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Instead of a party, Slivnik family celebrates with a birthday parade

April 30, 2020
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Instead of a party, Slivnik family celebrates with a birthday parade

photo by Mike Knaak Frank Slivik waves to well-wishers on his 80th birthday and a parade weaves through his farm yard.

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by Mike Knaak

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Despite a stay-at-home order, the need to keep socially distant and a strong cold, northwest wind, the Slivnik clan of St. Stephen persisted.

The extended family of Frank Slivnik found a way to safely celebrate his 80th birthday on April 20.

With a family gathering of more than 100 relatives out of the question, Frank’s family organized a socially distant celebration.

“Honk, Frank is 80” signs sprung up in front of Frank’s hilltop house on CR 5 east of St. Stephen. Passing motorists obliged.

Instead of a big party with Frank’s siblings, nine children and more than 100 nieces and nephews, he was surprised by a parade.

While a short parade led by a St. Stephen fire truck and classic cars from the Pantowners club passed in front of his house, sirens and horns blaring, a longer string of about 30 cars wound around a corn field and through Frank and Annette’s farmyard. Frank waived to the passing well-wishers.

One of the parade organizers, niece Teri Mathews, staged the vehicles about a mile away at the original Slivnik family farm, now owned by Randy and Evelyn Slivnik. Frank and his family grew up on the farm that’s been designated a Century Farm.

Mathews said Frank farmed and worked at the paper mill before retirement. In his younger days, Frank played baseball and sang in the church choir. A cancer survivor, he still raises goats and chickens, Mathews said.

The family usually plans a big reunion at Lions Park in St. Stephen every year.

“They know how to hold a bash,” Mathews said.

photo by Mike Knaak
Frank Slivnik waves to well-wishers on his 80th birthday and a parade weaves through his farm yard.
photo by Mike Knaak
A line of more than 30 cars approaches through a corn field.
photo by Mike Knaak
A St. Stephen fire truck and classic cars pass in front of Frank Slivnik’s St. Stephen farm.
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