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Afton Community Church - Afton - Smorgasborg Dinner ( Sun / 7 Nov / 2010 )
This entry was posted on 12/1/2010 1:30 AM and is filed under Church Dinners.
The Church dinners just keep spilling out into the culture and the fall of the year list is bursting at the seams. I was recently telling a friend, "I used to take the random church dinner advertisement blurb with a grain of salt. And, I remember my mom singing the praises of a church dinner or two. Even having a long time interest in culture - even before I went back to college to learn the difference between a colon and a semi-colon - I always passed on the church dinner offers made by my mom and her gray-haired posse. As well, my own church used to have an occasional fish fry back in the day - they have an annual beef dinner nowadays. Church dinners were just not on my radar. But since I have been on a crusade to visit these events in the spirit of a bit of "citizen journalism" and smoking out local culture, "It ain't quaint and funny anymore." Not in these economic times. These dinners, as I have now found out, are ubiquitous...and reliably good, and predictably inexpensive. You can't discount their contribution of these events for people trying to keep up with some social activity even in an abysmal economy. Our most recent church dinner foray, took us to Afton, Wisconsin. The Afton Community Church is a humble old building. It has that old one-room wood school demeanor of that era just post Civil War. Of course the good folks of the flock have added amenities and improvements over the decades. The eats were presented in the basement. The seating was tight but they got the job done. A fellow taking tickets at the bottom of the stairs mentioned they had been doing the dinner for around 40 years. That's a pretty good track record. The food was placed out in buffet style. I am thinking the pastor was serving up the turkey at the end of the line. The one side dish that this dinner offered that stands out from some others is the scalloped corn casserole - one of my favorites. This dinner was indeed a "smorgasbord." There was also mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, mashed sweet potatoes, abundant dressing, potato salad, homemade rolls, ham, and of course white and dark turkey. They had a table of desserts, but Heide and I were way too full to even try. For the record, this particular post is in regards to the meal that was held on Sunday, November 7, 2010. Find Afton Community Church at 5126 County Road D, in Afton, Wisconsin. Call (608) 756 - 4921 for more information on other church activities. Wisconsin Military Service Person Special Mention of the Week
(each week Cooldadiomedia mentions a Wisconsin service person killed in Iraq or Afghanistan)
Sergeant First Class Jesse Bryon Albrecht, 31, Hager City, Wisconsin, died in Iskandariya, Iraq, on Thursday, May 17, 2007. He was killed when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. He was assigned to Company E, 725th Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, out of Fort Richardson, Alaska. He was one of three soldiers killed in the incident. Hager City is a town in western Wisconsin off the Mississippi River south of St. Paul, Minnesota. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel mentioned Albrecht collected pictures and statues of eagles. Jesse was born on Sept. 11, 1975, in River Falls, Wisconsin. He spent his early life in Glenwood City and Emerald, Wisconsin. He was a graduate of Prescott High School, in Prescott, Wisconsin in 1994. He was on the wrestling team in high school. The Journal Sentinel went on to note Albrecht was fond of camping, four-wheeling, salmon fishing (which he gave away the fish), and snow-boarding. He enlisted in the Army in June 1993 before graduating from high school. He took his basic training between his junior and senior years. Albrecht was deployed to Iraq in September of 2006. Wisconsin 2007 Assembly Joint Resolution 58 noted that Jesse Albrecht was a paratrooper in his unit. At the time of his death Jesse Albrecht was survived by his wife Crystal Albrecht; his daughter Salena Albrecht; mother Denise Albrecht; and, father William Pollei. Sergeant First Class Jesse Albrecht was the 74th Wisconsin military service person killed in Iraq since the spring of 2003.
As of this blog entry's posting date:
98,876 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
9,784 Iraqi Security Forces have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
4,432 Americans have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
1405 Americans have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
318 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
827 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
31,992 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
9,469 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
103 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
26 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
144 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.
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