FYI 9-14-14

Church supper to benefit missions

Immanuel Lutheran Church, 496 State Highway F in Tilsit, will hold a supper Sept. 28. Serving will begin at 3:30, and carryouts will be available.

The menu includes kettle beef, chicken and dumplings and ham. Cost is $10 for adults and $5 for children ages six through 12; there is no charge for children ages 5 and younger.

The event includes a country store.

More information is available by calling 573-243-0132.

Free Blackwood Brothers concert scheduled

First General Baptist Church, 1812 Cape La Croix Road in Cape Girardeau, will host a free concert featuring the Blackwood Brothers at 7 p.m. Oct. 3.

A free-will offering will be accepted.

More information is available by calling 573-334-2234.

East Perry Fair to start Friday

The East Perry Community Fair will take place at the fairgrounds in Altenburg, Missouri, Friday and Saturday. The fair offers free admission, free parking and a wide selection of free entertainment.

The fair officially begins at 1:30 p.m. Friday with a parade along Altenburg's Main Street, from Immanuel Lutheran Church to the fairgrounds, followed by opening ceremonies. Musical entertainment will include country rock band Common Thread at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Fine Line at noon Saturday and Backstreet Cruisers, with 1950s and 1960s rock'n'roll, at 4:30 p.m. Saturday.

More information is available at eastperryfair.com, its Facebook page or by calling 573-824-5322.

Delta Baptist church to host homecoming

The First Baptist Church of Delta will host a homecoming Sept. 21.

Guest speaker will be Mitchell Jackson of Miner Baptist Church in Sikeston. A carry-in meal and fellowship will follow the morning service, which starts at 10:45.

The church is at 591 Liberty Street, also known as Highway N, in Delta. More information is available by calling 573-794-2478.

Saxon Memorial schedules fall festival

Saxon Lutheran Memorial will hold its annual fall festival from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 11.

Activities will include live music, attendance prizes, hand-made craft booths, food, horse and buggy rides, a silent auction and a schnitzelbank skit and well as demonstrations of 1880s activities including blacksmithing, cooking apple butter, quilting, butchering, cross-cut sawing, shingle-making, spinning, pressing cider, making brooms, cooking soap and baking bread.

Admission and parking are free and open to the public; free-will donations will be accepted.

The memorial is at 296 Saxon Memorial Drive in Frohna, Missouri, about 25 miles north of Cape Girardeau.

More information is available by calling 573-824-5405 or visiting saxonlutheranmemorial.org.

Notre Dame activity week scheduled

Notre Dame Regional High School's activity week will begin Friday and run through Sept. 27 to raise funds to reduce the school's operating budget.

Activities include the sales of raffle tickets, magazine subscriptions, candy, trash bags and fruit. The class with the highest profit per capita will have its king and queen candidates crowned at a dance on Sept. 27.

Dinners open to the public and car washes will be 5 to 7 p.m. Sept. 22-25. Dinners are $6 for adults and $3 for children ages 5 to 11; there is no charge for children ages 4 and younger. Seniors will serve fried chicken Sept. 22; freshman will serve grilled pork steak Sept. 23; juniors will serve kettle beef Sept. 24; and sophomores will serve pulled-pork sandwiches Sept. 25.

Students are available for service projects such as mowing grass, raking leaves and washing windows,` with donations going to their classes. Those with projects may call 573-335-6772.

Downtown golf tourney set Sept. 28

The First-Ever Ninth Annual Louis J. Lorimier Memorial World-Famous Downtown Golf Tournament will take place Sept. 28 in Cape Girardeau.

The nine-hole course starts at the Common Pleas Courthouse and weaves through downtown through alleys and to the riverfront.

The tournament is a fundraiser for the Red House Interpretive Center. Entry fee is $25 per person, which includes nine holes of golf, some BirdieBalls for putting and an all-you-can-eat catfish buffet. Participants are asked to bring a club of their choice, either a five iron or a six iron, and the Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation Foundation will provide strike pads to protect playing surfaces and equipment.

Registration closes on Sept. 24 and an entry fee must accompany a completed entry form. The late fee is $35. The tournament is open to all ages.

Tee time is at 1:30 p.m. at the gazebo in the courthouse gazebo, with the buffet at 3:30 p.m. in the Yacht Club at Port Cape.

More information is available by calling the parks office at 573-339-6340. A registration form is available in the fall issue of Play Cape magazine.

Pilot Knob battle subject of talk

The Cape Girardeau County Genealogical Society will host Scott House, who will speak on "The Battle of Pilot Knob: Thunder in Arcadia Valley" at 7 p.m. Sept. 23 in the Cape Girardeau County Archive Center, 112 E. Washington St. in Jackson.

House is the co-author of a book on the battle, published by Southeast Missouri State University.

In September 1864 at the Missouri mining town of Pilot Knob in the Arcadia Valley, a force of fewer than 1,500 Union soldiers and militia inflicted more than 1,000 casualties on a much larger attacking force of Confederates.

After the successful defense of Fort Davidson, the surviving Unionists, including soldiers and civilians, retreated, blowing up the fort behind them. What followed was a 66-mile two-day march to safety at the railroad between Rolla and St Louis, fighting a rearguard action as they went.

The public is invited to attend the presentation.