Wild game an annual parish fundraiser; on this year's menu: bobcat

Published: 2007-04-02

HUMBOLDT, Neb. (CNS) -- About eight years ago, Father Bernard Kimminau faced a pile of parish bills and a freezer full of meat from his last few hunting and fishing excursions. He invited parishioners to a fundraising dinner and cooked up a feast. The feast is now a tradition. The Wild Game Feed, as the dinner is known, followed Father Kimminau from his previous pastorate to his current assignment overseeing St. Mary Parish in Dawson and its mission parish, St. Ann in Shubert. The dinner and raffle have become so popular there's not enough room at either parish to host it, so the March 24 dinner was held at the 4-H Building in nearby Humboldt. About 350 people came -- despite the fact that there are only about 70 families between the two parishes -- and the dinner raised about $5,500. New to the menu this year was bobcat. "It actually was really good," Father Kimminau told the Southern Nebraska Register, newspaper of the Diocese of Lincoln. The man who brought it "said he'd bring some more next year," the priest added.

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