ODDLY ENOUGH

ODDLY ENOUGH

Ohio girl gets wish, helps break ‘Oz’ character record

BEAVERCREEK, Ohio

A 9-year-old Ohio girl has made her “Wizard of Oz” dream come true.

Reece Veatch, who lives in the Dayton suburb of Beavercreek, wanted to break a world record. Not just any world record: She wanted to assemble the largest number of people dressed like Oz characters ever in one place.

So costumed as Dorothy, she gathered with more than a thousand Scarecrows, Tin Woodsmen, Cowardly Lions and others in June at The Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minn. The 1,093 costumed characters broke the previous record gathering of 446, which had occurred in England.

The museum says Guinness issued the certificate recently confirming the record.

The museum in Garland’s hometown stages an annual festival and honors the actress who portrayed Dorothy in the classic 1939 movie.

3 special Christmas gifts for Pa. couple: It’s triplets!

HERSHEY, Pa.

A central Pennsylvania couple got three special gifts on Christmas: triplets.

PennLive.com reported that the babies arrived Christmas Day at a hospital in Hershey.

The newborns were two months early. They include a boy named Eoin and identical twin girls named Claire and Avaree.

Parents Courtney Stash and Justin Dwyer of Myerstown say twins run in both of their families. But Dwyer says he was overwhelmed when doctors told him about their trio.

Stash says the girls, who weigh more than 3 pounds each, had virtually no health problems at birth.

The boy, who weighs more than 4 pounds, needed some oxygen assistance but is OK now.

The chance of having triplets is about 124 per 100,000 births, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Associated Press