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  • Woman swims 500 yards to toast 100th birthday

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    Read NewsTimes Most people likely wouldn’t want to attempt a quarter-mile swim. Then again, Margaret K. Wachs isn’t most people. On Friday, to celebrate her 100th birthday, Wachs swam 10 laps in the Woodruff Family YMCA pool. That’s 500 yards — the equivalent of five football fields, and more than a quarter mile. “I feel…