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Workers with Arrow Paper and Party Supply erect a tent on Parade Plaza for Saturday's inaugural New England Basque Club Basque Fest on Wednesday, June 20, 2018. The festival, the club's largest event ever, will celebrate the Basque's distinctive dance, music, art, rural sports and cuisine. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

Preparing for Basque Fest

Instructor Jessica Patterson, right, leads a community yoga class on Monday, June 18, 2018, at Eastern Point Beach. The classes, a City of Groton Parks and Recreation program, are offered to all levels for $6 every Monday at 5:30 through the summer. In bad weather the classes will be moved to the City of Groton Municipal Building. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)

Yoga at Eastern Point Beach

Ahnie Evangeline, 6, runs through the water at the Whale Tail Fountain with friends Jaylianis Perdomo, left, 4, and Kialeinys Perdomo, 6, on Monday, June 18, 2018, in New London. The girls went straight to the fountain after school in an attempt to cool off and beat the heat. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)

Cooling down after school

Rev. Dr. Joyce Duerr, guest pastor, blesses parishioners' tractors with holy water on Sunday, June 17, 2018, after service at the First Baptist Church of North Stonington.

Blessing of the tractors

Mark Bastien, 19, of Norwich completes a skateboard maneuver, called a

Back disaster manuever

Boys in the 7- to 8-year-old division take off from the starting line during the Norwich Splash and Dash Youth Aquathon, a run-swim-run race, at Mohegan Park on Saturday. New London Recreation hosted the event, which was the second of the

Splash and dash

Aubrie Mahon, 8, left, and Arielys Baez, 8, pound the beat on the floor as Felicia Hurley of Writers Block Ink leads a group of third-, fourth- and fifth-graders at Stanton Network School in Norwich on a tour performing African drumming and dance in classrooms around the school Friday, June 15, 2018. The students learned West African radiational rhythms with the help of Writers Block artists facilitated through the United Community and Family Services school-based health center to build self-confidence and support mental and physical wellness. The performances were the culmination of the academic-year-long program. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

Drumming up participation

A crew from Tarantino Roofing and Coppersmith, LLC, of New Haven, strips the slate shingles off the roof of Christ Episcopal Church in Norwich on Wednesday, June 14, 2018. Owner Pat Tarantino says he specializes in old church roofs and estimates the roof on Christ Episcopal dates from the 1930s. The roof will be replaced with asphalt shingles with new copper cladding along the stonework. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day)

Out with the old

Langston Camerlin, right, 14, Max Frischling, left front, 13, and Dylan McKee, back left, 13, all of East Lyme and all Boy Scouts from Troop 240 in East Lyme assist in a United States flag retirement ceremony at the Kari Hill VFW Post 5849 in Niantic, Thursday, June 14, 2018. (Tim Martin/The Day)

Flag retirement ceremony

Julius Beaney, 6, of Pawcatuck, rides his Spider-Man scooter in Wilcox Park in Westerly on Wednesday, June 13, 2018. (Tim Martin/The Day)

Against the wind

Raysa Feliz, Eddy Feliz Jr, 5, Eddy Feliz, Shantel Leyba and Yafreysi Leyba, 16, of New London take a family photo using the self-timer on a cell phone while celebrating Father's Day a bit early at Ocean Beach Park in New London on Wednesday, June 13, 2018. Yafreysi created the heart in the sand, in foreground, with her mother and stepfather's initials in the center. (Dana Jensen/The Day)

An early Father's Day

Lauren Bourque of St. Marys, Ga. holds a strawberry for her son, Conner (cq) Bourque, 6, to take a bite while they spend time picking strawberries at the Scott's Yankee Farmer pick your own strawberry patch, located on Chesterfield Road in East Lyme, Tuesday, June 12, 2018. Lauren and Conner were picking strawberries with other family members from Georgia while visiting relatives in Niantic. The first day of strawberry picking was Monday and runs through July 4. (Dana Jensen/The Day)

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