15 YEARS AGO

june 30, 2010

The front page of this issue contains pictures and a story relating to completion of a home at 1001 Tanglewood Lane, Marion, provided by volunteers for wounded veteran Sergeant Ryan Newell and his family.

An episode of “American Pickers,” a television show on the History Channel, will feature antique collectors Marion “Oggie” Ogden and Dennis Maggard. A TV crew was in Marion in April to film the segment.

Marion High School graduate Sam Ehrlich was one of 11 students honored as scholar-athletes June 23 at the National Football Foundation’s banquet in Lawrence. The former Warrior linebacker also received a $250 scholarship from the foundation.

Marion’s sesquicentennial committee has scheduled a community meeting July 20 in the city building basement to tell plans in the works for the town’s 150th anniversary in 2011.

Payton and Cade Harms are pictured with Governor Mark Parkinson as they present him a beef gift basket to celebrate the signing of a proclamation declaring Beef Month.