Catching Air

Brandon Walls skateboards Friday at the skate park in downtown Texarkana. Skaters gathered Friday to pick up cigarette butts, skate and grill hamburgers.
Brandon Walls skateboards Friday at the skate park in downtown Texarkana. Skaters gathered Friday to pick up cigarette butts, skate and grill hamburgers.

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Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, arrives at the Capitol in Washington, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013. The Republican-controlled House and the Democrat-controlled Senate are at an impasse, neither side backing down, after House GOP conservatives linked the funding bill to President Obama's existent health care law. There has been no sign of progress toward ending the government shutdown that has idled 800,000 federal workers and curbed services around the country. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Jody Attaway does a misty flip Friday at the skate park in downtown Texarkana. Local skaters gathered at the park for "Butts 4 Burgers," where people picked up cigarette butts and other garbage and grilled hamburgers.

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