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Daisytown Sportsmen’s Club recently held its 25th annual polar bear shoot. A total of 100 people of all ages shot at the life-size polar bear target from 100 yards. Jake Radwanski (left) won for the second year in a row. Ron Newsom, president of the club, presented him with a trophy.

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Former U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Jorge Isaac Benitez (standing second from left) was recently honored for his service during a school assembly in Windber, where he will receive a payment-free vehicle, which was made possible through Military Warriors Support Foundation’s Transportation4Heroes program and the support of Wells Fargo and Thomas Buick GMC in Johnstown. Also pictured are Ken Salem; Benitez’s spouse Sandra Taylor and their family; Andrew Butch and Johanna Blank, of Wells Fargo; and Scott Leitengerger and John Yenason, of Military Warriors Support Foundation.

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Uzelac Gymnastics recently placed in the Top 3 at the Spring in the Mountain meet. Gymnasts are (first row, left to right) Adaleigh Maruca, Mila DeBose, Julia Shuniak, Layla Alberts, Lily Edmiston, Kaylee Yock, Evelyn Luprek, Natalie Senft, Evelyn Roberts, Ella Simpson, (second row) Lilly Beckwith, Gwen Beatty, Peyton Bocz, Grace Moss, Clara Miller, Jaylynn Kukura, Aspyn Uzelac, Addy DeLeo, Gabby Uzelac, Emery Blue and (third row) Aubrey Boxter, Alley Dusack, Bella Madden, Jailyn Fenchak, Maddie Havener, Bri Henry and Paris Ingram.

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Kylee Newfield (second from right) recently received the third annual award from the P. Joseph Lehman Sr. Memorial Scholarship in Engineering for Women Endowment from the Independent Catholic Foundation. She is a junior at Bishop Carroll Catholic High School. Also pictured are (left to right) Joe Lehman Jr., Independent Catholic Foundation trustee and president of P. Joseph Lehman Inc. consulting engineers; Betsy Lehman; and Mary Beth Lieb, foundation trustee.

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Colin Fitzsimmons (center), Vistra’s director of government affairs, recently presented a $5,000 grant to the Somerset County Mobile Food Bank. Also pictured are (left to right) state Rep. Carl Walker Metzgar, R-Somerset; Ben Tawney, Somerset County Mobile Food Bank executive director; Shawn Conway, field director for U.S. Rep. Guy Reschenthaler; and Emily Stipe, director of federal and political affairs, Vistra.

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Colin Fitzsimmons (left), Vistra’s director of government affairs, recently announced a $5,000 grant to Children’s Aid Home Programs of Somerset County. Pictured with him are (left to right) Lynne M. Sablotski, Children’s Aid Home Programs of Somerset County executive director; Emily Stipe, director of federal and political affairs, Vistra; and state Rep. Carl Walker Metzgar, R-Somerset.

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Uzelac Gymnastics recently placed in the Top 3 at the Unite for HER: Pink Invitational in Philadelphia. Gymnasts are (first row, left to right) Vivian Endler, Jaylynn Kukura, Nora Miller and (second row) Aubrey Baxter, Ella Brotz, Lilly Beckwith, Bri Henry and Aspyn Uzelac. Absent from the photo was Addie Piscatello.

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Greater Johnstown High School Aevidum Club, Victim Services and Cambria County Human Trafficking Response Team recently hosted a blue out game to raise awareness to combat human trafficking.

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Makenna Smith, 14, a student at Central Cambria High School, Ebensburg, recently won the Keystone State wrestling championship March 14-15. She participated in the 15-16 age bracket at 112 pounds. She went 4-0, with all pins in the first period.

She is the first girl for the Central Cambria girls wrestling team to win a state title. She is the daughter of Kayla Maloskey and Donald Smith.

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