Photos of the Month - July 2016

Officer David Valentine of the Cape Girardeau Police Department shares a laugh as he returns a cowboy hat to Colter Sparkman after trying it on during the Rev'n Rods & Heartland Music Tour stop at Arena Park Tuesday, July 19, 2016 in Cape Girardeau. (Glenn Landberg)

Chuck Randolph helps Matthew and Nick Chambless cool of while they volunteer as part of the Mount Auburn Christian Church Freedom Weekend Saturday, July 23, 2016. The group washed the fleet of patrol cars and helped with landscaping around the police station. (Glenn Landberg)

Teams compete in the mud volleyball tournament during the Fourth of July celebration Monday, July 4, 2016 at Jackson City Park. (Glenn Landberg)

Teams compete in the mud volleyball tournament during the Fourth of July celebration Monday, July 4, 2016 at Jackson City Park. (Glenn Landberg)

Cody Kester and Ashleigh Lawson rinse off under the spray of a firetruck after a game in the mud volleyball tournament during the Fourth of July celebration Monday, July 4, 2016 at Jackson City Park. (Glenn Landberg)

Petitioners recite the Oath of Allegiance while being sworn in as a U.S. citizens during a naturalization ceremony Monday, July 4, 2016 at the Common Pleas Courthouse in Cape Girardeau. (Glenn Landberg)

A crowd takes in the firework display on the riverfront for the Great American Fourth of July celebration in Downtown Cape Girardeau Monday, July 4, 2016. (Glenn Landberg)

Kenny Pincksten stands in the socond story kitchen of a house at 328 Spanish Street, which he plans to remodel, Friday, July 15, 2016. (Glenn Landberg)

Bill Mabrey of Scott City looks over a group of Chevrolet Corvettes during the Rev'n Rods & Heartland Music Tour stop at Arena Park Tuesday, July 19, 2016 in Cape Girardeau. (Glenn Landberg)

Jay Wittenborn, a member of the Illinois State Police, celebrates as his team wins the Cops and Hawks Bowl Thursday, July 21, 2016 at Houck Stadium. The flag-football game was a fundraiser for the family members of those who have lost their lives in the line of duty. (Glenn Landberg)

The Freedom Ride into Illinois over the Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge on Saturday, July 2, 2016 as part of the Great River Freedom Rally at Lawless Harley-Davidson in Scott City. (Fred Lynch)

Charles Hines improvises with his alto saxophone Tuesday afternoon, July 5, 2016 on Main Street in downtown Cape Girardeau. "I'm just having fun," he said, noting that "people were loving it" when he performed there during the weekend. (Fred Lynch)

Parks and Rec Day Friday, July 8, 2016 at the Osage Centre. (Fred Lynch)

Parks and Rec Day Friday, July 8, 2016 at the Osage Centre. (Fred Lynch)

Marcin Krawczyk takes his son, Adam, for a ride Sunday, July 10, 2016 along the Cape LaCroix Recreation Trail that runs under Independence Street in Cape Girardeau. The trail extends 5.67 miles from the Cape Girardeau County Park North property to the Shawnee Park soccer field bridge. (Fred Lynch)

Carissa Reiminger, left, and Ashley Gaertner play the Pokemon Go video game on their mobile devices Monday, July 11, 2016 along the Mississippi River floodwall in Cape Girardeau. (Fred Lynch)

Tory Hughes spins fire Monday night July 11, 2016 in downtown Cape Girardeau. A video of Hughes performing may be viewed at semissourian.com/multimedia. (Fred Lynch)

Cape Girardeau All Stars center fielder Jon Dohogne tries to catch a Manchester, Iowa Hawks fly ball that got away Saturday, July 16, 2016 during the fifth inning of a pool game in the Cal Ripken Midwest Plains Regional baseball tournament at Shawnee Sports Complex. (Fred Lynch)

Cape Girardeau All Stars reliever Grant James and catcher Alex Powderly celebrate with teammates Saturday, July 16, 2016 after their 10-8 victory over the Manchester, Iowa Hawks in pool play during the Cal Ripken Midwest Plains Regional baseball tournament at Shawnee Sports Complex. (Fred Lynch)

Two turtles compete to the finish line during the annual turtle races Saturday, July 16, 2016 at the New Hamburg Parish Picnic in New Hamburg, Missouri. (Fred Lynch)

Lachelle Cook of Oran, Missouri competes in a horseshoe tournament Saturday, July 16, 2016 at the New Hamburg Parish Picnic in New Hamburg, Missouri. (Fred Lynch)

Sexy Sarge O'Riley finds pain in the corner of the ring Saturday, July 16, 2016 in a Cape Championship Wrestling match with Brandon Barbwire at the Osage Centre. (Fred Lynch)

Farmer Billy Hills enters the arena for a match with Jason Vaughn at the Cape Championship Wrestling Saturday, July 16, 2016 at the Osage Centre. (Fred Lynch)

Caleb Jones, left, and his brother, Noah Jones, displayed a World War II German Schutzpolizei uniform and a collection of military memorabilia Sunday, July 17, 2016 at the Cape Girardeau Gun Show in the Arena Building. (Fred Lynch)

