The Goessel city council discussed plans for the annual Harvest Festival at its Sept. 15 meeting.
The Sept. 27 event will begin with a 5-kilometer run/walk at 8 a.m., which is making its debut. Also, the first festival golf tournament will begin at 10 a.m. and will be a fundraiser for Fred and Brenda Schmidt’s medical expenses that resulted from a vehicle accident.
The City of Florence will need the county’s help, and perhaps that of the other cities of the county, to be the gateway community hosting a probable 30,000 people for the June 2009 rendition of the Symphony in the Flinthills, according to Teresa Huffman, Marion County economic director.
After lengthy discussion among Marion City Council members and the public Monday, it appeared the council might have established a pattern for what to do when a large business coming to town temporarily needs other facilities.
The September meeting of the Goessel Goal Getters 4-H club took place at 4 p.m. Sept 1. The roll call was answered by guessing how many hours of sleep Aileen (the 4-H community leader) got last year during the week record books were due. The program was an amusing skit by some club parents, the “Green Test,” and the election of officers for the new 4-H year.
Willy Penner, who experienced starvation as a child captive in a World War II refugee camp in Poland, will tell his story at the Tabor College 60+ Learning in Retirement program on Monday, Sept. 22.
Titled, “Great is Thy Faithfulness: The Story Begins with World War II,” the presentation will begin at 9:45 a.m. in the Wohlgemuth Music Education Center.
“Willy Penner has a dramatic story of escape that he has told many times in various group settings,” said Connie Issac, director of the Learning in Retirement program.
“We’re glad that he is willing to tell his story more time so we can learn from him what life was like for many during World War II, and also give thanks to God for sparing his life."
Marion County Deputy Ross Mayfield (left) and Sheriff Lee Becker have been friends since their first meeting in 2000. Mayfield helped the county in a significant identity-theft by using his influence as a computer-crime instructor with the Los Angeles Police Department.
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