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Bryan "Fish" Finlinson, Syracuse, recently captured the 1997 International Jet Ski Boating Association Championship in the season finale race on Lake Havasu, Ariz., Oct. 5-12. Finlinson won the "1200 cc" Super Stock Runabout National Championship riding his Yahama 1200 GP Waverunner. On his way to winning the title, Finlinson set the world record for his class in the slalom event.
Laral Turner, Claypool, Palestine Lake, couldn't lift his pumpkin crop this year and for good reason. It took a mini-crane to lift: seven pumpkins ranging in weight from 63 to 202 pounds. Three of the pumpkins - the 202-pounder, a 185-pounder and a 149-pounder - were on the same vine.
Girl Scouts of Troop 41, Milford, receiving awards at the court of awards were: Second class ranks: Sally Berkeypile, Marsha Dewart, Joy Faulkner, Margie and Hollar, Dana Levernier, Earlene Fisher, Elizabeth Overstedt, Carol Rassi, Patti Ritter, Ann Schlotterbach, Gloria Stackhouse, Jennifer Sunthimer and Vicki Cecil.
Dr. F.C. Olds, high priest of Warsaw Chapter 48, Royal Arch Mason, left for Bloomington, where he will attend the annual session of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Mason. Austin Eichholtz, the illustrious master of the Warsaw Council, is already in Bloomington attending the meeting of the Grand Council of Most Excellent Masters.
