Community News and Views – Carver, Minnesota, USA
The Villager Tower has published a special edition to celebrate the Carver Lions Club 50th Anniversary!
Carver Villager Tower Special Edition – Carver Lions Celebrating Fifty Years
The Villager Tower has been written and published since 1983 by Ricki Schultz. She can be contacted at (952) 448-5126 and [email protected].
Trinity Lutheran Church in Carver invites you, the community, for a special “Worship in the Park” event followed by a potluck picnic on Sunday, July 30th. The worship service begins at 10 am at Lions Park in Carver on Mount Hope Road. Please bring lawn chairs or blankets, plates, utensils, and beverages. Everyone is welcome.
We hope that you would also join us for our usual summer worship services on Sundays at 9 am.
See what’s happening in our church on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TrinityLutheranChurchCarver or listen to audio recordings of our sermons online at trinitycarver.com.
Pastor Jander would enjoy meeting you. Please feel free to contact us anytime:
Office: Trinity Lutheran Church, 417 Oak Street, Carver
Phone: 952-448-3628
Email: [email protected]
Was asked by resident to get the word out. There was going to be a special 20/20 edition report on ABC that was supposed to air on Friday, October 28th but had to be rescheduled for November 11th instead.
So what’s the big deal you ask. Well, several, the person who spread the word feels bad that the program was rescheduled and has not a way to tell everyone now. Secondly, the segment involves a local resident that is newsworthy. Remember or recall the murder of Earl Olander from East Union? He was a member of the East Union Church too. The ABC World News 20/20 program interviewed with family, residents, church members about Earl and I’m sure there is other historical value to the heritage as well. Personally, I am familiar with Olander’s contribution to the community having written the history book for the threshers’ in Jordan. Thirdly, little old Carver on World News is a big deal. So for everyone who didn’t know about the presentation, can watch or have a head’s up that one of our own will be featured on November 11th, the rescheduled night to air the segment involving Earl Olander instead of previous scheduled time of October 28th .
The Carver Youth Baseball and Softball Association is happy and excited to not only announce but share with everyone that there is going to be a nine year old travel baseball team for 2023! Tryouts will be held Sunday, September 11th at 9:30 AM at the Carver Lions Park. If something happens that the tryouts cannot be held then, the make-up date will be Sunday the 18th, the same time and place!
Players cannot turn ten before May 1st, 2023. The registration fee will cover uniform costs and tournaments.
Players that do not make the team will get a full refund and will be placed in the community league. Registration will close September 9th at 9 PM.
How do you reach the CYBSA? Glad you asked, you can go to their website and get all kinds of information, contact information, volunteer forms, etc. Their website is: www.cybsa.com
Elizabeth Jander, local high school senior, PSEO student at Crown College and participant in the 4-H Llama project is working with her church, Trinity Lutheran Church in Carver, to provide a hands-on llama experience over Steamboat Days weekend. She recently volunteered at the Canterbury Race Track Llama Races and saw how much joy a little time with the llamas brought to families. Since Trinity has held a popular annual bazaar over Steamboat Days, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to pour a little llama love into Carver.
Carlson’s Lovable Llama’s will be on the lower lot at Trinity on Saturday, September 11 from 10:00 a.m – 2:00 p.m. Everyone is welcome to this free event.
The bazaar will be held on: Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. & Sunday, September 12, from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Baked goods, canned goods, garden produce, plants, embroidered and sewed items, crafts, antiques, gifts, gently used books and household items will be offered.
A food truck will be parked in our lower lot. They will serve corn dogs, mini doughnuts, cheese curds, water, and cotton candy.
To register click here.
December 7 and 8th, the Reverend Laura Laughlin will be officially installed as the new Associate Pastor of Faith Formation at Crown of Glory Lutheran Church, 1141 Cardinal Street, Chaska, MN. The installation ceremonies will be performed at the Saturday, December 7th 5:00pm service and at the two Sunday, December 8th, 9:00 and 10:30am services. The installation will be officiated by the Reverend Craig Pederson, the Assistant to the Bishop of the Minneapolis Area Synod of the ELCA. Pastor Laura will join the staff which is led by Senior Pastor Reggie Klindworth who has served at Crown of Glory for 12 years. Crown of Glory recently completed a major expansion of the church, and last year celebrated their 50th year serving Chaska and the surrounding area.
Pastor Laura’s education includes a Bachelor of Arts in Religion and English (2012) from Wartburg College, Waverly, IA and Masters of Divinity from Luther Seminary, St. Paul, MN (2016). Pastor Laura began her ministry at Norman-Davenport Lutheran Parish, North Dakota (2016-2019).
Crown of Glory’s Call Committee was comprised of a nine-member, cross-generational team who spent a year seeking the perfect candidate for Crown of Glory. At a special congregational meeting on Sunday, August 4, the Crown of Glory congregation unanimously voted to call Pastor Laura Laughlin to fill the Associate Pastor’s role at the Church. The primary areas Pastor Laura will focus on include intergenerational ministries, adult education, and milestone ministries.
“God is certainly up to new and wonderful things at Crown of Glory, and I am both humbled and excited to be part of this vibrant and active church. I look forward to discovering more of God’s creation in this growing community,” states Pastor Laura. She proudly proclaims she is a “PK2” (both parents are pastors). Pastor Laura, husband David, son Oliver, and dog Emma reside in Carver.
About Crown of Glory
Crown of Glory is a congregation in the ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) and strives to be a strong community that partners with God in help family and friends grow together in their faith. Established in 1968, Crown of Glory has over 1,200 members. Services are held on Saturday’s at 5:00 p.m. and Sunday’s at 9:00 and 10:30 a.m. A staffed nursery is available at each service. www.crownofglory.org
CCYBSA has been busy working on programs for 2019. Registrations will be open on January 7th, 2019.
We will have a combination of In-house community programs and Travel programs in both, Softball and
Baseball and we will also have T-Ball.
We will have an Informational Night, January 3rd at Carver Place (113 3rd Street/Carver) for parents to
come and ask question as to where they can/should register their child.
If we have anyone in the community who would be interested in becoming a part of the CCYBSA
Program, we are looking for that person that would work with our T-Ball Program. We will have a
stipend for your service. If interested in being this person, please send an e-mail to:
[email protected]
Have a Safe Holiday Season
CCYBSA Board
Join us for cocoa, cider, homemade cookies, and horse drawn carriage rides. Please bring a food shelf donation. Saturday, November 24th at 4:00pm. Tree lighting at 5:00pm.
They came from all over the Germanic world to find a better life in Chaska and Carver County.
On Saturday, October 21, at 10:30 in the Chaska library Jim Hammers will lead an interactive presentation of the varied Germanic backgrounds of Chaska’s citizenry.
He will lead those attending through a reflection of how our individual family histories were both affected by history but also we made history through of our participation in it. With the help of a handout each participant will develop an outline of pertinent events as they might pertain to their personal histories and to invite them to fill in the blanks through further study.
Mr. Hammers leads this discussion from a background of teaching German culture and language for over 40 years and from his personal family history as a descendant from the Dutch province of Limburg from which over 100 families immigrated to Chaska and Carver County. For more information Mr. Hammers can be reached at [email protected].
For more information on the Pinky Swear Foundation, visit their website at https://www.pinkyswear.org/.
