donnelly news

Next edition June 16th=22nd Welcome to another edition of the of the Donnelly news. I want to wish my dad a happy father’s day up in heaven. Weather news; the last weeks has seen mostly sunny and warm temps with some eve rain showers. About all I have seen out in the countryside are some farmers putting up some hay STJ/KONG News: there will be joint services at Kong on June 24th @ 8:30 am GSLC news: June 17th is new member Sun The first installment of the summer reading program will be held on June 20th at 6:30 pm at the church. The May mission of the month is madascar mission, the coffee money will go to relay for life The all state Lutheran choir will be traveling throughout MN beginning today (SAT) the closest places this year are Breck on the 17th and Spicer on the 26th visit their website http://www.maslc.org for a complete itinerary Starting June 15 and concluding July 31, the Donnelly Threshing Bee Royalty Committee will be taking nominations for girls to run for our 2012 Threshing Bee Royalty. The Committee will have bins at the following businesses: Post Office, Donnelly Coop & HD & Co, for the community to nominate royalty candidates. Little Miss candidates age group is 8-10 years old. Queen candidate’s age group is 15-19 years old. The committee will contact all those nominated to ask for their acceptance. You may also call in your nominations or for more information at 246-3292. Also from Sandy Attn. Donnelly past Royalty, Do you still have your photo from the year you were crowned? We may need to make a copy for our display at the Depot. The prior photos have gone missing and we would like to continue displaying all the past Royalty during the Threshing Bee. Call me if we can get a copy of your Royalty year. Unless you may know where the photo collection is or who may have it, let me know please. Thank You The next time you are in the co-op in Donnelly take a minute to look at the formal portrait of our royalty hanging up there. There will not be any more ll games in Donnelly this year however many Donnelly area kids and some adults are involved as players or coaches on one of the many bb and sb teams that play around Morris during the summer and there are women’s sb games on Thursday evenings in Donnelly The bookmobile will be in town at 3:30 pm on June 25th Due to a conflict the Donnelly community club will meet on June 18th at the Donnelly hall the regular schedule will resume in July. There will be a bike rodeo at the hall at 6 pm There will a supper at Eastside Park in Morris on June 18th from 5:30-7:30 sponsored by the Dutcher for house and Westrom for senate campaigns to raise funds for their campaigns free will offering. Rsvp to Holmgren.sj@gmail.com or 952-380-8702 There will be a puppet show at the Morris Library on June 28th at 2 pm Former Donnelly area resident Esther Pasche passed away on June 9th visitation will be today (sat) from 1-3 pm with a committal service to follow at summit cemetery. A memorial service will be held on June 30th at 11 am at ST Paul’s Lutheran church in Morris Congratulations to Robert (Dan) and Lavonne Kloos on the occasion of their golden wedding anniversary. Several members of the Morris c-a girls track team competed in the state track meet June 8 & 9th McKenzie Smith finished in 11th place in the 1600 and 13th in the 3200. Beth Holland was a member of the 4x 200 meter relay team that finished in 8th place Briella Renne Koehntop was baptized at Faith Lutheran on June 3rd. Her parents are Kyle and Mandi (Kloos) Koehntop. Kallen Erdahl recently received president’s award for physical fitness for the 5th grade all-star sportsmanship awards were presented to Kylie Mau and Jackson Loge 2nd grade ,Kallen Erdahl 5th grade Auddy speer 6th grade Congratulations to Brady Jergenson who was named to the all-tournament team at the 3rd annual Mitchell Kleindi memorial bb tournament Congratulations to Tara Flaten who made the honor role at HHS and to Brady and Brooke Geliespe who did that same at C-A H.S. Carrie Wilts was recently recognized for being a member of the H-N 5 &6th grade school patrols she and her sister Kellie received purple and blue awards as science fair inventors at H_N Amanda Werk graduated from Concordia College recently her parents are Randy and Louisa Werk grandparents are Glen and Gertie In one of the past papers I read that a T Speer from Donnelly had graduated from college but I do not know who that is The Stevens co gen soc. had a workday at the library on June 7th. We decided that we would continue to do that during the months that we do not have a meeting, in the eve a good crowd was on hand for the Kiwanis talent contest at Eastside Park. June 8th Steve Fults and I attended the Agralite annual meeting in Benson; Jeff Hufford was elected to the board from dist. 2 The start of another busy summer parade season began for our threshing bee royalty on June 9th with parades in Cyrus and Chokio. Be sure to check out the community billboard in town when you drive though so you know what is going on in Donnelly.