A look back at July 2023 photos by Post

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St. Louis Cardinals right fielder Jordan Walker makes a diving catch to get Washington Nationals right fielder Lane Thomas out in the seventh inning of game two of a double header against the Washington Nationals at Busch Stadium in St. Louis on Saturday, July 15, 2023.

Lightning strikes behind the St. Louis Wheel as an afternoon thunderstorm passes over CityPark stadium in St. Louis on Friday, July 14, 2023. The storm’s potential for high winds and hail caused the National Weather Service to issue a severe thunderstorm warning.

Monuments at Calvary Cemetery are seen damaged by downed trees on Monday, July 10, 2023, from last weekend's severe storms. Crews there are still cleaning up. Photo by Christian Gooden, [email protected]

Antajah Ashley, left, her friend Delilah Dozier use trash bags to keeps themselves dry in the wind and rain during a rain delay in seventh inning of a game between the New York Yankees and the St. Louis Cardinals in St. Louis on Saturday, July 1, 2023. Photo by David Carson, [email protected]

A bee lands on the nose of sunflower that someone made a happy face on at Columbia Bottom Conservation Area in Spanish Lake on Thursday, July 13, 2023. The fields of flowers should continue to be in bloom into the middle of August. The sunflowers are planted by the Missouri Department of Conservation as part of their management program for mourning doves. When the flowers wilt and go to seed they entice the doves into area to for hunting season in September. Photo by David Carson, [email protected]

A participant at Paddle After Dark explores the lake on Friday evening, July 21, 2023 at Simpson Lake Park in Valley Park. The event is fundraiser for Open Space STL, a land and water conservation organization. Photo by Arthur H. Trickett-Wile, [email protected]

Barbara Glass, center, receives a kiss on the head from nephew Michael Glass while daughter Shannon Glass, right, sits next to her at a memorial for families of Ozark Air Lines Flight 809 victims on Sunday, July 23, 2023, near the crash site on the University of Missouri-St. Louis campus. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the plane crash that killed 38 people on board. There were six survivors. Barbara Glass was pregnant with Shannon Glass when the crash happened.

Marcus and Amelia Counts jump while being sprayed by an animatronic water-spitting dinosaur on Monday, July 24, 2023, at the Emerson Dinoroarus exhibit at the St. Louis Zoo in Forest Park. The National Weather Service is calling for afternoon heat indices this week over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

Two tugboats push a barge on the Mississippi River on Tuesday, July 11, 2023, in St. Louis. The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District is introducing new treatment technology at three wastewater treatment facilities that will reduce levels of phosphorus, a nontoxic mineral that can promote unwanted growth in waterways.

Keisha Scarlett, left, shares a laugh with Kia Johnson, after her induction as the 35th superintendent of St. Louis Public Schools on Tuesday, July 11, 2023 at Carr Lane Visual and Performing Arts Middle School at the 1000 block of North Jefferson Street in St. Louis. Scarlett, the first African American woman to hold the position, succeeded Kelvin Adams after the district's board held a nationwide search. Johnson, a parent of two students in the district, expressed excitement to see Scarlett take the role. “It's been a long time coming,” she said. Photo by Arthur H. Trickett-Wile, [email protected]

Peter Mathew's Memorial Skate Park in St. Louis pictured the from the air on Thursday, July 6, 2023. Photo by Arthur H. Trickett-Wile, [email protected]

Fireworks from the 42nd Fair St. Louis' July 4th Fireworks Spectacular are seen from Kiener Plaza reflected in a building on Tuesday evening, July 4, 2023 in downtown St. Louis. Photo by Arthur H. Trickett-Wile, [email protected]

St. Louis City SC celebrates a goal against the Colorado Rapids for a 1-0 lead in the first half of a match on Saturday, July 1, 2023 at the CityPark stadium in downtown St. Louis. Photo by Arthur H. Trickett-Wile, [email protected]

Shunsuke Mitsui (Japan) reacts to missing a point during his match against Jaimee Floyd Angele (France) at the Edwardsville Futures USTA Pro Circuit Tournament on Thursday, July 27, 2023, at Edwardsville High School. Photo by Laurie Skrivan, [email protected]

Fans watch the singles match between Canon Kingsley (USA) , right, and Ozan Baris (USA) at the Edwardsville Futures USTA Pro Circuit Tournament on Thursday, July 27, 2023, at Edwardsville High School. Photo by Laurie Skrivan, [email protected]

A pedestrian walks along a row of bollards outside the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis along Broadway on Tuesday, July 25, 2023, downtown.

