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CEYLON -- Today is April 1st so don't let anyone fool you. This Sunday, April 2, is Palm Sunday which is the beginning of Holy Week, the week before Easter. At some churches Palm Sunday is traditionally a confirmation service for the youth. St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Wilbert will have a confirmation service at 9:30 a.m. for Alexis Anderson, Abbigail Simpson, Amalia Leiding, Cameron Peterson and Riley Peterson. Congratulations young ladies.
Area churches have special services this week in preparation for Easter Sunday which is April 9. Circle of Faith parishes will meet for 6:30 p.m. Maundy Thursday services at Waverly Lutheran Church, north of Welcome. They will meet for 6:30 p.m. Good Friday services at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Ceylon. Easter services are scheduled for 7 a.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church in Welcome, and 8:30 a.m. at First Lutheran Church in Trimont. St. Peter Lutheran in Ceylon will have Easter services at 9 a.m. and Waverly Lutheran
Church north of Welcome will have 10:30 a.m. Easter services. Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Ceylon will have Maundy Thursday services at 6:30 p.m. with communion. St. Paul's in Wilbert will have a Good Friday service of darkness at 6:30 p.m. Our Savior's Lutheran will have Easter services at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 8, followed by a lunch. St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Wilbert will have 9:30 a.m. services on Sunday after the breakfast which runs from 7:45-9 a.m. that morning. All area residents are welcome to attend these services.
There will be an American Red Cross blood drive from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 3, in the back room at Lake Belt Bar and Grill in Ceylon. To find locations and times available to give blood, call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767), go online at
www.redcrossblood.org or text BLOODAPP to 90999. There is an urgent need for blood now so give if you are able. Thank you.
There will be an Easter Egg Hunt from 1-3 p.m. on April 8, at the Ceylon City Park. This is for children, ages 1-12, and is sponsored by the non-profit group, Helping Hands of Ceylon. Bring your basket and your camera. The Easter Bunny may show up. This Helping Hands group is also sponsoring a rummage sale April 14-15 on Ceylon's Community Day. They are accepting donations of clean, working items for their sale. Proceeds will help them with events for the community and especially youth of the community. For more information or to donate money or items for the rummage sale, contact them on Facebook, call (507) 236-9907 or email them at Helpinghandsofceylon10@gmail.com. The committee is Angie Connell, Barb Kronback, Chris Griffin and Judith Perkins. They are always looking for volunteers to help with events.
The Ceylon Community Day auction is scheduled for April 15 this year. Farm equipment items for the auction can be brought in from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 6-13. The auction is huge with 2-3 rings selling all day. Plan to attend. There will be rummage sales throughout town that weekend. To list a rummage sale on the map, please contact Linda Bakke at (507) 632-4509 or email her at obakke@frontiernet.net before April 11 with information about the
rummage sale.
The WELCA women's group at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Ceylon will have its April meeting beginning 1:30 p.m. on April 5 at the church. All members are urged to attend this first meeting of 2023.
April 8 is the date for the last cribbage tournament of the season. It will be held at the Welcome Legion Hall. Registration will start at 1:15 p.m. that day and play will get underway around 1:30 p.m.
Lake Belt Bar and Grill will hold an all-you-can-eat fish fry beginning 5 p.m. Friday, April 7. Get fish and sides, all for $17.
Traditionally there were Tuesday coffee hours with area churches and groups serving every Tuesday morning for a month. If there are any groups scheduling coffee hours this year, please contact me and I would be happy to include the coffee hours in my columns of news for your town. You may call me at (507) 728-8346 or email cs2152946@gmail.com.