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   For the 41st year, St. Paul’s Lutheran Church of Hackensack will hold its fundraising Country Fair, featuring a variety of handicrafts, food, plants, and all-around fun.  The event will be held July 17th from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the air conditioned Fellowship Hall.

   Morning coffee and rolls will be available from 9:00 a.m. until gone!  Lunch will be served from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and will feature pulled pork sandwiches, baked beans, potato salad, cole slaw and pie.  Root beer floats can be purchased for only 50 cents!  Lunch is also available for take-out.

   The Fair is well-known for its bake sale, featuring a large selection of bread, rolls, cakes, cookies, and especially pies, which are sold by the slice or whole.

   Booths include garden produce, green thumb plants and outdoor decorations for the lawn or garden, and jellies and jams.  Others offer arts and crafts, hand-crafted wood projects, toys and a large “nearly new” booth.  Hand harvested, wood parched wild rice will also be available as well as homemade maple syrup.  Another booth will feature various flavors of Frozen Butter Braids and Caramel Rolls for you to take home and bake.

   A group of quilters stays busy making tied quilts all year long.  Many of these quilts are donated to a variety of programs and agencies throughout the year.  The quilters also choose some of these beautiful tied quilts to be sold at the Fair.

   In addition, they create one special quilt and sell $1.00 raffle tickets for it.  This year a “Paw Prints in the Fall” pattern quilt is being raffled.  Tickets will be sold up to the time of the drawing which will be held at 2 p.m. at the conclusion of the Country Fair.  The winner need not be present to win.

Over the years some of the booths have changed but one thing that has not changed is the hard work and dedication of members and friends who work on the project.  

The event is always held the third Wednesday of July, and is St. Paul’s largest fundraiser of the year.  Profits from the sale are used for mission projects, church projects, and also community programs.

   St. Paul’s is located on the south end of Hackensack, east of Hwy. 371.  See you at the Fair!

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