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.
January is National Mentorship Month, and it’s a good time for the Litchfield Area Mentorship Program to get the word out to the public about its mission. The program is in great need of mentors.
Paul Virnig is on the LAMP Board of Directors and has been a mentor for 8 years and says it’s a very rewarding experience. He says it’s sad to see the long waiting list of children that are waiting to be matched with a mentor.
Virnig says it’s not a huge time commitment and he and his mentee often spend time playing cribbage or going fishing, and there are also events that are planned and sponsored by LAMP. He says he’d like to thank all of the sponsors and volunteers who help to keep LAMP going.
Judy Hulterstrum says there are so many examples of lifelong friendships that have developed between mentors and mentees since LAMP officially started in 2007. She says mentors can be an individual, a couple or a whole family and it’s not a huge time commitment.
Hulterstrum says they are having an appreciation event for their mentors this month. She says if anyone is interested in becoming a mentor, they may call her at 320-699-1616 or email her at info@lampkinship.org.
The Minnesota State Patrol responded to a one-vehicle crash on Wednesday morning at 8:13 on Highway 40 in St. Johns Township in Kandiyohi County. A 2011 Chevy Traverse was eastbound on Highway 40, crossed the center line, went into north ditch and rolled over.
The vehicle was driven by 23-year-old Lindsey May Forcier of Willmar. She received non-life-threatening injuries and was transported to the hospital in Willmar. Also responding to the scene were the Kandiyohi County Sheriff, and Raymond Ambulance.
