Next Year's Festival is August 11, 2012

I can hardly wait!!!

Contact Information:

Crafters - Jim Fruth, 218-568-8483

Food - Atesha Barnes, 218-568-6054

Gen. Info - Molly Ring, 218-838-8002

For more information email info@PLBPLionsClub.com

Thank you!

To all of our sponsors and volunteers for supporting the Fourth Annual Chokecherry Festival and helping us make it such a great success!

The following list I made off the top of my head, so if I've forgotten anyone by mistake, please email me by clicking this link to email Molly. Thanks!

Our awesome Lions Group • Pequot Lakes American Legion • AAA Rental • City of Pequot Lakes • Reservists • Landis + Gyr • Timberjack's Smokehouse • Seriously Fun Marketing Group • Timeless Design Builders • Brainerd Lakes Chamber • Pequot Lakes Echo • KLKS • Crafters • Food Vendors • and all of the WONDERFUL Volunteers !!!

2011 Chokecherry Winners

Culinary Contest Results

Category #1 (Jams, Jellies, Syrups, etc.) Brambleberry Farms

Category #2 (Pastries) Jan Millee

Category #3 (Wine) Jim Fruth

Category #4 (Originality) Armstrong Acres

Pit Spittin Results

The Choke Cherry festival at Pequot Lakes was held Saturday, August 13, and many prizes were awarded to participants young and old who could spit the pit of a Choke Cherry the furthest. Contestants came from as far away as South Dakota to compete along with locals and visitors from the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area.

Winners like Jace Fipp-Rosenfield from Minneapolis, age 11, spit a pit a whopping 21’8”! He was a bigger winner along with adult Susan Arntz from Waconia spit a respectable 11’10 in the first hour of the competition. In the second round of competition, another woman competitor, Angie Hanson, stepped up the competition with a distance of 23’5” and her son Gabe, age 9, spit a pit 15’ to win along with Tom Martin, age 12, from Savage, spit 19’5”! Not to be outdone, local Shannon Swenson age 10 spit her pit 12’10, and Michael Schneider, age 15 from Coon Rapids, spit 22’2” .

In the third round, Megan Ament from Nisswa, age 12, spit 23”!!

Levi and Sonja Palmer from Pequot Lakes showed their prowess – Levi, age 13, spit a pit 13’6 feet and sister Sonja, age 8, spit her pit 8’. Cheyenne Bryan, age 8, squeaked past Sonja at 8’11”.

All in all 48 people competed and fun and a Choke Cherry taste were had by all!

If you would like to participate at next year's Chokecherry Festival, please email your interest to: info@plbplionsclub.com