Alex Boerner

SINGLES: Black & White

   
  
Sean Steele, 8, left, wrestles with Mason Coleman, 8, while the two wear themselves out after school in the front yard of their friend's house in Ft. Pierce, FL.
     
  
Army Veteran, Bill Edwards, rests on a chair, pulling himself up after falling to the floor when his foot got caught in his oxygen tube at his apartment in Port Salerno, where he was living alone, paying the $600 rent with his only source of income, $682 Social Security Check that he receives monthly. Edwards has emphysema and a bad left knee and his health has been deteriorating rapidly. He found that he gets winded even making the short walk to the neighbor's house. "My fun days, it looks like they're ending very abruptly," he said. "I'll tell you what really gets me is that I can't go anywhere," he added. His car was recently reposessed while he was in the hospital, and he missed this past Veteran's Day parade for the first time in 30 years.
   
"I see spirits, I see angels, and when I speak in tongues God understands it. That's me telling him what I want and what I need," said Walter Campbell, 8, after preaching to the congregation at the Church of God in Christ, No. 2: Word of Fire, on Easter Sunday in Fort Pierce, FL. "You can see when Walter leaves, and the Holy Spirit enters his body," said his guardian Virginia Stewart, who is also a pastor at the church.
   
Daniel Perez, 9, of Fort Pierce, draws an American Flag in the sand at Rotary Park where people gathered following the Walk for Justice in Fort Pierce, FL, on the afternoon of Monday April 10, 2006. "It is my country," said Daniel, when asked why he drew the flag.
     
  
A small aircraft flies through the mouth of the tyranosaur sculpture that greets mini-golfers on the course at the Monterey Pointe Golf & Practice Center along Monterey Road in Stuart, FL.
   
"We were in the water for about a half-hour, it was beautiful," said Sue Pope, out of the frame on the far right, after lifeguards cleared Stuart Beach during a brief thunderstormon on a cloudy Thursday afternoon in Stuart, FL. But a little rain would only temporarily stop the Pope family, of Easton, PA, from enjoying the last day of their visit to Florida. "This is our last day here so we've got to make the most of what we can get," said Sue, who was hiding out under a gazebo with her family, from left, daughter Madison Pope, 9, mother June Rummel, of Port St. Lucie, FL, son Michael Pope, 9, and daughter Katie Pope, 5, until the rain stopped. Josh Pope, 9, out of the frame on the far left, rounds out the Pope triplets. The family drove down from Pennsylvania, stopped in Jacksonville, went to Disney World, saw the shuttle launch and went to a St. Lucie Mets game, in Port St. Lucie, where Katie, far right, also got to announce the Mets' batters in the bottom of the 5th inning.
   
Jerry Rupe, of Palm City, is overcome with emotion while sitting in the field of crosses set up in Veteran's Memorial Park for the memorail service Friday afternoon in Stuart. Rupe, a Vietnam Veteran who was in the U.S. Army said he often gets emotional. "I should take it easier, but it's hard. I have PTSD. I saw too many die, but I know it was worth it," he said.
     
  
Brittany Hemingway, 13, flirts with her boyfriend Travis Bass, 14, while they wait in line to go on the ferris wheel with a group of friends Saturday night at the Firefighter's Fair in Vero Beach. The two go to Oslo Middle School and have been dating for about two months now. Kristan Hemingway, 12, is on the left.
   
Gabriel Hubbard plays in the silverware bins following dinner at the Life for Youth Ranch in Vero Beach.
   
Sweet Pea, left, Rusty, top, and Rudy.
     
  
Christina Cooney, right, and Carrie MacMillian, left, wait on the sideline as Jeff Robinson, center, makes his way around the ring during the Dressage competition at the 2006 St. Lucie County Equestrian Special Olympics Saturday afternoon at the St. Lucie County Fairgrounds. About forty riders from Palm Beach and St. Lucie Counties competed in a number of equestrian events. The winners qualified for the state Special Olympics held in Tampa, FL.
   
  
     
  
Werner Lode, 88, of Sheldon, IA, takes a nap in the front of the large window in his living room after putting his wife, Allie Lode, 84, to bed for a nap. Werner had been caring for Allie at their home since she had a severe stroke at the age of 80.