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Surprise libraries return to life after COVID

Crowds slowly start returning; programs resume

“Cake Wars” may be a Food Network TV show with preselected contestants, but it’s also something the Lomanto family of Youngtown participates in thanks to the Surprise area libraries.

For a recent online contest at the Northwest Regional Library, the family had to bake a cake that looked like a hurricane.

“The hurricane had looked like a hurricane had hit it,” Rustell Lomanto joked. “Sometimes it pays off, and that time it did not.

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