T-R PHOTO BY ROBERT MAHARRY Outgoing Marshalltown Parks and Recreation Director Geoff Hubbard, who has accepted the same position in Johnston, poses for a photo next to the volleyball nets at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Shortly after he started on the job in 2019, Hubbard helped to lead a successful $1.35 million fundraising effort to restore the Coliseum after it was severely damaged during the EF-3 tornado on July 19, 2018. When Geoff Hubbard graduated from Marshalltown High School in 1989 and headed off to Iowa State University, he joked that he had no intention of ever coming back. He ended up even further away when he moved to the desert and worked toward a graduate degree at Arizona State University, then assuming he’d never return to Iowa. Life ultimately had other plans, and after Hubbard and his wife Catherine, a Zearing native, had their first son, they concluded that it would probably make sense to migrate back to their home state. “All of our family is in central Iowa....
