20 YEARS AGO

oct. 11, 2006

A feature story tells of Cunningham Ranch, northeast of Burns, owned by Sandra Cunningham, daughter of renowned Kansas distance runner Glenn Cunningham.

Winners in the Kiwanis Club Punt, Pass and Kick event Sunday were Cody Shipman and Bailey Robison, ages 8 and 9; Caleb Williams and Kaelin Thierolf, ages 10 and 11; Jordan Versch, ages 12 and 13; and Wil Case, ages 14 and 15. Winners qualified for sectional competition Oct. 29 in Wellington.

An open house will honor Delmar and Nadine Isely as they observe their 50th wedding anniversary. The celebration will be Oct. 29 at Marion County Lake hall.

Centre High School’s fall homecoming queen and king will be crowned Friday at Cougar Field. Candidates are Thieen Antoszyk, Alisha Barney, Megan Gutsch, Seth Jirak, Alyssa Luna, and Kevin Mueller.

Marion High School graduate Norman Bowers retired Sept. 22. He was Johnson County engineer and director of public works for nearly 19 years. Before that he had been Marion County engineer from 1973 to 1977.

Dee Summers of Marion will return in the near future to Kansas City, where she plans to begin playing again on a professional women’s football team, K.C. Storm.