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Feats of strength at strongman event

About 400 people took in the North Shore Strongman Competition in Elliot Lake.  Two Elliot Lake women, Carissa Thorne and Jana Paddington came in first and third respectively.  A woman from Timmins came in second.  For the men, a resident from Barrie came in first and second went to a strongman from Sudbury.  The oldest competitor was 76-year-old Fern Boucher who lifted 505 pounds.

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Rocco Frangione
Rocco Frangione
I've been a broadcast journalist for three-plus decades in Northern Ontario. I'm a graduate of Algonquin College's radio and television arts program and prior to that, an honours grad from Carleton University's philosophy program.

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