Christmas at Trinity Lutheran Church in Grove City is coming up this Saturday from 9-to-noon. The annual event includes a brunch, bake sale and much more.
Janelle Johnson says Christmas at Trinity has been held for about 35 years and the brunch this year is $13; $6 for children 10 and under; you can get just a roll and coffee for $4; and take-outs are available. She says there was a cookie walk for many years, but now the fancy cookies are sold on special plates.
Johnson says they also have other baked goods, candies, ethnic goodies like lefse, krumkake and rosettes, cards, crafts, quilts and more. She says you pay for all of your items when you exit the church, and if you’d like to eat brunch after you’ve been shopping, there is an area where they can store your items before you head out to the parking lot.
The Litchfield City Council held the public hearing last night on the proposed 2025 property tax levy and budgets. No one from the public spoke during the hearing, and the Council certified a total levy of $3,791,900. It’s an increase of 8.9% from last year, but down from the 12.1% that was originally considered back in September.
The Council awarded bid package #3 last night for the Litchfield Area Recreation Center (LARC) which included $3,172,000 for Kraft mechanical LLC for mechanical work and $1,580,000 for Falk Drilling, Inc. for the geothermal component of the project.
The Council approved of extending the Golf Clubhouse lease with Parlil Holdings to May 15th of 2025; approved of a developer’s agreement with Gregg Schilling Construction for a lot on Gorman Avenue; and set a public hearing to consider the sale of that property for January 6th.
The Litchfield City Council authorized the sale of $10-million in general obligation bonds – including $2-million for the Civic Arena for the floor and dasher boards, and $8-million for the LARC project which will be recouped with sales tax proceeds and state bonding money. The Council also approved of the issuance of municipal industrial development revenue bonds for the First District Association (FDA) wastewater pretreatment project. The action will help FDA get a better interest rate and will involve no risk or cost to the City.
The Forest City Thresher Association met on November 19th for its annual election of new Board Members. Retiring Board members – President Frank Berg and Vernon Geisinger – had both served multiple terms and were not eligible for re-election.
Dale Groskreutz’s term was also up, but he was eligible to run again for re-election and was re-elected. Nate Berg and Jason Jakovitz were both elected to the Board. The new Board then met and elected its new officers for the coming year. Dale Groskreutz will serve as president, Nathan Berg will serve as vice president, Shelly Kranz was re-elected as Treasurer and Laura Niece was re-elected as Secretary.
Dale Groskreutz has served as president of the Forest City Threshers previously and will bring a vast wealth of knowledge and experience to that position once again. Carry over Board Members are Robert Bohrer of Cosmos and Don Heurer of the Grove City area.
In other business, the date for the Spring Roast Beef Dinner was set for March 30th and the Pork Chop Dinner was set for May 4th. Proceeds from the roast beef dinner will once again be used to assist in the completion of the Depot Restoration Project. Proceeds from the Pork Chop Dinner will be dedicated to the completion of a restroom facility in the Women’s Building.
It was confirmed that the feature for this coming 2025 threshing show will be Ford – Ferguson- Massey Harris and Massey Ferguson and related lines and equipment.
