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Old West End Festival

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The Scott High School Fantastic Dancing Machines perform before the throne after marching in the parade.

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Someone has a great view.

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A yoga class outside of the Toledo Museum of Art entitled Monroga, which was sponsored by Circle 2445: "A group of young professionals who promote involvement with the Toledo Museum of Art by developing fun and interesting programs to bring in young adults."

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Gus Keedy, 1, right, applies stickers to a large "G" in the Toledo Museum of Art's Children Activities area. He is being given stickers by his mom, Michelle Keedy, left, and his great grandmother, Netta Pawlak, of Temperance.

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Santa rides toward the end of the parade.

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A yoga class outside of the Toledo Museum of Art entitled Monroga, which was sponsored by Circle 2445.

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The cart behind the horse, the Toledo Horsemen's Club, is ready for duty.

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"Tonka is the Best": celebrating the life and contributions of Thomas "Spyder" Pyle, who died at the end of May.

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An art car with a live figurehead, in the parade.

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Porsha Mosqueda and other members of the drum corps of Imagine Clay Avenue Community School, right, perform before Queen Sancha and King Wamba. Mosqueda will be in the eighth grade in the fall.

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Derrick Crawford, the self-appointed selfie king of the Old West End, taking another portrait of a parade participant. This is a member of the Competition Corvette Club of Toledo.

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Issues and ideas are part of the Old West End parade.

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Watching the parade along Bancroft Avenue.

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Jazzie travels in style with Dana Ward of Rudolph, a member of the Lucas County Pit Crew.

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Morgan Allesee, 6, of Perrysburg, Ella McNamara, 6, and her brother Liam McNamara, 4, of Whitehouse watch the parade along on Bancroft Avenue.

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Children's Theatre Workshop teacher Sarah Dysard of Toledo, left, performs with Kierce Janis, 11, of Blissfield, Mich., Taryn Smart, 12, of Toledo, and Lyric Clifton-Bowen, 12, also of Toledo. They are performing an excerpt from "Little Mermaid." It was one of five 'pop-up musical theater' groups from the CTW performing throughout the festival.

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