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Globe/Doug Graham Kooper O’Brien tosses a toilet seat “horseshoe style” around a pole during Hillbilly Games Friday.

Hepler marks Fourth of July with off-the-wall games

“The whole time I was at home, my friends would ask me and I said, ‘Oh, I’m going to Kansas ... I don’t know, some family thing,’” Forsyth said. “But I got here and I’m having a blast.”

Harris has been in charge of the games for about 10 years but hasn’t tired of them yet.

“No, because I change the game,” Harris said. “And the kids keep getting younger. A few years ago all the kids grew up, but now their kids are out here.”

Hepler is home

Bernard O’Brien, a lifelong Hepler resident, had good reason to come to this year’s games — his grandchildren, 10 of whom were in the competition.

“We’ve been out here since 1868,” O’Brien said. “Hepler is home.”



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