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Fire Academy students at Concord High School test out a trebuchet Monday morning. The Concord students will join students from Randleman High School in Randolph County on Thursday to use the trebuchet to launch the pumpkins painted like political candidates during the The Courier-Tribune Pumpkin Chunking Poll in Asheboro. Art students from Concord are painting the pumpkins. (Photo by James Nix)