Chamber of Commerce holds Hoe-down at annual banquet

Sub­mit­ted story

‘Barn­yard Ball’ was the name of this year’s Mor­row County Cham­ber of Com­merce annual din­ner meeting.

Cham­ber pres­i­dent Dan Boy­sel intro­duced Ann Tit­tle as the new Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of the Cham­ber. Dan told the group Ann was very excited about her new posi­tion and look­ing for­ward to serv­ing the community.

The ball was held at the Seniors on Cen­ter and fea­tured a silent auc­tion, as well as a live auc­tion with Boy­sel as the auc­tion­eer. There were door prizes, a 50/50 and a spe­cial scav­enger hunt.

The hunt con­sisted of match­ing peo­ple up to their tal­ents, such as milk­ing a cow, dri­ving a trac­tor or hav­ing rid­den a bull. After com­plet­ing their answers, they dropped the paper­work into a bucket to win a prize.

Need­less to say, if you didn’t know peo­ple before, you knew a lot more about them after the dinner.

H’ors D’oeuves and desserts were pro­vided by two local busi­nesses, Cre­ative Twins Cater­ing and 8 Sis­ters Bak­ery. A prayer was lead by Mayor Mike Porter before the din­ner was served, which was catered by John Gompf owner of the Cor­ner­stone Cafe.

The Hicks and Chicks enter­tained the Cham­ber audi­ence with some live West­ern Square Danc­ing. Robin Brucker pre­sented the his­tory of square danc­ing and the Hicks and Chicks demon­strated some basic moves in the dance. Every­one was encour­aged to join in for some danc­ing after din­ner. Dan Boy­sel ended with a Spe­cial Thanks to all of the spon­sors and told how much appre­ci­a­tion they had for all who had donated to help make the event a success.

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