Aug. 31, 2017
Menno Fire Department Car Show: Judgment Day
Travis Kemnitz of Springfield (cap) and Travis Tjeerdsma of
Avon make note of their findings as they study a 1961 Chevy Apache being shown
by Gary Nowstrup of Marion at the Menno Fire Department Car Show Saturday
afternoon, Aug. 26. Kemnitz and Tjeerdsma were part of a team of nearly a dozen
judges on hand to evaluate and score the more than 70 vehicles that lined
Menno’s Fifth Street. The majority of them were cars, said Shannon Herrboldt,
an assistant fire chief with the Menno department and organizer of Saturday’s
car show, but trucks and motorcycles also lined the street. Saturday’s car show
also included participation from the fire department’s auxiliary, which organized a bake sale, bouncy house and barrel train, plus a rib cook-off and
contest featuring participation from 10 area groups, including a number of fire
departments. For another look at Fifth Street as it was on Saturday, see page
9. Results will be published next week.
PHOTO BY JEREMY WALTNER