Festival

43rd Annual Parish Festival

Sunday
July 19th, 2026, from 11am – 4pm

Celebrating the commitment to faith, family, and community, while supporting each others journey through life in the hands of God.

Check out all the details below.

Thank You to all of the businesses and individuals who donated goods and services to our 2026 Festival, raffle and silent auction!

ACE HARDWARE DELANO
ALL SEASONS SPORTS
CARBONES DELANO
CHINA B1 WATERTOWN
CORTRUST BANK DELANO
CROW RIVER DENTAL
CULVERS DELANO
DAIRY QUEEN DELANO
DAVE’S TOWN CLUB
DRIVEN DRILLING
ELEPHANT JOE’S
FALL HARVEST ORCHARD
FLOWER FARM
GORTONS 12 ON 12
GRANDSTAY DELANO
GRIDOR CONSTRUCTION
HARVEST BANK
HERALD JOURNAL
HOLLYWOOD SPORTS COMPLEX
ITEN FUNERAL HOME
JOE & LUANN NEATON
JON & GENE GABRELCIK
KEVIN DANIELSON CONSTRUCTION
KINGSTON AUTO
LUNDERBY PHOTOGRAPHY ROCKFORD
MARKET 12 DELANO
MARKETPLACE FOODS WATERTOWN
MATTER EXCAVATING
MIKIE’S LANDSCAPING (ROLLOFF)
NAPA WATERTOWN
PAPA MURPHY’S DELANO
REMAX REALTY/JUDY VANDERLINDE
SHERI’S COZY COMFORTS
SIMPLY BENEFITS
SOUTH SHORE FOAM
STEINS HEATING & COOLING
TARGET CORPORATION
UNITED RENTAL
WATERTOWN FOOD & FUEL
WRIGHT CUTS BARBERSHOP

Raffle ticket sales – Tickets will be for purchase from parishioners (sometime in May) and will be available for purchase on the day of the festival, after weekend masses and on Wednesdays from 2-4pm. If you have any questions, please feel free to call the parish at 952-955-1139 or email Mary Kay at MKSwartzer@stmarydelano.org. Raffle Drawing at 3:30pm

Meal tickets $15. Meal includes a boneless pork chop, baby red potatoes, coleslaw, corn on the cob, dinner roll, poppy seed kuchen and/or home-made bars and cookies, choice of beverage (milk, coffee, water). Meal is served from 11am to 2:30pm.

Concessions will be available 11am – 4pm: hot dogs, chips, popcorn, beer, wine, hard seltzer, pop, water, and milk.

Mass at 10am

Color Guard and cemetery prayer at 2:30pm

Free Live Music from 11:30am to 3:30pm! Join us for Polka music by Blake Klaustermeier & Friends Concertina Band.

Country Store from 11am to 3pm – stop by to see a wide variety of homemade crafts, jams and canned goods, baked goods (including poppyseed kuchen), plants, flowers, garden vegetables and herbs, religious articles, all donated by our parish families.

Bingo from 12pm – 3:30pm.

Silent Auction from 11am – 3pm

Pull Tabs from 11am – 3pm

Bean Bag tournament from 12pm – 3:30pm – to sign up please email your 2-person team information to Mary Kay at MKSwartzer@stmarydelano.org or you can enter your team on the day of the festival. Entrance fee is $40 per team. First and second prizes will be a 60/40 split of 1/2 of the entry fees. House bags will be used.

Kids Games and Inflatable – there is a variety of games for our younger family members and friends to enjoy including an inflatable. Kids games from 11am to 3pm. Inflatable from 11am to 4pm.