First Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun
First Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Bill Lackey / Springfield News-SunUrbana firefighters, attempting to rescue the driver of an overturned car that struck a utility pole, look up at the arcing wires that are exploding above them Oct. 28, 2009 along Ohio 68 in Champaign County. Part of the pole broke when the car struck it causing the charged wires to arc and catch fire.
First Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Bill Lackey / Springfield News-SunMargaret Smith, a resident at Oakwood Village retirement center, swings a sledge hammer into the counter at the nurses station in the skilled care area, March 25, 2009, with a little help from staff member, Doug Hayden. Several of the residents started the demolition to tear down the nurses station after administrators at the center determined the station created a physical and psychological wall between the residents and the nurses who are taking care of them.
First Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Bill Lackey / Springfield News-SunCorey Gannon, a Northeastern High School freshman, holds onto the neck of a mud covered 300 pound calf as he tries to get the animal into a center circle during the Calf Scramble at the Clark County Fair, July 31, 2009. Area high school football players splashed through the mud trying to catch one of several calves and drag it into the circle during the annual event.
First Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Bill Lackey / Springfield News-SunThe owners of a home at 5811 Hunter Rd. in Enon console each other in their front yard after arriving home to find their house completely destroyed by a fire, Aug. 15, 2009.
First Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Bill Lackey / Springfield News-SunAustyn Bunn, 6, didn't stop eating pizza, even when her sunglasses fell down during the annual pizza eating contest at the Champaign County Fair, August 12, 2009.
First Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Bill Lackey / Springfield News-SunWest Liberty-Salem High School first baseman Kate Detwiler dives for a foul ball during the Division III regional semi-final game against Madison High School, May 27, 2009.
First Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Bill Lackey / Springfield News-SunA family member touches the top of Cassandra Karg's signed casket as she leaves following funeral services for Cassandra and her three cousins, Nathan Skaggs, Breonna Snelling and Patrick Snelling, March 28, 2009 at Spring Grove Cemetery. The four children were killed in a mobile home fire in St. Paris.
First Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Bill Lackey / Springfield News-SunThe shadows of riders on the "Orient Express" ride at the Champaign County Fair in Urbana are cast on a white washed building behind the ride as they hold their hands up in the warm evening sunlight, August 13 2009.
First Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Bill Lackey / Springfield News-SunParticipants in the Great Buckeye Challenge Triathlon splash into C.J. Brown Reservoir as they start the swimming portion of the event, August 23. Nearly 700 competitors pushed their bodies to the limit as they swam, biked and ran around Buck Creek State Park.
First Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Bill Lackey / Springfield News-SunTea bags hang from Jim Spanel's tax protest sign as he listens with hundreds of other protesters during the Tea Party on City Hall Plaza, April 15, 2009.
First Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Bill Lackey / Springfield News-SunA Memorial Day Parade is reflected in the front window of the Catawba Store in Catawba, May 24, 2009 as Madeleine Taylor, 3, watches the parade through the window while eating her ice cream cone.
First Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Bill Lackey / Springfield News-SunBen Oburn, a Christiansburg firefighter, helps his son, Brantlee, 3, get his sandle back on as Ben takes a break from the firefighter waterball competition in Christiansburg, July 5, 2009.
First Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Bill Lackey / Springfield News-SunA woman looks up at members of the Springfield Fire Division as she waits to be rescued from her overturned car, May 28 2009 on McCreight Ave. The woman apparently lost control of her car striking a street sign and tree which flipped the car on its side. She was transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
First Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Bill Lackey / Springfield News-SunNadir Langston, 3, shares his sugar waffle, minus some powdered sugar, with Clark County Fair Board member John Maurer on the fair's midway. Maurer, a longtime member of the fair board, is retiring after this year's fair.
First Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Bill Lackey / Springfield News-SunSeveral Graham High School students were injured and the driver and passenger in a mini-van were killed when the two vehicles struck head-on along Ohio 36 in Champaign County May 21, 2009. A Champaign County Sheriff's deputy walks past the accident as he investigates the scene.
First Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Bill Lackey / Springfield News-SunChampaign County Vocational School students, riding on the bus back to Graham High School, help emergency personnel care for their injured classmates after their bus crashed head-on into a mini van on Ohio 36.
First Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Bill Lackey / Springfield News-SunEmotions were high as family members arrived on the scene of the bus crash to find out if their children were injured or safe.
First Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Bill Lackey / Springfield News-SunUninjured students sit in a farm field along Ohio 36 as they wait for their parents to pick them up following the head-on collision with their bus.
First Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Bill Lackey / Springfield News-SunInjured Graham students are treated by Champaign County emergency personnel after their bus was involved in a head-on collision with a mini-van.
First Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Bill Lackey / Springfield News-SunAn injured student is rushed to a medic unit after the bus he was riding on collided head-on with a mini van on Ohio 36 in Champaign County.
First Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Bill Lackey / Springfield News-SunA parent leads his uninjured son past the bus he was riding on when in crashed head-on into a mini-van killing the van's driver and passenger on Ohio 36 in Champaign County.
Second Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Marshall Gorby / Springfield News-Sun
Second Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Marshall Gorby / Springfield News-SunResidents came to the rescue of a raccoon that had got its head stuck in a peanut butter jar on Feb. 18, 2009A Clark County sheriff’s deputy and a crowd of residents had already gathered by about 5:45 p.m. when personnel with the Bethel Township Fire arrived on the scene at 17 Elm Road in Medway. Two employees with Varmint Guard helped remove the jar, and then caged the animal and transported it elsewhere for release.
Second Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Marshall Gorby / Springfield News-SunBellefontaine's Hi-Point Church of Christ Pastor Mike Sandlin leads eight pallbearers dressed in full clown regalia at the funeral of Norman Thompson, life member of Antioch Shrine Funster Clown Unit, at Fairview Cemetery in West Liberty on May 29.
Second Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Marshall Gorby / Springfield News-SunJerome Petry (right) helps to sets fire to over 7,000 flags behind Legion Post 286 in New Carlisle during an official ceremony to retire worn and unusable flags on Flag Day on June 14, 2009.
Second Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Marshall Gorby / Springfield News-SunCatherine Buba reacts to getting her H1N1 vaccine shot from Carolyn Gilliam at the all-inclusive vaccine clinic, Dec. 15 at the Clark County Fairgrounds. The general public was able to receive the H1N1 vaccine for the first time this week in Clark County.
Second Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Marshall Gorby / Springfield News-SunClark County Sheriff's Sgt. Chris Clark takes down Rueben Finley, 22, after Clark found him hiding under a truck cap during a drug raid behind 6080 Nagley Road on July 28.
Second Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Marshall Gorby / Springfield News-SunJane Manemann reacts to the look Dec. 5, 2009 on 1-year-old Rilie Fisher's face after seeing Sulley from "Monsters Inc." at the New Carlisle fire department. Sulley had just attended the 24th annual holiday parade with Santa Claus.
Second Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Marshall Gorby / Springfield News-SunNeil Schwieterman (8) of St. Henry is pursued by Austin Wilson (7) of West Liberty-Salem during Friday's Division V football playoff game at Piqua High School on Nov. 13, 2009.
Second Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Marshall Gorby / Springfield News-SunSpringfield police took this man into custody after a hit-and-run and foot chase near the 1200 block of Perry Street around 2 p.m., Jan. 9. Floyd Skaggs allegedly fled the scene of the crash near 721 N. Bechtle Ave., then reportedly hid his vehicle in the 1100 block of Hillcrest Avenue. Skaggs then fled on foot and was apprehended by Springfield police minutes later.
Second Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Marshall Gorby / Springfield News-SunLinda Portis of Springfield comforts her niece, Candace Johnson, of 726 S. Lowry St., after Johnson's house caught fire Wednesday, April 8. Johnson smelled smoke and had gotten her three children, ages 8, 5, and 3, onto the front porch when she heard an explosion behind her. "My whole life was in there," she said. No one was hurt in the fire, which the fire department believes started in the house's pantry. The fire department is investigating the source of the fire.
