When bags fly: Cornhole contest at Ames True Value raises funds for mason lodge
Outside Ames True Value Sunday, as masons from Lincoln Lodge in Wiscasset prepared to cook food to sell at a cornhole tournament, mason Chuck Billings praised the Route 1, Wiscasset business and Wicked Cornhole for giving the lodge the event’s proceeds. “I think this is great.”
And the weather was good. “It couldn’t be any better. A little hot, but at least it’s not raining,” Billings said.
Wicked Cornhole’s Bruce Taylor said in a text Sunday night, “We raised over $800. Twenty-seven teams competed in (the) first tournament and 22 teams in (the second) tournament. Winners from the main event were John Clark and Vincent Grosso. Second place (finishers) were Kathy Greenlaw and Steve Bodlovick.”
During warmups earlier, first-time cornhole tournament team, The First National Bank’s Ann Clifford and Jean Moffatt, threw bags alongside experienced competitors. The bank, one of the event’s sponsors, is very involved in the community, they said. “So when Sumner (Averill, from Ames) came by, this was, no problem,” Moffatt recalled.
“We were all in,” Clifford said.
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