Believing in Local Music Marion Area Orchestra (MAO) is an amateur string orchestra founded to provide a musical performance outlet for violinists, violists, cellists and bassists in the Marion, Ohio area. Some of the volunteers are local school orchestra members and home schooled young people, but mostly adults numbering forty-three total people at this time. […]
Programs
Living Green at ECO Center
ECO Center has filled a unique niche in the community since the fall of 2014. Located on County Road 59 outside Caledonia, ECO Center teaches respect for nature via its annual Earth Day celebration, fall festival, Phobia Haunted Trail, summer day camps, and educational field trips, as well as classes in homesteading and green living, in […]
Marion Matters
DEVELOPING AND SUSTAINING PATHWAYS OUT OF POVERTY Marion Matters has been touching hearts and changing lives in the Marion community since 2009. This program is based on the nationally known and recognized Bridges Out of Poverty program. “Bridges is the concept of people being raised in different cultures of poverty, middle class, or wealth,” explained […]
Marion Young Professionals
Get Connected with Marion YoPro There are MarionMade! people all around us, and Marion YoPro is one of many community groups that bring those people together. Marion YoPro (Young Professionals) is a group of individuals in their 20s, 30s, and 40s who work or live in Marion County. The YoPros have three primary goals: connecting […]
Special Olympics
Courage, joy, friendship, and competition, these are the hallmarks of Special Olympics. Locally, the Marion County Board of Developmental Disabilities sponsors teams and more than 100 athletes of varying ability levels in eight sports, all of which play as the Marion Hawks. “The mission of Special Olympics Ohio is to provide year-round sports training and competition […]
Marion Public Library
As the kids head back to school, lifelong learning opportunities continue at the Marion Public Library. Beyond the ever present and extensive collection of books, magazines, and research materials that local residents have come to expect of the local library, programs for all ages, from birth to adulthood, are offered regularly by this community resource. Storytime […]
