplant since birth. Cantu has been going to dialysis treatments three time a week since losing her second transplanted kidney a year ago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411978782975-EZ4BIL5H5AISIOPEO5DN/0904PDcantutransplant03.jpg Life... Take Three In an effort to squeeze in some last minute father-daughter time, Ernie Cantu and his daughter Susan, 20, have lunch during an outing at Six Flags Fiesta Texas in San Antonio. The family is in San Antonio because Susan will be receiving her third kidney transplant. The new kidney is being donated by Courtney Beach, 26, of San Angelo, who felt that it was his Christian obligation to help the family. Beach is a member of Paul Ann Baptist Church. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411978835946-37L7RZRWJUTNK3OU3B0V/0904PDcantutransplant04.jpg Life... Take Three Susan Cantu (center) wanders the grounds of Six Flags Fiesta Texas during a family outing in San Antonio. Just two days later, Cantu would be receiving her third kidney transplant at Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411978884454-XZ10VD7WL7NSVH32CSP9/0904PDcantutransplant05.jpg Life... Take Three Courtney Beach, 26, gets a quick tour of the Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital in San Antonio after going through routine medical tests. Beach, a member of Paul Ann Baptist Church in San Angelo, has decided to come to the aid of fellow church member Susan Cantu, and donate a kidney. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411978934453-EFKTAB92CC3ZVWDC3R6O/0904PDcantutransplant06.jpg Life... Take Three Courtney Beach, 26, (center) walks hand-in-hand with his girlfriend Julianne Johnson as they get a quick tour of Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital in San Antonio. Beach, a member of Paul Ann Baptist Church in San Angelo, decided to come to the aid of fellow church member Susan Cantu and donate a kidney. Cantu, who will undergo her third kidney transplant, has been on dialysis for over a year since losing her last kidney. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411978987065-X7PQFYV76GZB1P1708J5/0904PDcantutransplant07.jpg Life... Take Three Susan Cantu prepares for what she hopes is her last dialysis session the day before she is to receive a new kidney at the Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital in San Antonio. This will be Cantu's third transplant operation since birth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411979053061-13TUJEI8QP3ND2E114TW/0904PDcantutransplant08.jpg Life... Take Three Susan Cantu, 20, speaks with Dr. Steven Rosenblatt, a nephrologist with the Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital in San Antonio, during a preliminary checkup before being admitted to the hospital. Cantu was in the hospital to undergo her third kidney transplant. The kidney was being donated by Courtney Beach, 26, of San Angelo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411979102510-H9ZFRF9HYDI6WVL9JRI7/0904PDcantutransplant09.jpg Life... Take Three Susan Cantu, 20, goes through a preliminary checkup with Dr. Steven Rosenblatt, a nephrologist with Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital in San Antonio, to prepare for a kidney transplant the following day. This will be Cantu's third kidney transplant since birth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411979157382-CQZW10P1Q6OHNZFCN4MY/0904PDcantutransplant10.jpg Life... Take Three Susan Cantu, 20, shows off her new t-shirt with a smiling cartoon kidney on it to staff members at Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital in San Antonio. Cantu will be receiving a new kidney, her third such operation, since losing her last kidney over a year ago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411979210785-8L8EQ5G0VRQ2MMO7JYF7/0904PDcantutransplant11.jpg Life... Take Three Susan Cantu, 20, prepares for what she hopes is her last dialysis treatment before undergoing a kidney transplant the following day at the Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital in San Antonio. Cantu has undergone dialysis treatments for over a year since losing her last kidney. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411979265946-VYI4K3R4ZVP2WHZKOH6W/0904PDcantutransplant12.jpg Life... Take Three Susan Cantu's blood flows from her arm and through a dialysis machine the day before she is to undergo a kidney transplant at the Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital in San Antonio. This will be the third transplant for Cantu who lost her second kidney over a year ago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411979317045-QKCSCVL41R2XPGC5AP39/0904PDcantutransplant13.jpg Life... Take Three Ernie and Margarita Cantu sit at the bedside of their daughter Susan on the morning she is to undergo her third kidney transplant at the Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital in San Antonio. Cantu, 20, lost her second kidney over a year ago due to a glitch in the MediCare system and was unable to get the medication to keep her kidney healthy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411979418996-2G5KU37ZRRFPKP1LJ6Z5/0904PDcantutransplant14.jpg Life... Take Three Susan Cantu gets a hug from Dora Beach as she prepares to undergo a third kidney transplant at the Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital in San Antonio. Beach's son, Courtney, 26, is donating one of his kidneys to Cantu. