An appreciation dinner is being held tonight at the Hanover Knights of Columbus Centre for Doctor Kerr Clark and Doctor Robert Panabaker.
Organizer Betty Lansink says the dinner recognizes the 70 years of combined service the two physicians have given the Hanover community.
Both Doctor Clark and Doctor Robert Panabaker have recently closed their practices but they still perform some services to the hospital and nursing homes.
Lansink calls Clark and Panabaker a shining example of the important role doctors play in a small community.
She says they both gave countless hours to the community serving in many capacities.
Doctor Kerr Clark says he enjoyed every minute of it and has no regrets setting up practice in Hanover saying it was a great place to raise his family.
Clark wishes more graduating medical students would seek out what he and Doctor Panabaker did.
He says rural medicine offers a great quality of life for young families.
Tickets for the dinner are 45 dollars — 20 dollars of that will be tax deductible and will be used to fund a scholarship in the two doctors names.