Papinville 5K Walk\Run a Successful Event
The
Papinville 5K event was our first event for the expansion project for the
museum. It was a beautiful morning for a walk\run in the country and going by
historical points of interest. Each person was given a shirt and a pamphlet
describing each historical point. There were twenty three people doing the walk\run
event. Everyone commented what a nice
area to have the event.
The cornhole
tournament was won by Brian and Krista Ware, from Overland Park, Ks. The
frisbee throwing contest for the child division was won by Grace Lee Swarnes
and the adult division was won by Doug Mager. Each received a prize. There were
many children’s games for the event. The $400.00 raffle was won by Jeff Wikoff.
A lunch was served with the Suzie Q’s being a big hit.
We wish to
thank the sponsors for helping us in this event. April’s Attic, Builtet LLC,
Country Babes Designs, CRK Land Improvement Chad and Brayden Klinksick, Dane Diehl State Rep, Four Rivers
Rental LLC, Greg and Jennifer Wheatley, Heath Klinksick Milk Hauling LLC,
Marquardt Brothers Farms LLC, Pro Built Products, Rich Hill Café, Riverboat
Landing LLC, Rich Hill Equipment, Riverside Pecans, Swopes Drive In and The
Feather Factory. We appreciated your help and to all the people that helped to
make this event possible. We thank the new activity director, Gail Tiller, who
has taken over for Phyllis Stewart. Phyllis will keep writing the stories for
the Mid America Shopper and 92.1 Radio Station. We also want to thank the
shopper and radio for printing and telling the stories and news for Papinville.
They help us so much to keep the history of the area alive. Jeff Miller did the
wagon rides which people enjoy with his champion mules .
The
Papinville Picnic will be Sept. 28 so save the date. This year we will
celebrate the 140th year of the historic bridge. There will be stories
in the shopper and on the radio. This year we will have bridge t-shirts printed,
a booklet with stories that people have written of their memories of the bridge
and we will also have a historic wagon ride to the bridge telling the history about
the bridge. More information will be available later. We are still planning on
a fish fry for the dinner. Activities are in the making for a good day. Until
later for the stories. We thank our supporters who keep the history going in
Papinville.
Submitted by Phyllis Stewart
