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May 24, 2012

St. Elizabeth Parish Picnic

Join Us on June 8th, 9th 10th!

2300 Pontoon Road Granite City

St. Elizabeth Parish Picnic has grown from a small parish picnic to one of the largest and best picnics in the St. Louis Metropolitan area. Located on 8-plus acres, we have plenty of space for parking and entertaining. All of our dinners are served in our air-conditioned cafeteria, and bingo is played there every evening from 7-10 P.M. Every booth is chaired by a St. Elizabeth parish family. Come meet us and experience our hospitality! When you do you will come back every year! Oh yes, our picnic is always the weekend before Fathers Day every year. You can remember that we know.

+ANSWER: St. Elizabeths 2012 Church Picnic. From 1-4 p.m. we will roll back prices on hotdogs, hamburgers,
corndogs, regular nachos, fries, and soda to $1. (See details at the picnic). We will also roll back to 1994 prices for a 1-4 p.m. Sunday Carnival matinee wristband session - $20. Also as part of Family Days: Love Me Leave Me (main stage) 12:30-2:30 p.m., Strolling musicians Woo Daddies, 2:30-5:30 p.m. Also strolling the grounds will be: mimes, jugglers, stilt walkers, magicians, caricaturist, Cookie Monster, Elmo, and balloon artists. The 2011 St. Louis Cardinals World Series Trophy on display, 3-5 p.m. retired Cardinal Kerry Robinson and Fredbird, 4-5 p.m., Well Hungarians with 2012 American Idol Contestant Ethan Jones, 6-10 p.m.

Where can you go and feed a family of 4 food and drink for $12?

FAMILY DAYS ~ SUNDAY, 1-4 P.M.

A recipe from some of our ethnic parishioners, this Polish favorite is sure to please. Served with mashed potatoes, carmelized baby carrots, bread, tea, dessert and coffee.

A FAVORITE FROM THE OLD COUNTRY - STUFFED CABBAGE ROLLS (Golabki/Sarma)

Sunday, June 12, Noon-6 p.m. All-you-can-eat broasted chicken dinner with all of the sides. Coffee, tea and dessert are included. Enter all of the raffles you wish. Our 2012 raffles consist of the following: $4,000 Cash Raffle - 5 places Cardinal Baseball Ticket Raffle Quilt Raffle Baby Quilt Raffle Quilt Rack Raffle Right To life Raffle Party Wagon Raffle Cake Booth Raffle General Store Booth Raffle Plant Booth Raffle Plant Raffle Friday: 7 p.m.-Midnight - Glendale Riders Saturday: 12:30-4:30 p.m. - Out of Focus 7 p.m.-Midnight Show Band The Jorrells Sunday: 6-10 p.m. - Well Hungarians Band Lowery Carnival Productions with us over 19 years! Wristband pre-sale: $65, available at parish office until noon on June 8th Wristband $75 at picnic This wristband good all 3 days of event, open to close!

A GRANITE CITY TRADITION BROASTED CHICKEN:

NEW TO OUR DINNER MENU LINE-UP PASTA DINNER

Served with a red meat sauce or a white chicken Alfredo sauce, Italian salad and hot bread, dessert, coffee or tea.

RAFFLE BOOTHS:

SILENT AUCTION INSIDE THE CAFETERIA

I DOOD IT Game Tent Fun For Young and Old! Third annual Silent Auction to run all three days. Auction items are mostly autographed music and sports memorabilia with certificates of authenticity.

Food Booths

MUSIC SCHEDULE:

Bandstand

Family Days!

Fourth annual 5k Run, Fun Run and Walk starts 8:30 a.m. You can preregister (by U.S. Mail) or register event day at 7:30 a.m. The route is flat so come see some of the neighborhoods of Granite City. The Michelob Ultra Team will be present on premises for pictures. A Michelob Ultra Light hat and shirt will be provided to each participant.

5K RUN/FUN RUN/WALK - SPONSORED BY MICHELOB ULTRA

CARNIVAL BIGTOP:

Ourside Dining Tent

Mastercard, Visa, AMEX and Discover accepted For more information, call (618) 877-3300

Tenth annual Washer Tournaments Saturday & Sunday. 32-team double elimination tournament with cash prizes for 1st-4th places for each tournament. Each tournament starts Noon each day. Recommended to pre-register since tournaments do sell out. Sponsored by Bud Light.

WASHER TOURNAMENT

MEXICAN FOOD
A parishioner prepares our Hispanic cuisine fresh with her familys recipes from Fairmont City. You have not lived until you have tried some of Olivias and Claras cooking!

Face Painting, and Muffin Pan game Royale Shot and Dime Pitch will surely test your throwing and shooting skills. AND the game that is growing leaps and bounds is I DOOD IT! Started at the church picnic in Meppen, Illinois many years ago and brought to the eastside by St. Elizabeths Church Picnic in 1995, this game is a family favorite for kids and adults.

GAMES: Our kids games are: Duck Pond, Royale Shot, Tic-Tac Toe,

Come see if you can I DOOD IT with us!