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411979499606-D22OOV9L4K7V7FBRFSMU/0904PDcantutransplant15.jpg Life... Take Three Courtney Beach, 26, lays in the bed next to Susan Cantu in the pre-operation area of Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital in San Antonio. Beach is donating a kidney to Cantu, who will be undergoing her third such operation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411979556220-K4XOFTYPTY3MRWZ3PO2B/0904PDcantutransplant16.jpg Life... Take Three Surrounded by his parents, girlfriend and pastors from Paul Ann Baptist Church, Courtney Beach, 26, prepares to be wheeled into surgery at the Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital in San Antonio. Beach is donating one of his kidneys to Susan Cantu, a local woman who has been on dialysis for over a year. This will be Cantu's third kidney transplant surgery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411979635552-5JYCYHHEWU9DMN4RZ3GF/0904PDcantutransplant17.jpg Life... Take Three Courtney Beach holds hand with his mother Dora Beach (left) and girlfriend Julianne Johnson as a pastor from Paul Ann Baptist Church prays over him as he prepares to be wheeled into surgery at the Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital in San Antonio. Beach is donating a kidney to Susan Cantu of San Angelo who will be going through her third kidney transplant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411979704200-V2K83RB7TNG63HV3EW9Y/0904PDcantutransplant18.jpg Life... Take Three Susan Cantu, 20, is wheeled to the operating room to go through her third kidney transplant since birth. Cantu lost her last kidney over a year ago due to a glitch in the MediCare system. Cantu was unable to get the medication necessary to keep the kidney functioning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411979782084-I5A63RXZNLQ5YI0CFXU2/0904PDcantutransplant20.jpg Life... Take Three Dr. Luke Shen begins the delicate process of removing a kidney from the abdomen of Courtney Beach, 26, of San Angelo. Beach is donating the kidney to Susan Cantu, also of San Angelo, who has been plagued with kidney problems since birth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411979843650-71ICOPXHN3WCQQGGTIB7/0905PDcantutransplant03.jpg Life... Take Three Organ procurement specialist Kelly Rains (left) and transplant surgeon Dr. Francis Wright clean and trim any extra fatty tissue from the kidney donated by Courtney Beach, 26, of San Angelo. Once cleaned, Dr. Wright will put the kidney into Susan Cantu, 20, who is going through her third transplant surgery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411979901349-SB1Z3ELGCTYMX3R27KUI/0905PDcantutransplant05.jpg Life... Take Three After the kidney is cleaned and trimmed of any excess tissue, it is ready to be placed into Susan Cantu. "It almost looks like a raw chicken breast," said Dr. Francis Wright, director of the abdominal organ transplant program at Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital in San Antonio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411979955343-B2GV5495E084F4OQBS98/0905PDcantutransplant06.jpg Life... Take Three Dr. Francis Wright, director of the abdominal organ transplant program at Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital in San Antonio, begins to connect the kidney to an artery that will allow Susan Cantu to end her dialysis treatments. Cantu lost her second transplanted kidney over a year ago and has been required to undergo dialysis sessions three times a week since. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411980007440-GQSKISS5N50NJIVZIXD1/0906PDcantutransplant02.jpg Life... Take Three As the clamp is removed from the artery to allow bloodflow, Susan Cantu's new kidney turns a bright pink as it begins to function on its own. Cantu received the kidney from a church member, Courtney Beach, 26, who felt that it was his Christian duty to help. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411980068489-EM9ZXEGOBS32YVPQG7VS/0906PDcantutransplant04.jpg Life... Take Three Ernie Cantu shakes the hand of Francis Wright, director of the abdominal organ transplant program at Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital in San Antonio. Wright had just finished transplanting a kidney into Cantu's daughter, Susan, and came to give him the news that everything went well. This is the third kidney transplant operation for Susan Cantu, 20. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411980122811-EG1ZLNGKHAEV1DUKCGX8/0906PDcantutransplant05.jpg Life... Take Three Family members and friends of Courtney Beach relax and share a laugh in the waiting room at Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital in San Antonio. Beach decided to donate a kidney to a fellow church member, Susan Cantu. