Thrivent Financial is hosting a small business workshop on December 10th at noon at Peter’s Ribs & Catering in Litchfield. Anyone interested needs to RSVP by December 5th. Call 320-593-2846.
Thrivent representative Jackie McGhee says a small business consultant will be there to provide advice and answer questions.
Thrivent representative Kyle Kalkbrenner says they’ve done three of these workshops before and they’ve been well-attended. He says one of the questions that small business owners need to consider is “what is the value of their business?
Kalkbrenner says consultant Erik Murphy will provide information about tax strategies, business valuation and so on. He says if you’ve attended before, you’re welcome to attend, and tell other small business owners about the workshop.
The Litchfield Area Mentorship Program has its Turkey Bingo fundraiser on Friday at the Litchfield Eagles Club. The doors will open at 5 p.m. and bingo begins at 6 o’clock.
Judy Hulterstrum says there will be 20 games at $1 each and the winner of each game gets a turkey. She says they also have lots of raffle baskets and you can purchase 35 tickets for $20 for chances to win those, and they are also going to have a 50/50 raffle.
Hulterstrum says the Eagles Club will have menu items available so you can eat supper before or during Turkey Bingo. She says if you have any questions, call 320-699-1616 or email info@lampkinship.org. Donations to LAMP are also welcome any time and may be sent to Post Office Box 82 in Litchfield.
Members of the Peanut Butter & Milk Festival Committee who traveled to Alabama earlier this month spoke about their trip on Tuesday evening. They shared many fun details with their fellow members as they spent November 1st through the 8th in Hartford, Alabama – Litchfield’s sister city.
The delegates included Litchfield High School FFA students Cade Cervin, Alexis Engelke, Bianca Forsberg, Wyatt Ratike and Emmett VanDerBill and their chaperones Lane and Abagayle Lysdal. Abby says this was her third time to Alabama and it was fun to see what was different since the last time she was there and to witness the connections between families from Litchfield and Hartford that have endured for years. She says the people in the South seem to enjoy life more as they aren’t in such a hurry.
Lane says he enjoyed seeing the differences in agricultural practices and especially enjoyed seeing how they harvest pine needles and use them for landscaping mulch. He says he had a great time, learned a lot, and enjoyed eating fresh fish during their “beach day” in Florida. Cade says he got to ride in a tractor as peanuts were harvested and he was surprised how woodsy it is in Southeastern Alabama. He says the farmers there can take their time as the weather is more favorable than it is in Minnesota.
Alexis says the people from Litchfield were the only ones in the ocean on “beach day” as the natives felt it was too cold to be swimming this time of the year. She says she ate a lot of fried foods and enjoyed the sweet tea. Bianca says she ate a whole fish at a Mexican restaurant and enjoyed visiting a honeybee farm. Emmett says he especially enjoyed learning about the cotton industry – seeing it harvested and visiting a cotton gin. Wyatt says they got to visit the National Peanut Festival which is sort of like the Minnesota State Fair and they watched the pig and calf scrambles there. He says he also got to go hunting for wild hogs.
The Peanut Butter & Milk Festival Committee is getting ready to host guests from Hartford, Alabama the week of January 31st through February 7th. The next meeting is coming up on Tuesday, December 16th at 7 p.m. in the Litchfield High School Ag Room. Everyone is welcome to join the Committee and get involved in the Festival.
