Oklahoma angler wins easily at Dardanelle
Monday, May 10, 2021
Kirk Smith of Edmond, Okla. brought a five-bass limit to the scale Saturday weighing 19-15 to win the three-day Lake Dardanelle Plains Division Toyota Series event out of Russellville, Ark. His three-day total of 15 bass weighing 51-03 earned him the win by a 6-pound margin over 2nd-place angler Zach King of Clarksville, Ark., and earned Smith the top payout of $36,104.
Smith said he considers himself an offshore and electronics geek, a combo that helped him blow it out on Lake Dardanelle. While the majority of the fields success seemed to go up and down throughout the event, Smith had a pattern like no one else that allowed him to lay off early the first two days and still be leading by an ounce.
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Hidden Toronto: U of T’s Tiananmen Square memorial
The memorial to the 1989 student uprising and push for democracy in China takes on renewed resonance amid the pandemic By Enzo DiMatteo
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From the footpath that runs alongside it, it’s easy to mistake the Broken Bicycle monument to the 1989 student uprising in Tiananmen Square for a memorial to cyclists killed on Toronto’s streets. You have to walk up closer on the grassy knoll to make out the distinct impressions of the tank treads in the bronze of a crushed, upside-down bike.