The congregation comes together at the end of the Easter Sunday service April 9 at the First Universalist Church of Auburn: Unitarian Universalist at 169 Pleasant St. Well-mannered, leashed pets are welcome at the worship services. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal

A Canada goose flies toward another April 10 near Lake Shore Drive in Auburn. Geese are returning to the open water of lakes and ponds as mating season continues this month. Canada geese mate for life and both parents raise their young, which emerge from eggs in about 25 to 30 days. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal

Catcher McKenna Ridlon, right, of Central Maine Community College cannot handle a late throw from the outfield April 11 as Kayla Duhaime of Thomas College tags the plate for an inside-the-park home run during a game at CMCC in Auburn. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal

Adelaide McKelvey, a student at Mt. Ararat High School in Topsham, learns April 11 about the history of Lewiston’s Franco Americans during a visit to the Franco Center at 46 Cedar St. in Lewiston. Students from Nathalie Gorey’s French class and 13 exchange students from Nancy, France, spent the morning learning about Franco American culture. Gorey says she has lived in France, where little is taught about Franco Americans. Gorey’s class spent two weeks earlier this year with host families in France, and students from Mt. Ararat High School and their families are reciprocating by hosting the 13 students and two teachers from France from April 5 to 17. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Members of the Auburn Youth Wrestling Club run laps April 12 in the gymnasium at Fairview Elementary School at 397 Minot Ave. in Auburn. The program began in 2018 and has 64 youths on the wrestling team. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

The Bates College Spring Dance Concert features the thesis works April 9 of seven Bates dance majors at Schaeffer Theatre at 305 College St. in Lewiston. “Killing Justice,” choreographed by Bates student Ron Do, is a student dance piece depicting pantomimed guns and shooting. A notation in the program explains the work depicts images of violence, so a two-minute break has been included before and after this performance to allow audience members to exit and later reenter the theater, if they choose. Dancers Crystal Li, Tori Kusukawa, Annie Li, Ron Do, Jaewoo Kim, and Yuna Wu perform this piece. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal

Shortstop Cal Tibbitts of the University of Maine at Farmington dives for a line drive April 12 during a game against Bates College in Lewiston. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal

Amiyaha Graves, 9, of Lewiston jumps on the rocks April 12 along the edge of Lake Auburn, on the same day the Auburn Water & Sewerage Districts declared ice-out for the lake. Graves, a fourth grader at Robert V. Connors Elementary School, is playing at the lake with her mother, Ashley Smith, and cousin, Nakari Smith. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal