Sunday, October 2, 2022, Uffda Day, was a great day although it started out as questionable, with an overcast sky and sputtering rain showers as the 5k Run/Walk got underway at 8:00 a.m., but it just got nicer all day long, with increasing sunshine and just enough of a breeze to keep the flies grounded. More than 3,000 lefse, 18 roasters of scalloped potatoes with ham, more roasters full of rice pudding, gallons of rommegrot, hundreds of krumkake, sandbakkels & abelskievers, Uffda tacos, hot dogs and bratwursts had been consumed by the time activities started to wind down. All that was left was the aroma of good cooking.

The American Legion Color guard composed of Ted Lee, Roger McLaen, Andy Hoflen, Andy Harris & Calvin Jacobson led the Uff-Da Day Parade through town; and, the temporarily reopened Lariat Bar, now under new ownership and management, supplied refreshments to patrons throughout the afternoon and evening hours.

Arts & craft vendors, 41 of them, reported a great day and local youngsters with their wagon loads of pumpkins, squash and other garden produce did a land office business. The Nickel Scramble, once again sponsored by Joe’s Ag Supply and the Kenny & Tanya Hamilton family, had enthusiastic participation by kids of all ages. The one room country school exhibit in which Val Pherson and a group of 32 youngsters, dressed in period garb demonstrated what school was like back in “the good old days.”

The car show included 104 antique, classic, restored & modified automobiles from throughout North and South Dakota and Minnesota.