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From the delighted smiles of six-year-old Claire Gemmell, daughter of Jason and Dayton Chronicle Reporter Melissa Gemmell, who was really enjoying a cold piece of watermelon...to the fun of dunking Sheriff Joe Helm, or winning a cake in the cake walk, or competing in a friendly game of corn hole, there was plenty of patriotic fun last Monday at the Columbia County Conservatives' Old Fashioned Fourth of July Picnic in the Park.