JONATHAN KIRSHNER PHOTOGRAPHY

Singles: Moment

   
  
Abbie and Ashley Loving of Chatham, Ill., ages 6 and 7, don't seem to mind the funny face flashed their way by Ellanah Gentry of Springfield, 2, during the Sunburst Beauty Pagaent.
     
  
   
  
     
  
"I'm too old for this crap," said Dale Hunter, 81, after trying to clear an area to park his car at his childhood home on the 3200 block of Park Ave. Hunter, a World War II veteran has maintaned the home since his mother's death in 1985. "When we were kids this was the meeting grounds. All the neighbors would sit on the lawn and shoot the breeze. I'm the end of the line, no kids, no relatives, no nothing."
   
  
James Mader of Effingham receives a blood transfusion as his daughter, Emily and wife Nancy wait at his bedside during his treatment for leukemia at Memorial Medical Center.
     
  
Chatham native Kelci Bryant, 16, won the 3-meter springboard title and 1-meter springboard title at the U.S. National Diving Championships earlier this month.
   
  
Gene Lanich returns the missing Paul Bunyan head from Lauterbach Tire and Auto shop after finding it behind Benchmark Auto Sound on Wabash Ave. early Monday morning on March 13, 2006.
     
  
John Washington sings "The Road to Kappaland," a ritual inspirational hymn, with other Kappa Alpha Psi brothers as they dress before competing in a stepshow.
   
  
Ken and Virginia Belton of Jerome, Ill., both 82, were married on June 17, 1943, while Ken was serving as a pilot in the Army Air Corps during World War II. Ken was taken in by the Dutch underground after his B-17 Bomber was shot down over Holland. The Belton's raised two daughters and now have five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.