{"id":35706,"date":"2026-04-15T07:35:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=35706"},"modified":"2026-04-15T07:35:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:35:24","slug":"mollie-hackman-joins-decatur-park-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/mollie-hackman-joins-decatur-park-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Mollie Hackman joins Decatur park board"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Decatur half of the Decatur-Adams County Parks and Recreation Department is at full complement once again, with its newest member having been seated Monday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mollie Hackman was appointed by Mayor Dan Rickord to fill the remaining term of the late Dick Stimpson, a longtime board member who passed away January 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hackman, a nurse at Adams Memorial Hospital, is a lifelong Decatur resident and a Bellmont High School graduate, class of 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She and her husband, Kevin, former clerk-treasurer for the City of Decatur, are the parents of four girls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI care very much about Decatur and hope to help in any way I can to continue to grow it in ways that best serve our community,\u201d she told WZBD.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other members of the Decatur board are Larry Isch, president for over 50 years, Alex Ainsworth, Kelly Ehinger, Kim McCord, and Joan Siefring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The six members of the county parks department are: Randy Lehman, Scott Bonifas, Mark Ripley, Mellisa Fey, Nathan Bowers, and Brad Kohlhagen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both boards currently meet the second Monday of each month at Riverside Center, the county board at 6 p.m. and the city board at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com The Decatur half of the Decatur-Adams County Parks and Recreation Department is at full<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,15,21],"class_list":["post-35706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-decatur","tag-featured","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/photoless-header-template-news.jpg?fit=252%2C144&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35707,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35706\/revisions\/35707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}