Mingo to celebrate Quasquicentennial

Mingo residents will be celebrating a milestone Saturday and Sunday as the community celebrates the town’s Quasquicentennial — or 125th anniversary.

To mark the event, festivities have been planned for all day Saturday with a softball tournament scheduled for Sunday.

Saturday

• 9 a.m.-6 p.m. — Exhibitors & Vendors at the Fire Station

• 9 a.m.-8 p.m. – Mingo Memorabilia Display, Slideshow and Book Sale at the Mingo Park & Rec Building

• 9:30 a.m. — Parade along Main Street

• 10 a.m.-3 p.m. - Quilt Show at the Mingo Methodist Church

•10 a.m.-2 p.m. – Car & Tractor Show at the Co-Op (Railroad St.)

• 10 a.m.-noon — Kids Relays, Games & Bike Decorating Contest at the park (Railroad St.)

• 10-10:30 a.m. – Dessert Bake-Off at the Mingo Community Center — bring your entries by 9:30 a.m. Saturday. The event is sponsored by the Mingo Women’s Club. Entries will be eaten for lunch.

• 10:30 a.m.-noon — Cake Walk at the Community Center. Bring cakes by 10 a.m. put on by the Mingo Women’s Club.

• 11 a.m.-6 p.m. — Jamboree Jail/Dunk Tank on Station St. — We will have a dunk tank with Mingo City Council members, C-M district teachers, our own “Beau-Beau the Clown”, and our mayor!

• 11 a.m.-1 p.m. – Park & Rec Walking Taco Lunch at the Mingo Community Center

• 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. – Men’s Club Brat Lunch at the park shelter

• 12:30-2 p.m. — Rubber Duck Regatta at the trestle bridge east of town on the bike trail. Buy tickets from the Mingo Men’s Club; don’t have to be present to win

• 1–2 p.m. — Kiddie Tractor Pull at Casey Gannon Softball Field

• 2–3 p.m. — 3XW Wrestling Show at the basketball court (Railroad St.). An amateur pro wrestling league out of Des Moines, featuring Gage Octane, Casanova, President Skylar Pierce, Brent ‘Big City’ Van Hauen, and more!

• 3-5 p.m. — Mingo Bingo in the Park & Rec building

• 5-7 p.m. – Dinner & Ice Cream Social at the Community Center - put on by the Mingo Methodist Church