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411980179257-6UCCV2KU2NPSRMO3HBLC/0906PDcantutransplant06.jpg Life... Take Three Susan Cantu, 20, rests in her hospital room with her parents Ernie and Margarita the day after going through her third kidney transplant operation at the Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital in San Antonio. Cantu received a kidney from a fellow Paul Ann Baptist Church member, Courtney Beach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411980233343-FKZ8D798J95WSSL2WKBY/0906PDcantutransplant08.jpg Life... Take Three Susan Cantu, 20, gets a visit from Julianne Johnson in her hospital room at the Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital in San Antonio the day after undergoing a kidney transplant. Johnson's boyfriend, Courtney Beach, 26, is a fellow church member with Cantu and donated a kidney to give Cantu a new lease on life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411980303372-2IHIKD8PXGNJZW1G6QME/0906PDcantutransplant09.jpg Life... Take Three Susan Cantu, 20, rests in her hospital bed at the Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital in San Antonio the day after undergoing a kidney transplant. This was the third kidney transplant operation Cantu has gone through and one of more than 20 surgeries she's had since birth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411980362580-DJHQLAVPZLCID1O9RGTR/0906PDcantutransplant11.jpg Life... Take Three Susan Cantu, 20, eats her first meal the day after having a kidney transplant at the Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital in San Antonio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411980426246-GO6GZLQ9DNLFQXB8UPWM/0906PDcantutransplant13.jpg Life... Take Three Susan Cantu takes a walk around the nurses station the day after having a kidney transplant at Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital in San Antonio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411980479214-LCXH9P68LTNP8T1WY9JS/0906PDcantutransplant15.jpg Life... Take Three Ernie Cantu sits beside his daughter, Susan, while she rests in her bed the day after having a kidney transplant operation at the Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital in San Antonio. Susan lost her previous kidney over a year ago and needed dialysis treatments three time a week. "Susan's treatments have really taken a toll on the family," Cantu said, "but you do what ever you can for your kids." http://www.patrickdove.com/multimedia-1 daily 0.75 2018-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1429557993406-K3YL5H7BLPO082JMG5IW/image-asset.jpeg Multimedia - Toro Vaun - Rediscovering Home Toro Vaun spent most of his young life in a refugee camp in Thailand after fleeing the genocide of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s. After immigrating to the United States in 1992, Toro and family flourished, but while most of his family traveled back to their home country to visit those left behind, Toro never did. After hearing of the death of his father in 2011, Toro decided it was time to go back and discover for himself what had become of his country. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1429557993406-K3YL5H7BLPO082JMG5IW/image-asset.jpeg Multimedia - Toro Vaun - Rediscovering Home Toro Vaun spent most of his young life in a refugee camp in Thailand after fleeing the genocide of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge on the late 1970s. After immigrating to the United States in 1992, Toro and family flourished, but while most of his family traveled back to their home country to visit those left behind, Toro never did. After hearing of the death of his father in 2011, Toro decided it was time to go back and discover for himself what had become of his country. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1539030927561-TXUO2GNAS96379KXXJN3/image-asset.jpeg Multimedia - SAVOR: District Table & Bar Ties Southern Cooking With an International Flair Chef Jason Stocks aims to get most of his ingredients from farms as close to the restaurant as possible. “The word ‘farm-to-table’ is cliché nowadays. I think that’s how everyone should be cooking; it should be a given,” Stocks said. “We just cook with the best possible ingredients as closely sourced as we possibly can.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1513986825933-FULHT1KN6K13HMY8MEK1/image-asset.jpeg Multimedia - Hurricane Irma batters the Treasure Cost https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1513986444272-LFKN1UCMMFL30V6FA9GH/image-asset.jpeg Multimedia - Sailfish Brewing pours brew for the locals Sailfish Brewing Company opened for business in April 2013 near downtown Fort Pierce. 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Oden's family has been farming and ranching on the same plot of land in West Texas for more than 100 years. "It was important to my father that our land stay in the family for as long as possible. He handed it down to me and I'll hand it down to my son," Oden said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411664666246-FFP0T4X2ABLCZ3G8K0AW/The+Lone+Rancher.jpg Editorial T.J. Oden's family has been farming and ranching on the same plot of land in West Texas for more than 100 years. "It was important to my father that our land stay in the family for as long as possible. He handed it down to me and I'll hand it down to my son," Oden said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1420224190836-UQBOJ3QXBM7I6MMSZR4R/bishop02.JPG Editorial After leading a Rural Life Mass on the farm of Gary and Dinell Jacob near Winters, Bishop Michael Pfeifer, OMI, blesses horses brought to the mass. About 150 people from across the area attended the mass held in the shade of trees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411664953575-5TSLNT8NGCMMKR0GPK3H/0220PDcatfishcornerfire01.jpg Editorial San Angelo emergency personnel were dispatched to a structure fire in the 1300 block of west Beauregard at Catfish Corner Wednesday afternoon. The building was fully engulfed in flames and was a total loss. No injuries were reported in the blaze. