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Candlelight Dinners a
huge success
The Darke County Parks would like to thank everyone who participated in
this fall’s Candlelight Dinners. The Park District successfully hosted
two more Candlelight Dinners in the Shawnee Prairie Log House.
Twenty guests at each dinner enjoyed pioneer demonstrations,
entertainment, and a hearth-cooked meal.
The meal was prepared and cooked by park volunteers and consisted of
spice muffins, Butternut Squash soup, turkey/ venison, parsley Irish
potatoes, green beans and salt pork, pickled red beets and Dutch Oven
Apple Cobbler. All proceeds from the Candlelight Dinners help the
Park District maintain needed repairs on the Log House and other
cultural facilities at the Park District.
Laura Schwieterman, volunteer coordinator stated “I want to thank all
the Park District volunteers for their hard work and dedication in
making the dinners possible. Whether you came in early to start
the fires, helped with the preparation of the meal, set the tables,
cooked the food, were an indentured pioneer servant, presented a
pioneer demonstration, or assisted with clean up at the end of the
evening, thank you! It is amazing what everyone can do in just a
short amount of time and it always seems to work out according to the
itinerary.” Schwieterman continued, “As the vintage phrase goes, ‘Many
hands make light work.’” Heartfelt thanks go out to the following
volunteers – Dean Whipp, Anna Wetzel, Phyllis Allread, Mary Shrader,
Sandy and Bill Rich, Gini and Verd Stuckey, Seth Peele, Margaret
Hensel, Ginny Bertram, Kim Willey, Jill Fisher, Iris Hathaway, Chris
Swank, Connie Brocious, Barbie and Dudley Hansbarger, Sue Besecker,
Karan Hoschouer, Carolyn and Phill Hollinger, Stacey Adkins, Ray
Bradbury, Tina Cost, Kate Young, Tom Franklin, Kim and Karen Droesch,
Bill Wantz and Hank Steinmetz. She also thanks Park District volunteers
Tom Franklin and Margaret Hensel for providing the entertainment at the
dinners.
If you or your group missed this unique Log House Dinner opportunity
this year, be sure to visit their website, www.darkecountyparks.org or
call Roger M. Van Frank, parks director, 548-0165 or email,
director@darkecountyparks.org for more information about how your group
can reserve an evening of Fun and Food the way it was 200 years ago in
a Log House on the Frontier.
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