Time to be thankful
Thanksgiving is not the only season to be thankful. We in Marion County and the golden triangle portion of Kansas have every right to be thankful throughout the year.
As one who recently completed a 55+ year career in community journalism, your writer feels blessed. There's nothing he would rather have done, and he's finding it tough to quit. He hates ever day he's deprived of participating in the workings of the community.
Marion and Marion County are the envy of newspaper publishers elsewhere. They point to our two lakes as a source of tourism dollars, our rich abundant cropland, the bountiful Bluestem prairie, oil production, cattle, and retail trade centers.
The Christmas promotion now in progress is an excellent example of how local businesses pull together. Twenty Marion merchants are sponsoring a retail shopping contest which will put hundreds of dollars into the hands of local people. The public will support those merchants, who have well stocked shelves of holiday merchandise offered at reasonable prices
It's wonderful to live in a town where an active chamber of commerce leads the way, where Lions and Kiwanis clubs provide strength, where the community has three major festivals each year — Old Settlers', Chingawassa, and Art in Central Park.
We hope the local newspaper had a part in such success. A newspaper association executive says, "Newspapers are the community."
While parts of northern and western Kansas suffer bleak economic outlooks. We here in the diversified portion of our Sunflower State can take pride in the fact that every day is Thanksgiving.
— BILL MEYER
