Jennie Harris will provide entertainment Friday, July 11 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Mushroom Building, Dassel. Lemonade, brownies and other treats will be available.
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Cokato Legion Baseball will host a pork chop dinner Friday, July 11 from 4 to 7:30 p.m. at the Dassel ballpark.
At 5 p.m., the Cokato Legion team will play Litchfield and at 7:30 p.m., the Dassel-Cokato Saints take on Kingston.
St. John’s Catholic Church Women, Darwin, will host an ice cream social Friday, July 11 from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. at St. John’s Education Center, Hwy. 12.
Barbecues, potato salad, chips, homemade pie and ice cream will be offered. There will be a freewill offering taken.
The Cokato Chamber of Commerce will be sponsoring a family fun night with the help of area businesses Saturday, Aug. 23 in Peterson Park. The evening will include a movie in the park at 9:30 p.m. featuring the movie “Cars.” The admission is free with a food shelf donation. More details to be given closer to the event.
Unlike as stated in today’s (Monday, June 30) paper, there is no Dassel City Council meeting tonight. This issues highlighted for today will be discussed at the Monday, July 7 meeting.
Michael and Mindy Housman will begin selling organic foods the last Thursday of the month at The Little Red Hen shop in Dassel. The Housman’s have an organic farm north of Dassel. They will be selling lamb, eggs, baked goods, and in the coming months, garden produce. There will also be sign-ups for free-range chicken and turkey for ordering. Check out the Housman’s at The Little Red Hen the last Thursday of the month (beginning June 26) from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Dayna Sherman has withdrawn from her candidacy for the Cokato Corn Carnival royalty due to an earlier than expected starting date to a hockey camp, according to Jody Danielson, queens committee chair. Candidates include Courtney Valen, Margaret Neutzling, Jordann Nelson, Staci Paul, Heidi Nelson, Chantel Davis, and Aimee Peterson.
During Cokato’s Memorial Day parade, the queen candidates for the upcoming Cokato Corn Carnival were debuted. They are Aimee Peterson, Staci Paul, Heidi Nelson, Dayna Sherman, Courtney Valen, Margaret Neutzling, Chantel Davis, and Jordann Nelson.
Law enforcement statewide and nationwide are launching a “Click it or Ticket” enforcement preceding a “rash of deadly crashes over the last month that resulted in 22 vehicle occupant traffic deaths of which 15 of the motorists were not wearing seat belts,” according to a press release from the Minnesota Department of Public Safety. A seat belt fine is $25, but can cost as much as $115 with administrative fees, the release said.
Enhanced patrols enforcing this will began May 19 and will go through Sunday, June 1. Last year, during a similar enforcement, nearly 8,500 seat belt citations were given.
Two Coach buses full of National Guard soldiers returning home Wednesday were welcomed home as they were escorted to their home base in Litchfield. Nearly 100 soldiers of the 849th Mobility Augmentation Company came through Cokato around 11:45 a.m. and escorted through town by the Cokato Fire Department. Meeker County Sheriff’s deputies met the buses near the high school were they were then escorted to Litchfield. Signs of the returning soldiers lined the roads from Howard Lake to Litchfield. Pictured are the employees of Paisley Consulting waiting for the soldiers to come through Cokato.
