Tallis Joseph, 4, watches as James Thompson, 11, shows off his trampoline skills at their home in Cedar Rapids on Sunday, April 11, 2021. Their parents, Sophia Joseph and Ture Morrow, met while attending the social justice demonstrations that took place in Cedar Rapids in Summer 2020. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)

Moriah Haveman, 12, swings on her family’s tire swing on a break from her homeschool program before lunch in her family’s backyard in Coralville on Monday, April 5, 2021. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)

Ash Bruxvoort selects flowers for a rhododendron flower essence at the bed and breakfast they ran with partner Marti Payseur, Thistle’s Summit in Mount Vernon, on Monday, April 19, 2021. The bed and breakfast, which is named for their dog, Thistle, catered to LGBTQ travelers and opened in summer 2019 before closing to guests due to the pandemic. The rhododendron bush was damaged in the August 2020 derecho, and Bruxvoort will combine this flower essence with an essence they made at the start of the coronavirus pandemic. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)

University of Iowa's Maria Pearson of Underwood, Iowa, looks at photos of herself taken by Alexis Morales-Foote of Iowa City, Iowa, as Pearson poses for portraits in her graduation robe and mortar board with Old Capitol as a background in Iowa City, Iowa, on Thursday, April 22, 2021. Pearson will graduate with a BA in secondary English education and a degree in English. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Linn County's first sustainability program manager Tamara Marcus in the garden plots at the Fillmore Center in northwest Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Monday, April 19, 2021. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Ture Morrow and Sophia Joseph watches watch their kids play in the backyard at their home in Cedar Rapids on Sunday, April 11, 2021. The two met while attending the social justice demonstrations that took place in Cedar Rapids in Summer 2020. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)

Cathy Sherard (foreground) and Holly Saldivar run the Javo potting machine while preparing pots for tomato seedlings at Fairfax Greenhouse and Landscaping on Thursday, April 1, 2021. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)

Water-damaged sheet music is seen at Orchestra Iowa in Cedar Rapids on Thursday, April 1, 2021. Scores of sheet music were damaged when a portion of the organization's roof collapsed and water leaked into the room where the music was stored. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)

Deanna Wehrmeyer of Conesville, Iowa, sits with Kaja as she visits with family while her husband Brian sets up their camper at the north campground at Lake Macbride State Park in Solon, Iowa, on Friday, April 2, 2021. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Peggy Brecht of Norway, Iowa, rings one of three bells during the dedication ceremony for the three church bells at St. Michael's Catholic Church in Norwway, Iowa, on Sunday, March 28, 2021. The steeple and bell tower were heavily damaged in the Aug. 10, 2020 derecho. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Kay Fisk Vice President of advocacy and donor relations for Horizons helps Janice Englemen-Welty out of her car after driving Englemen-Welty to Linn County Public Health for her Covid-19 vaccination in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Friday, April 2, 2021. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Children make a dash for treat-filled Easter eggs during an Easter egg hunt in Redmond Park in southeast Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Saturday, April 3, 2021. The event was sponsored by Collins Community Credit Union. Volunteers with St. Paul's United Methodist Church helped staff the event. Prizes were given to eight lucky hunters who collected a golden egg. Flavored, shaved ice was also available. Over 700 eggs were filled by Collins Community Credit Union employees for the event. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Elliana William, 2, enjoys some shaved ice during an Easter egg hunt in Redmond Park in southeast Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Saturday, April 3, 2021. The event was sponsored by Collins Community Credit Union. Volunteers with St. Paul's United Methodist Church helped staff the event. Prizes were given to eight lucky hunters who collected a golden egg. Flavored, shaved ice was also available. Over 700 eggs were filled by Collins Community Credit Union employees for the event. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Iowa Department of Education Director Ann Lebo greets kindergartners during a tour at Kenwood Leadership Academy in Cedar Rapids on Tuesday, April 6, 2021. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)

Jerry Campbell, manager of visitor services walks up the staircase at Brucemore in southeast Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. The historic mansion is marking its 40th anniversary as a nonprofit/community cultural center. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Kathy Thorsteinson, a Unity Point dental hygienist, loads a tree for Dave Gustoff of Cedar Rapids, who was picking up three white oaks for his daughter, during the first day of tree pickup for Unity Point employees at St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids on Thursday, April 8, 2021. UnityPoint Health Cedar Rapids employees received free trees through the Planting Forward campaign, which was created by the Monarch Research Group to help replace trees on derecho-damaged private property. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)

The sun sets behind a leafless tree before the Mississippi Valley Conference boys soccer match between the Jefferson J-Hawks and the Kennedy Cougars at Mount Mercy. University's Robert W. Plaster Athletic Complex in northeast Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Thursday, April 8, 2021. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Organist Mark Herman rehearses on the Wurlitzer organ at the Paramount Theatre in Cedar Rapids on Friday, April 9, 2021. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)