Penn, who will be 2 in August, gives his mom Courtney Stuen kisses after his bath on Monday, June 26, 2023, at their home in Chesterfield. Courtney is the widow of St. Louis University assistant basketball coach Ford Stuen, who died two years ago, at only 29 years old. Photo by Laurie Skrivan, [email protected]

"I want him to know his dad," says Courtney Stuen, who dresses her son Penn, who will be 2 in August, as he clutches a photo of his dad that Courtney keeps inside a "Goodnight Moon" book in his room on Monday, June 26, 2023, at their home in Chesterfield.

A motorist passes by a safety vest labeled with the name of Yellow driver Ron Fisher that was displayed in protest on the fence of the company's shuttered YRC Freight terminal in the Kosciukso neighborhood of St. Louis on Monday morning, July 31, 2023, in the wake of ceased operations.

Carter Lickteig's Sapphire Gems hens are packed to go home as excessive heat made for dangerous conditions for some poultry participants at the St. Charles County Fair in Rotary Park in Wentzville on Friday, July 28, 2023. Before leaving, Carter's hens won second overall in egg laying competition. The fair, featuring rides and games as well as ribbon-winning livestock, vegetables, baked goods and art, ends Saturday evening. Photo by Robert Cohen, [email protected]

Taylor Coulter, 13, tries to escape the heat while her sister Madi grooms cattle at their Coulter Angus stall in a barn at the St. Charles County Fair in Wentzville on Friday, July 28, 2023. She and her sisters compete for the Boone Country 4-H Club in New Melle. Photo by Robert Cohen, [email protected]

Volunteer Latifa Lewis reads to 2-year-olds Brylee Cooper, left, Erian Johnson, Nyomie Love and her son Elijah Harris at Hilltop Child and Family Development Center in the North Pointe neighborhood on Wednesday, July 19, 2023. Like many parents at the day care, Lewis receives extra diapers each month that the center gets from the St. Louis Area Diaper Bank. “We're a two-parent home. We both work, and sometimes it's still a struggle,” she said.

Homeowner Jack Pawloski checks the damage under a massive white oak tree that fell on his home on Breuer Drive in Affton last week as he helps tree trimmers on Monday, July 17, 2023. Pawloski put up the sign as a joke, but hopes that insurance will allow him to rebuild. “A custom home would be nice,” he said. Photo by Robert Cohen, [email protected]

The two-level auditorium of Cleveland High School is seen on Monday, July 10, 2023. The school, built in 1915 in Dutchtown, has been the target of vandals after closing in 2006 and is listed for sale by St. Louis Public Schools.

A motorcyclist, right, pauses before moving past a water main break at the intersection of Queens and Lilian avenues in the Mark Twain neighborhood of north St. Louis on Thursday, July 6, 2023. St. Louis police officers cordoned off streets because the gushing water was strong enough to reach power lines high above the breakage. Last month, the Board of Aldermen passed a plan to levy one of the largest water rate increases in recent history to pay for long-needed upgrades to the century-old system. Photo by Robert Cohen, [email protected]

Sebastian Montes visits the site where he tried to help a woman who later died after a tree fell on her car during Saturday's storm in an alley behind the 4100 block of Chouteau Avenue in The Grove on Monday, July 3, 2023. “I understand there's emergencies everywhere but I think we need to change the system of 911 calls,” said Montes, who started a live video on social media to get the woman help. “There's no way that 20 people call for a whole hour and no answer.”

Carlton Junior grills a turkey outside his home in the 5100 block of Gilmore Avenue on Wednesday, July 5, 2023. Power had still not been restored from a weekend storm in his Walnut Park East neighborhood. Junior had previously grilled pork steaks, hot dogs and chicken from his thawing deep freezer, as he fed relatives and neighbors.

