"Fun Day" brings Landusky together

After the town mine closed a few years ago, with it went most of the Landusky population.

For the last four years, the Landusky Foundation has been keeping Landusky alive through the town’s Fun Day, which is a day of remembrance, food and family fun.

“How this all started was we wanted to bring back the old pictures and stuff for a day of history,” said Harold Heppner, who has been president of the Landusky Foundation since 2008.

People brought photos to the Landusky Foundation and after copies were made, the foundation display pictures of Landusky’s glory days every year at the school during the town’s Fun Days.

“A lot of times we would have to take a picture of a picture,” Heppner told the PCN.

After years and years of the community spending time together almost daily, times have been a bit harder and the community today spends less time together.

“We thought, how do we bring the community back together?,” Heppner told the PCN. “When I was growing up here as a kid, almost everyday, everyone got together and did something.”

The community had everything from baseball games to impromptu guitar jam sessions.

“Our Fun Day brings people together,” said Heppner. “There are a lot of people that may have a place here but don’t want to come in the summertime or people that moved away, but they all like to come back on the fourth.”

The Fun Day this year had a very positive vibe, with people coming from all over Phillips County in hopes to add a little more “fun” to their holiday weekend.

Though the Stonebroke String Band was unable to attend, the fun day was complete with a 10:00 a.m. brunch, wool spinning demonstration, horseshoe and ladder ball tournaments, kids games, plenty of bingo and a chili cook-off.