Lucy, 5, of Cedar Rapids picks up her drink during a private screening of Minions with her mom, Staci Vigil, at the Marcus Theater in Cedar Rapids on Tuesday, April 13, 2021. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)

First-year pharmacy student Kevin Dong draws a syringe of saline in the Pharmacy Practice Learning Center at the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy Building in Iowa City on Tuesday, April 13, 2021. First-year pharmacy students concluded their 10-week vaccination training by drawing up and administering saline injections to their fellow classmates. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)

Megan Booher pours emulsified mixture into jars as she makes CBG Face Cream in Homestead, Iowa, on Thursday, April 15, 2021. Booher and her husband Scott operate Four Winds Farm. The couple grow their own hemp flower and other medicinal herbs to incorporate into their product line. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Craig Sinnwell of Charles City kneels and holds a flag as the funeral procession of Iowa State Patrol Sgt. Jim Smith passes through Independence on Friday, April 16, 2021. Two of Sinnwell's nephews are state troopers. Smith, a 27-year veteran of the Iowa State Patrol, was killed last Friday in the line of duty. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)

Members of Indivisible Iowa demonstrate at the corner of 35th St. NE and Zach Johnson Dr. NE near the Iowa GOP Corridor Reception at Elmcrest Country Club, 1 Zach Johnson Dr NE, in northeast Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Thursday, April 1, 2021. The reception was attended by U.S. Sen. Rick Scott (Florida) and U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst (Iowa) and Iowa U.S. Reps. Ashley Hinson and Mariannette Miller-Meeks. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

The setting sun casts long shadows as it shines through a bike rack along E. Jefferson St. in Iowa City, Iowa, on Thursday, April 22, 2021. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

The sun shines on wood splinters on a sawed-off tree stump at Palisades-Kepler State Park in Mount Vernon on Thursday, April 22, 2021. The park is set to reopen to the public on Friday, Apr. 23 following months of closure due to the heavy damage caused by the August 10, 2020 derecho. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)

Jared Bienemann of Lisbon tosses sticks away from the side of the road at Palisades-Kepler State Park in Mount Vernon on Thursday, April 22, 2021. The park is set to reopen to the public on Friday, Apr. 23 following months of closure due to the heavy damage caused by the August 10, 2020 derecho. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)

A runner runs across Iowa Avenue in Iowa City, Iowa, on Thursday, April 22, 2021. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

Local social justice leaders cheer after singing "We Shall Overcome" at a rally focused on allies of the Black Lives Matter movement hosted by the Advocates for Social Justice in Greene Square Park in Cedar Rapids on Saturday, April 24, 2021. Speakers renewed a call for white people to continue to stand up for Black members of the Cedar Rapids community and strive toward racial equity. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)

Kyah Allen, 15, of Cedar Rapids places her dream among an apple tree's roots at "Plant Your Dreams," an event hosted by the Academy for Scholastic and Personal Success and Worldmaker International at the Big Apple Orchard in Mount Vernon on Sunday, April 25, 2021. The event is part of a new curriculum offered by the Academy and Worldmaker. It invited students to write their dreams on paper and plant them along with a Liberty apple tree on the orchard's property. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)

Farmer Bryan Sievers walks up to the upper level of the separation room where biogas is separated into solid material and liquid at Sievers Family Farms in Stockton on Monday, April 26, 2021. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)

The Iowa River is seen flowing into Coralville Lake as the sun sets in Solon on Monday, April 26, 2021. My first photo with the Gazette photo staff’s new drone published last Sunday (the 25th). It was a photo of an empty lot. It is an empty lot with a lot of news value … but still a bit anticlimactic. So, I wanted to redeem myself and the drone with a more proper arrival to newsprint. Off to the Lake Macbride State Park once again. As with any trip for a photo at the lake I was running late having been caught up by desk work but arrived just in time to make this photo, which I’m quite pleased with. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)

Trumpet players using bell covers rehearse with the rest of the concert band at Mount Vernon High School in Mount Vernon on Tuesday, April 27, 2021. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)

Shawn “India Love” Nelson gives a drag show performance before filming the pilot episode of Joe Eats World at the Hotel at Kirkwood in Cedar Rapids on Tuesday, April 27, 2021. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)

Students from Johnson STEAM Academy work together to tamp down dirt while helping plant an oak tree at Redmond Park in Cedar Rapids on Friday, April 30, 2021. (Andy Abeyta/The Gazette)

University of Iowa president-elect Barbara Wilson is introduced at a news conference at the Levitt Center for University Advancement in Iowa City on Friday, April 30, 2021. Wilson currently serves as executive vice president and vice president for academic affairs at the University of Illinois. She will assume her role as president on July 15. (Rebecca F. Miller/The Gazette)

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