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Results are in for the Marion County Record reader survey and will be shared in next week's edition. We're in the process of tabulating the 100-plus surveys that were returned and we're learning a lot about what readers think.
For the most part, we're doing a good job but there is room for improvement. Many readers shared comments, criticisms, and suggestions — some positive, some negative — and all are being considered.
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With all the rain the past couple of weeks, we should count our blessings that community leaders years ago had the foresight to insist a dike be built around Marion.
Otherwise, we might all be drifting around in rowboats or pushing mud out the front door.
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Those who attended Chingawassa Days festivities at Marion High School gymnasium had a great time, despite the heat. We're all appreciative of the cooperation between USD 408 and the Chingawassa committee. But wouldn't it be great if we had an air-conditioned community center?
If you haven't made your contribution to Marion Advancement Campaign for the community center/theater project, now is the time to do it.
Old-timers wonder why Marion needs a community center when we've got the city building. "It was adequate for us," they say. "We had movies there. We could hold meetings."
Times change and Marion must change in order to stay alive. Movies shown with a projector and screen on the stage at the city building aren't exactly the same as seeing "Star Wars" on the big screen in surround-sound.
MAC needs our support. Let's make the current project a reality.
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Visitors to Marion sometimes come with preconceived notions that we have a stereotypical "small town" attitude of unfriendliness and wariness of strangers.
Friends and relatives who came to Marion this past weekend were pleasantly surprised to find we're just "ordinary folks." These visitors were enamored with the Stone City Café and they strolled through Duckwall's and Kraft Korner.
Some of the younger crowd stayed at Marion Country Inn and spent an evening at SherBowl Lanes with Bill and LaDonna Sherbert. All of them had a great time and are looking forward to a return visit in the fall.
I guess that just goes to show we don't always appreciate what's right under our noses.
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Summer means vacations and that means everyone at the newspaper office will be filling in as needed when someone is gone. We've been doing this for awhile, so hopefully readers won't notice much of a change.
We're just looking forward to fall, when things get back to "normal" — whatever that is.
— DONNA BERNHARDT
