The Goessel City Council endorsed a proposal for a 50 kilometer run as part of the fall Harvest Festival during its May 19 meeting.
Joe Wuest, a member of the Goessel Recreation Commission, said the plan would be to host the race during the Harvest Festival, now scheduled for Sept. 27.
Mike Sechlar (left) and Mike Buller, members of ABATE District 9, stand by a new billboard encouraging drivers to watch out for motorcyclists as they share the roadways of Kansas. This sign, erected 2.5 miles west of Hillsboro along U.S. Highway 56, is an effort by the 300 members of District 9 to promote motorcycle safety awareness in their region, which includes Rice, McPherson and Marion counties along the southern boundary and extends north to the Nebraska border. Sechlar said District 9 has also produced yard signs, bumper stickers and trifolds that can be used to promote awareness. This is the fourth billboard the organization has erected in its district, and has been selling them to ABATE districts around the country. Yard signs can be purchased by anyone for $5 each from Sechlar or at G&J Video in Marion. May is Motorcycle Safety Awareness month, and a proclamation to that effect has been signed by Hillsboro mayor Delores Dalke.
In what some participants viewed as a strange twist, the Marion City Council Monday authorized the city’s Board of Appeals to get an attorney to protect its members’ interests in a case at 316 Grant St., where their interests may differ from the city’s.
The Marion County Board of Commissioners voted Monday to forbid trash burning at Marion County Lake based on the same codes that govern the City of Marion.
Bobbi Strait, the county’s planning, zoning and environmental health director, said she came up with codes after a series of complaints from lake residents over the past two years about fires set by neighbors.
Members of the Tuff Tomahawks, the Walk Kansas team that accumulatred the most miles of the 24 teams, are: front row (from left), Austin Savage, Hunter Pickens, Christian Gard and Garret Schroeder; Graeme Glaser is standing in back. Not pictured is the team’s other adult, Tina Partridge. Savage, Pickens and Gard are seventh-graders, Schroeder is a sixth-grader. Photo by Don Ratzlaff
Around 145 people with Marion County connections joined a movement of some 20,000 people who traversed the breadth of this state in pursuit of better health—and did it without leaving the comfort of their home towns.
The fifth edition of the Marion County chapter of the Walk Kansas program completed its eight-week sojourn May 3 having logged a composite of just over 11,000 miles while consuming nearly 16,000 servings of fruits and vegetables.
Recycling appears to be on the way to becoming part of the Marion County solid waste plan, and it could cost each household close to $60 annually while also producing some savings.
The Marion County Commission Monday visited with John Stutzman and Hank Yoder of Stutzman Refuse Disposal about the forms recycling could take.
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