DONNELLY NEWS

Next edition: Nov 5th-11th Welcome to another version of the Donnelly news. This week’s edition is dedicated to the memory of my Dad who passed away Oct 31, 2006 and my aunt Mabel Van Olst who passed away on Nov 10 2002 Weather news: cool cloudy weather means that fall is definitely here. As expected fall harvest and fieldwork is pretty much done for the year around here a few farmers are still out doing some ditching. tiling and other odd jobs STJ/KONG parish news: St J will have their beef supper on Nov 8th beginning at 4:30 pm. tickets will be available at the door no advance sales this year. The Kong fall festival will be held on Nov 20th, with a lefse making day on Nov 12th at 9 am. The Nov newsletter is now out; extra copies are available in the narthex of both churches Kong has choir gowns to give away if interested contact the parish office During Nov the parish will be collecting nonperishable food for the st co food shelf GSLC news: the first ever business meeting of the church will be held on Nov 13 following services with a potluck dinner to follow Faith Lutheran will have a meatball supper on Nov 9th at the church The Morris life care center will have an Italian dinner and silent auction on Nov 6th at the Assumption Catholic Church beginning at 4:30 pm free will donation The dfd annual turkey bingo will be held on Nov 18th at the town hall beginning at 7 pm The bank and the po will be closed on Nov 11th due to Veteran’s day. There will be an open house baby shower of Callan Erickson son of Adam and Katie Erickson will be held today (sat) at the Morris sr. center from 1-3 pm The ducks unlimited banquet will be held on Nov 16th at the armory in Morris beginning at 6 pm for tickets and more info call Doug cardwell at 246-3293 Lillian K. Pariseau, Altoona, Wis. Formerly of Donnelly passed away on Oct 27th, among the family members that survive her are her sisters Evelyn Kopel and Lou (Eddie) Kopel of Donnelly and their families. Committal services were held at St Theresia’s cemetery in Donnelly on Nov 2nd with lunch afterwards at the Eddie and Lou Kopel farm. Milton Corey of Herman passed away on Oct 31st. among the family members that survive him are his step grandson Nick (Laura) Lehman and their family. He and his family have raised Belgian horses and they have been a fixture in the threshing bee and other area parades for some 35 years. Congratulations to MaKenzie Smith who earned a trip to the state cc meet by finishing 5th in the girls section 6A meet. She will be competing in the meet today (Sat). Congratulations to the Chris Athey sb team that finished 2nd in the tri county traveling sb league. Members of that team include Chris Athey, Alex Erickson, Justin and Paul Daly and Luke Schmiesing. Congratulations to Barry Erdahl who was the winner of pork bundle from KMRS Oct 26th I visited my aunt Pearl A. Anderson in her apt in Morris. Jim and Lou Eystad and I attended the forum on the new reclaim hymnal led by PR Norm Olsen at gslc on Oct 30th. Corrine Kruize and I attended the genealogy workshop at the schs on Oct 29th, later I travelled to Hancock for the expo sponsored by the Spanish club. Due to an unexpected last minute commitment I was late getting to Donnelly on Oct 31st, by then the Halloween party was pretty much over. However I could tell that the threshing bee royalty and their families had again put a lot of time, work, and effort into organizing and putting it on so a big thank you goes out to them for doing that. Steve Fults and I attended the "your government, your taxes" forum at the sr. center in Morris on Nov 1st. Henning and Craig Awsumb and I were among the many from the area that attended the lutefisk supper at First Lutheran on Nov 2nd. It was very good. Many people still talk about the ones we used to have out at Kong at our peak we were serving about 1500 people that came from many miles away to attend it. A reminder on how you can get news to me call me 585-6435; 288-8692 e-mail aeanders@fedtel.net (please put Donnelly news in the subject line) snail mail 11 e 9th st Morris MN or in my boxes at the po & HD & co in Donnelly and McCollar Jewelry in Morris. I have also mounted a letter holder on the west side of my house that you can put news in. I do plan to travel to Donnelly every week to check my boxes In an effort to get rid of more stuff I am going to have a yard sale on Nov 12th at my place here in Morris see the ad in this week’s paper for more info