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All of us at The Catoctin Banner would
like to thank our wonderful readers for Play Our Games!
sending us their “Take Us Along” photos.
Keep them coming! Happy and safe travels!
Each month, you’re invited to participate in our Where Am I? Photo Contest and
Hidden Object Game. The winners of each game are announced in the next
Look Who Took Us Along! issue of The Catoctin Banner newspaper. Winners are given a gift certificate to
the advertiser of their choice. To participate, call 240-288-0108 or email news@
thecatoctinbanner.com to record your guesses by the 15 of each month.
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Please don’t forget to spell your full name and leave your phone number.

Where Am I? Photo Contest

For the “Where Am I?” Photo
Contest, take a look at the photo
to the right and tell us where it
was taken. It is somewhere in or
around our Northern Frederick
County Area, which is defined
as Rocky Ridge to Cascade,
Lewistown to Emmitsburg, Foxville
to Creagerstown, and everywhere
around and in-between.
Last month’s “Where Am I?”
photo was taken of the mileage
marker on Manahan Road, near
Catoctin Park. The winner of
the “Where Am I?” Contest for
November’s issue is Virginia
Rogers.

Fred and Patty Goff, along with their dogs, Wicket and Hidden Object Contest
Cassie, traveled to visit former Thurmont residents, Paul
and Diana Smith, who now live in Lewes, Delaware, and Last month’s Hidden Object was a blue and white cat. It was located on page
they didn’t forget to take along The Catoctin Banner! 15 in the Craig’s Mower & Marine Service advertisement. The winner of the
Hidden Object game for November’s issue is Terry McMillan. Please contact
The Catoctin Banner to claim your prize.
— Thanks for taking us along, Fred and Patty!
This month’s Hidden Object is this reindeer with lights around his antlers .
Good luck!

Test Your Word Power
Test Your Word Power
“Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
(Answers on page 46)

1. O bt us e [uh b-toos] (adj.) 4. E pi t aph [ˈepəˌtaf] (n.)
a) Ability to accurately assess situations or a) State of being included within a group or
people; clever structure
b) Having an exaggerated sense of one’s own b) Phrase or statement written in memory of a
importance person who has died; elegy
c) Annoyingly insensitive or slow to c) Quality of being certain or definite
understand; dull-witted
5. E l o quenc e [ˈeləkwəns] (n.)
2. Ver bo s e [vərˈbōs] (adj.) a) Speaking or wording that is articulate and
a) Displaying frantic excitement or energy convincing; silver tongue
b) Using or expressing more words than are b) Limited extent, amount, or scope
needed; long-winded c) Consent; the act of permitting
c) Plain to see or comprehend; noticeable
6. Did a c t ic [dīˈdaktik] (adj.)
3. Co nundr um [kəˈnəndrəm] (n.) a) Deliberately causing a strong reaction
a) A confusing or difficult problem; dilemma b) Testing one’s abilities; demanding
b) A thing done successfully by effort c) Intended or designed to teach or moralize
c) Respect and warm approval excessively; instructive

7. W hi c h w o r d abo v e w o ul d w o r k bes t i n t hi s s en t en c e ?
The disillusioned student believed that by writing in an overly ______ manner,
his essay would get a better grade.