A few weeks worth of features

Tar Root, 20, of Karenni, plays takraw on Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012, a sport popular in Southeast Asia where he lived until 2009 when he and his family came to Bowling Green. Root lives in the Lovers Lane apartment complex where he and his neighbors play takraw almost every day. The residents of the complex are almost all from Burma, Thailand or Karenni and many are refugees.

Roger Dias, left, 7, of Bowling Green, blows out candles with his cousin, Jeffrey Dias, 4, of Somerset, Ky., as they celebrate their birthdays together at a relative's house in Bowling Green Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012. The close-knit El Salvadorian family had more than 20 family members at the party for piñatas, cake and horchata.

Junior Jenny Sutherland, 20, of Harrodsburg, Ky., left, slings mud with her Chi Omega sorority sisters sophomore Tori Knodell, 19, of Naperville, Ill., middle, and freshman Taylor Milan, 18, of Springfield, Ohio, right, after they won their first match of the AOPi and Sigma Chi Mud Volleyball tournament at the WKU Ag. Farm Thursday, Sept. 28, 2012. 

José Recinos, of Bowling Green, works on his big-rig truck while his neighbor's son, Anthony, 7, plays on his drive way Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012. The truck had a leak in the air tank and all the mechanics in town were too busy so Recinos attempted the repairs himself. Recinos said that even after driving to 48 states, Bowling Green is his favorite city in the United States.

Evangeline Beasley-Brown, 2, of Bowling Green, plays with her mother Dana Beasley-Brown's sweatshirt while she and her 4-year-old son Stockton take yoga instructions from Anna Tinch, of Bowling Green, in a new yoga class designed for preschoolers at the Bob Kirby Branch of Warren County Public Library in Bowling Green Monday, Oct. 1, 2012. Dana Beasley-Brown said that her daughter is a little too young to enjoy the class, but that her son loves it. The class was introduced this year and will have it's fifth session next week.

Deana "Sweet Drops" Hill, right, of Bowling Green, and member of the motorcycle club "Who U Wit", talks to the president of the club Nessie "Prez Sunkist" Austin (not pictured) about who in the group has the best motorcycle while Thomas McFarlan, 13, son of club members Chris "Dough Boy" and Sarah "Honey" McFarlan, listens to the conversation during a club barbecue Sunday, Sept. 23,  2012 in Bowling Green. Members of "Who U Wit" often compare bikes by short races, burnouts and leaving rubber on the pavement.

Ramiz Becic, 15, of Bowling Green, plays goalie during a pick-up soccer game with his friends and neighbors, who are also from Bosia. The group of Bosnians play soccer every day, they said. Soccer is a very popular sport in Bosnia, and the group keep that heritage alive by playing together.

Johnny Riggs, 43, of Cave City, takes a break from playing pick-up basketball with his sons in Bowling Green Monday, Oct. 8, 2012. Riggs taught the boys how to play when they were kids. He is thankful that he can still play with them despite a four-wheeler accident that left him with several broken ribs a decade ago. After the accident he left the hospital early so that he could go watch his boys play baseball, he said.