Perfect summer weather blessed the annual Immaculate Conception Summerfest July 19 in Rice.
The day started with an outdoor musical Mass conducted by Father Tom Becker with special musical interludes performed by a local gospel group dubbed Gone Fishin.’
After the Mass, families had a lot of fun participating in a number of activities on the church grounds: a Cake Walk, Cash Bingo, Kids’ Bingo, Bucket Raffle, Quilt Raffle, Pulltabs, Silent Auction and Grandma’s Attic (sale of used items).
Festival goers also enjoyed lots of food, pop and beer.
Later in the day, a band played and many people danced to the music.
For more about the church’s Summerfest, see photos in today’s paper.
Dalman was born and raised in South St. Cloud, graduated from St. Cloud Tech High School, then graduated from St. Cloud State University with a degree in English (emphasis on American and British literature) and mass communications (emphasis on print journalism). He studied in London, England for a year (1980-81) where he concentrated on British literature, political science, the history of Great Britain and wrote a book-length study of the British writer V.S. Naipaul. Dalman has been a reporter and weekly columnist for more than 30 years and worked for 16 of those years for the Alexandria Echo Press.