Second Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Marshall Gorby / Springfield News-SunThe driver and a child passenger console each other after the vehicle they were riding in flipped into a ditch on the entrance ramp to Ohio Route 4 from US 40, May 13, 2009. Both people escaped unharmed. Springfield police and Ohio State patrol personnel responded to the scene.
Second Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Marshall Gorby / Springfield News-SunHeather Swank, 15 (left) is comforted by her friend, Katie Rogers, 14, at the scene of a mobile home fire that claimed the lives of four children, March 21, 2009, near St. Paris.
Second Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Marshall Gorby / Springfield News-SunOhio State Trooper Jason Snodgrass attempts to control a cow on Erter Drive in Springfield. The cow and four others wandered from a farm on Mechanicsburg Road early in the day. The animals were rounded up after an hour and returned to their owner by the Clark County Humane Society, the Clark County Sheriff's office and the Springfield Post of the Ohio Highway Patrol.
Second Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Marshall Gorby / Springfield News-SunA Bethel Township firefighter waits for water to battle a structure fire near New Carlisle around 1 a.m., January 16, 2009 on New Carlisle Pike.
Second Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Marshall Gorby / Springfield News-SunJames Newton holds his head while leaning against a Clark County Sheriff's cruiser after the pickup truck he was driving struck and killed a friend and co-worker, Sept. 7. Newton attempted to give the victim, Kevin McArthur, CPR after the incident but with no success.
Second Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Marshall Gorby / Springfield News-SunEnon and Bethel Township firefighters are called to a house at 386 Lammes Lane Nov. 7, 2009 for a unique rescue after Danny Richardson, 6, found himself stuck in the top of a 30-foot pine tree in his grandmother's front yard. Despite being a little shaken-up, Richardson was rescued safely by firefighters in an aerial truck and returned to his father's arms.
Second Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Marshall Gorby / Springfield News-SunDanny Richardson, 6, reaches out to Enon firefighter, Bob Wagner as Bethel Township firefighter Jason Chesser assists in the rescue of the little boy who had climbed a 25-to-30 foot tree in his Grandmother's front yard at 368 Lammes Lane on Nov. 7.
Second Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Marshall Gorby / Springfield News-SunEnon firefighter, Bob Wagner and Bethel Township firefighter Jason Chesser assists in the rescue of the little boy who had climbed a 30 foot tree in his Grandmother's front yard at 368 Lammes Lane on Saturday, Nov. 7.
Second Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Marshall Gorby / Springfield News-SunEnon firefighter, Bob Wagner hands down Danny Richardson, 6, after rescuing the little boy who had climbed a 30 foot tree in his Grandmother's front yard at 368 Lammes Lane on Saturday, Nov. 7.
Second Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Marshall Gorby / Springfield News-SunDanny Richardson, 6, is hugged by his father after being rescued by firefighters from the top of a 40 foot tree, Nov. 7.
Third Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Tessa Bargainnier / Kent State University
Third Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Tessa Bargainnier / Kent State UniversityGavin Wills, glider pilot and owner of Glide Omarama, soars above the New Zealand Southern Alps during a four-hour adventure flight.
Third Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Tessa Bargainnier / Kent State UniversityChildren ride the scrambler at the Portage County Fair in Randolph.
Third Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Tessa Bargainnier / Kent State UniversityFriends and family shower Spc. Jessica Czerr with silly string as she arrives the 135th Military Police Company Welcome Home Ceremony & Freedom Salute at Kenston High School. Activated Nov. 11, 2008, Czerr's unit spent nearly a year in Iraq.
Third Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Tessa Bargainnier / Kent State UniversityKent State senior center Brandon Parks recovers the ball from Bowling Green sophomore forward Scott Thomas during the Flashes’ 76-70 loss to the Falcons.
Third Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Tessa Bargainnier / Kent State UniversityKaila Lipstreu, 16 from Burton, waits to get a tattoo at Mike Ink Tattoo Studio in Mantua. Her 5-month-old son, Anthony Zohos, sits on 19-year-old Rachel DeSalvo’s lap waiting for Mike Krestan to tattoo a star and moon on Lipstreu’s back.
