My photo staff was in need of something to fill the next day’s paper and I called the Douglas County Parks Dept. to find out what was going on the second week of summer vacation. Blessings flowed as I found out there was a soccer camp at the park this week.

I arrived and picked up a nice, clean photo.

The surprise came as I was shooting from the goal and saw this child brushing material off his arm.

It was then that I remembered a wire story that was mentioned in an earlier meeting about a study on possible lead contamination on artificial turf. We had a reporter follow with a local story that went with the photo.