10 YEARS AGO

August 25, 2010

Marion Kiwanis Club announces that this year’s Old Settler’s Day parade will recognize the centennial of the Boy Scouts organization with the theme of “100 Years of Scouting.” The parade will be 11 a.m. Sept. 25 in downtown Marion.

Rhea Hartley, M.D., has joined St. Luke Physician Clinic. She is now seeing patients two days a week.

Marion County Fire Chiefs’ Association will present a fireworks display at 9:45 p.m. Sept. 5 at Marion County Park and Lake for Labor Day. The fireworks are sponsored by Shawmar Oil & Gas Company.

A card shower is requested for Roger and Lucille Bitner of Marion in honor of their 50th wedding anniversary Sept. 16.

Finding a purpose for living is important as people grow older. Evelyn Jewett, 84, of Marion talks about the joys of quilting at Marion Senior Center. Jewett is in charge of the quilting detail and craft corner. She says it is her whole life.

On Aug. 17 and 18 an employee of Klassen Dairy at Hillsboro found six injured pregnant Holstein heifers in a pasture southeast of Durham. The animals had been wounded by a shotgun. Beer cans and shotgun shells were found beside the road next to the pasture. The incident is being investigated, but so far there have been no suspects.