F-C Days founders back as marshals

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October 11, 2011 - 12:00 AM

As the 40th annual Farm-City Days unfolds this week, much of the reason that it exists can be laid at Gary Parker’s doorstep south of LaHarpe.

He and wife Janice will be honored as grand marshals during this year’s event, along with Paul and Dorothy Setter and Leon and Dorothy Catron.

Sometime before the first festival in June 1971, Parker, then president of the Allen County Farm Bureau, learned about public events elsewhere to better acquaint city folks with farm issues, such as equipment, input costs and all that goes into planting, raising and harvesting a crop.

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