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Miss Firecracker, Megan Ramsey, and Mr. Sparkle, Andrew Caughenaur, were chosen during Akron's Fourth of July festival. Ramsey, 4, is the daughter of Bill and Sherry Ramsey, of Akron, and Caughenaur, 4, is the son of Mike and Vicki Caughenaur, of Akron.
Bruce Wright, president of Lake City Bank, handed the deed for Winona Lake Park to Carl Jacobsen, president of the park board in a ceremony this week. The bank originally purchased the nine-acre park which was in turn leased to the town on a lease/purchase agreement. The remaining $204,248 was paid off Monday and the park is now officially the property of Winona Lake.
Cpl. Charles R. "Dick" Shock, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Pearl Shock, North Webster, is back in the states, having returned from Germany for release from active duty.
ROCHESTER - Workmen employed by D.A. Pike, owner of the Akron sawmill, succeeded in felling the largest tree in this vicinity, a tall straight oak which reared its branches far above its neighbors on the Herbert Harter farm, northwest of Akron. It is claimed that with the cutting of this wooden giant came the fall of the second largest oak in northern Indiana.
