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Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Whiskey contest win could earn area women $700,000 in ‘double gold’
From food and wine writer Mark Fisher
Monica Frazier of Bradford will have a chance to win $700,000 worth of gold bars in San Francisco on Friday, Feb. 5.
The 31-year-old was randomly selected from more than 150,000 online entries as the winner of the Canadian Mist Whisky “Hunt for Double Gold” contest.
On Friday, she’ll be taken to Marina Green near downtown San Francisco where she will have one hour to search for up to 100 gold-colored coins numbered 1 to 100 which will have been randomly hidden around the park, according to a spokesman for Canadian Mist Whisky.
After the search, she will select 10 coins from all the coins she found, and if the two numbers randomly drawn before the search match the numbers on two of Frazier’s selected coins, she will win the value of two gold bars worth over $700,000.
Multiple attempts to reach Frazier were unsuccessful last week and this week. As part of the sweepstakes prize, she will spend three nights in downtown San Francisco beginning on Thursday, Feb. 4 through Sunday, February 7.
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Spring coming early, Dayton’s groundhog does not see her shadow
Ivy is a lady groundhog with her own mind.
The Miami Valley’s furriest meteorologist did not see her shadow during a Groundhog Day celebration today, Tuesday, Feb. 2, at the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery.
If Ivy is right, we are in for an early spring.
She broke rank, rendering an opposing decision from groundhog heavy weight Punxsutawney Phil.
The grand-groundhog of all woodchucks saw his shadow, meaning there will be six more weeks of bad weather.
Buckeye Chuck, who is spun as Ohio’s official weather predicting groundhog, sided with Ivy, according to the Marion Star. His predicted an early spring as snow fell on spectators.
Not surprising Kristy Creel, a spokeswoman for the Boonshoft, is rooting for the hometown groundhog.
Creel said Ivy has been correct more than 80 percent of the time, adding that Phil has been right only about 60 percent of the time.
“She’s pretty accurate so I am going to take it for what it is,” Creel said of the 9-year-old groundhog.
Phil’s supporters of course see it differently. They say he has been right 100 percent of the time, according to an National Geographic article.
The U.S. National Climatic Data Center has estimated that he has been correct only correct about 40 percent of the time.
Who has it right, Ivy and Chuck or Phil?
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Are we in for six more weeks of bad weather? Legendary groundhog makes his call
Its not looking good folks.
Punxsutawney Phil, the grand-groundhog of all weather predicting groundhogs, saw his shadow this morning, according to the Associated Press.
This all means there will be six more weeks of winter weather, according to lore.
A Punxsutawney Phil has been predicting the weather in Punxsutawney, Pa. since 1887.
But don’t despair. Phil isn’t the only groundhog with an opinion on such matters.
Ivy,, the Miami Valley’s resident weather predicting fur ball, will make her call later this morning.
Boonshoft Museum of Discovery’s Groundhog Day celebration is 10 a.m. today, Tuesday, Feb. 2, at 2600 DeWeese Parkway, Dayton.
All outdoor activities are free; indoor activities are included with regular admission, $8.50 adults; $7.50 seniors and children 2 to 12; children younger than 2 and members are free.
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