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The Leesburg Math Bowl team finished fourth in the state in division 2 MATH competition. In the Open Class division, the team placed in the top 25 by achieving a 19th-spot ranking from 216 teams. Team members are Candice Kissane, Tarissa Martin, David Hahn, Daric Snyder, Baxter Burnworth, John Ronk, Derek Weaver, Kyle Gregor, Daniel Ferguson, Jaclyn Abrams, Sarah Flinn, Nicholas King, Anna Cornell, Thomas Burnworth, Clay Epply and Andrew Lauster. Coaches are Chris Bonifield and Judy Kinsey.
BOURBON - Bourbon's oldest resident, Barbara Danner, will be 100 years old May 6. Danner was born and raised in a two room cabin in the Millwood area. The third of 10 children and the last survivor, she saw her oldest sister, Elizabeth Jones, live to celebrate 107 birthdays. Others in her family lived past the average life expectancy. Her father, Robert Watkins, lived to be 94, and her mother, Sarah Lemler Watkins, lived to the age of 81.
Skip Welker, Dave Castaldi and Judy Gillam, Warsaw High School speech students, were finalists in the all-state tourney at Terre Haute.
Mrs. George Krebs, of Warsaw, reported that in a two-hour hunt she secured 391 mushrooms.
