The 3rd Annual Community Agstravaganza – coordinated by the Dassel-Cokato FFA Alumni – will be held this Friday evening from 5-to-7 p.m. at the Dassel-Cokato High School in Cokato. It includes a silent auction, and a dinner for freewill donations.
Amie Bergquist says they had the event the first two years at Highland Church, but this year, it will be at D-C High School and people should enter through the Middle School doors. She says proceeds from this event will directly benefit students.
Bergquist says the FFA students will be doing some demonstrations and there will be kid’s activities. She says the meal is either pulled pork or a fish fillet. For more details, contact dasselcokatoffaalumni@gmail.com.
The Songs of Summer Festival is scheduled for August 15th at Memorial Park on Lake Ripley in Litchfield. There will be three acts performing during the festival – Michael Shynes, South 40 and the Fabulous Armadillos.
Amanda Nelson says the gates will open at 4 p.m. and it will close at 11 p.m. She says there will be several food vendors and children will be able to use the playground and splash pad.
Nelson says freewill donations will be accepted and proceeds from the event each year go to various non-profit organizations that benefit youth in the community. She says they will be selling raffle tickets soon as an additional fundraiser.
Nelson says youth-related organizations have until June 1st to apply for a grant and applications are available by emailing her at amandasosf@gmail.com or on the Songs of Summer Facebook page. She says another way that people can support youth is by attending the Mega Meat Raffle on April 6th at Prospects with proceeds helping the Litchfield High School golf program.
National Library Week is being observed April 7th through the 12th with the theme: Drawn to the Library. Stop in to any of the four Meeker County locations – Litchfield, Dassel, Grove City or Cosmos – to draw or write why you’re drawn to visit the library.
Events at the Litchfield Public Library in April include Baby/Toddler Storytime Wednesdays from 10:15-to-10:45 a.m.; Preschool Storytime Fridays from 10-to-11 a.m.; Teen Dungeons & Dragons on Tuesday, April 1st from 4-to-6 p.m.; Alzheimer’s Disease: What It Is & What Can Be Done, presented by Joseph Gaugler, PhD, from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health and the Minnesota River Area Agency on Aging on Thursday, April 3rd at 2 p.m.; Adult Book Club: The Lincoln Highway on Tuesday, April 8th at noon; LEGO Night on Tuesday, April 8th from 6:30-to-7:30 p.m.; Crafterdark – bring-your-own craft program for adults – on Wednesday, April 9th from 6:30-to-7:30 p.m.; Teen Program on Saturday, April 12th at 1:30 p.m.; Kids Craft Club on Tuesday, April 15th from 4-to-5 p.m.; Mystery Book Club on Wednesday, April 16th at 7 p.m.; Knitting Club on Thursday, April 17th from 12:30-to-1:30 p.m.; Adult Arts & Crafts – registration required – on Thursday, April 24th at 6:30 p.m.; and Friends of the Litchfield Library meeting on Tuesday, April 29th at 4 p.m.
In Dassel, story hour is Fridays at 10 a.m., Dassel Friends of the Library meeting on Tuesday, April 1st at 6 p.m.; Adult Book Club: The Midnight Library on Monday, April 22nd at 1 p.m.; and there’s Poems for a Pickle all month.
In Grove City, Crafternoon is on Thursdays from 3-to-5 p.m. – bring-your-own craft program;
Story Time Tuesday, April 8th at 2 p.m.; Diamond Art – registration required – on Thursday, April 10th at 3 p.m.; ATGC Book Club at the Atwater Library: Presentation by author Douglas Knick on Tuesday, April 15th at 7 p.m.; and Knitting Club on Thursday, April 17th from 4-to-5 p.m.
In Cosmos, there’s Pokemon TCG on Thursdays from 4-to-5:30 p.m. and Cosmos Creation Club LEGO program on Monday, April 21st at 2 p.m. For more information on any of the library events for April, call 693-2483.
Each day a business will be featured as “Business of the Day” and every time their commercial is aired be the 7th caller and win a chance to receive KLFD Bucks to be spent at our “Business of the Day” locations.
Monday thru Friday, at 4 pm we will draw out a winner to be put into our final drawing to be held sometime later in April. Once your name has been drawn out daily and put into the final drawing, you are no longer qualified to call in. Otherwise, you can keep calling in once a day to qualify.
Our sponsors include: Litchfield Liquors, Central Counties Coop, Litchfield Chrysler, DC Diesel, Farm-Rite Equipment, Davis Motors, Air Pro Heating & A/C, Miller Automotive, El Chilero, Atwater Ford, Stockmen’s Greenhouse, Sassie’s Tavern, Simms Auto Parts, Queen Bee’s
