When Bob Hansen weighed in at the Golay Community Center, the numbers astounded him ... like this 46-inch measurement around his stomach. He and 103 others are signed up for the Biggest Loser Competition.

By Bob Hansen
    Like recovering alcoholics, my wife and I had both admitted that we need help losing weight. So we thought we’d sign up for Biggest Loser Competition at the Golay Community Center.
    But we’d also seen the TV program "The Biggest Loser" and we didn’t want to be on TV looking all sweaty and overweight next to physically perfect trainers.
   I had talked with Katina Hellis a week earlier about doing a series of articles about Golay’s Biggest Loser Competition. Katina is the program director. She told me not to worry about public exposure. They protect the names of participants. For more of this story please subscribe!

The top 10 in the Cycle Stacking in 2009. Botton row from left: Guy Rednour, Caleb Craig, Bailey Brumfiel, Brandon Mettler, Seth Morris. Top row from left: Bryanna Johnson, Shelby Craig, Jacob Kissick, Levi Hall, Ross Harrington.

Sports Stacking Tournament
Planned in March

By Janis Buhl
    The 5th Annual Sports Stacking Tournament will be on Friday, March 15, at Western Wayne Elementary School. Students from all over Wayne County are invited to compete.
    Annual sports stacking tournaments began in 2006 increasing in popularity and benefits to students who have mastered the art. Sport Stacking, often referred to as "a track meet for your hands," is beneficial to students as it improves reaction time, increased hand eye coordination, and teaches concentration and focus.
    The program was introduced at WWES by Daryl Lane in his elementary physical education classes in 2005. Lane has grown the program continually by providing stacking cups for other schools and taking teams of students, Eagle Eye Stackers, from WWES to show others how it is done. As of 2009, more than $3,000 raised by the tournaments provided scholarships and stacking equipment to others through the Ellen M. Lane Scholarship Fund. For more of this story please subscribe!

Donkey Ball Brings Laughs To Counter Winter Blahs Handling a donkey is a little tougher than it looks - just ask Dustin ZeBelle, whose steed had its own idea of how to play basketball at LHS last Wednesday. (Photo by Tori Savoy)

   Fifty cases of food from Cambridge City will be going to a worthy charity as the result of Gov. Mitch Daniels’ wager over the outcome of Sunday’s Indianapolis Colts playoff game.
If the Jets won, Really Cool Foods in Cambridge City was gonna send 50 cases of some of its healthy, natural menu specialties to New Jersey, and Gov. Chris Christie will donate them to a New Jersey charitable organization. Christie offered a cake from Carlo’s City Hall Bake Shop in Hoboken, NJ.
    But since the Colts won Sunday’s game, Really Cool Foods has agreed to donate the 50 cases of food to the charity of Governor Daniels’ choice.

By Jenny Pugh
    Cambridge City town council members met Jan. 18, in a special public meeting to discuss the town’s proposed water project.
    Even though Indiana has spent all of its 2009 SRF and ARRA monies, the state will be applying for unused monies leftover from other states. Sarah Hudson, at SRF, has encouraged Cambridge City to apply for these unused funds. There are no guarantees that the water project will receive a grant, but it is an extra opportunity for the town to apply for funds this year. For more of this story please subscribe!