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Mt. Lebanon Daughter's Life Commemorated In Annual 'Jessie Games'

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When her daughter Jessie died at age 23 in 2013, Clare Ansberry-Smith knew right away that she wanted to do something to commemorate her life. But she didn't want it to be a typical charity event. "There's a lot of wonderful events out there like walks and runs and dinners, and each parish has a fair, but we wanted something where it was games and just having fun -- sort of an Olympic theme, if you want," Ansberry-Smith said. "Kids love to do that." So Ansberry-Smith and her husband decided to do something they thought Jessie would've really liked -- a yearly fundraising event packed full of fun carnival games. They called it "The Jessie Games." "It's just like a huge big family picnic and carnival, with some of the traditional games like watermelon eating contests and waterballoon tosses, a dunk tank, obstacle courses," Ansberry-Smith said. "The Pittsburgh Pierogies come. It's just a lot of fun, and then we always end the day with a cookout." Ansberry-Smith said Jessie was always

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