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A Penn Township man was the winner of a plasma TV Tuesday in a contest sponsored by the

Butler Rotary Club to benefit a school drug prevention program.

Jim Hopson gets the Panasonic 37-inch TV, valued at $1,600.The contest sold tickets numbered to corresponding golf balls. The balls were dumped from atop a fire truck ladder and into a custom contraption. The first ball to go in a hole was declared the winner.Nearly $6,000 was raised for

Stand Tall, a program at Butler, Karns City and South Butler schools that asks students to abstain from drugs and alcohol and submit to random drug tests to prove it.———The Butler County Chapter of the American Red Cross has announced its newly-elected board members, chosen at its recent membership meeting.New board members include

Christopher Boyer of Leech Tishman,

Angela Kuss of Bookminders,

Kristen Singleton and

Ray Swigart of First National Bank of Slippery Rock and

Brennan Zanella, a Butler High School student.Newly-elected officers include chairman

Ginny Yelland, first vice chairman

Mark Finch, second vice chairman

Don Scelza, treasurer

Kathy Prokay and secretary

Christopher Boyer.———Winners at the

Butler Duplicate Bridge Club game held Sept. 27 were

Jan Horwitz and

Alex Bealles. Coming in second place were

Mary Anne McNeirney and

Jackie Skirboll.

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