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Community Lutheran Church’s 15th Annual Meatball Dinner will be held Sunday, May 21 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. following the morning worship service beginning at 10 a.m.
The WELCA group will be serving homemade meatballs, mashed potatoes and beef gravy, whole kernel corn, coleslaw, dinner rolls, and an assortment of pies for a free-will donation.
A raffle is again being held for a handmade quilt, and this year Jan Bartsch donated an “At the Crossroads” quilt. Bartsch made the 90”x106” quilt, and Bev Wacek of Owatonna donated her quilting services.
Raffle tickets are available for $1 each.
Mark your calendars and join the people of the Community Lutheran Church for food and fellowship on May 21.
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The annual Town & Country Garden Club Plant Sale is set for Saturday, May 20 from 8:30-10:30 a.m. at Moxon’s building across from the city garden on Hwy. 30.
There will be lots of perennials plus petunias from Hilltop Greenhouse.
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The Nortonna Lodge 1-638 of the Sons of Norway will hold their annual Syttende Mai dinner on Monday, May 15 at 6 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church, 609 S. Lincoln Ave, Owatonna.
Syttende Mai is Norway’s Constitution Day. The annual celebration dinner will feature torsk, meatballs, potatoes, asparagus, cucumber salad, lingonberries, lefse, and rice creme.
Tickets are available by contacting Phyllis Hegle at 507-429-7325.
For more information on the Nortonna Lodge of the Sons of Norway, contact Nina Zak at 507-213-1919 or Cindy Hokanson at 507-451-9301.
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Contest offered for best historically themed entries in parade
By MELANIE PILTINGSRUD
Contributing Writer
The Farm and City Days Committee has a special plan for the parade this July. Businesses in New Richland who choose to enter the parade will help to celebrate the 140th anniversary of the city with a float contest representing historical themes.
“We just kind of gave them a general theme,” says Sara Jo Vulcan, one of the members of the Farm and City Days committee, “so they can pick whatever historical thing they want to pick for their float. We’re going to have people from outside of New Richland judge the floats.”
According to Vulcan, the parade usually has between 60 and 70 floats from New Richland and surrounding areas. Only businesses in New Richland have been invited to participate in the historically themed float contest though, and we’ll have to wait until parade time to find out how those businesses have chosen to represent their chosen historical themes.
The Farm and City Days Parade will take place on Saturday, July 8 at 5 p.m.
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Pivotal corner, Part II
By RODNEY HATLE, NRAHS
Contributing Writer
(Part Two of two parts.)
The business in this snapshot was full-service for its time 80 years ago: one gravity-feed gas pump and one electric, one kerosene gravity pump (hidden at left), an air hose for tires (center), a can of water for radiators (at right), and an earthen pit for changing oil (covered at right). The all-important out-house was out of sight behind.
You drove in, an attendant arrived with a smile and a question, and you requested a number of gallons or said, “Fill ‘er up with regular.” At 11 cents per gallon of gas, you could sit and watch the windshield get washed, the oil and radiator checked, and maybe a tire kicked for inspection. You’d hand over some money, the attendant went in and came out with your change.
Or the process might be to pay inside and buy a candy bar and/or soda pop for a nickel each, listen to weather talk, endure a joke and repartee, and then be on your way. During the ‘30s, ‘40s, and ‘50s you paid less than 20 cents per gallon, average.