10 YEARS AGO

november 3, 2010

Marion County Planning Commission voted Monday to recommend approval for a wind farm south of Marion. Rex Savage of Windborne Energy of rural Florence has applied for a conditional use permit for a wind farm of up to 79 turbines in an area bounded by 140th and Pawnee Rds. and U.S. highways 50 and 77.

Senior Adam Cope and sophomore Elizabeth Goentzel have been selected by Marion High School faculty and staff as October Students of the Month.

The Mark Johnson home at 2175 E. US-56 is among four homes in the Marion area that will be part of the Candy Cane Christmas Home Tour sponsored by Marion City Library Nov. 28. Decorations will have a western theme recalling the days of Lisa Johnson’s grandfather, rancher Paul Handle of Burns.

Marion High School seniors Patrick Hodson, Dillon Richmond, and Tim Costello are pictured showing medals they won in the math scramble team competition Oct. 27 at the Donald Bruyr Mathematics Day at Emporia State University.

Carol Wituk of Pilsen and her sister, Marian Guapo of Wichita, stand in front of a display identifying the farm they inherited from their parents, Mike and Elizabeth Vinduska, as a Farm Bureau Century Farm. They are the fifth generation of the Mike Franta family to own the farm.