National Hot Rod Association driver Ron Capps takes a drink of water on pit row Wednesday evening at the Prelude to the Dream event at Eldora Speedway. Nascar driver Clint Bowyer won the seventh annual dirt track race that raises funds for charity.

Summer unofficially starts in 13 days but it felt like mid-August Wednesday as temperatures soared 94 degrees. The temperature didn't break the record of 96 degrees recorded at the Dayton International Airport in 1933, but the . . .