Ryan Bishop, center, 25, of North Hills, makes his way down a soaped-up slip n’ slide with fellow party-goers at the PGHboatlife summer celebration bringing boat enthusiasts together in lieu of the cancelled Regatta on Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019, along the North Shore. The group organized music, food, drinks, and a 100-foot slip n’ slide for those who wanted to gather to celebrate river life together. “As soon as the city cancelled Tuesday, I made it up ad got everything going,” said event co-organizer Daryl Chase, 36, of Crafton, who asked only that people bring dish soap for the slip n’ slide and have a good time. (Stephanie Strasburg/Post-Gazette)A boy sits on a fence before the children’s swine showmanship competition at the Butler Farm Show in Butler on Monday, Aug. 5, 2019. (Christian Snyder/Post-Gazette)Paxton plays with a pasta noodle as Suzanne Denk, Animal Enrichment Specialist at Animal Friends shelter, prepares to grab a tea bag wrapper, Tuesday, August 6, 2019, at Animal Friends shelter in Ohio Township. Suzanne Denk, Animal Enrichment Specialist at Animal Friends shelter, has enrichment toys and games to keep dogs and cats happy at the shelter to make them more appealing to adopters. (Michael M. Santiago/Post-Gazette)Nora Grone, 4, of Deutschtown enjoys a slice of watermelon, Tuesday, August 6, 2019, at the National Night Out Block Party in Deutschtown. (Haldan Kirsch/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)Tiffany Roberson of Braddock, left, comforts her mother Karol Stoudemire, in her father’s Rev. Sheldon “Sarge” Stoudemire burial ceremony, at the National Cemetery of the Alleghenies Tuesday, August 6, 2019 in Bridgeville. Rev. Stoudemire was a longtime anti-gun violence advocate who was shot and killed on the North Side Saturday, July 27th. (Lake Fong/Post-Gazette)Maple, a hound mix, digs his nose in a sniffle mat while looking for treats, Tuesday, August 6, 2019, at Animal Friends shelter in Ohio Township. Suzanne Denk, Animal Enrichment Specialist at Animal Friends shelter, has enrichment toys and games to keep dogs and cats happy at the shelter to make them more appealing to adopters. (Michael M. Santiago/Post-Gazette)Brewers third base coach Ed Sedar and right fielder Ryan Braun signal to their dugout after Bruan hit a triple against the Pirates in the second inning Wednesday, August 7, 2019, at PNC Park. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)William Lewis, 3, of Homewood plays a piece in a game of Connect Four during the 52nd Annual Harambee Ujima Black Arts Festival on Homewood Avenue and Kelly Street in Homewood on Sunday, August 4, 2019. The festival is sponsored by the Harambee Ujima Black Arts and Culture Association and works to promote a sense of community and celebrate art. (Caitlin Lee/Post-Gazette)Thousands from around Pittsburgh, the country and the world attend Replay FX, also known as the Replay Foundation Expo, a non profit organization that aims to help promote the preservation and restoration of pinball and arcade gaming technology, Sunday Aug. 4, 2019, at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center Downtown. The four day expo, held only in Pittsburgh, features more than 1000 full-sized arcade and pinball machines that have been played over the last four decades. (Jessie Wardarski/Post-Gazette)Stella Goodwine, of Penn Hills, holds a butterfly during a group butterfly release to honor loved ones to close out the Moraine State Park Regatta on Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019, at the park in Portersville. Goodwine and her family gathered to honor her brother-in-law, Anthony Rivers, who was fatally shot at age 26 in 2008. On the day of his shooting, which also fell on August 4th, butterflies visited his mother, and have continued to follow members of the family since that day, continuing at his funeral and during big events in their lives, said Rivers’ mother, Peg Rivers, 65, of Stanton Heights. “That’s our representation of him, he was a free spirit,” said Ms. Rivers of the butterflies’ symbolism to her. (Stephanie Strasburg/Post-Gazette)
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