Despite an intermittent drizzle, dozens of central Iowans of all ages turned out for a Monday morning Memorial Day service on the Marshall County Courthouse squ
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T-R PHOTOS BY LANA BRADSTREAM The American and Iowa flags were given a color guard at the Monday rededication ceremony of the Veterans Memorial Coliseum. About 60 people attended the event.
The Veterans Memorial Coliseum has two reasons to cherish March 15. Not only was that day Monday used as the day of the grand reopening and rededication, but 90 years ago, residents of Marshalltown gathered to do the same thing on March 15.
Roughly 60 city officials and people active in the reopening, watched the rededication ceremony and listened to a variety of people speak about their memory of the Coliseum.
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CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS Marshalltown Parks and Recreation Director Geoff Hubbard gives co-chair for coliseum fundraising commission Steve Storjohann a tour of the facility during its construction.
More than three years of planning, construction and fundraising has all led to Monday’s open house at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
“We’re excited to finally unveil it to the community and let people check it out,” Marshalltown Parks and Recreation Director Geoff Hubbard said. Hubbard has overseen the renovation project, beginning with a fundraiser in 2019 raising $1.35 million for construction.
The renovation of Marshalltown’s Veterans Memorial Coliseum is complete after more than a year of construction, and the general public is invited to an open house from noon to 6 p.m. on Monday to see the finished building.