donnelly news

Aug 4th-10th

Welcome to another edition of the Donnelly news.

Weather news: The past week has been mostly sunny and hot, crops continue to look outstanding.

St. John's/ Kongsvinger news: the summer schedule with joint 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.

Gslc news wed eve services at 7 p.m. continue until August 29th

Gladys Mungo from Haiti’s children will give an update on the organization during worship services at 9 a.m.  On August 19th followed by a potluck dinner

 The chord Ayres from the Milan area will be in concert again on Sept 8th at 7 pm at the church

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Other church news: community choir concert on August 27th at 7 p.m. at Assumption Catholic church, rehearsals August, 12,19,26th at 7 p.m. at Assumption more info Linda Hodgson 320-287-1027 or Hodgson@ stmarysmorris.com.

There will be Lawn chair worship on August 19th (Hancock bluegrass group) at 9 a.m. at Faith Morris. 

On August  5th the 30th Annual Turkey and Sweet Corn Supper (all you can eat) will be held from 5p.m.-7p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church in Alberta, Adults $10, Students $5 and pre-school free.

The Herman United Methodist Women invites all the ladies of the Federated Church to our annual Ladies Day program and luncheon, on Wednesday, August 8th, at 2:00 p.m.

~Wednesday Nights are Alive (WNA) this summer at the Common Cup in Morris on Wednesday Evening’s beginning at 6 p.m. with a free meal and music with a speaker beginning at 7 p.m.  Come early and get a seat and bring along a friend!  (Speakers are from MN Youth Alive).

Schedule for the rest of the summer is:

•            August 1 – Speaker Cory Greenwood (topic:  You Matter), with guest musician DJ Kirk

•            August 8 – Speaker Kelli Patrick with guest musician Emily Cameron.

There will be a potluck dinner and worship service at the Morris community church today (Saturday) from 4-7 p.m.

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Death notice: Marion Hartl of Alice, N.D. passed away on July 20th; survivors include her sister former Donnelly area resident Bernice Erdahl of Morris and her family

Threshing bee news: The Donnelly threshing bee is August 25-26th; the tri-feature is Oliver, Moline, and Cockshutt. Next year’s feature will be gas engines. The posters are here; I have a few and have left some at McCollar Jewelry.  In October, Donnelly will be host to the semi-annual MAPS Meeting. For more info about the bee http://www.donnellythreshingbee.com/welcome.html (just been updated) and/or threshing bee fb page (the one with the queens as the cover pix) buttons will be on sale soon.

The next community club mtg is August 6th at city hall, after the “meet the threshing bee queen candidate’s” forum which starts at 7:30 p.m.

City council meets on August 5th at 4 p.m.

August 6th rendsville 4-h meets at ST. John’s Lutheran Church

Firefighters meet on Aug. 13th and 20th at 7 p.m. at the fire hall

The Bookmobile will be in town on main st on August 13 from 3:45-4 p.m.

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

Jaden Joshua Searle was born July 14, 2018, at Stevens Community Medical Center to Marilyn and Josh Searle of Morris, MN. Jaden weighed 9 lbs. 1 oz. and was 21 1/2 inches long. Grandparents are Ace and Lois Sperr or Morris, MN and Jan and Lowell Searle of Donnelly, MN. Great-grandparents are Bertie Sperr of Morris, MN and Agnes Searle of Morris, MN.

An open house baby shower for Mitch and Bree (Kruize) Daly of Donnelly will be held from 9 to 11 a.m. on Saturday, August 11, at Zion Lutheran Church, Morris. They request that you, please bring and sign a book instead of a card.

"Options for Women's" adorable baby contest will be held during the Morris fair Aug 7th-12th.

On July 22nd the threshing bee royalty was in waterma parade in Glenwood, the queen’s brunch at Glenwood Lutheran and the watterma coronation after the parade.     

Past week: visits to my aunt pearl in her room at the courage cottage, the hort night at wcroc, activities at the rose city threshing show and Glenwood watterma, bible study & Wed eve services at Gs (w/Eystads)block party st j Donnelly, WWV community picnic