Sarah Pitman, with Carolina Panther’s community relations, cheers on Avery Barnes, 10, as he is chased my third grade classmate, Adrian McGill, 9, during a football drill at the Loyd E Auman Elementary School on Thursday, June 2, 2016 for the Play 60 NFL program that promotes healthy exercise for kids.

Soldiers assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 321st Field Artillery Regiment, 18th Field Artillery Brigade, conduct a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) live fire demonstration during their Family Day, June 9 on Sicily Drop Zone. The live fire demonstration validates the unit as ready to deploy in support of Operation Inherent Resolve. The unit is scheduled to deploy sometime this year.

Margaret Willis Elementary Principal, Peggy Raymes, receives a group hug from Ms. McKenney’s second grade class after a ceremony for her and Ms. Bonita whom are both retiring after 19 years at Margaret Willis on June 8, 2016.

Children cool off in the shallow water at Fantasy Lake Water Park on Saturday afternoon on June 11, 2016.

Spc. Keith Minie, right, and soldiers with the 122 Aviation Support Battalion sit in shade after conducting crew gunnery on top of a vehicle platform as it is in motion on range 74 at Fort Bragg on June 10, 2016.

Junior, left fielder, Morgan Wienand, watches a pitch come in as Cape Fear softball faces West Forsyth in game two of the NCHSAA 4-A state championship series at N.C. State on Sunday, June 5, 2016.

David Ferraro cuts weeds around a marker as his crew from the state Geodetic Survey checks the fine lines between counties off Pearidge Road in Angier on Thursday, June 23, 2016.

A graduate crosses the stage at the Reid Ross Classical high school graduation at the Crown Theatre on Friday, June 3, 2016.

A mother cries on the phone as she talks about her son graduating high school after the Douglas Byrd High School Graduation at the Crown Complex on Thursday morning, June 9, 2016.

Mckeyla Tabla, 7, in a Mexican folkloric catrina dress at The Arts Council announcement of plans for the 38th annual International Folk Festival on Thursday, June 30, 2016.

A soldier with 3rd Brigade Combat Team waits for training to begin for a Non-Combatant Evacuation Operation on June 22, 2016, to test how well they evacuate American citizens from a foreign location.

In the process of revitalizing downtown Fayetteville, a construction worker with Parker’s Painting & Pressure pulls nails from the Phillips Loan Office on Tuesday morning, June 28, 2016. The five-story building was completed in 1916. The top floor was once an open-air ballroom and officers club.

Paul Dallas recounts his time in WWII. After the Germans over ran his infantry company in France, Dallas became a POW and was sent to a forced labor camp.

Nineteen-month-old, Abigail Hopkins of Pinehurst sits in a floor geyser as she watches the big bucket fill with water at the grand opening of Moore County’s first splash pad at Rassie Wicker Park in Pinehurst on Tuesday, June 21, 2016. As many as 100 people can be on the pad at any one time. The splash pad is open daily through Labor Day from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

McKenzie Jade Faggart is crowned Miss North Carolina 2016 at the pageant in Raleigh’s Memorial Auditorium on June 25, 2016. Faggart is Miss Mecklenburg County and studies at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her platform is “The SAFE Project.”

Jimmie Bledsole and Mike Underwood sit inside Cumberland Garbage & Trash Services, on Manley Street. The man Cumberland County sheriff’s deputies are searching for, in connection to an armed robbery, ran to the business and sat. “We were out working on a truck and when we noticed him we told him to leave,” said Underwood the supervisor. “He could barley breath, you could tell he had been running,” said Bledsole, a mechanic.

Sgt. Daniel Fienco, a utility equipment repairer for 3rd Brigade Combat Team’s 307th Engineer Battalion, does push ups for physical training at 6:30 a.m. on Thursday, June 30, 2016. The 10-year Army veteran broke his femur after a jump onto Holland Drop Zone in March 2013, but was recovered and running again in just nine months. He participated in a training jump at Fort Bragg later that year. He has completed the All-American Half Marathon and is training to run the New York City Marathon. Now, Fienco is also raising money for a nonprofit that raises money for disabled Rangers and Gold Start families of Rangers. He hopes to raise $3,000 as a representation of past, present, injured or disabled soldiers who persevere against challenges.

Wendy Banks walks out on a PWC utility pipe on June 16, 2016, while personally investigating the draining of Country Club Lake that happened on Friday. In the process of the lake draining, four beavers were shoot even though the land is still marked as a conservation area, protected by the State of North Carolina.

PV2 Jeffrey Dyson a soldier with the 82nd Combat Aviation Support Brigade, 122 Aviation Support Battalion prepares his M240B machine gun before conducting crew gunnery on top of a vehicle platform as it is in motion on range 74 at Fort Bragg on June 10, 2016.