The Litchfield Lions Club will be collecting food on Saturday from 9-to-3 at Walmart and at Family Fare in Litchfield. The food and cash collected will be donated to the Meeker Area Food Shelf.
Lions member Brian Cross says the Lions will hand out sheets with suggestions for items to be purchased and donated, and cash is also welcome. He says they will deliver the donations directly to the Food Shelf.
Cross says the Lions Club meets on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of each month at Prospects and new members are welcome to join. He says they will be having a fundraising breakfast early in April and will have their fly-in breakfast later this summer at the Litchfield Municipal Airport.
Food Shelf Coordinator Jamie Revermann says donations of food and cash are especially welcome this month as Minnesota Food Share provides a match to food shelves depending on the donations they’ve received during their March campaigns. She says the need is especially great right now with more and more families depending on the Meeker Area Food Shelf.
Revermann says the Litchfield Lions Club collected 2,600 pounds of food during their food drive last year. She says the food that is donated this month really helps the Food Shelf as the demand will be picking up as summer approaches and kids are home from school. Donations of food and cash may be delivered to the Meeker Area Food Shelf at 118 North Sibley Avenue in Litchfield, and remember the Lions Food Drive on Saturday from 9-to-3 at Walmart and at Family Fare in Litchfield.
The Roast Beef Dinner in the Forest City Threshers Dining Hall will be on Sunday from 11-to-2. Proceeds from the event will help with the continuing restoration project of the depot building.
Frank Berg says the project at the depot has been going on for 3 years and they’re hoping to get it finished this summer. He says they will be replacing some storm windows and painting the outside of the building.
Berg says they could use some volunteers to help with the painting and with other projects at the Threshing grounds. He says it takes a lot of volunteer help throughout the summer to get ready for their annual show the third weekend of August, and it takes lots of help that weekend too.
Butch Schulte says the depot building includes post office boxes, a telegraph line, hand-cranked telephone, and Rich Dollerschell has his model railroad in the porch. He says the roast beef dinner on Sunday will include Craig Kimmerle playing the piano, and a delicious meal for $15.
Schulte says they would like to thank First District Association, Ag Country Farm Credit Services and Michael Niedzielski of Farm Bureau for their contributions that will make the roast beef dinner possible. He says take-outs will be available, but it’s not drive-through.
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, Stockman’s Greenhouse, Sassie’s Tavern, Simms Auto Parts
