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On the last weekend of March 2018, Paulding County witnessed the 40th Anniversary of the 24-hour P.A.S.S. Basketball Marathon in the Payne Elementary gym. The Marathon was born after former Payne resident Jim Hooker’s time at Bowling Green State University when he played in a similar 24-hour basketball charity fundraiser. Now 40 years later, the…