donnelly news

May 19th-25th

Welcome to another edition of the Donnelly news.

Weather news: well temps have been relatively mild for most of the past week. Although I have not personally seen much field activity I have been told that most farmers are very busy in the fields

St. John's/ Kongsvinger news: Baccalaureate Sunday will be held on May 20th, at St John’s starting with Brunch at 10 A.M. followed by joint services at 11 A.M. We have two H.S. graduates this year one from each church, plus several higher Ed grads. Also, I tentatively plan to have my annual graduation recognition column on June 2nd, so if you do have any graduates in the family or know of any, please let me know ASAP

The summer schedule starts on May 27th with joint services at Kongsvinger at 9:30 a.m. In June, July, and August there will be joint services at a 9:30 a.m. at Kongsvinger on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Sunday’s St. John’s on the 2 and 4th Sundays.  You can find the schedule in the May newsletter; copies are available in the narthex of both churches or from the parish office

Registration is now open for VBS this summer to be held at Faith-Morris July 30th- Aug 2nd together with Faith, First and Trinity Cyrus, contact the church office for more information 

GSLC NEWS There will be worship services on Wednesday evenings starting in June at 7 p.m.

Dan and Wendy Luthi benefit June 9th 4-7p.m. at Gs he needs another kidney transplant and his daughter in law (Wendy) is donating hers

Other church news The Federated Women’s Fellowship will meet on May 25th, at noon at the Brick house. Please bring a dollar for the health kits. After lunch we will go to the church and put the health kits together. On May 20th at 11 am Federated church will be cleaning up their portion of the highway meet at the county garage.

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On May 21st The Bookmobile will be in town on Main St from 3:45-4 p.m. and at 7 p.m. the firemen meet at the fire hall

The Stevens county genealogical society will meet on May 31 at 1:30 p.m. at the Morris public library note change of date

Herman red hats meet on June 4th at 9 a.m. at A J’ S in Herman. Bring favorite dairy recipe.

Donnelly collected$100 and 216.5 lbs. of food in the recent “stamp out hunger” campaign

Death notice Vivian Johnson of Wendell passed away on May 14th survivors include her daughter Sandy (Lowell) Dunn and family of the Donnelly/Herman area.

Committal service for former Donnelly resident Dick Goldenstein will be held on May 20th at 2 p.m. at Vinger cemetery by Donnelly

Track and field Ortonville invite: boys 1st girls 2^nd, 100 m dash Lydia Fynboh first, 3200 m run Cheyenne Baumgart 4th, shot put Islande Sperr 7^th, 110 hurdles Micah Aanerud 5th, West Central conference boys & girls 2^nd; Brady Cardwell discus 8^th, 100 m dash 16th, 100 m Lydia Fynboh 8th 3200 Cheyenne Baumgart 12th, Islande speer 17th, Lydia was also part of the 4x100 relay team that placed 5th

The Donnelly community club held another lengthy meeting Monday evening as we continue to make plans for the bee and other events. As of now we are not planning any major changes to the schedule that we have had for a number of years. The 2019 feature will be gas engines, the next meeting on June 11 about 8:30 p.m.

Congrats to Monroe and Cheryl (Armstrong) Estenson who recently received the St co pay it forward award Cheryl is a former Donnelly area resident

Past week:  visits to my aunt Pearl in her room at the courage cottage, Hancock all town rummage sales, Muffins for Mom and bible study at Gs with Eystad’s ,pancake breakfast at first-Morris, community club mtg in Donnelly, LL games at wells park ,bbb at met lounge

If my column does not appear in the paper like last week, check out my blog donnelly.minn.blogspot.com or it is posted on the bulletin board at cc mall.