donnelly news

July 21st-27th

Welcome to another edition of the Donnelly news.

Weather news: Well after enduring some sweltering temperatures for a while, we got some rain on Sunday, and things have cooled off some. Crops continue to look very good; some of the garden produce I saw on display at the Clinton fair looked nice too

St. John's/ Kongsvinger news: the summer schedule with joint worship services at 9:30 a.m., at Kongsvinger on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Sundays; St. John’s on the 2 and 4th Sundays of each month is now in effect until further notice.  You can find the schedule in the July newsletter; copies are available in the narthex of both churches or from the parish office.

Registration is now open for VBS this summer which will take place at Faith-Morris July 30th- August 2nd together with Faith, First and Trinity Cyrus, contact the church office for more information. There will be a VBS kickoff dinner at Faith on July 29th at 11 A.M. The kids will have a program on August 2nd at Faith.

The annual block party will be held on July 31st starting at 5 p.m. on the west side of ST. John’s church everyone welcome

 Elroy James Larson (David and Hannah) is the newest member of Kongsvinger. His baptism was on July 15th.

Other church news:

There will be Lawn chair worship on July 29th (vbs Kick off) and August 19th (Hancock bluegrass group) at 9 a.m. at faith Morris

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Death notice former Donnelly area resident Dorothy (Smith) Buss of Irene S.D.  passed away on July 9th. Survivors include her sister in law, former Donnelly area resident Jan (Smith) Bumgardner of Morris and some cousins in the area. her parents were the late Harry & Rachel Smith of Donnelly

Threshing bee news: The Donnelly threshing bee is August 25-26th tri-feature is Oliver, Moline, and Cockshutt. Next year’s feature will be gas engines. I saw a poster into Detoy’s but have not seen any anyplace else.

There will be no community club meeting in July the next mtg is August 6th at city hall, after the “meet the threshing bee queen candidate’s” forum which starts at 7 p.m.

Starting in August the city of Donnelly will be using mail-in ballots for elections.

On July 15th the threshing bee royalty was in the Prairie Pioneer Days parade in Morris

Past week: big stone co fair Clinton, a visit to my aunt Pearl in her room in the courage Cottage, Duke Eystad visitation at the funeral home, and memorial service at ST. John’s. Ppd activities in Morris, Bible study at Gs (w/ Eystad’s) RTA mtg at wca Barrett (w/ the Kopacek family)