ˇ ´ VESTNIK S P J S T
Volume 109 Number 18
H E R A L D
Benevolence ★ Humanity ★ Brotherhood
September 27, 2021
ISSN —07458800
District One Members at Burleson County Fair Parade District One Director Donnie Victorick drives State/District One King Caleb See and State/District One Duke Zane Lauderdale, both of Lodge 9, Snook, and District One Queen (first runner-up State Queen) Macy Narro and District One Duchess (first runner-up State Duchess) Brylee Chmelar, both of Lodge 17, New Tabor.
Lodge 6, Cottonwood - Oldest Original Westfest Food Vendor Lodge members have served up sausage, potato, and sauerkraut boats, sausage sandwiches, sausage kolaches, homemade bread, and sweet tea every year since 1977 from this same location. The current booth was designed and built in 1985 by lodge members Robert Dobecka, Edward Hykel, Eddie Ray Hrabal, Ronnie Kroll, and Bobby Dobecka.
FROM THEN . . . Pictured working at the Lodge 6 booth in its early years are members Johnnie Krizan, Josie Mae Dulock Straten, George Straten, Barbara Hykel and child, Ruth Krizan, and Willie Mae Schuetz standing behind the booth tables.
. . . TO NOW
District One Youth Club members from Lodges 9, Snook; 17, New Tabor; and 186, Caldwell are all smiles as they ride the float in the Burleson County Fair Parade on Saturday, September 18. More photos on page 25.
Congratulations to Macy Narro of Lodge 17! She was crowned the 2021 Burleson County Fair Queen on Sunday, September 19.
Lodge 6, Cottonwood members proudly display a plaque that was presented by Westfest. The plaque recognizes Lodge 6’s Sausage Shop booth as the oldest original food vendor at Westfest. Pictured working one of the shifts at Westfest this year are, left to right, Don Urbanovsky, Jeanette Beseda, Ashley Halbert, Kim Seith, Irene Peterson, and Jody Krizan. More photos on page 9.
; / ; / ; / ; / ; Inside This Week’s Vestnik ; / ; / ; / ; / ; Readers Write ......................................3 Interest Rates.......................................3 Important Dates ...................................3 Scholarship Fund Update...................4 Lodge Section......................................8 In Memoriam ......................................23
Youth Section ....................................24 Vestnik Project...................................27 Czech Culture ....................................28 Advertisements .................................29 Lodge Calendar .................................30 Czech Heritage Activity.....................32
Lodge 88 Houston hosts college tailgate fun day Page 13
Page 14
Lodge 92 Fort Worth shares scenes from Czech Heritage Day
Pages 20-22
Remembering Honorary Supreme Lodge Vice President Gene McBride