Webster Groves police officers remove Mindy Finan’s chairs from atop a stop sign at South Gore and West Cedar avenues on Wednesday, July 5, 2023. “I guess they were out a little too long,” said Finan, who usually sets her chairs out on the curb to reserve seating days before the Webster Groves Fourth of July parade. When she woke Wednesday morning she saw the chairs on the sign and was about to call the city when the patrol officers saw it themselves and stopped to help.

Barb Keathley of Ballwin greets Mike Green of south St. Louis County with some sunscreen as they get ready to ride in the Webster Groves Community Days Parade with the Gateway Chapter of the Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge on Tuesday, July 4, 2023.

Hugo Coñoman sprays the basement ceiling of Lidia Ivanova's University City home with a mold-preventing primer paint after it was bleached on Tuesday, June 20, 2023, almost 11 months after last July's flash flood. Ivanova hoped for a buyout after the River Des Peres left her basement full of water and 18 inches on the main floor. “The city called and said they wouldn't buy it for the next five years, maybe 20,” she said. “So I started working on it.”

A damaged Greyhound bus is prepared for transport on Wednesday, July 12, 2023, from the scene of a fatal wreck on westbound Interstate 70 after the bus collided with a tractor-trailer near Highland, Illinois. Photo by Christian Gooden, [email protected]

Terrence Patton, a maintenance worker with the Ritenour School District, paints fresh lines on Tuesday, July 18, 2023, for the high school's North Athletic Campus soccer field on St. Charles Rock Road in St. John. "We like to keep them from fading too much so we don't have to measure again," he said. Photo by Christian Gooden, [email protected]

Cardinal Ritter College Prep High School quarterback Antwon McKay, center, runs warmup drills with teammates on Tuesday, July 25, 2023, during morning practice at the Midtown St. Louis school. Photo by Christian Gooden, [email protected]

A parishioner at St. Robert Bellarmine attends Mass on Thursday, July 27, 2023, at the St. Charles parish. St. Robert Bellarmine is set to merge with St. Elizabeth Ann Seton parish under the St. Louis Archdiocese's All Things New realignment plan set to be implemented on Aug. 1, of this year. Photo by Christian Gooden, [email protected]

Florence Crockett, a parishioner at St. Robert Bellarmine Catholic Church for 40 years, attends Mass on Thursday, July 27, 2023, in St. Charles, Mo. Under the St. Louis Archdiocese's All Things New realignment plan, the St. Robert Bellarmine parish will close on Aug. 1 and become part of the St. Elizabeth Ann Seton parish. Photo by Christian Gooden, [email protected]

Monsignor Raymond Hampe, a retired priest in residence at St. Robert Bellarmine Catholic Church, says Mass on Thursday, July 27, 2023, at the St. Charles parish. St. Robert Bellarmine is set to merge with St. Elizabeth Ann Seton parish under the St. Louis Archdiocese's All Things New realignment plan set to be implemented on Aug. 1, of this year. Photo by Christian Gooden, [email protected]

Fireworks light up the St. Louis skyline on Tuesday, July 4, 2023. Photo by David Carson, [email protected]

Justin Martin and Kelly Kinsella work the bar as the St. Louis Cardinals game against Miami plays on the television at the Broadway Oyster Bar near Busch Stadium in St. Louis on Wednesday, July 5, 2023. Kinsella says she's not seen the Cardinals losing record on the field affect business in the restaurant but she feels severe weather has been been an issue. The Cardinals lost the game to Miami in the bottom on the ninth inning on a throwing error by Jordan Hicks. Photo by David Carson, [email protected]

Hailey Neal, 3, from Wentzville, walks out of a field of blooming sunflowers at Columbia Bottom Conservation Area in Spanish Lake on Thursday, July 13, 2023. Her mother Marcie Bosworth, not pictured, says she's brought Hailey and her sunflower headband to the fields for photos since she was baby and plans to continue doing so as long as Hailey will let her. The fields of flowers should continue to be in bloom into the middle of August. The sunflowers are planted by the Missouri Department of Conservation as part of their management program for mourning doves. When the flowers wilt and go to seed they entice the doves into area to for hunting season in September. Photo by David Carson, [email protected]

St. Louis Cardinals second baseman Nolan Gorman, left, and right fielder Jordan Walker go through a hand shake routine in the dugout before a game between the Washington Nationals and St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium in St. Louis on Friday, July 14, 2023. Photo by David Carson, [email protected]

