Team members from the 36 entries in the Cardboard Duck Tape Boat Race work up a sweat Saturday afternoon taping their boats together before attempting to sail them across the finish line on Grand Lake.

Hot, sultry and successful. Those were the words used by organizers to describe the 2006 Celina Lake Festival held this past weekend. "We battled the weather," festival co-chair Michelle Emerine said this morning. A thunders . . .