MARNE NEWS

NOTABLE NEWS BRIEFS

 FROM THE LATEST ISSUE OF “THE SQUIRREL” —

THE NEWSLETTER THAT KEEPS YOU  IN THE KNOW ABOUT MARNE EVENTS

¨         Angel Food Ministries is growing—for information on the program and how to order—go to www.buckcreekandmarneumcs.org

¨         28th Annual Baxter Cycle Rally drew a huge crowd—nearly 2,000 cycle riders and friends visited 

¨         Our local quilters “The Needle Junkies” finished a beautiful quilt from squares found while cleaning out a former residents home. Plan is to deliver finished quilt to the family.

¨         New stamps at the post office feature “TV Early Memories”

¨         Pelzer’s grand kids came for some real small town fun with Don & Jackie

¨         Community room boasts a new back door with handicap accessibility and storage closet.

¨         50 + RAGBRAI teams came for their annual pre ride party—see photos in photo gallery

¨         P.R.I.D.E community tour showcased our town

¨         4th of July hogroast was a huge success

¨         Jirsa’s celebrated the renewal of their sons wedding vows with a hog roast

¨         Additional memorial plaques added to benches at the park

¨         Masons receive METC/INS $2000 grant to help build their new lodge

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Masons receive METC/INS grant

Quilt made from Delores’ squares—a great memory for the family

Pelzer’s grandkids visit from Missouri

TV Memories stamps available at the Post Office

**Marne was featured in Our Iowa Magazine Feb/Mar 2009

Build a House—Get the Lot for Free

CASS COUNTY—In a modern-day version of the Homestead Act, the town of Marne is giving away building lots to encourage folks to move there. Yup, you read that right—free land if

you build a house on it. It’s a program started about 3 years ago in an effort to replace dilapidated teardown houses with new ones in this village of 150 people. “We have one new house and a new business because of it,” says Marne’s mayor, Randy Baxter. “We’ve given

away another lot, and the person is going to build as soon as he sells his house in Omaha.”

The town is proceeding in a slow but steady manner—raising money as they go along to purchase lots with old homes on them. “We raised $1,000 with a soup supper recently,” says Randy. “It’s going to be a 20-year project, but I think we’re on the right track.”

Marne is only a 50-mile commute to Omaha and less than that to other employers

in western Iowa. “Plus we have a low crime rate, and it’s a nice place to raise

kids,” adds Randy. For more information, call him at 1-712/781-2351. Or visit the town’s Web

site at www.marneiowa.com.

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Memorial Plaques at the park