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Turkey Carnival crowd down but raffle winners happy

The 75th annual Turkey Carnival put on by the Odessa Lions Club drew a smaller than normal crowd last Saturday, as quite a large number of townspeople opted to attend the quarterfinal football game in Spokane between Odessa-Harrington and Almira/Coulee-Hartline (won by the Titans, see article on sports page). The Odessa Community Center opened at 2 p.m. to begin serving hamburgers, hot dogs, nachos, soft drinks, water and pie by the slice. The coffee was free.

The club had purchased 120 turkeys for the bingo games which began at 3 p.m. Also running concurrently until about 6 p.m. were children...

 

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