Members of the Marion City Council used most of their Monday night meeting time to tour progress at the indoor swimming pool being built in a partnership between the city and the school district. In the left photo, council members Bill Holdeman (left) and Gene Winkler share perspectives near the deep end of the pool basin. Above: City Administrator David Mayfield shows the council where a drainage pond capable of holding water up to 5 feet deep in the park across from the new pool will be built. The water won’t stay because the pond will be designed to let it seep away. Pictured from left are Mayfield, Winkler, Holdeman, Mayor KMary Olson, Economic Development Director Jami Williams, Councilor Stacey Collett and, behind them, City Clerk Angela Lange.
The architect’s estimates presented Monday at the Marion County Commission meeting were $5,074,731 to remodel the current county jail into an 11-bed facility acceptable to future state demands, or $7,508,285 to build a 75- to 78-bed new jail.
On Monday, April 7, the Goessel Goal Getters 4-H club met for their monthly meeting.
This meeting was the model meeting, when representatives from another club came to judge us on how we ran our meeting.
4-Hers were asked to name their favorite beverage for roll call. Talks were given by Grady Stultz, Laird Goertzen, and Anthony Esau. Grady talked to us about marketing goats, Laird gave us an interesting history of woodworking, and Anthony creatively rounded the talks off with talking to us about colors with a talk called RGB OMG!
Jon Hefley, co-owner of Lumberyard Rentals stands with some ATVs they offer for sale. They do offer 300 to 400 rental items, too.
Every handyman knows that using the right tool or piece of equipment can make all the difference in getting a job done quickly, efficiently and professionally. But very few people can afford to own all the speciality items they might use only once or twice a year.
Two students from Marion County were among the 32 top academic high school students Newman University hosted on April 25 during the university’s “First Class Jets” recognition program.
Representatives from Marion County Fire District No. 7 (the Tampa Fire) recently took position of a new 3,000-gallon Kenworth Tanker for use by the department. Picture are (from left) Fire Chief Ronald Mueller Assistant Fire Chief Tim Svoboda, Clay Fletcher, the represpresentative from MHC Kenworth Atlanta, Ga., and Will Pilcher, sales representative for Fouts Bros Smyrna, Ga.
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