Plans Being Made for Alabama Visitors

Plans are coming together for the 53rd annual Peanut Butter & Milk Festival the week of February 1st through the 8th. The Peanut Butter & Milk Festival Committee is meeting every Tuesday night in January to get everything ready for the visitors from Hartford, Alabama.

This year’s visitors from Hartford, Alabama will include Geneva County High School students Ava Waldo, Kaitlyn Harris and Kyleigh Saunders, and chaperones Charlie & Brenda Skinner and ag teacher Nathan Parker. They will arrive in Minnesota on February 1st and return to Alabama on February 8th.

The schedule for the week of February 1st through the 8th will include a snowmobiling event on February 2nd at the Roger & Janet Huhn Farm on Lake Manuella at 2 p.m.; Dairy Day on February 3rd, with a soup & chili supper capping that evening at 7 p.m. at the Forest City Threshers Building; a visit to Litchfield High School and various Litchfield businesses and attending a hockey game on February 4th; a trip to the State Capitol and Mall of America on February 5th; visits to more area businesses on February 6th with a potluck banquet that evening at 6:30 at the St. Philip’s Church Social Hall in Litchfield; and skiing and tubing at Powder Ridge on February 7th.

The public is welcome to the snowmobiling event, the soup and chili supper and the potluck banquet which also includes a silent auction. The next meeting of the Peanut Butter & Milk Festival Committee will be January 21st at 7 p.m. in the Litchfield High School ag room. Everyone is welcome to attend and to get involved in the program.