When bags fly: Cornhole contest at Ames True Value raises funds for mason lodge

SUSAN JOHNS
Mon, 09/23/2019 - 8:00am
The First National Bank’s Jean Moffatt throws a practice bag at at a cornhole tournament at Ames True Value Supply Sept. 22 to benefit the masons’ Lincoln Lodge in Wiscasset. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Roof with a view: Ames True Value co-owner Wayne Averill pauses for a photo as entrants warm up below; beyond the lot, Route 1. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Timothy Weatherbee of West Gardiner throws a practice bag. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper
Lincoln Lodge of Wiscasset masons Dave Renfro, left, and Chuck Billings. SUSAN JOHNS/Wiscasset Newspaper

Outside Ames True Value Sunday, as masons from Lincoln Lodge in Wiscasset prepared to cook food to sell at a cornhole tournament, mason Chuck Billings praised the Route 1, Wiscasset business and Wicked Cornhole for giving the lodge the event’s proceeds. “I think this is great.”

And the weather was good. “It couldn’t be any better. A little hot, but at least it’s not raining,” Billings said.

Wicked Cornhole’s Bruce Taylor said in a text Sunday night, “We raised over $800. Twenty-seven teams competed in (the) first tournament and 22 teams in (the second) tournament. Winners from the main event were John Clark and Vincent Grosso. Second place (finishers) were Kathy Greenlaw and Steve Bodlovick.”

During warmups earlier, first-time cornhole tournament team, The First National Bank’s Ann Clifford and Jean Moffatt, threw bags alongside experienced competitors. The bank, one of the event’s sponsors, is very involved in the community, they said. “So when Sumner (Averill, from Ames) came by, this was, no problem,” Moffatt recalled.

“We were all in,” Clifford said.

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