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Reader-submitted: 2012 High School Grad

Location: sullivan arena, 05/07/12 dimond Grads

It's that time of the year: high school seniors celebrate the end of their tenure and begin to embark on the next stage of their long lives. Show off your accomplishment and see who else flipped the tassel.

Reader-submitted: 2012 UAA Grad

Location: Sullivan Arena, 05/06/12

Another college class graduating into the real world. Post a photo of your special graduate and see others.

RSVP: May 2012

Location: Bagram, Afghanistan, 05/01/2012 CW2 Clinton K. Brown III of the Alaska Army National Guard with President Obama 1 May 2012 in Bagram, Afghanistan

Submit your photos from community projects and social occasions around town in May, 2012.

Reader submitted: Alaska dogs

Location: White Mountain, 5/18/2007 Jace Kaden Gray watching over the frozen Fish River

Reader submitted dog photographs.

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Great Alaska Seafood Cook Off

Chef Christopher Vane's winning entry of white troll king salmon pinwheels with two cakes in the inaugural Great Alaska Seafood Cook Off hosted by the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute in the Bill Sheffield Railroad Depot at the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport on Monday, May 14, 2012. The competitors cooked and plated a dish featuring wild Alaska seafood.  Chef Christopher Vane of Crush Wine Bistro in Anchorage was crowned king of Alaska seafood and will go on to compete in the Great American Seafood Cook Off later in the year.

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Alaska Native Heritage Center

The Alaska Native Heritage celebrated the opening of their summer season and 13th anniversary with their annual Mother's Day event on Sunday, May 13, 2012.  The event was free to the public and will be open 9:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily where visitors to the renowned cultural center and museum in Anchorage can expand their understanding of Alaska's Indigenous people.

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Citywide cleanup

A group from Abbott Loop Elementary School cleans up an area along Lake Otis Parkway. Volunteers scattered around Anchorage to pick up trash as part of the Anchorage Chamber's Citywide Cleanup Week.

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Coldwater Survival Egress Training

People participate in a Shell Oil Co. specific 16-hour cold water survival and helicopter underwater escape training in the Kenai High School swimming pool on May 9-10, 2012.  Participants that successfully completed the course received certification through Coldwater Survival Egress Training, which is required to board Shell aircraft operating offshore.

People participate in a Shell Oil Co. specific 16-hour cold water survival and helicopter underwater escape training in the Kenai High School swimming pool on May 9-10, 2012. Participants that successfully completed the course received certification through Coldwater Survival Egress Training, which is required to board Shell aircraft operating offshore.

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Orangutans

In this April 4, 2012 photo, Linda Jacobs uses an IPAD as she works with an orangutan at Jungle Island in Miami. With advancements in tablet computer technology, workers at Jungle Island in Miami are using iPads to better communicate with their orangutans.   Jacobs, who oversees the program, says orangutans are extremely intelligent but limited by their physical inability to talk.

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As the record snow melts in south central Alaska, what seems like a record amount of trash litters the side of the roads, snow dumps and parking lots. A plastic cap in a scenic view parking lot along the Seward Highway and Turnagain Arm on Thursday, April 19, 2012.

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Last years cow parsnip stalk stands against the sky as new shoots break through the ground in Kincaid Park on Wednesday, May 9, 2012.

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