The Dadio managed to get to two fall church dinners back to back. Yesterday I wrote about a church in Sharon in Walworth County. Today I'll mention one a bit closer to my home over this direction in Milton.
It's church dinner season. Fall is the time many churches sport an annual dinner of some sort. The Dadio endeavors to hit them all. The themes are generally the same - family style seating (ten to twelve people to a table), often all-you-can-eat, lots of homemade eats, and most of the church folks chip in and volunteer to help. They usually put the kids to work to get them some experience in social skills...and to help with the busy work.
I saw another blurb in the paper for yet another church dinner. This one was hawking a pig roast at
Hope Lutheran Church in Milton, Wisconsin. The Dadio had to get there. So, I loaded up "wife" and headed for the eats.
The church is on the northwest side of Milton not too far off Highway 59 on the edge of town. It is a nice setting on the edge of the the quiet residential area. It seems that a good deal of these churches I have gone to, and have on my radar screen to go to this fall, find the roots of their particular church building in 1970-esque construction and design. That was probably an era when the old buildings from the 1800s had to either be rebuilt or just plain replaced.
Anyway, it is a comfortable building on a knoll. They had four two-wheeled smoker-grills in the parking lot to accommodate the four unlucky piggies. A fella manning the grill area said a church member had built them from scratch - "a labor of love."
They had a to-go table in their outdoor pavilion. We opted to sit inside the church. It was not all-you-can-eat, but, a plate of bountiful portions was set before us. There was that good pulled and smoked pork, a good side of corn, au gratin potatoes, wheat rolls and bread, and a neat little tavern cup of cole slaw, and another of apple sauce.
I ordered coffee and chocolate milk, Heide got the chocolate milk too. When we went in the eating area we picked out our dessert first. I went for some chocolate chip cookies. Heide grabbed some cherry pie. Homemade all around.
These type of gatherings are a departure from the cruel world of taverns, fast food, and sandwich machines at work. Church dinners are a inexpensive and fun outing. Keep an eye on the "Food & Drink" section of your home newspaper for blurbs announcing the eats; they will be ubiquitous this time of year, and in the spring as well. As your humble "eats attorney," I advise you to get to one of these gigs before you reach nursing home status - by then it will be way too late.
For the record this post is in regards to the meal that was held on Sunday, September 26, 2010. Find
Hope Lutheran Church at 335 Dairyland Drive in Milton, Wisconsin. Pencil them in for next year. They list a contact number as (262) 882 - 4000.
Wisconsin Military Service Person Special Mention of the Week
(each week Cooldadiomedia mentions a Wisconsin service person killed in Iraq or Afghanistan)
Marine Captain Kevin Michael Kryst, 27, West Bend, Wisconsin, died Monday, December 18, 2006 while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Iraq. He was assigned to Marine Light-Attack Helicopter Squadron 267, Marine Aircraft Group 39, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, I Marine Expeditionary Force out of Camp Pendleton, California. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel noted Captain Kryst was a helicopter pilot and was on his second deployment to Iraq. Kryst was the eldest son of Elizabeth and Glenn Kryst. The most recent deployment to Iraq began in early December of 2006. He was killed at the Marine Corps' Camp Korean Village, in the desert of Anbar province west of Baghdad. That area near the border of Syria, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia has been known as one of the deadliest regions in the Iraq war. Kryst's unit mission was to secure major highways in the province. Kryst's younger brother, Dan, was a member of the Marine Reserves and has also served a tour of duty in Iraq in 2004. Kevin had become engaged while home before the deployment. The Journal Sentinel went on to say Kryst graduated from West Bend West High School in 1997. He played French horn in a school ensemble. Kevin was on the Spartans' swim team and was known as being an excellent student and graduated with a high grade point average. Captain Kryst was the second West Bend West graduate to die in Iraq. Marine Lance Corporal Travis Wichlacz a 2002 graduate was killed in February 2005 in Babil province. The paper went on to say Kryst enrolled at the University of Wisconsin-Madison after high school and attended Marine Officer Candidates School during summers. Kevin Kryst attained commission as an officer when he graduated from UW-Madison in 2001. He flew Cobra helicopters in Iraq. A biography via www.arlingtoncemetery.net/kmkryst.htm notes Captain Kryst was the oldest of six children. He has four younger brothers and a younger sister. At the time of his death, he was survived by his parents, Glenn and Elizabeth of West Bend; his fiancee, Sara of West Bend; brother Bradley of Mesa, Arizona; brother Daniel of Stevens Point, Wisconsin; brothers Justin and Timothy of West Bend; and, sister Jennifer of West Bend. He was further survived by his maternal grandparents, Sy and Betty Dziak of Illinois; and, paternal grandparents, Clifford and Rita Kryst of Michigan. Captain Kryst was buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery on 5 July 2007. The Wisconsin Legislature honored Captain Kryst with 2007 Assembly Joint Resolution 53. Captain Kevin Kryst was the 65th Wisconsin military service person to be killed in Iraq since the spring of 2003.
As of this blog entry's posting date:
97,994 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
9,714 Iraqi Security Forces have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
4,425 Americans have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
1300 Americans have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
318 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
799 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
31,951 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
8,041 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
102 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
22 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
142 journalists (several nationalities) have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
21 journalists (various nationalities) have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
Wisconsin military service person special mention of the week, military casualty, and journalist casualty information sources: Committee to Protect Journalists; cnn.com; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; washingtonpost.com; thehighground.org; Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs; iraqbodycount.org; www.defense.gov/news/casualty.pdf; and, icasualties.org.
