Next edition Oct
11th-17th
Welcome another edition of the Donnelly news;
Weather news: After a very cold weekend the weather has moderated some
this week. Bean harvest is wrapping up
and I see some sugar beet trucks going through Morris.
In St. John’s/ Kongsvinger news: The St John’s fall fest is today (Saturday)
from 10:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. there will be a dinner served, rummage, bake and card
sale and raffle
Rev. Mary Dodgson our interim pastor for the past year has announced
that she will be leaving that position on
Oct 15th, her last Sunday in the parish, will be Oct 12th,
which will also be confirmation Sunday. Services will be at St John’s at 11 a.m.
followed by a pot luck farewell dinner for Pr Mary. There will also be joint
services at St John’s at 11 a.m. on Oct. 19th and 26th
Kongsvinger Lutheran church women guest night will be Oct. 15th beginning at 7 p.m.
at the Kongsvinger parish hall “we’re a sister act so let’s act” will include
hearing highlights from the 9th triennial convention and gathering
of the women of the ELCA by Algene Larson who attended it this past summer
Good Shepherd Lutheran church news: Sign up is underway for a 5 week evening
bible study “How to preach Christ” which will start on Oct 15th @ 7 p.m. at the
church
The Oct. newsletters for the parish and Good shepherd are now out; extra
copies are available in the back of all three churches.
Other church news: Today (Saturday) -Zion Lutheran church –Morris will
have their fall bazaar from 9-a.m. - 2 p.m. and Our Saviors Lutheran –Chokio
will have their fall festival from 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
The United Methodist Church in Herman is having a ham dinner on Oct 12th
from 11a.m.-1 p.m.
Community news: there will be a vendor and craft show at the Donnelly
hall today (Sat) from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Oct 13th the bookmobile will be in town at 3:30 p.m. the
firemen and the community club will meet at 7 p.m. at the fire hall and city
hall
School board will meet on Oct 20th at 6 p.m. at the town hall
in Donnelly; this is a change from what is on the school calendar
Death notices: Former Donnelly area resident Christine (Backman) Sperr
of Chokio passed away on Oct 3rd.
Celebrations: Joe Surerus of Donnelly was named poultry prince finalist
at the MN state fair
Brooke Gillespie was elected Vice President of sophomore class at C-A
H.S.
Tiger Cross Country: Sauck Centre ;girls( 2nd )Savanah Aanenurd
2nd Becca Holland 30th JV Auddy Sperr 13th
boys 10th Dalton Lupke 61st JV Bo Gullickson 57th
;Benson girls 2nd ,Savannah 7th, Becca 29th ,jv auddy (7th)boys
(6th) ,Dalton 46th ;jv Bo (20th)
Tiger volley ball team won the Fergus tournament recently Brooke Gillespie
and Kourtney Geise are members of that team.
Brittany Cardwell is co-Captain of the Tiger tennis team
Ron Bourassa earned a 5 gallon pin at the bloodmobile visit in Morris
recently
Lindsay Flogstad was recently elected as Vice President of the Stevens
county 4-h Leaders council
The FFA Nursery Landscaping got 4th place in regional
completion and will be going on to the state in Apr. team members included
Becca Holland (8th individual),
Brady Jergenson was named KMRS player of the game Oct. 3rd
Jill Loge has been promoted to Financial Services Consultant (FSR) with
Bank of the West Effective Oct 6th
Oct 2nd I attended an informal meeting of the Stevens County Genealogical
society at the West Wind Village; afterwards I visited Mary Dripps there, and
was happy to learn that she and her old friend Dot Wolking had had an opportunity
to get together and visit during her recent trip to Morris. She said, she and Bill were very happy and
excited about Dan’s plans for building a new dealership building and proud of
what he has done with the dealership. In the past week I also attended a meet
and greet with Torrey Westrom and former Morris area resident Rep. Arron Schock
at the old# 1 Southside, open house at mobiz computers, pep fest at MAES, MCCL
fall tour in Fergus, options for women pro-life banquet in Morris, Stevens County
Republican party steering committee meeting at the Morris Library , helped with
NAPS, visited my aunt Pearl and Ruth Strand at the sunrise apartments (Ruth
moved there recently) and “Burgers and a Blessing” at the diamond supper club.
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