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Photos of the Week (April 13 – April 19)

Yakima’s Camerada Club rehearses at the Capitol Theatre in Yakima, Wash. on April 18, 2015. The choir is celebrating it's 100th anniversary this year. (KAITLYN BERNAUER/Yakima Herald-Republic)

Yakima’s Camerada Club rehearses at the Capitol Theatre in Yakima, Wash. on April 18, 2015. The choir is celebrating it’s 100th anniversary this year. (KAITLYN BERNAUER/Yakima Herald-Republic)

West Valley high school freshman Josie Meusborn picks up trash in West Valley Community Park in Yakima, Wash. on April 18, 2015. About 20 volunteers from the Kiwanis Club of West Valley and the West Valley High School Key Club worked together to clean up as part of Kiwanis One Day. (KAITLYN BERNAUER/Yakima Herald-Republic)

West Valley high school freshman Josie Meusborn picks up trash in West Valley Community Park in Yakima, Wash. on April 18, 2015. About 20 volunteers from the Kiwanis Club of West Valley and the West Valley High School Key Club worked together to clean up as part of Kiwanis One Day. (KAITLYN BERNAUER/Yakima Herald-Republic)

Scenes from Meet Your Farmer at Heavenly Hills Farm in Sunnyside, Wash. on April 19, 2015. (KAITLYN BERNAUER/Yakima Herald-Republic)

Scenes from Meet Your Farmer at Heavenly Hills Farm in Sunnyside, Wash. on April 19, 2015. (KAITLYN BERNAUER/Yakima Herald-Republic)

Sullivan Murphy, 7, gets help watering his just planted pumpkin seeds from Doris Sonstelie during te first of six Saturday classes on growing a pumpkin at the Yakima Area Arboretum in Yakima, Wash. on April 18, 2015. (KAITLYN BERNAUER/Yakima Herald-Republic)

Sullivan Murphy, 7, gets help watering his just planted pumpkin seeds from Doris Sonstelie during te first of six Saturday classes on growing a pumpkin at the Yakima Area Arboretum in Yakima, Wash. on April 18, 2015. (KAITLYN BERNAUER/Yakima Herald-Republic)

Sunnyside junior Joel Flores, 11, looks for an opening during their game against Davis at Davis High School in Yakima, Wash. on April 17, 2015. Flores scored the first goal of the game and Sunnyside won 2-1. (KAITLYN BERNAUER/Yakima Herald-Republic)

Sunnyside junior Joel Flores, 11, looks for an opening during their game against Davis at Davis High School in Yakima, Wash. on April 17, 2015. Flores scored the first goal of the game and Sunnyside won 2-1. (KAITLYN BERNAUER/Yakima Herald-Republic)

John McGinty is taken away by Yakima police after emerging from a burning garage where he barricaded himself during a standoff with a Yakima SWAT team just north of East G Street between Fifth and Sixth Streets in Yakima, Wash. April 16, 2015 (GORDON KING/Yakima Herald-Republic)

John McGinty is taken away by Yakima police after emerging from a burning garage where he barricaded himself during a standoff with a Yakima SWAT team just north of East G Street between Fifth and Sixth Streets in Yakima, Wash. April 16, 2015
(GORDON KING/Yakima Herald-Republic)

Arthur Taylor unloads metal junk from a hand cart to a pile of trash on the bank of the Naches River near Yakima, Wash. Apri 17, 2015. Taylor, along with other homeless people, members of the Alpha team of the Homeless Network of Yakima County and Yakima County Sheriffs deputies helped clean up homeless camps in the area on Friday. (GORDON KING/Yakima Herald-Republic)

Arthur Taylor unloads metal junk from a hand cart to a pile of trash on the bank of the Naches River near Yakima, Wash. Apri 17, 2015. Taylor, along with other homeless people, members of the Alpha team of the Homeless Network of Yakima County and Yakima County Sheriffs deputies helped clean up homeless camps in the area on Friday. (GORDON KING/Yakima Herald-Republic)

Luke Merritt and his mother Judawn Merritt work together on Luke's online math lessons at their Prosser home April 14, 2015. Luke, 12, was diagnosed last year with multiple sclerosis, which is extremely rare in people younger than 12. Taking classes online is physically less stressful for Luke, which allows him to save his energy for playing after-school sports. "With home schooling he is still able to be a kid, playing sports and getting an education" says Judawn. (GORDON KING/Yakima Herald-Republic)

Luke Merritt and his mother Judawn Merritt work together on Luke’s online math lessons at their Prosser home April 14, 2015. Luke, 12, was diagnosed last year with multiple sclerosis, which is extremely rare in people younger than 12. Taking classes online is physically less stressful for Luke, which allows him to save his energy for playing after-school sports. “With home schooling he is still able to be a kid, playing sports and getting an education” says Judawn. (GORDON KING/Yakima Herald-Republic)

Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin signs a football jersey for a staff member at Yakima's YWCA while touring the facility April 13, 2015. Baldwin and Seahawks' digital media host Tony Ventrella visited Yakima to take part in the annual YWCA Leadership Luncheon. (GORDON KING/Yakima Herald-Republic)

Seattle Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin signs a football jersey for a staff member at Yakima’s YWCA while touring the facility April 13, 2015. Baldwin and Seahawks’ digital media host Tony Ventrella visited Yakima to take part in the annual YWCA Leadership Luncheon. (GORDON KING/Yakima Herald-Republic)

– Kaitlyn & Gordon