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411664986364-FK7BZII8EHGELYA6GFAS/0223PDstockshow1.jpg Editorial A family walks to the livestock barn at the San Angelo Fair Grounds through a heavy snowfall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411665026031-WT3PLB7UN0CRK7ZH9M9L/0228PDwarehousefire16.jpg Editorial Smoke chokes portions of downtown San Angelo early Thursday morning as a fire burns in a warehouse. The call came in just before 11:00 p.m. Wednesday and at least eight fire trucks were needed to help contain the blaze. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411665131558-OHA6Z3JAP30UYPKC1QSZ/0228PDwildfire01.jpg Editorial Scorched grass and fencing run a length of State Highway 163 south of Barnhart Sunday night as a massive grassfire burns. The Texas Forest Service and many surrounding volunteer fire departments were called into action to quell the blaze. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411665175184-PTA9AURYHKUOM3ZYEPKE/0316PDbrownride01.jpg Editorial Jen Tipton (right) participates in a candlelight vigil for U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Brad Brown, who was killed in a motorcycle crash, on Arden Road a few miles west of San Angelo, Saturday, March 16. Tipton, Brown's fiance, and the local chapter of the Number One Stunnas motorcycle club held a memorial ride for Brown which ended at the crash site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411665228320-B51HLS5OKFCNA2EFDLST/0323PDheartdonor01.jpg Editorial Sarah Pipkin and Mark Roberts embrace as they meet for the first time as Terri Roberts looks on at the Texas Organ Sharing Alliance offices in San Antonio. The Roberts' son, Dillon, was killed in June of last year while riding his dirt bike and the family decided to donate his organs. Pipkin received Dillon's heart. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411665252544-V0QW5PJXHAVOIVF0OKON/0402PDprocession1.jpg Editorial Followers walk the street in the Procession of the Cross Friday afternoon as part of Good Friday services in San Angelo. The procession started at St. Margaret's Church and continued to the Catholic Diocese Retreat Center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411665317288-6QJFUN00274P4JUITXL9/0505PDhebcamp20.jpg Editorial Jose De Leon, a Sterling City fourth-grader, climbs out of the Frio River at the H. E. Butt Foundation Camp during a three-day outdoor education trip with fellow classmates. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1513984167447-NFNYUL16PX2APA2MDL90/PQpoy05.JPG Editorial Nico Strydom, with Servpro of Vero Beach, pours water out of his boot after wading through knee-high flooding Tuesday around the Heritage Center in downtown Vero Beach. The interior of the center began taking water after day-long thunderstorms dropped more than seven inches of rain. "We're going to try and get as much water out of here as we can, but there's so much water surrounding the building that some will get back in," Strydom said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411665427255-NISQ4R09HH1Y8A0G3T76/0617PDdaycamp1.jpg Editorial Keith Franke participates in a parachute game at the West Texas Rehabilitation Center Summer Camp for Children with Disabilities near Lake Nasworthy in San Angelo. The camp is celebrating it's 31st year and is hosting 80 children this year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411665451914-JTPYYJTCB6W7KC45FVAK/0806PDgloriagriffin1.jpg Editorial Gloria Griffin wipes away tears as she stands just outside the fence where the body of her 9-year-old son, James, was found after he drowned in the retaining pond at Lake View Park in 1987. The park has a history of flooding after heavy rains. "In all these years since J.J.'s death, I've never been this close to the pond before," Griffin said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411665489930-FSK3X2G95BZFUXL08BYW/0902PDblockharvest1.jpg Editorial Brent Halfmann passes a fellow farmer as they harvest milo from a field owned by Carl Block near Mereta. Local farmers in the area are helping the Block family with their fields after the death of their 12-year-old son Jason in August. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1411665505380-4P3MRIT43SW9YCDVIBYP/1004feature1.JPG Editorial Members of the Junction High School marching band line up to take the field at San Angelo Stadium Saturday, Oct. 3 for their performance in the San Angelo Marching Festival. Junction was one of 22 bands showcasing their talents at this year's festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1513984121821-QI4F3CN0HCUNP7NTA1J6/0911IrmaMonday41.JPG Editorial Silas Ferrell, 11, (from left), Hugh Downey, 11, and Noah Ferrell, 8, take turns jumping over a drainage pipe on Humiston Beach in Vero Beach on Monday, Sept. 11, 2017. The pipe was exposed after the sand on the beach eroded due to the high surf and winds brought by Hurricane Irma. