The PJ Casey Council 2029 Knights of Columbus 20th annual Fish Fry is coming up this Friday from 11-to-7 at the Church of St. Philip Social Hall in Litchfield. It’s dine in or drive up – until the fish is gone.
Dave Keeling says the cost per meal is $17 and the menu includes Alaskan Pollock, baked potato, baked beans, dinner roll, coleslaw, cookie and beverages – and the beverages are for dine in customers only. He says they usually have about 1,000 drive-up customers each year.
Keeling says they buy all of their products locally for the fish fry which resulted in over $11,000 going back into the local economy last year. He says they have purchased a lot of fish so they should not run out before 7 o’clock.
Keeling says the proceeds from the fish fry go to all kinds of community projects that are supported by the Knights of Columbus such as the food shelf and the after prom party. He says during the Songs of Summer Festival in the summer, the Knights of Columbus operates a burger stand and the proceeds from that go to the coats-for-kids project.
The Litchfield City Council approved of a couple of items last night that were forwarded from the Planning Commission. One of them which required several resolutions pertained to the $50-million dollar expansion project at Meeker Memorial Hospital & Clinics.
City Planner Hannah Rybak led the Council through the information related to the preliminary and final plat, vacation of existing alleys and easements, rezoning parts of the property from R2 to B1, the site plan review and variances for Meeker Memorial Hospital at 612 South Sibley Avenue, 700 South Sibley Avenue, 25 West Lockerbie Street and 109 West Lockerbie Street.
The vacation issue required a public hearing, so that was held in the midst of Rybak’s presentation, and then a first reading of an ordinance for the vacation of alleys and easements was approved for the hospital property. The Council also approved of a future land use map amendment, rezoning from R1 to R3 and a site plan review for Ryan Blad and Jared Nelson for the former Immanuel Lutheran Church property at 221 West 11th Street as the building will be converted into an 8-unit apartment complex.
The Council approved of a job description last night for the golf course management position and to post the position internally; and approved of posting and rewriting the city planner position. The Litchfield City Council also set the city clean-up day for May 16th from 8-to-10:30 a.m. – and in a new location – the parking lot east of the High School football field.
On Sunday morning at 9:15, the Meeker County Sheriff’s Office received a call about a turkey barn fire in the 33000 block of 560th Avenue in Swede Grove Township. A Meeker County Deputy responded along with the Grove City Fire Department, Atwater Fire Department, Eden Valley Fire Department, and Litchfield Fire Department.
Upon arrival, fire personnel found one barn completely engulfed in flames that had collapsed from the damage. No injuries were reported and no turkeys were in the barn at the time of the fire. The cause of the fire is unknown but believed to be an equipment malfunction.
The Minnesota State Patrol responded to a 2-vehicle crash Monday afternoon at 4:55 on Highway 7 at mile post 127 in Acoma Township in McLeod County. A 2012 Jeep Liberty, driven by 39-year-old Tracy Ann Busch of Litchfield, was westbound on Highway 7, lost control due to the icy roadway, and collided with a 2025 Peterbilt semi, driven by 55-year-old Chadwick Loren Chilson of West Concord, which was eastbound on Highway 7. Chilson received life-threatening injuries and Busch received non-life-threatening injuries. Both were taken to Regions Hospital. Also responding to the scene were the McLeod County Sheriff’s Office and Hutchinson Fire Dept.
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.