Rain drops splash down on the hamburger phone the Cardinals players playfully use to call in home run requests during a rain delay in the third inning of a game between the Washington Nationals and St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium in St. Louis on Thursday, July 14, 2023. Photo by David Carson, [email protected]

St. Louis Cardinals president of baseball operations John Mozeliak looks out on to the field during pre-game ceremonies before a game between the Miami Marlins and St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium in St. Louis on Tuesday, July 18, 2023. Photo by David Carson, [email protected]

St. Louis Cardinals third baseman Nolan Arenado, second from the right, is swarmed by his teammates celebrating his 10th innning walk off homer during a game between the Miami Marlins and St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium in St. Louis on Tuesday, July 18, 2023. Photo by David Carson, [email protected]

St. Louis Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol and pitcher Adam Wainwright share a laugh before the start of a game between the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium in St. Louis on Sunday, July 30, 2023. Photo by David Carson, [email protected]

Forward Dalibor Dvorsky, center, throws a puck over the glass to a group of children during the St. Louis Blues Prospect Camp at Centene Community Ice Center in Maryland Heights on Saturday, July 1, 2023. Photo by Michael Clubb, [email protected]

St. Louis Cardinals third baseman Nolan Arenado (28) slides safely into second for a double as New York Yankees second baseman Gleyber Torres tries to apply the tag in the fourth inning at Busch Stadium on Sunday, July 2, 2023.

Éva Kiss-Bergman holds a water bottle to her head to cool down in her Crestwood home on Wednesday, July 5, 2023. Bergman, along with her husband, daughter and six cats, were left without power after a tree in their backyard fell over in a storm Saturday.

Jude Hake, 3, from Edwardsville, licks his lips while participating in a hands free smothered-in-ketchup tater tot eating contest during the World's Largest Catsup Bottle Festival at Herald Square in Collinsville on Saturday, July 8, 2023. Photo by Michael Clubb, [email protected]

Nishanth Vadakala, center, smiles as his Vikings teammates huddle up before a cricket match against Rockin Rolla at DuSable Park in St. Charles on Sunday, July 9, 2023.

Raj Haldar, of the Patels cricket team, plays with teammate Keyur Patel's daughter Siya Patel, 4, before a match against the AllStars at the Hazelwood Sports Complex on Tuesday, July 11, 2023.

Bob Criss, a professor emeritus at Washington University, walks out of the tunnel for the River Des Peres at an entry point on Chamberlain Avenue in University City on Monday, July 10, 2023. Photo by Michael Clubb, [email protected]

Post Malone performs at Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre in Maryland Heights on Friday, July 14, 2023. Photo by Michael Clubb, [email protected]

The St. Louis Cardinals grounds crew pulls a tarp over the field as incoming weather delays the start of game two of a double header against the Washington Nationals at Busch Stadium in St. Louis on Saturday, July 15, 2023. Photo by Michael Clubb, [email protected]

Firefighters work at a house that exploded late Monday morning in the 500 block of Transit Street in St. Charles on Monday, July 17, 2023. Five people were rushed to the hospital with injuries.

Johnny Moresi, 15, from Lake Saint Louis, jumps his scooter at Kinetic Park in St. Charles County on Friday, July 21, 2023. The park is currently undergoing an expansion that will create one of the largest inclusive playgrounds in the St. Louis metro region. The $12 million project also includes an indoor pickleball facility, a new park entrance, expanded restrooms, and an e-sports arena. Photo by Michael Clubb, [email protected]

James Reed, from St. Charles, rides his bike on a curved wall at Kinetic Park in St. Charles County on Friday, July 21, 2023. The park is currently undergoing an expansion that will create one of the largest inclusive playgrounds in the St. Louis metro region. The $12 million project also includes an indoor pickleball facility, a new park entrance, expanded restrooms, and an e-sports arena. Photo by Michael Clubb, [email protected]

Toby Pairmore, a Research and Development Technician at MEMC, holds up a 300mm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer for a photo at the company's manufacturing facility in O'Fallon, Missouri on Monday, July 24, 2023. MEMC and parent company GlobalWafers Co., Ltd. (GWC) are nearing completion of more than $300 million in capital improvements to the O'Fallon facility. This expansion adds capacity for manufacturing the type of wafer pictured here, including the creation of 100 new jobs.

