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The Marion County Fair Board approved at their Tuesday meeting the appointment of Kevin Pankratz as fair manager for the remainder of 1980. Pankratz, a senior at Bethel College from rural Hillsboro, will replace Clint Seibel who resigned as manager this year.
Tim Newfield, 19, was sentenced to one term of life imprisonment, two terms of not less than 15 years nor more than life imprisonment and one term of not less then five nor more than 20 years of imprisonment, to run consecutively.
The Hillsboro Planning and Development Commission passed a resolution supporting the airport bond issue at their Monday night meeting in the city building.
Max Heinrichs and Harvey Peters came before the council with a request for the addition of a drive-up window on the Dari-ette. Since the Dari-ette is on city property, Heinrichs thought approval from the city would be in order.
On the cold snowy morning of Friday, Feb. 8 at 7:45 a.m., Rachael Marie, infant daughter of Ronald and Cathy Davis arrived. It took a neighbor's four-wheel drive vehicle and county road crews to clear a path to Salem Hospital's door.
A baby shower honoring Janette Brubacher was held at noon Feb. 28 at the home of Marcella Mohn who co-hosted the event with JoAnn Wall. Those present were the honored guest Janette Brubacher, Brenda Plett, Sheron Brunner, Carolyn Thiessen, Dianne Myers, Joyce Lockett and Clara Frick.
Roger Dirks, Hillsboro, is one of 83 students who earned recognition for outstanding academic performance during the fall semester at Kansas Technical Institute, Salina.
The Tabor College fitness center was completed recently, and the center is already seeing a lot of use by Tabor students.
