PIONEER PORTRAITS

Ten Years Ago June 26, 2003

After 58 years as a gathering place and "watering hole" for local veterans, the American Legion Post No. 35 is closing its club as of Saturday, June 28, announced Ivan Keve and Wal- ter Harris, two members of the local post. When the club's problems were first reported in March, Legionnaires opted to keep the facitiy open through June to take advantage of the people in town for the Days of Real Sport and the Alumni Banquet, rather than close it at the end of the first quarter, March 31. But both those events were "flat," Keve said. "It was a bad deal all around," co...