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Alaskan cyclists roll through Dayton

DAYTON–Jim Mayers and Tom Burke dipped the wheels of they road bikes in the Pacific Ocean at Astoria August 16, and then began a six-week cycling odyssey along the Lewis and Clark Trail. The two medical professionals from Anchorage, Alaska, stopped in Dayton to wait out a rain shower last week.

Mayers, 70, is a semi-retired registered nurse in his forty-fourth year of his career, and Burke, a doct...