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The Monongahela Area Revitalization Corporation (MARC) held its first meeting of 2017 on January 16 at the First Presbyterian Church.

Pictured (l-r) are new MARC officers Corrina Withrow, Treasurer; Terry Necciai, Secretary; George Eckert, President; and John Cattaneo, Vice President.

New President George Eckert led the meeting with a vision of the future by visiting the past. Eckert appointed John Cattaneo to spearhead an investigation into rejoining the Mon Valley Initiative, an organization which MARC helped to organize in the late 1980s. MARC withdrew its membership at the turn of the century. Eckert stated, “We should return to the MVI to get on with the community work MARC was conceived to do.”

Upcoming events for MARC will be the Annual Antiques Appraisal, to be held May 13 at the Monongahela Area Library, and the springtime Pooch Parade, to be held in May (date pending), where the Mon Valley’s best friends can have their own time to strut down Monongahela’s Main Street to Chess Park. The MARC Town Hall Meeting will be held on September 18 with a community-themed topic to be determined at a later date. Other new and timely events are under discussion.

Membership is always open and the next meeting is March 20.

Eckert stressed that “co-operation with other groups is the key to accomplish anything for the people of the Monongahela Area and the Mon Valley.”