As part of their livelihood, Dale and Loretta Snelling have operated the lake bait shop, and are often the first folks lake visitors meet. Dale’s retirement officially takes effect April 22.
Dale and Loretta Snelling will do more than retire in the usual sense
of the word when they leave their home at Marion County Lake for a farm
home near Wonsevu in April.
First, they’ll have an auction March 31 to sell years of accumulated possessions.
Dale has been park and lake superintendent at the county lake since
1964. That means 43 of their 46 years of marriage have been spent
living at the lake in a job that usually has Dale up by 6 a.m. and many
times out doing law enforcement duties around the water until 2 a.m.
Peter Richert, a Kansas National Guard specialist from Hillsboro who was wounded by a roadside bomb Feb. 22 while serving in Iraq, will continue his recovery at San Antonio, Texas.
The public is invited to an all-distrrict celebration for the Hillsboro High School girls’ state championship basketball team planned for 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in the high school gymnasium.
“We hope that our community, and of course our elementary and middle school students, will enjoy this opportunity to say thanks to the girls and the many people, and especially the parents, that have helped to make this year a very special one for our basketball team, our school and the Hillsboro community,” said Dale Honeck, HHS principal and girls’ head coach.
The Trojans won the Class 3A title March 10 with a 50-31 victory over Sacred Heart in the title game.
Hillsboro has once again been named a Tree City USA community by the National Arbor Day Foundation to honor its commitment to community forestry.
It is the 12th year Hillsboro has received this national recognition.
Hillsboro has met the four standards to become a Tree City USA community: a tree board, a trree-care ordinance, a comprehensive forestry program, and an Arbor Day observance.
Following a two-year wait, Marion’s Wyatt Helmer, 21⁄2, has a new liver.
With parents Aaron and Traci Helmer waiting nearby, Wyatt received the transplant during an eight-hour surgery last Tuesday afternoon at a hospital in Kansas City.
As an infant, Wyatt was diagnosed with biliary atresia, a serious disease of the young infant that results in inflammation and obstruction of the bile ducts carrying bile from the liver into the intestine.