St. Louis Cardinals catcher Willson Contreras, left, hugs Chicago Cubs left fielder Ian Happ (8) after being hit in the head by his backswing in the first inning of a game at Busch Stadium in St. Louis on Thursday, July 27, 2023. Photo by Michael Clubb, [email protected]

Cardinals starting pitcher Miles Mikolas reacts after being ejected for intentionally hitting Cubs left fielder Ian Happ in the first inning at Busch Stadium in St. Louis on Thursday, July 27, 2023.

St. Louis Cardinals third baseman Nolan Arenado (28) throws his helmet in frustration after being struck out in the eighth inning of game two against the Chicago Cubs at Busch Stadium in St. Louis on Friday, July 28, 2023. Photo by Michael Clubb, [email protected]

The Cubs' Cody Bellinger (24) and Nico Hoerner (2) and the Cardinals' Alec Burleson (41) react after Cubs center fielder Mike Tauchman catches the game winning out off of Burleson's bat in the ninth inning at Busch Stadium in St. Louis on Friday, July 28, 2023.

Nick Pfister, right, shakes hands with Monsignor Mike Turek, left, as Pfister's wife Audrey, background, hugs Deacon David Harpring, before Mass at St. Rita Catholic Church in Vinita Park on Saturday, July 29, 2023. Under the "All Things New" reorganization of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, the parishes of All Saints in University City and St. Rita will be subsumed, or merged, with Christ the King parish. Christ the King will share its pastor, Turek, with St. Joseph in Clayton starting in August. The Pfisters, who have been parishioners at St. Rita for more than 20 years, said they will start watching a broadcast version of Mass following the closure of their parish due to health reasons and concerns about limited disabled parking at Christ the King.

DeVionte McKinney, left, 25, and his brother DaMir McKinney, 7, spray each other with water guns on Thursday, July 27, 2023, at McDonald Park in the Tower Grove South neighborhood in St. Louis. The city is under an excessive heat warning, with temperatures and heat indices in the triple digits.

Cbabi Bayoc paints a mural Saturday, July 22, 2023, near the intersection of North Skinker Boulevard and Delmar Boulevard. Bayoc said he started painting the mural for a new art supply store, MO Art Supply, on Monday. Photo by Christine Tannous, [email protected]

St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Paul Goldschmidt (46) slides into home past Miami Marlins catcher Jacob Stallings to score on an RBI single by Nolan Arenado in the first inning Wednesday, July 19, 2023, at Busch Stadium in St. Louis.

St. Louis Cardinals' Nolan Arenado (28) reacts after getting hit by a pitch thrown by Washington Nationals starting pitcher Josiah Gray (40) during a game Sunday, July 16, 2023, at Busch Stadium in St. Louis. Photo by Christine Tannous, [email protected]

City SC fan Alfie Sluys, 6, holds up a sign saying, "Messi Who? We are the Lou" as players greet the crowd after beating Inter Miami 3-0 on Saturday, July 15, 2023, at CityPark. That was shortly after soccer legend Lionel Messi signed with the Miami club but did not play in the game. With Alfie are his mom, Debbie Sluys, back, father Ed Sluys, back right, and brother Ben Sluys, right.

Brenda Coffman becomes frustrated as she talks with the Rev. Ray Redlich as she sits with her service dog, Birmie, while waiting for a call about housing on Friday, July 14, 2023, outside St. Patrick Center in downtown St. Louis. Coffman says she has been having trouble finding housing because shelters will not let her dog stay with her.

A hummingbird visits a Monarda, or bee balm flower, at Chuck Schagrin's garden on Wednesday, July 12, 2023, in Clayton. Photo by Christine Tannous, [email protected]

Kira Kebe, hospital director at the World Bird Sanctuary, releases bald eagle 23-126 on Friday, July 7, 2023, at the Audubon Center at Riverlands in West Alton. Bald eagle 23-126 achieved fame for being raised by Murphy, an eagle at the World Bird Sanctuary in Valley Park. Murphy went viral on social media for trying to incubate a rock.

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