Photos by Kip Burke. The south end of The Square turned blue Saturday morning, August 2, when about 50 Washington-Wilkes Tigers showed up for the annual Tiger Liftathon to raise money for the athletic program at the high school.

Tiger athletes power cleaned and bench pressed in a show of strength putting the rest of Region 7A on notice that Washington Wilkes is back and ready for action.

Top lifters for the Tigers included Tyrece Ashmore (above) who led the field in both the power clean and bench press at 315 pounds each. Drew Wilson (at left) and Anthony Smith both came in at 300 on the power clean and Brandon Howard took second in the bench press at 300.