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Area Life

Off course

Renee Lubert of Huntingdon took this photo of two American flamingos wading in a pond in St. Thomas, Pa., after being misdirected by Hurricane Idalia. It is the first time flamingos have been spotted in Pennsylvania. One of the two flamingos was attacked by a snapping turtle and taken to a ...

Slice of life

Joe Lansberry, owner of JR Enterprises, Patton, uses an asphalt pizza cutter to cut the pavement in front of Mallow’s Service Center on 25th Avenue on Monday afternoon. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski

Sign on the line

A crew from Sekula Sign in DuBois uses a lift to install a new sign for PennCrest Bank along 12th Avenue in Altoona. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski

Signs of change

Doris Good, church secretary at 28th Street Church of the Brethren, changes the sign on Tuesday announcing the time for Saturday’s free lunch. For a complete listing of Spiritual Notes, please see the Religion section. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski

Keeping busy

A bumblebee collects nectar from a thinleaf sunflower in a field along Gooderham Road in East Carroll Township, Cambria County. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski

Raise the roof

Workers from Monarch Roofing (right), Myrtle Beach, S.C., finish the roof of the new Arby’s going up at Nason Drive and Woodbury Pike in Roaring Spring on Thursday. A Dunkin’ Donuts is also going up on the left. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski