15 YEARS AGO

may 5, 2010

St. Luke Hospital board members and administrator Jeremy Armstrong broke ground Monday afternoon on the hospital’s $6 million renovation project. Tentative time for completion is October, 2011.

Two mothers share stories of adopting children in an article honoring Mothers Day. Featured are Nadine Smith of Tampa and her daughter, Megan, and Dorothy Melcher of Marion and her son, Gary.

Anita Hancock is pictured as she receives two bouquets of flowers Thursday at the Performing Arts Center after directing her final musical performance of a 21-year teaching career.

A 15-minute documentary being filmed in Florence will be part of the 2011 celebration of Kansas statehood. The filmmaker, from Lawrence, has been interested in small towns in Kansas for years.

Marion Elementary School students of the month for April are Chase Becker, Catie Black, Ali Boyd, Skylar Creed, Madison Hinton, Lydia Kinman, John Knolla, Noah Kukuk, Regina Noonan, Rebecca Sawyer, Preston Schneider, Noah Slater, Jacob Smith, Corbin Wheeler, and Campbell Winter.

There is no rocking chair for octogenarian Aldina Martens of Lehigh, who maintains five city lots, three gardens, and about a dozen chickens and sees no reason to slow down at 80.