Boston Scenes

Gov. Deval Patrick (center) discusses swine flu concerns with state Secretary of Health and Human Services Dr. JudyAnn Bigby (left) during a meeting with health advisors in Boston on Wednesday, April 29, 2009. At right is Mary Clark, director of the state’s Emergency Preparedness Bureau. As of the evening of May 4, 2009, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health had confirmed 34 cases of swine flu in the Bay State. (AP photo/Charles Krupa)

The Massachusetts Dental Society recently presented the Dental Educator of the Year Award to Ruby Elder-Bush (center) of Dorchester, a dental assisting instructor at Madison Park Technical Vocational High School. Pictured with Bush are Madison Park seniors Gerson DePina of Dorchester (left) and Jennifer Pena of Roslindale. (Photo courtesy of Boston Public Schools)

German President Horst Kohler hosted Charles R. Stith, the former U.S. Ambassador to Tanzania and director of the African Presidential Archives and Research Center at Boston University, and 10 former African heads of state for a working luncheon at Schloss Bellevue in Berlin on Monday, April 27, 2009, as a prelude to the African Presidential Roundtable 2009: Leadership Challenges of Land Reform in Africa. Attendees included (from left): Karl Offmann of Mauritius, President Ketumile Masire of Botswana, President Aristides Pereira of Cape Verde, President Ali Hassan Mwinyi of Tanzania, President Festus Mogae of Botswana, President Nicephore Soglo of Benin, Kohler, President Jerry Rawlings of Ghana, Prime Minister Frederick Sumaye of Tanzania, President Cassam Uteem of Mauritius, President John Kufuor of Ghana, Stith, Dr. John Tesha of Africa Forum. (dpa Picture-Alliance GmbH photo)

Boston College biology major Colin Kunzweiler (left) teaches Russell Elementary School students Elizabeth Flores, Shanell Gourdine and Chien Hoang how to measure Cape Cod Diamondback Terrapin turtles as part of Science Across the City Day, which brought elementary school students to campus through the Step UP initiative at BC’s Lynch School of Education. (Photo courtesy of Boston College)

Dorchester resident Monique Dillon (right) and co-worker Lois Adams of Framingham spent Earth Day teaching at-risk youth between the ages of 5 and 13 at The Home for Little Wanderers’ Knight Children’s Center in Jamaica Plain about their jobs at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the importance of recycling and how different things in the environment work. (Photo courtesy of The Home for Little Wanderers)

Topper Carew, founder and director of Urban Neo and former WGBH Boston executive producer, will be one of the three individuals to receive the first Boston Neighborhood Network (BNN) National Media Heroes award for his substantial contributions to media and outstanding support of community access. Carew will receive the award at “Celebrating Silver,” BNN’s 25th anniversary kickoff, scheduled to be held on May 12, 2009. (Photo courtesy of BNN)