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Thea Murphy adds her raffle ticket Nov. 21 to a candy cane in front of a holiday tree she hopes to win during the annual FEZtival of Trees at the Kora Shrine Temple at 11 Sabattus St. in Lewiston. Each tree has a candy cane that will be emptied at the end of the festival, with one ticket being picked as the winner. In addition to the 60 holiday trees being awarded in the raffle, the event includes a craft fair, a silent auction, food and photographs with Santa and Mrs. Claus. Tickets to get in must be purchased in advance www.korashriners.org/feztival. The event continues through Saturday, except Thanksgiving Day, which is Thursday. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
Jessica Smith walks her dogs Gypsy, left, and Lola on Nov. 18 along Cross Road in Minot. Smith says she and her dogs walk the road every day. “This road is their entire lives. It’s very peaceful,” Smith says, adding that the neighborhood feels remote, while being close to town. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal
Amy Cummings, right, reviews newly acquired medical products Nov. 20 with nurse practitioner Ellen Taraschi, including disposable plastic speculums for providing Pap smears to homeless women, in the mobile medical unit run by Maine Family Planning. Cummings, the coordinator of the mobile medical unit, oversees the health care van parked at 16 Park St. in Lewiston. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal
Kaci Rugg, center, hands a can of carrots Nov. 21 to Karen Salter as they assemble Thanksgiving baskets at Angstrom Fiber in Auburn. Employees are participating in the community project by donating food items, supplemented by $25 gift cards, so families can add turkey, ham or other perishables. The baskets are being donated to the Margaret Murphy Centers for Children, which is to distribute them to families of students facing food insecurity. Rugg introduced the program to Angstrom, bringing the idea from a previous job. “When I was growing up, my family received baskets like these,” Rugg says. “Some years, Thanksgiving would come from a church group, and Christmas might come from another organization. To be able to turn around and give that back, so families don’t have to worry about this one thing, is amazing.” In photo above, Cassandra Cossar, left, and Jenn Edwards (along with Karey Robbins, not shown) are helping to assemble the baskets. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal
Fans watch the final seconds of a basketball game Nov. 16 between teams Hallie’s Hoop Troop and Ball is Life during the Hoops for Hallie basketball tournament at Poland Regional High School. Twenty-three teams from as far as Massachusetts competed in the three-on-three tournament to raise funds for Kindness Keepers for Hallie, a nonprofit organization that honors the life of Hallie Oldham. The 9-year-old from Poland was killed when a large tree fell on her family’s car during a camping trip. Oldham played basketball and wore jersey No. 12, the same number that her mother, Jen Oldham, wore when she played at Mountain Valley High School in Rumford. Most of the 115 players wore shirts with No. 12 during Saturday’s tournament. Money raised during last year’s inaugural Hoops for Hallie tournament helped support five families in need at Christmas, went toward three college scholarships and installed a buddy bench at Poland Elementary School. “This year, we are hoping to do more,” Hallie Oldham’s aunt, Kristen Arsenault-Richards, says. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal
Diing Maiwen of Edward Little High School in Auburn dunks the basketball Nov. 19 at Robert V. Connors Elementary School at 400 Bartlett St. in Lewiston during the team’s first practice of the season. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal

A lifelong resident of Lewiston, Russ stumbled into photography as a college student working toward a career in psychology. His great-grandfather Louis B. Costello was the publisher of the Lewiston Daily...

Andree Kehn is a staff photographer who has lived in Lewiston for the past three years and has been a Greenwood resident for 20 years, on and off. She has worked full time for the Sun Journal since 2015....

Daryn Slover always pulls for the underdog - what would you expect from someone that was raised in Cleveland and lives in Lewiston. He drinks cheap coffee and cheap beer so that he can afford to put his...