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Friends and family gather Saturday at Fort Dodge Senior High to help Grace Casciato celebrate winning the Triple Threat Award from the Iowa High School Musical Theater Awards. The group gathered as a send-off party for the recently-graduated senior valedictorian, who will be Fort Dodge’s first-ever “Jimmy Awards” representative this week in New York City. Casciato will join 95 other students from around the country and perform at the Minskoff Theater on Broadway early next week.

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Grace Casciato, of Fort Dodge, right, celebrates with her aunt, Rebekah Hamblin, of Gilbert, on Saturday at Fort Dodge Senior High. A group gathered to celebrate Casciato, one of Iowa’s two Triple Threat Award winners recently at the Iowa High School Musical Theater Awards in Des Moines. Casciato left this week for the nationally-renowned “Jimmy Awards” in New York City.

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Grace Casciato, center, is pictured with Matt Drees, choir director, left, and Lindey Krug, musical director.