Peanut Butter & Milk Festival Committee Gearing up for Alabama Visitors

The Peanut Butter & Milk Festival Committee is meeting every Tuesday evening this month – leading up to the annual Festival which is scheduled for the week of January 31st through February 7th. Plans are getting more fine-tuned as the big event approaches and 10 Hartford, Alabama residents will be traveling to Litchfield.

This year’s student delegates who will be arriving in Meeker County that week for the sister-city exchange trip between Litchfield and Hartford, Alabama will include Connor Childs, Hunter Brooks, Trenton Thompson, Vince Gervasoni, Ruthie Dawsey, and Addi Mae Habbard – who are all seniors, and Callie Cotton who is a junior. The adult delegates are Deni & Robby Cotton (Callie’s parents) and Leslie Habbard (Geneva County High School Principal & Addi Mae’s mother).

The group will go snowmobiling at the Roger & Janet Huhn farm by Lake Manuella on February 1st at 2 p.m. and then attend a chili & soup supper that evening at the Forest City Threshers building from 6-to-8 p.m. The public is welcome to both of those events. They’ll tour several Meeker County dairy facilities on February 2nd for “Dairy Day.”

Plans are being made for the Southern guests to see the new Litchfield Area Recreation Center, Fieldgate Cheese Store, Ramsey Printing and Mies Outland on February 3rd. On February 4th, they will tour the Litchfield School District and some businesses in Litchfield. After KLFD interviews at McDonald’s the morning of February 5th, they’ll go skiing and tubing at Powder Ridge and then attend a potluck banquet and silent auction that evening at St. Philip’s Church in Litchfield. Social time begins at 6:30 p.m., with dinner to follow at 7 p.m. Bring a dish to share.

The week will wrap up on February 6th with tours of more Litchfield businesses, along with the G.A.R. Hall and the Forest City Stockade. Everyone is welcome to get involved in the Committee. The next meeting will be on January 20th at 7 p.m. in the Litchfield High School ag room.