CONWAY — Heading into this weekend’s 26th annual Hannes Schneider Meister Cup events at Cranmore Mountain Resort, a mystery had social media abuzz concerning how a second-place junior trophy from a 2009 Schneider Cup race at Cranmore had been discovered washed ashore on a beach in Fort Myers, Fla.
Beachcomber Suzy Turner of Naples, Fla., last month posted on Facebook a photo of a “2009 Schneider Cup J4 2nd PLACE” trophy and wondered just to whom it may have belonged so she could return it to its rightful owner.
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