Adams wins top prize in Dairy Days raffle
Published 12:00 am Thursday, June 13, 2002
Mary Lou Beckel won the top prize in the 2002 Adams Dairy Days raffle.
Beckel won $250 in Sunday night's drawing.
Winners of $100 raffle prizes included Tom Mullenbach, Jesse Wiste, Aaron Mullenbach, Melvin Thome and Donna Medinnus.
Pat Smith won the first-ever Dairy Days cow calling contest.
Mary Meyers won the first -ever husband calling contest.
The celebration over the weekend was sponsored by the Adams Dairy Days Committee.
Here are some other summertime celebrations in the area this summer:
Austin: Spam Museum Grand Opening June 15-16, Freedom Fest July 4-7
Blooming Prairie: Old Fashioned 4th of July 3, 4
Brownsdale: Fire Department Pork Feed, July 27
Grand Meadow: MeadowFest,
June 28-30
Hayfield: Hey Days, July 18-21
Johnsburg: Johnsburg Jamboree (July 14)
LeRoy: SummerFest Days, July 18-21
Lyle: Old Fashioned Independence Day, June 29, 30
Ostrander: Uf Dah Day, August 3 (tentative)
Racine: Tom and Shelly Kraetsch's
Burr Oak Buffalo Fest, July 20, 21; the Root River Antique Power Association's Steam Engine Show July 19, 20 and 21.
St. Ansgar, Iowa: Town and Country Day,
June 29
Stacyville, Iowa: Brat Daze, July 27
Spring Valley: Wilder Festival, August 16, 17, 18
Waltham: Sweetcorn Day,
August 17 (tentative)