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1413840909145-L7IPAICRFN9KFXKP99AH/0331PDhavlak02.jpg Editorial Ludwig Havlak, 92, leans in close to a B-24 Liberator parked on the tarmac at Mathis Field on Monday afternoon, the same model of aircraft he flew more than 40 missions on as a radar operator during World War II. Havlak said "613 combat hours it took me through, and I'm going to go kiss that baby." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1423163380959-A02FMGQ50WYTGUL6NL56/0419PDwildcatfire01.jpg Editorial Florida-based U.S. Forest Service members Jarrod Nobels (left) and Chuck Harden look on as a helicopter dumps mud onto burning trees near the roadside of U.S. 277 north of the Goodyear Proving Grounds, Tuesday, April 19, 2011. The Wildcat Fire had at the time consumed more than 150,000 acres. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1513984150154-V3YWK92HV9O2TGG46TL7/ImmigrationProtest25.JPG Editorial Paul Blake, of Vero Beach, participates in a demonstration with about 100 other local citizens voicing their opposition to President Donald Trump's immigration and refugee ban on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, on the steps of the Indian River County Courthouse in Vero Beach. The rally was organized by The Rev. Scott W. Alexander, pastor of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Vero Beach. "This un-American executive order is small, it's mean-spirited, it's undemocratic and it's discriminatory towards people," Alexander said. About 50 Trump supporters were also at the courthouse voicing their opinion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1423163714768-TJYRFNAK76M9GFQKJO0P/1228PDcambodia03.jpg Editorial A man cleans his afternoon catch of fish as the local youth play in the flowing waters near Sisophon, Cambodia, Oct. 5, 2011. Daily life in rural Cambodia mainly revolves around water which is the major source for food and growing rice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1444340394335-J1BQ0UIFD6AL4EB63F97/01+Fire.jpg Editorial From left, San Angelo police officer Daniel Williams and San Angelo Fire Department's Mike Hensley and Tony Huston carry a man from his smoke filled Spanish Courts apartment in San Angelo. Initial reports say that a fire broke out behind the stove filling the apartment with smoke. San Angelo police officers Williams and Jack Tyler kicked down the door to the apartment and found the victim laying on the floor. The apartment resident was taken to Shannon Medical Center for smoke inhalation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1513983799563-CYA4ENDJB4OVZC2Z33CV/0802VBHSband01.JPG Editorial Vero Beach High School senior Caroline Kirkendall concentrates on working through the new keyboard music for the 2017 marching band season, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, during the second week of summer band camp in Vero Beach. "This year's show is called 'Radiant Voices' and it's basically centered around Americans who have been powerful leaders so throughout the show you'll hear quotes from different speeches," said director of bands Page Howell. "Our number one mission is to support the football team. The band is such a vital part of the Friday night atmosphere and we take that very seriously." The band will roll out their show over the course of the first few football games of the season starting Sep. 1. "It gives the audience something new each week to look forward to as we roll out the show," Howell said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1513984121949-GUPFEH2E6F258YLYUF61/ChamblissMemorial27.JPG Editorial Gifford community members and local law enforcement gather in front of the New Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist Church, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, for a law enforcement community vigil to honor slain Indian River County Sheriff's Deputy Garry Chambliss. Chambliss, 50, was visiting friends Friday night when he was fatally shot by a bullet fired about 170 yards away from the scene of a roadside argument about 9:30 p.m. on 28th Avenue in Gifford. Sheriff’s officials said Chambliss wasn't the intended target. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1513984182975-5SDMPIUOYZVIVXSK1OFG/PQpoy08.JPG Editorial Bill Marshall (left) and Frank Pendleton ready their gear to dive for lobster Wednesday morning at Humiston Beach in Indian River County on the first day of the 2016 mini-season. "We took both days off from work and we'll just keep at it. Dive, refill, eat, repeat," Marshall said. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/542448e3e4b0e868894aead8/1513984190313-9C3SWFUTHUGIT4JI0O0F/PQpoy17.JPG Editorial As the sun begins to set, Vero Beach High School seniors make their way to the stage to receive their diplomas Friday, June 3, 2016, during commencement ceremonies at the Citrus Bowl in Vero Beach. 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