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Week in photos July 4- 10 2021

Italy fans react to a goal against England to bring the score to 1-1 during a European Championship watch party at La Prima Espresso Co. in the Strip District, Sunday, July 11, 2021. Italy won during the penalty-kick tiebreaker. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)
Ruth Rose, 5, of Forest Hills, makes a whirligig, a toy that was popular in America in the 18th century, with the help of Mandee Williams, of Morningside, the children’s library manager at the Braddock Carnegie Library, during the 266th Battle Commemoration event at Braddock’s Battlefield History Center, Sunday, July 11, 2021, in Braddock. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)
A portion of the about 800 volunteers work to package 300,000 meals for people in need during the Serve Day event at Allison Park Church, Saturday, July 10, 2021, in Hampton. Serve Day is an annual program organized by Network of Hope in partnership with Rise Against Hunger. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)
A portion of the about 800 volunteers work to package 300,000 meals for people in need during the Serve Day event at Allison Park Church, Saturday, July 10, 2021, in Hampton. Serve Day is an annual program organized by Network of Hope in partnership with Rise Against Hunger. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)

A portion of the about 800 volunteers work to package 300,000 meals for people in need during the Serve Day event at Allison Park Church, Saturday, July 10, 2021, in Hampton. Serve Day is an annual program organized by Network of Hope in partnership with Rise Against Hunger. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)Angie Rudy, Giuliana Crucitt, 8, and her mother Anna Crucitt, all of Hampton, package meals with about 800 other volunteers to package 300,000 meals for people in need during the Serve Day event at Allison Park Church, Saturday, July 10, 2021, in Hampton. Serve Day is an annual program organized by Network of Hope in partnership with Rise Against Hunger. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)

Angie Rudy, Giuliana Crucitt, 8, and her mother Anna Crucitt, all of Hampton, package meals with about 800 other volunteers to package 300,000 meals for people in need during the Serve Day event at Allison Park Church, Saturday, July 10, 2021, in Hampton. Serve Day is an annual program organized by Network of Hope in partnership with Rise Against Hunger. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)

Women recreate 18th century weaving and sewing during the Whiskey Rebellion Festival at the LeMoyne House, Saturday, July 10, 2021, in Washington. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)

Jaxson Cobbs,10, of Robinson, does a backflip on a blow-up obstacle course at the Summer Kids Festival at the Verona Street Park on July 10, 2021, in Braddock.(Ben Braun/Post-Gazette)

Pennsylvania State Police Cpl. Ozzie Mills puts a vest on Chy’Neze Crosby, 13, at the Summer Kids Festival at the Verona Street Park on July 10, 2021, in Braddock. According to a state police facebook page, his mother took him to visit a state police office in 2015 and he has wanted to be a state police trooper for years. (Ben Braun/Post-Gazette)

A veteran of the 320th Anti-Aircraft Barrage Balloon Battalion, the only all-Black unit to land on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, Henry Parham died Sunday July 4, 2021 of bladder cancer. He was 99. Mr. Parham was likely the last surviving African American combat veteran of D-Day. Mr. Parham, of Wilkinsburg, Pa. joined 17 other American veterans at a ceremony at the French embassy in Washington, D.C., where the French government awarded them the Legion of Honor in 2013; the highest military decoration in France. (Nate Guidry/Post-Gazette)
Firefighters on the scene of a fatal fire in a duplex on Bridge St. on Thursday, July 8, 2021, in Etna. (Andrew Rush/Post-Gazette)
Rio Hawkins, left, gives putting instructions to Kristina Earley, 11, at the Arnold Palmer Learning Center at the Bob O’Connor Golf Course in Schenley Park on Wednesday, May 27, 2021. First Tee, a nonprofit organization, is teaching golf to young people who might not have the chance to learn the sport. (Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette)

A tree that fell on power lines and a house is seen on Charleston Avenue in Regent Square, Wednesday, July 7, 2021. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)

