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MAY 18, 2016

Centre High School senior Allison Basore is photographed leading fellow graduates out of the school library for the last time before graduation ceremonies Sunday at the school.

Fourteen traditional students were joined for the event by two of 10 graduates from the district’s Kansas Online Learning Program.

Both boys and girls claimed team championships Friday the 13th at a Heart of America league meet at Marion Stadium.

The boys edged Bennington by just three points. The girls had more breathing room, winning by 29 points over Moundridge and Berean Academy.

Jack Schneider won in the 100-, 200-, and 400-meter races, and Tyler Palic won in discus. Marissa Jacobsen won the long and triple jumps, and Erika Hess won in pole vault.

The neighborly kindness of Marion resident Marge Summervill may have saved a trio of flightless ducks at Marion County Lake from becoming eagle food over the winter.

Worried what might happen to “Donald,” “Daisy,” and “Dukey” when the lake began to freeze over in January, she talked to lake superintendent Steve Hudson and offered to relocate the trio to her family’s spring-fed trout pond, a mile south of the lake, because it wouldn’t freeze over.

Summervill returned the ducks to the lake last month.