George Rogers Clark High hosts Valentine's Day cupcake wars

Celebrity judge Lauren Mink takes a photo of the cupcakes Thursday that she and fellow judges taste-tested during the George Rogers Clark High School Valentine¿s Day Cupcake Wars, top photo. Judging with Mink are GRC teacher Amanda Reffitt and Principal David Bowen. Watching is Phoenix Academy Principal Dustin Howard. There were 37 cupcake entries, three from the faculty and the rest from GRCHS and Phoenix Academy students. Student judge James Griffith tastes a cupcake with bacon as the topping, right photo. Judges, from left, cafeteria manager Tina Banks, Griffith, Reffitt, Mink and Bowen give a score for one of the cupcakes. First-place winners are Amanda Hurtz, Rachel Hardiman, Shelby Caudill and Willa Curry; second-place winners are Abby Houston and Courtney Thompson and winning third-place is Haley Strejan. Winning the best made-from-scratch category was Isabella Jones, and the winning the faculty category was Patricia Fraley. The event was a fundraiser for Special Olympics.
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( James Mann/jmann@winchestersun.com / February 15, 2013 )

Celebrity judge Lauren Mink takes a photo of the cupcakes Thursday that she and fellow judges taste-tested during the George Rogers Clark High School Valentine¿s Day Cupcake Wars, top photo. Judging with Mink are GRC teacher Amanda Reffitt and Principal David Bowen. Watching is Phoenix Academy Principal Dustin Howard. There were 37 cupcake entries, three from the faculty and the rest from GRCHS and Phoenix Academy students. Student judge James Griffith tastes a cupcake with bacon as the topping, right photo. Judges, from left, cafeteria manager Tina Banks, Griffith, Reffitt, Mink and Bowen give a score for one of the cupcakes. First-place winners are Amanda Hurtz, Rachel Hardiman, Shelby Caudill and Willa Curry; second-place winners are Abby Houston and Courtney Thompson and winning third-place is Haley Strejan. Winning the best made-from-scratch category was Isabella Jones, and the winning the faculty category was Patricia Fraley. The event was a fundraiser for Special Olympics.

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