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By MICHAEL STONACEK/Missourian  ¦   First Ward city council candidate Paul Sturtz talks to Mark Stevenson about Stevenson's real estate business and energy costs. They have known each other for roughly 10 years, and joined other supporters during a meet and greet at Klik's at 205 N. Tenth Street on Wednesday night, March 19.

By ALEX LEWIS/Missourian  ¦   Jessica Ragsdell, 7, is baptized by her father, the Rev. Thomas Ragsdell, at the Activity and Recreation Center on Easter Sunday. In total, six members of the New Life Community Church were baptized before the group celebrated with a pool party.

By ALEX LEWIS /Missourian  ¦   Robert Jackson III, 10, sits on the side of the pool in the Activity and Recreation Center after being baptized by his father, the Rev. Robert Jackson, and the Rev. Thomas Ragsdell on Easter Sunday.

By ALEX LEWIS/Missourian  ¦   Robert Jackson III, 10, is the first member of the New Life Community Church to be baptized in the Activity and Recreation Center on Easter Sunday, 2008. He was baptized after a prayer by his father, the Rev. Robert Jackson and by the Rev. Thomas Ragsdell.

By ALEX LEWIS/Missourian  ¦   Robert Jackson III, 10, is the first member of the New Life Community Church to be baptized in the Activity and Recreation Center on Easter Sunday, 2008.

By ALEX LEWIS/Missourian  ¦   Robert Jackson III surfaces after his baptism with the New Life Community Church. He was the first church member to be baptized in the Activity and Recreation Center on Easter Sunday.

By ALEX LEWIS  ¦   Jessica Ragsdell, 7, is baptized by her father, the Rev. Thomas Ragsdell, at the Activity and Recreation Center on Easter Sunday.

By ALEX LEWIS  ¦   Robert Jackson III, 10, a member of the New Life Community Church, is baptized in the pool of the ARC by the Rev. Thomas Ragsdell (left) and his father, the Rev. Robert Jackson (right).

By STEPHANIE HINKLE/Missourian  ¦   Adelyn Aber, 2, picks up an Easter egg filled with candy at Douglass Park Saturday afternoon. This was Adelyn's second time to the Easter egg hunt. She was brought to the event by her parents Julie and Ian Aber.

By STEPHANIE HINKLE/Missourian  ¦   From left, twins Sophia and Isabella Corrado, 3, pose for their picture with the Easter Bunny. Their father Jason Corrado is taking their picture while their mother, Charlotte, tells them to say "cheese." Kids 12 and under were invited to participate in the egg hunt, and all ages were invited to play other games including toss games, sack races and face painting.

By CATALIN ABAGIU/Missourian  ¦   Missouri National Guard 2nd Lt. Timothy Grenke, mayor of Centralia, embraces his son Brian, 4, and is being hugged by his daughter Rose, 8, while Jessica, his older daughter, 17, watches them Saturday morning at the Hearnes Center. One-thousand seventy-six men and women of the Missouri National Guard are going to be deployed on a 18-month peacekeeping mission in Kosovo.

By CATALIN ABAGIU/Missourian  ¦   Soldiers from the Missouri National Guard walk inside the Field House on March 22 at the Hearnes Center in Columbia.

By AMANDA LUCIER/Missourian  ¦   National Guard troops donned new patches as preparation for their deployment to Kosovo at the Hearnes Center on Saturday.

By CATALIN ABAGIU/Missourian  ¦   Soldiers from the Missouri National Guard salute during the intonation of the national anthem on Saturday morning at the Hearnes Center in Columbia.

By AMANDA LUCIER/Missourian  ¦   National Guard troops donned new patches as preparation for their deployment to Kosovo.

By AMANDA LUCIER/Missourian  ¦   Ryan Blaneck, 9, watches from the stands as his father, among 1,076 other National Guard Troops, was honored before his deployment to Kosovo.

By AMANDA LUCIER/Missourian  ¦   Friends and family carried red, white and blue balloons in the stands of the Hearnes Center while National Guard troops were honored before their deployment to Kosovo.

By JOSHUA A. BICKEL/Missourian  ¦   Missouri’s Nick Marable beat Cornell’s Mack Lewnes during for third-place at 165 pounds Saturday at the NCAA wrestling championships in St. Louis.

By STEPHANIE HINKLE/Missourian  ¦   MU’s Ian Berger threw seven innings of one-hit baseball Saturday against Baylor. Freshman Nick Tepesch didn’t waste the effort.

By BEN DILLON/Missourian  ¦   Jerry Thompson, a member of the Columbia Palette art group, prepares watercolor paints before sketching a cafe scene in Barnes & Noble on March 5. Thompson meets with fellow members of Columbia Palette each week to sketch scenes from daily life in Columbia.