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Sale Of Champions Sets OSF record

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published August 6, 2012 at 9:25 AM EDT

The Ohio State Fair closed its run on Sunday with a record-setting Sale of Champions livestock auction. The auction brought in nearly 250-thousand dollars. Some of the money will go to the Junior Fair participants, with the rest going toward scholarships and youth programs. The weekend's activities included warnings to fairgoers to wash their hands after visiting livestock exhibit areas. Two pigs were sent home Thursday because the tested positive for a strain of the swine flu virus. 
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Jim Letizia
Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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