St. Dennis Festival 2011
A HUGE FESTIVAL THANK YOU
The 2011 Festival Committee would like to express a big THANK YOU to all who helped at this year's Festival. So many gave so much of their time to help make the Festival run smoothly, those who gave generous donations, set up and take down crews, volunteers during the Festival, Boy Scouts, and event chairpersons. We would like to also thank Sue Besler and Scott Theis, our maintenance staff, who did an excellent job of assisting us throughout the weekend, and especially Fr. Schmitt for his support.
Without everyone's hard work and effort, and God leading us, this Festival would not be the great success that it has become.
Again, thank you to each and every person who helped along in this wonderful journey. We look forward to working with everyone next year!
General Co-Chairs:
- Michelle & Dan Amend
- Ruth & Rick Benesh
- Terri Masnado
- Kim & Maurie Paul
- Jeanne & David Schommer
The parish festival greatly benefited from the generosity of all sponsors, who include:
| Birrenkott Appliance Inc. | Refrigerators |
| Sprint Print II - Sally Christie | Banners and tabletop tents |
| Gugger Home Improvement Companies | Storage truck |
| UW Provisions and H & M Distributing Co. | Refrigerated trucks for the beef dinner |
| St. Vincent de Paul | Storage trailer |
| Steve & Patty Olp | Heavy equipment |
| Schuster family | Barnyard train |
| Service Plus Carpet Cleaning and Restoration | $250 and storage trailer |
| Boy Scouts & Cub Scouts | Parking cars, setting up and taking down the book tent and flea market |
| 1,700 volunteers | Time donation to make the festival a huge success! |
| Entertainment at no charge | Bart & Nick Schlueter; Dixie Horizons; Paradise Bound |
| Oak Park Place | $750.00 |
| Schommer’s Piggly Wiggly of Cottage Grove - Gold Sponsor | $750.00, racks for cakes & mound bread, and carts for moving merchandise |
| Anonymous donor | $600.00 |
| Madison Chapter of Catholic Financial Life | Matching funds of $500.00 |
| Knights of Columbus | $500.00 |
| Martin Glass | $500.00 |
| Anonymous donors in honor of their grandchildren: Aaron, Evan, Til, Howie, Ari & Rocky | $250 |
All donations to the flea market, book tent, dinner pies, sweet tooth booth, cake walk, cookie monster, treasure chest, and more.
We greatly appreciate these sponsors. Please support them with your business. Contact the parish office with anyone we may have forgotten.
If you would like to become a festival sponsor for next year, contact Dan and Michelle Amend at 223-0738 or amend@charter.net.
FESTIVAL 2011 RAFFLE WINNERS
Available next week
| $10,000 | Robert Hoffman |
| $3,000 | Dan McCool |
| $2,500 | Michael Clements |
| $1,500 | Todd Strand |
| $1,000 | Mark Rodwell |
| $500 | Patricia Arndt |
| Carol Winkler | |
| $300 | Darlene Knapstein |
| Joe Kessenick | |
| Ida Bloedow | |
| John Dwyer | |
| Nancy Sowls | |
| $200 | Beth Zemp |
| $100 | Jean Endres |
| Rita Bork | |
| Harold Johnson | |
| Jean Dahl | |
| Michela Cobb | |
| M/M Richard Larsen | |
| $50 | Dennis Clemen |
| Liz Parmer | |
| Liz Braun | |
| Janet Wood | |
| Frank Fleres | |
| Erica Svojse |
Congratulations to the lucky winners.
Thank you to everyone who purchased tickets.
FESTIVAL RUN/WALK
Thanks to all the fantastic volunteers and our sponsors:
- Metal Roofing Systems-Gugger family
- State Farm Insurance-Jack and Lois Mussey
- 3 Seas Literacy Agency-Michelle Grajkowski
- Putnam Roby Williamson Communications-Paula Westphal
- Axley Attorneys-Pete Conrad
- First Weber Realtors-Judy Compton
- HITSwisconsin-Race T-shirts
- Einstein Bagels
This year's race had 233 participants! Congratulations to all!
The top male and female finishers were Garrett Eklof (15:44) and Sarah Baltisberger (19:05).
Complete race results [58kB PDF]
We hope to see you at next year's Festival 5k Run/Walk.