Two big reminders:
• At 6:30 tonight, Tuesday, Oct. 30, we have a chance to talk as a community about results of a survey about a possible new recreation center in Lindsborg. Now it's your time to chime in again. Please, take time to be at Lindquist Hall on the Bethany College campus tonight. • SVHS football is now in post-season bracket play, so if you're available to cheer, get a seat at the first playoff game against Hesston on Friday, Nov. 2, at Anderson Field. Go Vikings! Five to cheer: • your useful responses to last week's questions about Maker's Street. Thanks, Jan Cambridge-Lewis, for your willingness to help Tayla Mace. We appreciate you both. • SVHS post-season athletic accomplishments. Hats off our talented student-athletes and their coaches! • Salemsborg Lutheran Church for its super-successful area attraction, the Haunted Forest. Over three days, the church entertained more than 4,000 people. • the healthy balance between community wants and needs with community willingness to step forward to help. • our friends in Marquette who are acting, singing and making merry in the 30th Annual Melodrama and Olio. Showtimes 7:30 on Friday and Saturday nights, with Sunday showtime at 2 p.m. It's one of the best things, truly. ___________ October 31 Halloween trick or treat parade downtown by Sprout House, 10 a.m. Plan for 18 if giving treats 31 Soderstrom Elementary trick or treat parade downtown 2:45 p.m. start; all are welcome; 300 treats can be individually dispensed if you wish to participate 31 Witches Wail at American Legion Post 140, a community classic event wrapping up with the sounding of city sirens to signal the end of trick or treating, 6-8 p.m. 31 Trick or Treat at Bethany Home starting at 6:30 p.m. Please use the Chestnut Street door. November 1 Cover display windows for Nov. 9 unveiling 2 KU visits Lindsborg: Sandzen, Crown, Hemslojd and at large roaming 10-4 2 reception for internationally known artist Anne Austin Pearce and her exhibit at Mingenback Gallery on the Bethany College campus, 5-7 p.m. 3 Lindsborg Community Hospital Auxiliary's "extravaganza" of warming chili and chicken noodle soup, bake sale and gift shop, 10-1:30 at Trinity Church with carryout lunches available 3 Sandzen Gallery's members preview of its annual Holiday Gift Show featuring the work of 50 artists; also an exhibit by Kansan Chuck Bonner and well-known Bethany College alum Ray Troll of Alaska 4 Open house for Akerhuset (The Farmhouse), a historic house transformed into its next life as executive stay lodging, 2-4 p.m. at 204 W. Grant 9 Makers Street Art Walk 5-8 p.m. featuring many artists and makers goods for holiday season giving; also 5 p.m. lighting of trees and Old Mill Bridge and unveiling of decorated shop windows 10 Lindsborg Holiday Open House 10-4 p.m. with Tomte Scrambler game, gift certificate/gift item baskets as prizes; also a large slate of "make and take" ornament opportunities for adults and kids, many free or low cost 24 Small Business Saturday 10-4 p.m. with multiple in-store raffles, horse-drawn wagon rides and treats for children December 1 Artists Studio Open House 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. with maps to participating galleries and local artists studios in the Lindsborg area; demonstrations, refreshments and new projects 1 Snowflake Parade 11 a.m. downtown, a friendly little parade for children and other imaginative people 1 Pulled pork meal 11:30-2 at Trinity Methodist, by donation 2 Jultide at Bethany College, afternoon performance of beautiful holiday music 8 Lucia Festival, check the schedule of offerings at www.visitlindsborg.org for this beautiful and popular Swedish-American celebration of light 8 Old-Fashioned Christmas at the McPherson County Old Mill 15 Cookies and Mrs. Claus, morning, First Bank Kansas; visit Mrs. Claus and decorate your own cookies 31 Roaring ‘20s-themed NYE party to launch the celebration of Lindsborg’s 150th year; costumes encouraged, see www.lindsborg150th.com
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