People like Zirk, Schroeder promote survival of small towns

By KAREN PARKER | County Line Editor Merriam-Webster Dictionary describes “booster” as “an enthusiastic supporter,” among other definitions. To our dismay, Kendall lost two of its enthusiastic supporters with the deaths of Carl Schroeder on Sunday and Shirley Zirk the previous week. The two were very different people. Carl was a Kendall native, and Shirley…