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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2015
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Well-vetted candidate announces presidential bid Amy Scalf ascalf@communitypress.com
Ty Cannon Burch 5th place, 3-year-old boys
Congrats to Baby Pageant winners Congratulations to all the winners of the Baby and Preschool Pageants at the Boone County 4-H and Utopia Fair. It is a tradition in the Boone County Recorder to run the winners’ photos – such as Ty Cannon Burch and Olivia Price shown here – as mailed in by their parents. See Page 5A. And mark your calendar for Aug. 8-13 for the 2016 fair! CURRYING FAVOR Sri Lankan cook Triset DeFonseka publishes third cookbook. 7A
RABBIT HASH — Wearing a red, white and blue tutu, Rabbit Hash Mayor Lucy Lou officially announced her candidacy for president in 2016 during Old Timers Day Sept. 5. According to her Chief of Staff Bobbi Kayser, Lucy Lou will step down as mayor on Sept. 3, 2016, the town’s first mayor to retire, “opening the door for a new mayoral election and a new infusion of funds to preserve and maintain this historic town.” As Kayser thanked Lucy Lou’s “faithful constituents” for their support, love and dog biscuits over the past seven years as mayor, she said the “well-vetted” dog mayor will retire in order to “throw her own collar into the arena and run for the president of the United States of America.” “There’s no question that she’s the most thoroughly vetted candidate on the books. Aside from a few fleas (she) has no skeletons in her closet, a few dog bones maybe, but no skeletons,” Kayser said. “I’d vote for Lucy Lou,” said Velma Thornton of West Chester. “Considering the
See LUCY LOU, Page 2A
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Olivia Price 5th place, 4-year-old girls
Rabbit Hash Mayor Lucy Lou formally announced her candidacy for president in 2016 with help from her chief of staff, Bobbi Kayser.
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other choices we may have, I think she’d be great.” The mayorship is open to “all bipeds, tripeds and quadrupeds who can chase a rabbit into the town proper in less than an hour from wherever they reside. Ducks and geese are still not eligible,” according to Kayser. While no dogs or other animals were lined up to announce a mayoral candidacy, a few attended the event in hopes of becoming a part of Lucy Lou’s entourage. to Jerry According Chlagheck of Cincinnati, his Wheaten Terrier named Pearl aspires to be named Lucy Lou’s vice president. A Yorkshire Terrier named DeBeaux, accompanied by Connie Carter and Jason Alexander of Cincinnati, hoped he could hit it off with the presidential candidate and, perhaps, become the “First Husband.” Kayser said Lucy Lou thinks the White House in Washington “ has too much staff, pretension and expense and the monies currently being sunk into its maintenance can be better spent on dog parks, no-kill shelters and the