25 years ago
october 1, 1980
Judges from the state PRIDE committee sized up Hillsboro this past Wednesday in a meeting with Hillsboro's PRIDE officials. The judges often commented on how "impressed" they were with the amount of work done by PRIDE and the quality of the scrapbook which keeps track of all the projects done to improve Hillsboro. Youth involvement was one of the topics presented to the judges. The committee told them about the baby-sitting clinics, fund drives, cleanup week, construction of the PRIDE float, and hospital visits by youth.
Martha Nelson Vogt — or Pat as she is better known — returned to Hillsboro for a short time last week to kick off the second edition of their first book, "Searching for Home." Pat spent parts of her life in Hillsboro, Durham, and Marion. She went to Tabor College in the 1950s. Her husband, Jim is a native of Hillsboro. Pat has been a journalist for 17 years in Kansas, Nebraska, and Michigan. She also has won several awards for her writing.
