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Photos of the Week 06/15/08-06/21/08
Date: 6/27/2008 Album ID: 546894
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Dora Amelia Barragan wore jewelry she designed.
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Stephanie Salgado held Quantum, an 8-year-old Miniature Schnauzer in her West El Paso home Friday. Salgado and her husband, Javier Salgado, said the dog went missing from their back yard three weeks ago and was returned last Thursday.
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Parks and Recration Director Nanette Smejkel and East-Valley city Rep. Eddie Holguin jump into the new Olympic size Pavo Real Pool during its official re-opening on Friday.
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Children played under the water buckets at the grand re-opening of the new olympic sized Pavo Real Pool on Friday.
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About 250 members of the 31st Combat Support Hospital, 31st Air Defense Artillery Brigade, returned home from Iraq Saturday morning. The soldiers, who had been deployed since April 2007, were welcomed by family and friends at Biggs Army Air Field at Fort Bliss. On Tuesday, about 30 soldiers with the 31st CSH arrived at El Paso International Airport. The 31st CSH has about 350 soldiers who have been deployed since last April.

Adriana M. Ch‡vez, reporter 

Spc. Benjamin Loreto gave his father Carlos Loreto, who dorve in from Tucson with nine other family members, a big hug after being deployed for over a year in Iraq on Saturday.
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About 250 members of the 31st Combat Support Hospital, 31st Air Defense Artillery Brigade, returned home from Iraq Saturday morning. The soldiers, who had been deployed since April 2007, were welcomed by family and friends at Biggs Army Air Field at Fort Bliss. On Tuesday, about 30 soldiers with the 31st CSH arrived at El Paso International Airport. The 31st CSH has about 350 soldiers who have been deployed since last April.

Adriana Chavez, reporter

Bella Quintero,4, hung on tightly to her father, Spc Gerardo Quintero, as he greeted his wife Veronica and his daughter Nevaeh Quintero, 1 on Saturday at Biggs Field.
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Carol Straughan shows off the empty bowl that held her prize winning chili.  Straughan's chili won first place at the Flags Across America flag day celebration.  0615_b1_flag 1_aj photo by Adriane Jaeckle
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Lauren Albanese plays against Anna Tatishvili during the USTA championship match on Sunday at Tennis West.
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El Paso firefighters put out a blaze behind at a home at 2031 Central Monday. The department sent out a large number of firefighters to avoid heat Exhaustion from Monday's high temperatures as they put out the fire.
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Adolfo Duarte, left, of Battalion 3 cooled off inside a Sun Metro bus after they fought a house fire at 2031 Central Monday afternoon.  The department sent out a larger than normal contingent of firefighters to the fire in order to avoid heat exhaustion from Monday's triple digit temperatures.
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El Paso Fire Department paramedic Ruben Aparicio shook the water off his head after dousing himself with the cold liquid during a break from fighting a fire in the 2300 block of Central Monday. Firefighters drank and even poured the water over themselves to rehabilitate as they worked in over-100 degree weather.
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Maria Fernandez, a pipe layer with the El Paso Water Utilities wiped sweat from his face, as he and Roberto Villalobos, left, installed a new 8-inch pipe into the ground in triple digit temperatures at an alleyway near Gold and Alabama streets Monday.
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El Paso Community College lab assistant Ramon De La Rosa, top right, instructed Federico Villalobos, left, and Javier Alderete Tuesday.
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Jaime Grajeda, bottom, watched as framers Sergio Mata, top right, and Victor Santos worked in triple digit temperatures to attach supports to a home under construction near Sun Fire  Street in far East El Paso Tusday afternoon. The workers protect themselves by wearing long-sleeve shirts, head gear and sun glasses.
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Marcial McDonald of C&C Road Construction Inc. takes a drink of water as his work day winds down at about 4:30 Tueday afternoon. McDonald and the rest of the work crew are working on some of the stormwater drainage project in the 6100 block of N. Mesa at the Lomas Coronado Shopping Center.
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Dick Poe broke ground Wednesday on his new Toyota/Scion dealership at Helen of Troy and Desert Blvd North. Mark Lambie/El Paso Times
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An El Paso firefighter stood in the doorway of a mobile home destroyed by fire Wednesday in the 600 block of Lomaland.
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Cecilia Torres, 9, donned a mask and breathing tube as she enjoyed a cooling dip from triple digit temperatures Wednesday at Chelsea Park Swimming Pool in Central El Paso.
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