People of all ages seemed to have a ball at the annual St. Stephen Fall Festival Sept. 7, Labor Day, on the grounds of St. Stephen Catholic Church.
The long-time annual festival has always been a fundraiser for the church, its programs and its charitable good deeds.
This year, as before, there were kiddie games, face-painting, a polka band, a rummage sale, sales of homegrown vegetables and baked items, bingo, an auction, a polka band and lots of burgers and fries.
The festival was blessed with sunny and warm late summer weather, with a cool breeze wafting throughout the day.
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.