Katie Urhahn watches her 18-month-old son, Abe, as he tosses a beanbag through a square shape during the Tinker Tots Science program Monday, July 18, 2016 at the Cape Girardeau Public Library. The activity for toddlers was part of the library's summer reading program. (Fred Lynch)

Zane Eichman, left, heads back to rejoin the Pokemon Go-themed art walk of the Arts Council of Southeast Missouri, after getting ice cream with his mother, Nita Eichman, who was out with her German shepherd, Roar, along with Mary Stucker and her Shetland sheepdogs, Lacy and Ruddell, Friday, July 22, 2016 at Port Cape Girardeau on Water Street in Cape Girardeau. (Fred Lynch)

A Pokemon Go-themed art walk presented by the Arts Council of Southeast Missouri included the Mississippi River Tales murals Friday, July 22, 2016 in downtown Cape Girardeau. (Fred Lynch)

The view from the second floor of the old F.W. Woolworth Co. building is seen Tuesday, July 26, 2016 in downtown Cape Girardeau. (Fred Lynch)

Mary Bolen acknowledges the crowd's applause for her support of the Capahas with husband Jess Bolen during a ceremony honoring the Capaha skipper's 50 years with the team Tuesday, July 26, 2016 at Capaha Field. It was his last home game which the Capahas won, 7-6. (Fred Lynch)

Capahas manager Jess Bolen returned to the third-base coaching box with a bandaged right arm, as well as a ball glove given to him by a player, after he was struck by a line drive foul ball, Tuesday, July 26, 2016 at Capaha Field. It was the last home game for Bolen, who is retiring after 50 years with the team. (Fred Lynch)

The Stop Needless Acts of Violence Please (SNAP) prayer march Saturday, July 30, 2016 in Cape Girardeau. (Fred Lynch)

The marchers stopped Saturday, July 30, 2016 at the house where 6-year-old Markell Beasley of Jefferson City, Missouri, was shot to death on Dec. 24, 2013 on South Hanover Street in Cape Girardeau. (Fred Lynch)

Gus Macker 3 on 3 basketball tournament Saturday, July 30, 2016 at Arena Park. (Fred Lynch)

Gus Macker 3 on 3 basketball tournament Saturday, July 30, 2016 at Arena Park. (Fred Lynch)

Gus Macker 3 on 3 basketball tournament Saturday, July 30, 2016 at Arena Park. (Fred Lynch)

Nineteen-year-old Mike Miller checks out fresh scratches on his racing lawnmower after a minor crash at Bollinger County home on Monday, June 27, 2016. Miller's father, Lee, looks on from behind. (Laura Simon)

Nineteen-year-old Mike Miller and his father, Lee, pose for a photo with Miller's racing lawnmower at their Bollinger County home on Monday, June 27, 2016. (Laura Simon)

Bob Schwepker sings for the residents at Jackson Manor on Tuesday, June 28, 2016. (Laura Simon)

Raindrops fall on a window at Southeast Missouri State University's River Campus as lightning strikes behind the Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge during a passing thunderstorm on Thursday afternoon, July 7, 2016 in Cape Girardeau. (Laura Simon)

Heavy rains fall around the Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge during a passing thunderstorm on Thursday afternoon, July 7, 2016 in Cape Girardeau. (Laura Simon)

Terry Davis uses a Chandler & Price Co. printing press to make prints at Catapult Creative House in Cape Girardeau on Wednesday, July 6, 2016. (Laura Simon)

Jessica Lambert uses a Vandercook printing press to make prints while testing and cataloguing image blocks at Catapult Creative House in Cape Girardeau on Wednesday, July 6, 2016. (Laura Simon)

Richard Hill poses for a photo while checking out the American Queen while it is stopped in downtown Cape Girardeau on Saturday, July 9, 2016, during its trip north on the Mississippi River. (Laura Simon)

Richard Hill poses for a photo while checking out the American Queen while it is stopped in downtown Cape Girardeau on Saturday, July 9, 2016, during its trip north on the Mississippi River. (Laura Simon)

Laura Orr chats with a visitor in the basement of Kelso C-7 School in New Hamburg, Missouri on Thursday, July 14, 2016. Orr, who has worked at the school for 29 years as a bus driver and cook, was helping to tidy up before the weekend. (Laura Simon)

Anna Ahrens plays her fiddle along with the other seven students in the Southeast Missouri State University Music Academy's Exploring American Fiddle Styles class taught by Steve Schaffner at the River Campus on Wednesday, July 20, 2016. Most of the students have been playing for 2-3 years and are in the Academy's Suzuki Program. The students will perform on Friday at Ratliff Care Center in Cape Girardeau. (Laura Simon)

Kelly Thomsen looks up from her fiddle during the Southeast Missouri State University Music Academy's Exploring American Fiddle Styles class taught by Steve Schaffner at the River Campus on Wednesday, July 20, 2016. (Laura Simon)

Jimmie Miller dances in the Southeast Missourian studio on Tuesday, July 12, 2016, in Cape Girardeau. Miller is the owner of Broken and Redeemed Studio, a faith-based hip-hop dance studio in Cape Girardeau. (Laura Simon)

Tara Landewee does arm curls during her workout at the Osage Centre on Thursday, July 21, 2016, in Cape Girardeau. "I love it here," Landewee said of the Osage Centre's fitness center. "We are all like a big family." (Laura Simon)