Looking Back – July 26

Bob Decker, right, and a table of friends were part of the crowd at the Round Lake Dinner fundraiser for Mill Race Park in 1994.

2009

A festive group of nearly 400 people dressed in flowered Hawaiian shirts, straw hats and sundresses attended the first Round Lake Dinner with a Caribbean theme and raised more than $5,000 for free programming at the refurbished Mill Race Park.

1994

First Church of the Nazarene on McClure Road celebrated its 75th anniversary.

1969

Lance Cpl. Vance Hege, of Hope, served with the Marine Corps guard on the USS Hornet, which picked up astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins upon their return to earth.