Post-Dispatch photos: Monday, May 21, 2012
Date: 5/21/2012 Album ID: 1473408
Photos by Christian Gooden/St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Photographs by staff photographers
A southbound tow boat passes beneath the Eads Bridge on the Mississippi on Friday, May 18, 2012.
Photo by Christian Gooden, cgooden@post-dispatch.com
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Linda Henke, retiring superintendent of schools for the Maplewood Richmond Heights School District, hands out stuff bears to Altouise Rusan (left), 5, A'Viontay Rusan Jr. (center) 2, and Roxanna Rusan, 4, in the district's office on Friday, May 18, 2012.  Henke keeps a drawer full of stuffed bears to  hand out to children who will be enrolling in the district. 
Photo By David Carson, dcarson@post-dispatch.com
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Riverview Gardens band director Craig Nowden tries to keep Dillyn Day and others cool with cold water as the Marching Rams walk down Market Street during the Annie Malone May Day parade in downtown St. Louis on Sunday, May 20, 2012. Hot temperatures will drop by Sunday, according to the National Weather Service. Photo by Erik M. Lunsford elunsford@post-dispatch.com
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Dontel Pattman from the University City Marching Band performs as they walk down Market Street during the Annie Malone May Day parade in downtown St. Louis on Sunday, May 20, 2012. Photo by Erik M. Lunsford elunsford@post-dispatch.com
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(L-R) Brittany Walker of St. Louis, her son Dominic Walker, 2, and her nieces Adreana Johnson, 8, Taliah Washington, 5, Amani Washington, 7, and Mikala Washington, 6, watch from the fence during the Annie Malone May Day parade in downtown St. Louis on Sunday, May 20, 2012. Photo by Erik M. Lunsford elunsford@post-dispatch.com
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Linda Henke (left), the superintendent for the Maplewood Richmond Heights School District, dances alongside several students and faculty members including high school counselor Gwen Donnell (center in black shirt) and ninth-grader Janai Robinson (right) during an assembly held in the newly named Dr. Linda Henke Commons, a courtyard on the north side of the school, on Friday, May 11, 2012. Henke is retiring after twelve years as superintendent.
Photo by Johnny Andrews, jandrews@post-dispatch.com
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Marcus Capps, 33, and his wife Maggie Capps, 34, photograph one of the spitting dragons Sunday, May 20, 2012, in Spoehrer Plaza at the Missouri Botanical Garden. The Garden is still decorating for the start of the Lantern Festival which opens May 26, 2012 and runs through August 19, 2012.

Photo by J.B. Forbes   jforbes@post-dispatch.com
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Edward Reichert, from Monkton, Maryland, photographs the corpse lily Sunday, May 20, 2012, at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Reichert and his wife were in St. Louis for his grandson's high school graduation. He was disappointed that the plant wasn't putting out any odor. A steady line of people started outside of the Linnean House, as people waited to see the rare plant.

Photo by J.B. Forbes   jforbes@post-dispatch.com
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