Fairview Elementary School music teacher Brian Gagnon encourages Aidan Adams to sing with passion Aug. 9 during Camp of Rock at the Great Falls Performing Arts Center in Auburn. Annabeth Treadwell, left, and 23 others are involved in the two-week music camp taught by Gagnon, who has brought youth together every summer since 2007 to play classic rock tunes. The youth voted to call themselves Inattentive because they are rehearsing in a tent as a COVID-19 precaution. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Fern Carter-Hill, 12, left, passes a ball of yarn to Asher Kronstadt, 16, on Aug. 11 during an activity at the Alan Day Community Garden in Norway, presented by master gardener Shelly Shibels, center, on the interconnectedness of the elements in a forest ecosystem. The two kids are participating in a Youth Leadership Program where they work in the gardens, take part in markets, harvest and cook vegetables. Also present for the activity were volunteer Jesse Williamson and Youth Program Coordinator Kory Morgan. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal

Jon Randolph, left, pulls up milfoil Aug. 11 from a cove in Thompson Lake in Oxford as Alex Bernady waits in a kayak to exchange collection bags with him. The two work for Southern Maine Invasive Aquatic Management and spend 40 hours a week collecting the invasive plants. The program has been going on for over 10 years and a half million pounds of the pants have been collected by hand by divers, reducing the invasive weeds from an area of 16 acres down to less than an acre of the dense plants. The team removes around 20 bags a day, weighing around 30 pounds each. Bernady says he enjoys working with a great team of people and being outside paddling and diving. The success of the program means a lot to him. “It’s a huge win,” Bernady said. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal

A dragonfly hangs out on the edge of a retention pond in Greene on Aug. 11. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal

Ella Ridley of Shapleigh cools off Aug. 12 in a bucket behind the barns at the Topsham Fair as a friend sneaks up and douses her with a hose. Ridley and most of her siblings, cousins, and friends are involved in fair events, including the sheep showing Wednesday. Immediately after this photo was taken, all the children grabbed hoses they used to wash sheep the day before and a water fight commenced. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal

Lewiston firefighter Pete Morrell rescues a cat Aug. 13 stuck for nearly a week on the roof of an apartment building on Jefferson Street. Lewiston firefighters happened to be in the area training when they came to the rescue. Visit sunjournal.com to watch a video of the rescue. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal

Bri Spinhirn of Norway reads “Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy” in a field Aug. 6 along the East Oxford Road in Paris. Spinhirn said she has been coming to the spot known locally as “The Hill” for about 5 years. “This is the best spot ever,” said Spinhirn. “I come here often to think. Sometimes not to think,” she said. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Phil Trundy flips hay Aug. 10 while using a hay tedder behind his tractor in Hebron. Trundy said the hay will dry faster by doing so. “I used to do this with a pitchfork,” said Trundy, who was raised on the Brighton Hill Farm by his mother, Anna, and father Harlan. Trundy, 78, attended school from kindergarten through the sixth grade in the one-room Brighton Hill School, at right. “I remember the teacher asking me to throw another stick on the fire,” Trundy said about the pot belly stove used to keep the schoolchildren warm during the winter. Trundy said that his 98-year-old mother still lives on the farm. “We have had to sell a little bit of the farm to help care for her,” said Trundy. “But she’s worth it.” Daryn Slover/Sun Journal