The 20th annual St. John Lutheran Church Oktober Feast will be held in the Atwater Community Center this Sunday from 4:30-to-7:30 p.m. There will be all kinds of German foods and old-time German music performed by the Wendinger Band of New Ulm.
Ardy Johnson says there will be pork hocks, meat balls, brats, sauerkraut, hot potato salad, spätzle (noodles), red cabbage, liverwurst, blood sausage, head cheese, hard crust rolls and lots of desserts. She says she grew up eating German foods, north of Atwater, and she specializes in the hot potato salad.
Johnson says the cost of the meal is $20 per person, $6 for children 5-to-12 and free for children under 5, and you’re welcome to go back for seconds. She says proceeds this year will go to the Grove City Area CARE meals-on-wheels, Atwater Area Help for Seniors, and St. John Lutheran youth programs. Johnson says they usually serve over 300 people each year during the German dinner in the Atwater Community Center.
The Fall Bazaar at Ostmark Lutheran Church will be on Saturday from 8:30-to-1. There will be morning coffee with rolls, noon lunch, crafts, quilts, canned items, a bake sale, a farmer’s market and more. The church is located at 32721 680th Avenue – south of Watkins.
Gerry Moen says the noon lunch features homemade vegetable beef soup which people can purchase in quart jars to take home, along with BBQs and hot dogs. She says the canned items include rhubarb, peach, jalapeno and peony jams, dill pickles, pickled green beans and more.
Moen says there will be all kinds of items available on the bake sale; lots of craft items; and all kinds of garden produce at the farmer’s market like apples, squash and pumpkins. She says this is the 50th year of the Ostmark Bazaar so they will have some commemorative recipe booklets available. Proceeds from the Bazaar will go to mission projects and to Meeker Area Ministries.
The Litchfield Rotary Club is continuing to sell roses and fall bouquets. The fall bouquets or a dozen roses – either red or an assorted color arrangement – may be ordered for just $25 each and the orders need to be in by October 15th.
One of the charter members of the Litchfield Rotary Club, Steve Kess, says this is one of the Club’s biggest fundraisers of the year and they use the proceeds for all kinds of community projects. He says the Litchfield Rotary Club has supported so many projects over the years including the helicopter pad at Meeker Memorial Hospital, development of Prairie Park, the Splash Pad at Memorial Park, the audio enhancement project at Lake Ripley Elementary School, the placement of outdoor AEDs in several Litchfield locations, and the Beds for Kids project which was started in 2012 and about 300 beds have been provided for children around Meeker County in the past 13 years.
Kess says the Rotary Club also supports many international projects such as eradicating polio in Third World countries and purchasing an ambulance in Guatemala. He says the Litchfield Rotary Club, which started in 1979, meets on Tuesday mornings at 7 a.m. for breakfast and a speaker in the Litchfield Fire/Rescue Hall and new members are welcome to join.
Kess says they sold about 800 bouquets last year and you can contact any Litchfield Rotary Club member to place your order. His phone number is 320-221-3066. The flowers will be available to be picked up later this month at Davis Auto Body on East Highway 12 and the dates and times are printed on the stub you receive when you place your order.
Students and staff in the Eden Valley-Watkins School District are getting ready for homecoming activities next week. The festivities will begin with the Coronation and Variety Show on Sunday evening at 7 o’clock in the Eden Valley-Watkins High School Peps Newman Gym.
Monday is “Dress Up” day as each class will wear a different color including: seniors – black, juniors – pink, sophomores – blue, freshmen – white, 8th grade – orange, 7th grade – red, and the staff will wear gray. A bean bag tournament begins on Monday, cross-country will be at Raymond at 4:15, JV football will be versus Kimball at 4:30, and the Powder Puff football game will be at the football field at 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday’s dress up theme will be “neon” day; the bean bag tournament continues on Tuesday; JV volleyball will be at 5:30 versus New London-Spicer; and varsity volleyball will be against New London-Spicer at 7 p.m. The dress up theme for Wednesday will be “Wacky Wednesday” and there will be pizza and ice cream sundaes; and the bean bag tournament continues.
The dress up theme for Thursday, October 9th will be “camo” and the bean bag tournament continues. JV volleyball versus Maple Lake will be at 5:30; varsity volleyball versus Maple Lake will be at 7 p.m. The pep fest in the high school gym will be at 2:55. The FFA will have a pork chop sandwich sale during the volleyball game.
On Friday, October 10th the dress up theme at Eden Valley-Watkins will be “Extreme Eagle Spirit.” The bean bag tournament will conclude. There will be a homecoming cook-out lunch. The homecoming parade is at 2:35 p.m. The float units will include the fire and rescue, band, homecoming court, JHS, FFA, and student council officers. Friday will conclude with the FFA contest and the football game against Kimball at 7 p.m.
The Eden Valley-Watkins king and queen candidates include: Natalie Vossen, Autumn Davies, Ella Dockendorf, Samantha Larson, Ruby Hesse, Preston Langer, Carter Ertl, Tyler Schutz, Aiden Brutger, and Hunter Bates.
The under classmen homecoming attendants include: juniors – Madelyn Thielen, Isabella Rausch, Trace Krapf and Matthew Haglund; sophomores – Angeline Elsola, Jaci Listerud, Matthew Heuring and Connor Lang; and freshmen – Abigail Ludwig, Tess Hiltner, Jase Rohrbeck and George Landwehr.