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Mike Brock, summer playground director at Hope, makes a point in one of the basketball classes in the program on July 12, 1974. Youngsters from the left are Mike Harris, John Stowell, Tom Keller, Lonnie Williams and Larry Howard.
From The Republic archives
2014
Jake Coffey, former Columbus North star and player at Indiana Wesleyan University, shot a first-round 69 at the Columbus Men’s Tournament to earn a tie for second, two shots off from former men’s city champ Jeff Cowall.
1999
Instead of drawing attention in the show barn, Elizabethtown’s Jennifer Brooks’ pig, Christine, was drawing attention in her pen by performing tricks to earn a powdered donut. Brooks had taught the pig to sit and jump to earn the treat, much to the delight of onlookers.
1974
Dr. W.M. Birenbaum, president of Staten Island Community College, was the guest speaker at First United Methodist Church’s third and final service of its sesquicentennial celebration. Dr. Birenbaum presented a slide show of a 1973 trip he made to China.