People look at a fallen tree over West Hutchinson Avenue in Edgewood, Wednesday, July 7, 2021. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)
A fallen tree is seen over West Hutchinson Avenue in Edgewood, Wednesday, July 7, 2021. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)
People gather to look at a fallen tree and utility pole on Overton Street in Regent Square, Wednesday, July 7, 2021. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)
Counselor Paris Wohlgemuth helps Effie, 8, aim her bow at the archery activity during the STEM Adventure Day Camp at Boy Scouts of America’s Camp Guyasuta on Wednesday, July 7, 2021, in Sharpsburg, Pa. The camp runs for 8 weeks this summer, all weeks are full. All activities at the camp integrate STEM elements into the experience. (Andrew Rush/Post-Gazette)
Neighbors gather near a tree that fell on a house on Lancaster Avenue in Regent Square, Wednesday, July 7, 2021. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)
Michael Eisenberg, former president of the Tree of Life synagogue, clears debris from the road that was blown off of the Tree of Life’s roof during a storm on July 7, 2021, in Squirrel Hill. (Ben Braun/Post-Gazette via AP)
The Tree of Life synagogue lost one of its cell towers housing during a storm on July 7, 2021, in Squirrel Hill. The structure on the left apparently lost it’s third wall and another structure just beyond that one is missing after the storm. (Ben Braun/Post-Gazette)
The gas price sign at the Sunoco on Craig and Bayard in North Oakland on Wednesday, July 7, 2021. As more people get vaccinated, they start to go out and do what previously wasn’t safe, leading to an increase in demand for gas. In turn, gas prices are increasing and it isn’t clear when they will come back down. (Jack Myer/Post-Gazette)
Courtyard by Marriott at Liberty and Centre avenues in Bloomfield, near UPMC Shadyside, on Wednesday, July 7, 2021. After years of looking for ways to consolidate its locations, Family House, the organization that provides housing for patients undergoing medical treatment in Pittsburgh, has found the solution — a hotel. The nonprofit finalized a deal Wednesday to buy the Courtyard by Marriott Pittsburgh Shadyside near UPMC Shadyside in Bloomfield — an acquisition that executive director Jennifer March calls a dream come true. (Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette)
A biker rides across the Andy Warhol Bridge on a hazy observed holiday morning on Monday, July 5, 2021. (Andrew Rush/Post-Gazette)
Kayakers on the Allegheny River on Monday, July 5, 2021. (Andrew Rush/Post-Gazette)
A hazy view of Downtown Pittsburgh at sunrise photographed on Monday, July 5, 2021. (Andrew Rush/Post-Gazette)
Ellie Montgomery, 5, of New Castle, pets a cow in the livestock barn at the Big Butler Fair, Monday, July 5, 2021, in Prospect. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)
A Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources worker cleans up along the river at Point State Park the morning after the 4th of July fireworks display on Monday, July 5, 2021. (Andrew Rush/Post-Gazette)
A hazy view of Downtown Pittsburgh at sunrise photographed on Monday, July 5, 2021. (Andrew Rush/Post-Gazette)
A Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources worker cleans up around the fountain at Point State Park the morning after 4th of July fireworks display on Monday, July 5, 2021. (Andrew Rush/Post-Gazette)
Charlotte Cash, of Burkesville, Ky., takes a selfie with her daughter, Allison Cash of Bowling Green, Ky., during the July Fourth celebration at Point State Park on Sunday, July 4, 2021. (Jack Myer/Post-Gazette)
Spectators wait for fireworks on and around the Three Rivers Heritage Trail on the North Shore on the Allegheny River Sunday, July 4, 2021. (Jack Myer/Post-Gazette)
A Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire boat goes east up the Allegheny River on a report of people trying to reach a child with no life preserver in the water which turned out to be a woman who had cut her foot near the Andy Warhol Bridge on Sunday, July 4, 2021. No rescue was required but first aid was. (Jack Myer/Post-Gazette)
Fireworks light the sky behind the Mister Rogers statue Sunday, July 4, 2021, in Pittsburgh. (Matt Freed/Post-Gazette)
O’Ryan the O’Mazing, dressed in patriotic colors, juggles on stilts during the Midland Fourth of July parade on Sunday, July 4, 2021. After being scaled back last year because of COVID-19, the parade this year in Midland, PA, attacked a crowd that packed Midland Avenue. Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette)
Bryce Curtis, 1, waits for candy to be tossed to him during the Midland Fourth of July parade on Sunday, July 4, 2021. With him are sister Emma, 10, and mom Amber. All are from Midland. After being scaled back last year because of COVID-19, the parade this year in Midland, PA, attacked a crowd that packed Midland Avenue. Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette)

Dannielle Brown, of both Washington, D.C. and the Hill District, and founder of the Marquis Jaylen Brown Foundation, speaks to those assembled at her organization’s “I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Justice” ice cream social at Freedom Corner on Sunday, July 4, 2021, in the Hill District. The day marked one year from the start of Ms. Brown’s hunger strike at the historic site in the wake of her son’s death after falling from a window at Duquesne University. In addition to sharing that she was studying for her LSATs to hopefully be admitted to Duquesne University’s law program, Ms. Brown announced that her foundation received a grant from the Three Rivers Foundation to continue the organization’s mission to raise awareness of social injustice on college campuses and amplify the voices of mothers. (Stephanie Strasburg/Post-Gazette)

Aiden Betters, left, 7, of Northview Heights, and his great-grandmother, Ann Betters, second from right, of Manchester, eat ice cream together after church at Marquis Jaylen Brown Foundation’s “I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Justice” ice cream social at Freedom Corner on Sunday, July 4, 2021, in the Hill District. The day marked one year from the start of Dannielle Brown’s hunger strike at the historic site in the wake of her son’s death after falling from a window at Duquesne University. In addition to sharing that she was studying for her LSATs to hopefully be admitted to Duquesne University’s law program, Ms. Brown announced that her foundation received a grant from the Three Rivers Foundation to continue the organization’s mission to raise awareness of social injustice on college campuses and amplify the voices of mothers. (Stephanie Strasburg/Post-Gazette)

Ryann Parish, 2, center, cannot contain the excitement while watching candy being tossed during the Midland Fourth of July parade on Sunday, July 4, 2021. At right is Airalynn Gilliam, 3. Both children are from Beaver Falls. After being scaled back last year because of COVID-19, the parade this year in Midland, PA, attacked a crowd that packed Midland Avenue. Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette)

Robert Henne, 65, of Hookstown, took off his hat and waved while the American flag passed during the Midland Fourth of July parade on Sunday, July 4, 2021. After being scaled back last year because of COVID-19, the parade this year in Midland, PA, attacked a crowd that packed Midland Avenue. Steve Mellon/Post-Gazette)
Spectators await the fireworks during the July Fourth celebration at Point State Park on Sunday, July 4, 2021. (Jack Myer/Post-Gazette)
Spectators watch fireworks during the July Fourth celebration at Point State Park on Sunday, July 4, 2021. (Jack Myer/Post-Gazette)