Third Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Tessa Bargainnier / Kent State UniversityCollin Lenhart, 12, crouches in disappointment after watching his ball narrowly avoid the hole while practicing on the putting green during Double Eagle golf camp at the Wapakoneta Country Club.
Third Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Tessa Bargainnier / Kent State UniversityHunter Wildermuth, 8, practices fire escape with Wapakoneta Firefighters Doug Hill and Eric Snapp at the Wapakoneta Family YMCA during safety week for the kids summer camp program. Wildermuth steps cautiously as he climbs down a fire escape latter hanging from the balcony down to the gym floor as students watch from below.
Third Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Tessa Bargainnier / Kent State UniversityDC, a former professional bull rider, watches a tractor pull during the 20th annual Buckeye Farm Antiques, Inc. show at the Auglaize County Fairgrounds in Wapakoneta.
Third Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Tessa Bargainnier / Kent State UniversityAllie Friedrich sits in the pews of First Unitarian Church of Cleveland in Shaker Heights after her dance performance at the altar. She has cerebral palsy and is a professional dancer with the Verlezza Dance Company. “Within the studio and within the stage,” she said, “is the only place I’m not disabled. I’m just a dancer.”
Third Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Tessa Bargainnier / Kent State UniversityJennifer Allie Friedrich lives two separate and completely different lives. She also has cerebral palsy. She visits Cleveland, Ohio several times a year to dance with Verlezza Dance Company. While in Ohio, she is known as Allie, an outgoing professional dancer. “Within the studio and within the stage is the only place I’m not disabled,” Allie said. “I’m just a dancer.” At home in St. Mary, Mo., everyone knows her as Jen, a more conservative farm girl. Jen lives with her boyfriend of ten years, Tom Ritter. Regardless of her name or residence, Jennifer Allie does not allow her physical disability stand in the way of her dreams. This is still Jen's favorite doll. Even as a child, she quickly adapted to her surroundings by finding a doll with stuffed arms and legs; she is unable to hold the stiff plastic-bodied dolls.
Third Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Tessa Bargainnier / Kent State UniversityAllie sits in the pews of First Unitarian Church of Cleveland in Shaker Heights as she watches fellow dancers perform in the windows for a Verlezza Dance Company concert.
Third Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Tessa Bargainnier / Kent State UniversityA fellow dancer helps Allie get dressed backstage before a concert at the Trinity Cathedral in Cleveland. Although Allie is very independent, she needs assistance with quick costume changes between performances.
Third Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Tessa Bargainnier / Kent State UniversityAfter her performance, Allie walks in from backstage to watch the rest of the performances.
Third Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Tessa Bargainnier / Kent State UniversitySabatino Verlezza and Allie perform their duet at the Trinity Cathedral in downtown Cleveland for “That All May Worship,” an event dedicated to the inclusion of all persons.
Third Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Tessa Bargainnier / Kent State UniversityAllie takes a moment’s rest between performances at the “Fern Jennings & Friends” concert.
Third Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Tessa Bargainnier / Kent State UniversityJen and Tom spend quality time with their two dogs Andrew and Suzy before heading to bed in their trailer in Missouri.
Third Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Tessa Bargainnier / Kent State UniversityJen and Tom go through their daily morning routine of drinking wheat grass and washing the dishes. Jen places her cup in the sink drain for support and sips from a straw. She said she learned this trick after cleaning up hundreds of spilled drinks.
Third Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Tessa Bargainnier / Kent State UniversityJen walks around the farmhouse in search of barn cats to play with while she waits for Tom to pull the tractor out.
Third Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Tessa Bargainnier / Kent State UniversityJen helps feed the cows from the back of the four-wheeler she and Tom ride to complete the daily farm chores.
Third Place, Photographer of the Year Small Market - Tessa Bargainnier / Kent State UniversityJen and Tom enjoy their hilltop “spiritual place” on the farm. They come here every day to simply enjoy the serenity.
