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Cooksville Lutheran Church - Cooksville - Harvest Dinner ( Sun / 14 Nov / 2010 )
This entry was posted on 12/2/2010 1:38 AM and is filed under Church Dinners.
Back behind the houses and trees off of Highway 59 in Cooksville, Wisconsin, you might notice Cooksville Lutheran Church. Cooksville still has one general store...I think. You will find the village somewhere between Edgerton and Evansville. The location of the church is right out of a post card. This fall day we visited their Harvest Dinner, the golden ripe cornfields were just a chip shot from the front door. It is an old building with some add-ons over the years. Big old pine trees guard the cemetery that flank the church. If only those centuries-old trees could talk. Inside, the church is humble, warm, and inviting. I would not go so far as to call it a minimalist decor, but from the modest stained glass windows to the friendly wood pews, the presentation is...frugal. This day we were after chow. The basement is rather small as basements go. Heide and I tucked ourselves at the end of two family size tables that had been pushed together. Each group of tables seemed to have a volunteer manning the food from the kitchen. There was a generous dish of turkey that kept getting filled up. The meal included dressing, gravy, mashed sweet potato, mashed potatoes, and rolls. I had at least two helpings of everything. The whole presentation was worth the visit. To my surprise, the lady selling the meal tickets, mentioned they had only been doing the annual event for five years or so. It was originally kicked off to raise funds for building upgrades - understandable considering many of these old churches are well over 100 years old. For the record, this particular post is in regards to the meal that was held on Sunday, November 14, 2010. Find Cooksville Lutheran Church at 11927 West Church Road in Cooksville, Wisconsin. Call (608) 882 - 4408 more information on other church activities. Or, visit their humble Web site at www.cooksvillelutheranchurch.org . 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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