CARE: Hall-Dale High School students paint a picnic shelter Wednesday at the Hallowell recreation area during the school’s first Day of Caring. About 100 students enrolled in the Jobs for Maine’s Graduates program, Key Club and National Honor Society worked on projects across Hallowell during the school’s first public service day, according to Lydia Leimbach, who coordinated the effort.

WHITEWATER FOAM: Whitewater river guides with North Country Rivers in Bingham clean rafts that will be stored for the season on Tuesday. The company will continue raft trips into October.

Bobbie Libby, 6, gets a helping hand from her father Bobby with her show goose at the Youth Livestock Show at the Harmony Free Fair in Harmony recently. Libby won second place with her creative answers. When asked what does a duck do? Libby simply replied, “Run around and eat.”

A LOT OF WIND: Josh Horne loads pieces of a 100-foot willow tree on Monday that blew down last week in a neighbors yard in Benton. Horne said he was going to cut and split the wood and use it to heat his camp this winter.

Bear, an eight-week-old mutt puppy, jumps for a treat in Joe Brown’s hand Tuesday afternoon in front of the L.C. Bates Museum at Good Will-Hinckley.