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September 3, 2010

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• To Starke-Pulaski Habitat for Humanity for its construction of a home for Tim and Tracy Moore and their family in Winamac. The chapter is building its fourth home in four years and expects to have this home finished in time for the Moores to move in by Christmas. Volunteers have already completed the foundation, installed the sub-floor, completed framing and installed rafters, roof sheeting and exterior walls.

• To the 55 entrants in the annual Logansport Shrine Parade, which helps raise awareness of the Logansport Shrine Club’s support of local children. The club transports 86 youth to Shriners Hospitals for Children in Chicago and Cincinnati for treatment. The club is the oldest in Indiana, dating back to April 1920.

• To the Logansport Parks and Recreation Department and its board for offering active-duty members of the armed forces a free round of golf at Dykeman Park Municipal Golf Course this weekend. The board agreed to participate in “Patriot Golf Day,” which is sponsored by the PGA and U.S. Golf Association. Others playing the course this weekend will be asked to donate $1 as part of a fundraiser for the Folds of Honor Foundation. The foundation provides post-secondary educational scholarships for children and spouses of service men and women who are disabled or killed.

• To the participants and 96 sponsors of the Old Style Raft Race, which raised about $3,000 for the Cass County Humane Society’s new animal shelter. The S.S. Rooster, crewed by members of the Cass County Roosters Club, won the four-mile race on the Eel River and donated the $100 winning prize back to the shelter along with another $100. The rafts made stops on the islands along the way for games and trivia prizes, and the Old Style Inn hosted a party after the race.

• To Logansport Memorial Hospital on its recognition as one of the healthiest employers in the state by the Indianapolis Business Journal and Mavum Consulting. The hospital won for employers with 500 to 1,499 employees. Its Culture Connection health management program offers participating employees lower health insurance premiums and cash rewards. It also has an onsite fitness center, free healthy food and discounted healthy choices in the cafeteria.

• To Maci Morris, who placed sixth in the softball throw in the girls 9-10 division at the Hershey Track and Field North American Final in Hershey, Penn. The 10-year-old from Royal Center was just the third athlete from Cass County to ever compete at the North American

Final. Earlier this summer at the Hershey State Games in Lafayette, Morris won the softball throw and both the 50- and 100-meter dashes.

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• To the Cabell County schools in southern West Virginia on a decision to remove swing sets from school playgrounds. The schools’ safety manager says a lot of parents are accusing him of being un-American, but he says the cost of maintaining a safe surface below the swings is simply too expensive. He noted that the schools in the past year spent $20,000 to settle a lawsuit involving a youngster who broke his arm while jumping off a swing like Superman.

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