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Pinewood Derby winners, Cub Scout pack 3767, are: first place, Travis Hurt; second place, Michael Conners; third place, Taylor Engle; and best show, Matthew Voss.
POTPOURRI - Downtown Beautification - Always a leader in community affairs, Breading's Cigar Store became the first downtown Center Street business to install a tree - be it ever so scrawny. Seems an unknown donor left the tree to contribute to the beautification effort. Total cost was approximately $4.60, store owner Burleigh Burgh reportedly said, compared to $241.80 per tree as proposed by the downtown beautification group.
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL - A Syracuse reader, B.N. contributes the following suggestion for the weaker sex: "Women who wear slacks should lay off snacks."
A new bill introduced in the lower house of the state legislature forbidding foreclosure of mortgages for three years following filing of complaints for foreclosure is fathered by Hobart Creighton, as one of the co-authors. It is House Bill 498, Babcock and Creighton, authors. At present the period between foreclosure and filing of complaints for foreclosure is one year.
