donnelly news

Next edition sept 24th-30th Welcome to another edition of the Donnelly news. Weather news; the growing season is now over as we had a killing frost last week, temps tied a record low on Thursday am. We’ve also had some rain this week however it was basically a case of too little too late. Correction the phone # for Mark koepke is 407-286-3978 . STJ/KONG PARISH News: The fall schedule with services at 8:30 am (K) and 11 am (ST J) is now in effect. Parish .ss will be at Kong at 9:45 am, there will be a coffee hour at Kong in the church basement following services and at St J before services. There will be two day cleaning event in the Kong basement the first one will be today (sat) to wash down the walls (there is a mold problem) and the second one will be on Oct 1st. work will start at 9 am both days. The LWR/ Marie Sandvick center clothing drive will be on Sept 30th if you have items to donate please have them at church by Sept 25th. The confirmation servant event churches united for the homeless in Moorhead has begun; you can bring items to the church from now until the event in Oct. For more info on acceptable items for all the org contact the parish office. If you have a cd of the Kong quartet concert that does not work anymore you can return it to parish office or Jeanne Ennen (with your name on it) and it will be redone for you at no charge. GSLC news: The play “godly women out of history” will be presented at the church on Sept 25th at 7 pm. The fall grief share recovery seminar/support group will start on Sept 26th at the Morris e free church in Morris and continue for the next 13 weeks, for more info call 589-2614 Believers, BBQ, and bluegrass will be held at Lincoln Lutheran church of rural Hoffman on Sept 25th. There will be a BBQ following the 11 am worship service followed by a concert by Monroe crossing at 1 pm. advance sale tickets for the BBQ and/or the concert can be reserved by calling 528-2508. Tickets will also be available at the door but will cost more. Faith Lutheran will have their fall sale and supper on Sept 28th from 4-8 pm. The SA is sponsoring a theme table brunch and silent auction quirky boutique on Oct 1st beginning with table viewing at 9:30 am and Brunch at 10:30 am. Tickets will be available at the door. For more info contact Carol Wilcox at 589-3945 LCM will have an open house at the Christus house in Morris during umm homecoming on Oct 1st from 2-5 pm. At 3:30 pm there will a presentation by the student leaders on their mission trip to Calif. last spring. I saw the presentation last spring and it was very good so if you missed it then make plans to attend this one. Luther crest’s fall harvest festival will be held at Luther crest bible camp near Alex on Oct 1st beginning at 9:30 am. Contact the camp at 320-846-2431 for more info. The fmsc packing event in Morris raised $44,000, 1106 volunteers packed 231,552 meals enough to feed 634 kids for a year. The st co gen soc will meet on Oct 6th at 1:30 pm at the library in Morris On Oct 3rd the red hatters; city council; and Rendsville 4-h will meet in Donnelly and the bookmobile will be in town at 3:30 pm Starting today HD & CO will be open until 4 pm on Sat through the hunting season Callan Charles was born to Adam and Katie Erickson on sept 15th. Grandparents are Mark and Deb Erickson great grandmother is Evie Raasch. Clayton James Guse, born September 2, to Nicole Pederson and David Guse; grandparents are Diane Pederson and Jim and Colleen Neal. Congratulations to the Morris area cc boys team that won the little Croix meet, Brody bahr (Scott and Kathy) is a member of that team and finished 18th individually. Mackenzie smith won the girls side of the race and set a new school record in the process. She also placed third in the Holdindgford meet and fifth at the LP-GE meet Bernice Erdahl was one of the st co extension officers honored at their banquet on sept 12th Congratulations to Dean and Jerri Erickson who recently celebrated their silver wedding anniversary. Congratulations to Tyler busse who won another demo derby in Madison Last week I spent some time in Fargo attending big iron and Albany attending the scpc show. Several members of our threshing bee family were also up there. Sept 18th Jim and Lou Eystad and I attended the Niemakel park lake day at the UM church in Herman (it was moved there due to the rain) in the eve they attended the sing a long at the Eden Reformed church. Afterwards I visited Selma Bruse in the apt then traveled to Appleton where the threshing bee royalty was part of the apple fest parade. Later Jim and Julie Busse and I attended the dinner sponsored by the ridge runners snowmobile club. Sept 21st I visited my cousin Bev Hurlbult at LL