MASON, OH (FOX19) - Mount Lookout resident Thelma Gratsh took the plunge Friday on the Diamondback roller coaster at Kings Island.

Thelma celebrated her 90th birthday by taking a ride on her favorite roller coaster, Diamondback.

Thelma estimates she has ridden Diamondback more than 100 times since the ride opened in 2009.  

She has had a season pass to Kings Island every year since they were introduced in 1979 and is believed to be the oldest park guest to have taken a ride on the 230-foot tall steel roller coaster, which reaches speeds up to 80 miles per hour. 

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CLIFTON, OH (FOX19) - Fresh from a winning performance in the recent Ohio Cookoff competition, a student team from the Midwest Culinary Institute will head to Niagara Falls next month to compete at the 2012 American Culinary Federation’s Northeast Regional Conference.

During the Ohio Cookoff event held last month, the Cincinnati State team garnered a gold medal in the skills competition and a silver medal in the cooking competition, winning an overall national silver medal and the right to represent the state of Ohio at the ACF Regional Conference. There they will compete for the right to represent the Northeast Region for the national title at the ACF national convention, which will be held this July in Orlando.

The team is led by Master Chef John Kinsella and coached by MCI instructors George Zappas, Michael VanFleet, and Laura Horn.

HAMILTON TOWNSHIP, WARREN COUNTY, OH (FOX19) – Former State Representative George Terwilleger died Sunday at age 71 at Hospice of Cincinnati after a long illness.

Terwilleger was born February 3rd 1941 in Cozaddale, Ohio to Charles and Myrtle Terwilleger. He was married to Jacqualine Johnson of Glen Hayes, West Virginia on April 8th 1962. He was the father of DeWayne Terwilleger (Robyn) of Harlan Township, DeLanna Terwilleger-Oeder (Craig)and DeAnna Mengle (David) of Hamilton Township. He had 6 grandchildren and , Carl Oeder, Sam Mengle, Corenna Oeder, Cordell Oeder, Dawson Terwilleger, and Corissa Oeder. He had 4 Step-Grandchildren, Dacey Dickerson, Lonnie Dickerson, Kaila Partin, and Hannah Partin, and had 3 Great-Grandchildren, Michael Dickerson, Erin Dickerson, and Matthew Dickerson.