By David Rice, Times Correspondent
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Ida Silver and Al Silver are gone, but their passion for promoting their community is still being carried on.
LAND O'LAKES — Al and Ida Silver were tireless boosters for the community, promoting youth sports, improving the Land O'Lakes Community Center and famously lobbying for Christmas decorations along Land O'Lakes Boulevard — even though they were Jewish.
Now the Silvers — he died in 2004, she followed in 2009 — are being memorialized in a classic car show that kicks off Saturday. The Al and Ida Silver Memorial Classic Car Show at the Land O'Lakes Community Center will raise money for building an amphitheater to host local bands and music events.
Once again, the Silvers are bringing the community together.
"Al and Ida were always involved in getting people in the community together and being active within it," said Sandra Graves ...