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© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Dan Moore of Windsor Township shakes an open water bottle over the young children he was chaperoning from End of the Rainbow Day Care during the sixth inning of the York Revolution’s game against the Bridgeport Bluefish on Wednesday, July 18, 2012, at Sovereign Bank Stadium. The Revs lost 8-4.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Max Clarke, 13, holds a misting hose to cool down six-year-old Rudy, a dog available for adoption through the York County SPCA, during First Friday on Friday, July 6, 2012. York County SPCA volunteers brought six dogs available for adoption to downtown York for First Friday on North Beaver Street on Friday, July 6, 2012.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Led inside Camera Center of York to cool down for a few minutes, 6-year-old Rudy eyes Nikon advertisements featuring Ashton Kutcher on Friday, July 6, 2012.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Friar Father Paul Dressler, visiting from Washington, D.C., takes a shot at a basketball hoop at the 21st annual St. Joseph Church Carnival on Thursday, June 14, 2012.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Justin Updegrove, 18 of York Township, takes a swig of his Snapple iced tea drink as he and others skate down Vander Ave. toward Reid Menzer Memorial Skate Park on Thursday, June 21, 2012. Every June 21 is Go Skateboarding Day. Local skaters met at Exist Skateboard Shop in Spring Garden Township, skated to Reid Menzer Memorial Skate Park and then to downtown York City.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Shawn Eisenhart, 15 of Spring Garden Township, skates off the steps of the post office building on South George Street as Christian Hamberger, 17 of West York, rolls video on Thursday, June 21, 2012.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Dallastown Area High School sophomore Hannah Derricky emerges from the mud pit through which she and her teammates crawled in the dirtiest event in the school’s Down and Dirty fundraiser on Friday, May 25, 2012. Forty-eight teams, each comprised of five Dallastown Area High School students, competed in 10 obstacle courses to raise money for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and Team Shad.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. A flag planted at William D. Willard’s grave waves over his grave marker on Thursday, May 17, 2012, in the Mt. Rose Cemetery. Volunteers from the local B’nai Brith Youth Organization planted flags on veterans’ graves in the Mt. Rose Cemetery in Spring Garden Township on Thursday, in anticipation of Memorial Day.

© 2012 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Lincolnway Swimming Pool lifeguard Nathan Bahn, 18, scrubs the lime scale deposits off the barriers of a tower structure that children climb to access two of five slides at the pool, on Thursday, May 24, 2012. Like other outdoor pools in the area, Lincolnway Swimming Pool will be open starting on Memorial Day weekend — specifically, Saturday.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Holding hands, Jimmy Torres of Allentown and Kaitlin Kolva of Halifax in Dauphin County enter the dance floor on Saturday, July 23, 2011, at Club XS in North York borough. Club XS in North York borough enforces a dress code that prohibits bandanas, sunglasses and saggy, baggy pants, among other items.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Johnathan Krug of Columbia in Lancaster County and Mike Shomody of Elizabethtown in Lancaster County converse on Saturday, July 23, 2011, at Club XS.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Tuckered out after running around at a block party, Antron Mitchell, 10 of York, sleeps through the first set of jazz music performed by Jeff Stabley & Band on Saturday, July 23, 2011, at Foundry Park. About three dozen people came to the park to listen to the band perform as part of Downtown Inc.'s SPLASH! Concert Series.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Erin McBrairty, 12 of Springettsbury Township, and Amelia Strayer, 11 of Springettsbury Township, scream in anticipation as their Summer Adventure Camp counselor Marcy Renshaw throws a bucket of water on them in the bumper boat pool in Roundtop Mountain Resort's Mountain Adventure area on Thursday, July 14, 2011.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Erin McBrairty, 12 of Springettsbury Township, and Amelia Strayer, 11 of Springettsbury Township, duck away as their Summer Adventure Camp counselor Marcy Renshaw throws a bucket of water on them in the bumper boat pool in Roundtop Mountain Resort's Mountain Adventure area on Thursday, July 14, 2011.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record. Zach Cline, 10 of Mechanicsburg, sits atop a barricade and eats his popsicle as he and other Summer Adventure Camp participants wait their turn to go down the slope in the H2 OGO ball at Roundtop Mountain Resort's Mountain Adventure area on Thursday, July 14, 2011. Cline's "mustache" is the result of his and other campers' finding a permanent marker in their counselor's backpack. Roundtop Mountain Resort is offering its fourth year of five-day Summer Adventure Camps, during which kids ranging in age from 8 to 15 participate in activities including fishing, kayaking, Frisbee golf and high ropes.

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© 2011 by The York Daily Record. Deshon Marine, Jr., 12, far right, watches as his uncle Dontavien Marine of York, center, dances along with his niece Victoria Hartman, 13 of Baltimore, right, while watching the movie "Hairspray" in the cooling center hosted by Christ Lutheran Church on Saturday, July 23, 2011. Lutheran Social Services of South Central Pennsylvania operated the cooling center on Saturday, with Help Center director Joe Studivant on-site with his family to keep the fellowship hall open for anybody who needed to cool off, drink cold bottled water or have a freeze pop.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Performing as the character Beatrice, Theresa Strange of New Freedom eavesdrops on a conversation between Theresa Bova of Manchester Township, performing as Ursula, and Sarah Tyler of New Freedom, performing as Hero, in a final dress rehearsal of William Shakespeare's comedy "Much Ado About Nothing" on Saturday, July 16, 2011, in a fellow cast member's backyard in Spring Garden Township. DreamWrights Youth & Family Theatre is producing Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" for Theatre Under The Trees, a series of free shows throughout York County every Friday from June 22 to July 30. The cast began its dress rehearsals on Saturday, July 16, 2011, in a cast member's backyard, and rehearsed in a different backyard every day to help the performers get used to acting outside in different locations.

© 2011 by The York Daily Record/Sunday News. Cows gather toward the center of Leroy and Brenda Walker's barn to eat and get cooled off on Friday, July 22, 2011, at Walk-Le Holsteins farm in Paradise Township. The Walkers' 20,700-square foot barn features a misting system, as well as 36 fans that keep air moving at about 6 miles per hour. Leroy Walker said the barn has made a difference in the cows' comfort and milk production. "In our old barn, we might have lost 2 gallons a day" per cow, Walker said.