30 years ago

april 3, 1996

Eight German students from the Committee for the Promotion for Youth Exchange met briefly Monday with Marion City Commission members. The coup brings students from Berlin to Marion for several days each year. They are staying with host families.

Ecker-Fulkerson-Slifer Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will observe its 50th birthday with a dinner April 13 at the post home for members and auxiliary members.

Marion High School students Shaun Craft, Jamie Davis, Carrie Darrow, Medea Fowler, Ray Helmer, Cy Prior, Curtis Stephens, and Josh Wildin are pictured as they scrape and paint an empty building in downtown Marion as part of Community Service Day. Students and faculty members spent the day completing service projects around town.

“Beary Special Babies” born during the month of March at St. Luke Hospital were Saje Elizabeth Bayes, born March 17; Matthew Austin Eickleberry, born March 17; Timothy Michael Vinduska, March 22; and Cassandra Lee Simpson, March 19.

Pictured are gymnasts Brooke Belle, Jessica Bernhardt, Kailey Castleberry, Chelsey Harmon, Katie Hett, Kelsie Penner, Erin Richmond, Briana Vogel, Sarah Williams, and Sydney Waner as they performed Friday during dress rehearsal for the 29th annual recital of Mary Ann’s School of Dance. Theme for the program will be “The Muppet Show.”

Lincolnville firefighters and first responders attended the 13th annual training school March 14-17 in Topeka sponsored by the State Capitol Area Firefighters Association. Nearly 400 people attended the school at the Holiday Inn City Center.

Among those attending were fire chief Lester Kaiser; firefighters Jay Czarnowsky, Janet Jirak, David Kaiser, Barry Montgomery, and Tim Porter, and emergency medical technician Kim Czarnowsky, who is pictured far above the ground as she lowers herself and a victim during a training exercise.