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Oktoberfest on tap this weekend
From staff reports
The Daily News
Published October 23, 2009
GALVESTON — First Lutheran Church’s annual Oktoberfest gets under way this evening and continues through Saturday.
The festival, now in its 28th year, is back to its traditional menu after damage from Hurricane Ike curtailed some of its usual offerings last year.
A full German dinner of pork loin with white wine gravy, red cabbage, sauerkraut and hot German potatoes will be served from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday.
A variety of sausage will be available both tonight and all day Saturday.
Tonight’s activities re-create a German beer garden atmosphere, with the Austin band Haywire playing for dancing.
The sweets booth, which offers cakes, cookies, pies, bread pudding, rum balls, pralines, divinity, sugared nuts and biscotti, is one of the biggest attractions at the celebration.
About 150 cooks and bakers, largely from the congregation, will contribute their specialties to the sweets booth.
In addition to buying single servings or whole pies and cakes at the sweets booth, Oktoberfest attendees will have the opportunity to win cakes at the cake wheel — a game of chance with delicious prizes. The cake wheel is one of the traditional carnival games that will take place at the Saturday celebration, along with an assortment of children’s activities ranging from pony rides and face painting to midway games.
New this year will be Saturday rides on the Railroad Museum’s miniature train. The Union Pacific replica will circle the area between the church and the railroad museum.
While children are entertained on the rides, their parents can shop in the gifts market set up in the newly refurbished Lyceum building, the church’s 1915 structure.
Shopping opportunities at Oktoberfest also include a range of silent auction items, crowned by a handmade remembrance quilt crafted by prize-winning quilter and First Lutheran Church member Holly Marie Howard.
The quilt, dubbed the Ike Survivor Quilt, incorporates the signatures of 225 congregation members and supporters in a style popular in the United States from the 1850s through the 1920s to commemorate births, deaths, marriages and other special events.
The quilt auction will be from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
This year First Lutheran will offer the newly available Hofbrau München, an imported German lager beer.
Reporting by correspondents Bernice Torregrossa and Rick Cousins.
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At A Glance
WHAT: 28th annual Galveston Oktoberfest
WHEN: 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. today and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday
WHERE: First Lutheran Church, 2415 Winnie St., in Galveston
INFORMATION: Call 409-762-8477 or visit www.firstlutherangalveston.com. Admission is free. Attendees are encouraged to dress in German costume.
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