10 YEARS AGO

Sept. 21, 2016

Longtime plumber Tony Schafers and new hotel owner Tammy Ensey will personify the theme of Saturday’s Old Settlers Day as grand marshals of the event. The theme will be “Salute to Marion Businesses, New and Old.”

The classes of ’51, ’56, ’61, ’66, ’71, ’76, ’81, ’86, ’91, ’96, ’01, ’06, and ’11 all plan reunions.

The blessings of heaven seemed to shine down Saturday at Pilsen on the funeral of Major Dean A. Klenda as a heavy morning fog cleared to reveal a cloudless, sunny day.

After much anticipation in the community, a new business, Fam Lee Bakery, opened today in downtown Marion. Jeff Lee’s daughters Jenny Lee and Catie Zurcher will operate the bakery.

Fourteen 20th Century Club members attended the group’s monthly meeting Sept. 12 for an end-of-summer picnic at Marion County Lake. Hostesses were Sally Hannaford, Becky Summerville, Margaret Pickering, and Carol Laue. Mayor Todd Heitschmidt joined the group for dinner and talked about a streetscape project, showing sketches of proposed designs for Main St.

The “grace of Gilligan’s Island” was with Marion teen Hap Waddel when he aced a penalty shot Thursday at Marion County Club while golfing with his friend, Grant Leffler.