To the editor:
The Marion community should pat itself on the back. Once again, we’ve shown we’re one heck of a place. Exactly one week before Flowers in the Flint Hills, an annual garden tour benefiting Marion City Library, was to occur, Marion was hit by a full-scale Kansas windstorm.
One of the tour gardeners said not to worry. She’d lost a tree but it had fallen straight into a compost heap. The following Saturday, June 12, “welcome” flags along Main Street fluttered in a pleasant breeze as Marion played host to a steady stream of out-of-county green thumbs enjoying our special gardens.
Central Park/Brooker Springs was pristine and the main streets were cleared of limbs. One visitor said if she had not read in an area newspaper that the tour was going on regardless of the storm, she’d never had believed anything had happened.
Visitors were interested in the variety of publications about our area and particularly enjoyed the coverage of the garden tour in the Marion County Record.
A toast to our gardeners, our volunteers, and city staff. What a wonderful place to live!
Jeanice Thomas
for Flowers in the Flint Hills
Other committee members:
Janet Marler, Pam Bowers, Janie Meierhoff, and Margaret Wilson