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Rick Clary named 2026 Grand Marshal for Bureau County Homestead Festival · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Rick Clarey named twenty twenty six Grand Marshal for Bureau
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  County Homestead Festival. Written by Kate Santillon, This article is
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  being read by an automated voice brought to you by Everlett.
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  The Homestead Festival Steering Committee has named Rick Clary as
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  the twenty twenty six Grand Marshal for the fifty fifth
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  annual Bureau County Homestead Festival. Clary graduated from the University
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  of Illinois and began a banking career in nineteen eighty four.
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  He served as vice president of Central Trust and Savings
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  Bank in Genesco and president of Union Bank lad Bank.
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  Clary also worked as president of Central Bank from two
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  thousand and five to twenty twenty four. He served as
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  a board member for the OSF Community Advisory Board, Perry
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  Memorial Hospital, Main Street, Princeton, Perry Memorial Hospital Foundation, in
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  Home Care VNA, Green River Community Fund Foundation, Whrinston Schools Foundation, St.
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  Margaret's Hospital, Geneseo Chamber of Commerce, Genesee Country Club, and
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  Henry for h Foundation. Clarey also served as the Bureau
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  County Homestead Festival for more than fifteen years and was
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  part of the Princeton Chamber of Commerce's Retail Development Committee.
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  He was the Bureau County Unity Way Fund Drive Chairman,
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  Princeton Booster Club member, Princeton High School volunteer scorekeeper, and
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  City of Princeton ad Hoc Committee member. Clay worked on
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  an Illinois Bankers Association Conference committee, was the lad Business
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  Association President and the Section three FFA Foundation Chairman. He
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  is a Woman in Business advocate, Small Business Association and
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  Governor's Small Business Summit Awards recipient, and Basketball, baseball and
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  soccer volunteer coach. For more information, visit Homestead Festival dot
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  com or the festival's Facebook page.