Festival

41st Annual Parish Festival

Sunday
July 21st, 2024, from 11am – 4pm

Celebrating the commitment to faith, family, and community, while supporting each others journey through life in the hands of God.

Thank You to all of the businesses and individuals who donated goods and services to our raffle and silent auction! For a listing of raffle winners, please click here.

2024 General Raffle Donations
$5000 St. Mary of Czestochowa
$2000 St. Mary of Czestochowa
$1000 St. Mary of Czestochowa
$500 Gridor Construction
1/2 a hog (2 prizes) Jon Gabrelcik
¼ beef & processing Gene Gabrelcik
¼ beef & processing Joe & LuAnn Neaton
Yeti Hard Cooler United Rental/Derek Stifter
8-$50 Kevin Danielson Construction
5-$50 Crow River Dental/Greg Glavan
$100 Iten Funeral Home
2-$50 CorTrust Bank/Delano
$50 Matter Excavating/Dave Matter
$50 Edge Realty/Judy Vanderlinde
4-$25 GC Farmers Plate/Watertown
3-$25 GC Dave’s Town Club/Delano
$50 Coborns GC Delano Sportsmen’s Club
$50 GC Flower Farm/Otten Bros.
$25 GC Rieder’s Meat Market/Delano
$25 GC All-Season Sports/Delano
$25 GC Elephant Joe’s/Watertown
$25 GC Watertown Pharmacy/Watertown
7-$20 Target GC Darik & Amy Stein/Watertown
3-$20 GC Hollywood Sports Complex/Watertown
Golf pkg Timber Creek Golf Course/Watertown
2 online subscriptions Herald Journal/Winsted
2 subscriptions Herald Journal/Winsted
One free night Grand Stay/Delano
Movie package Emagine Theatres/Delano
CarQuest package CarQuest/Delano

2024 Donations for Silent Auction and other festival needs
American Legion Delano
CarQuest /Delano
Coborns/Delano
Crow River Guitar and Sound /Delano
Dairy Queen
Dave’s Mulch Store
Delano True Value
Elephant Joe’s/Watertown
J Edward Company

Marketplace/Watertown
McDonald Studios/ Delano
Mike Barfnecht of Mikie’s Landscaping (roll-off dumpster)
Napa of Watertown
Papa Murphy’s/Delano
Stein Heating & Cooling
Subway /Watertown/Waconia
Tuffy’s/Delano
Ugly Bar/Montrose
Watertown Fuel and Food

Raffle Tickets now available for purchase from parishioners. We have one raffle this year with larger cash prizes: $5000, $2000, $1000, and many other non-cash prizes. Click Here for a detailed list of 2023 prizes and donors.

Raffle ticket sales – tickets will be available for purchase on the day of the festival, after weekend masses and on Wednesdays from 2-4pm. If you have any questions, please feel free to call the parish at 952-955-1139 or email Mary Kay at MKSwartzer@stmarydelano.org.

Meal tickets $17. Meal includes a Beef or Pork sandwich on Kaiser bun, baby red potatoes, coleslaw, poppyseed kuchen and home-made bars and cookies, choice of beverage (milk, coffee, water).

Country Store – stop by to see a wide variety of homemade crafts, jams and canned goods, baked goods (including poppyseed kuchen), plants, flowers, garden vegetables and herbs, religious articles, all donated by our parish families.

Free Live Music All Day! Join us for Polka music by Blake Klaustermeier & Friends Concertina Band 11:30am – 3:30pm.

Concessions will be available 11am – 4pm: hot dogs, chips, popcorn, beer, wine, hard seltzer, pop, water, and milk.

Bean Bag tournament from 12pm – 3:30pm – to sign up please email your 2-person team information to Mary Kay at MKSwartzer@stmarydelano.org or you can enter your team on the day of the festival. Entrance fee is $40 per team. First and second prizes will be a 60/40 split of 1/2 of the entry fees. House bags will be used.

Kids Games and Inflatable – there is a variety of games for our younger family members and friends to enjoy. New inflatable this year!

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