Forestburg

MELON FESTIVAL attendees take shelter from the heat in the shade of the picnic shelter.

Forestburg’s annual Melon Festival was held Saturday, Aug. 19. Despite the Heat Index being over 100 degrees, attendees enjoyed partaking in a car show, bean bag tournament, a couple vendors, and food, including free watermelon supplied by Shane’s Melons and Larson’s Melons. Kids also had fun with a couple bouncy houses, a petting zoo, and wagon train rides. The musical duo Gordy and Debbie performed music for the festival this year.

Jake Pickette of Mitchell was this year’s winner of the 50/50 drawing and received $318.

…Read the results of the bean bag tournament and car show in this week’s issue of the Sanborn Weekly Journal!

On Saturday afternoon, Aug. 19, the Forestburg Lutheran Church held an open house for visitors from the Melon Festival to take a break from the heat with some root beer floats and air conditioning while they viewed the church. A free will donation was accepted for the floats. Drawings were held, with the winners winning either a $25 gift certificate for Country Pumper or a gift basket holding watermelon-themed items. The winners were Sheryl Turner, Heather Fridley, and Sarah Adams.

…See a picture in this week’s issue of the Sanborn Weekly Journal!

Something very exciting happened on Friday night of this year’s Sanborn County Achievement Days last weekend. At around 5:30 p.m., a highly anticipated groundbreaking ceremony took place for construction to start on the new addition to the current 4-H building in Forestburg. The new addition is going to be attached to the north side of the existing building and will double the size of the facility.

With a hefty $430,000 price tag for the addition, the building committee made up of Paula Linke, Riley Zoss-Littau, Myron Sonne, Scott Senska, Andy Ettswold, Art and Audrey Kneen and Rod Weber have been raising funds for over four years to get this project accomplished, and the time has finally come to see their diligent work pay off. The initial goal was $300,000, then $350,000, and they are now working on $430,000, as they have dealt with an increase in costs since the COVID epidemic. They are currently at just over $360,000 raised after they received a nice donation of $5,000 from the family of Omer and Lucile Fouberg on July 31. 

…Read on in this week’s issue of the Sanborn Weekly Journal!

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