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Halloween parade, contest winners
Elmore American Legion Post 279 and the Auxiliary hosted the 50th Annual Halloween Parade and Contest Monday, Oct. 28.
The Woodmore High School Marching Band led more than 36 participants through the streets of town. Participants and their parents also enjoyed cider and donuts.
Contest winners include:
Age birth-3:
Disney/Marvel: 1st - Ronan Stainbrook; 2nd - Clara Pocock; 3rd - Holyn Netcher.
Traditional Halloween: 1st - Johanna Probst; 2nd - Gabriel Probst; 3rd - Maverick Honsberger.
Other Characters: 1st - Brooklyn Wendt; 2nd - LaurieAnn Reynolds; 3rd - Hudson Wendt.
Four-7 year olds:
Disney/Marvel: 1st - Annie Schlea; 2nd - Olivia Voss; 3rd - Daisy Pocok.
Traditional Halloween: 1st - Ava St. John; 2nd - Nora Schlea; 3rd - Brielle Floro.
Other Characters: 1st - Lilah Probst; 2nd – Dakota Cunningham; 3rd – Charlie Tingley-Cook.
Eight-11 year olds:
Disney/Marvel: 1st - Aaron Butler.
Traditional Halloween: none.
Other Characters: 1st - Killian O'Shea; 2nd - Hannah O'Shea; 3rd - Simon Bordner.
Brooklyn Wendt earned the Grand Prize from all first-place contestants.

Hicks-Hudson to
represent Ohio on
GLLC committee
During the 2024 Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Legislative Caucus (GLLC) Annual Meeting, the membership elected State Sen. Paula Hicks-Hudson to be Ohio's representative on the Executive Committee for the 2025-26 biennium.
Hicks-Hudson, who represents Ohio's 11th Senate District, has been a member of the GLLC since 2019. During her time with the GLLC, Hicks-Hudson was named a 2019 Birkholz Institute Fellow and member of the Task Force on Nutrient Management. Prior to being elected to the state legislature, she served as the mayor of Toledo.
The GLLC Executive Committee includes two officers, chair and vice chair, and members representing Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ontario, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Québec and Wisconsin.
Hicks-Hudson and the other Executive Committee members will guide the activities of the GLLC for the next two years. The GLLC's policy agenda focuses its work on water consumption, coastal resiliency, nutrient management, toxic substances, and aquatic invasive species.
The GLLC, which receives staff support from The Council of State Governments' Midwestern Office, is the only nonpartisan, binational group of state and provincial legislators focused on the Great Lakes.