Fest update: Tokens debut, volunteer BG scheduler needed

Preparations for Fest have begun in earnest over the past couple of weeks. The Chamber’s marketing committee has printed posters and smaller heavy-paper cards to hand out to interested visitors and to send with Miss Odessa and her princess as they ride the Odessa community float in various celebrations throughout the area.

Several groups and organizations which have chalets in the Fest Platz have been seen downtown sprucing up their facilities with new paint and added decorations.

The members of Christ Lutheran Church, which makes apple strudel for Deutschesfest, is thus far the only group to...