10 YEARS AGO

june 30, 2010

The front page of this issue contains pictures and a story relating to the completion of the home at 1001 Tanglewood Lane, Marion, provided by volunteers for wounded veteran Sgt. Ryan Newell and his family.

An episode of “American Pickers,” a television show on the History Channel, will feature local antique collectors Marion “Oggie” Ogden and Dennis Maggard. The television crew was in Marion in April to film the segment.

Marion High School graduate Sam Ehrlich was one of 11 students honored as scholar athletes June 23 at the National Football Foundation’s banquet in Lawrence. The former Warrior linebacker also received a $250 scholarship from the foundation.

The Marion sesquicentennial committee will host a community meeting July 20 in the city building basement to tell plans already in the works for the town’s 150th anniversary in 2011.

Payton and Cade Harms are pictured with Kansas Governor Mark Parkinson as they present him with a beef gift basket to celebrate the signing of a proclamation declaring Kansas Beef Month.