New Year’s Eve Bash
About 40 people spent a fun-filled evening at the Bowdon Community Center heralding in the New Year with music, food, games, and good conversation. This event was sponsored as a Horizons activity, giving members of the community a free way to celebrate and build relationships.
Ages ranged from pre-school to some very venerable senior citizens, all of whom reported having a good time.
The festivities started with a wonderful pot-luck spread that included some exotic foods–seaweed, kimchi–as well as the standard North Dakota hotdishes and everything in between. No one went away hungry. Accompanying supper was music from the CD of Richard Bruer’s bluegrass friends from this fall.
After we were all well fed, the games began. Sequence, Social Security, dominoes, and cards were played across the age spectrum, but the players were distracted by the raucous, rowdy crew that played first Taboo and then Rigamarole.
As the midnight hour approached, a little disagreement arose about the exact time, so the crowd loudly sang “Auld Lang Syne” twice, just to be sure.
The organizing committee was very happy with the attendance and looks forward to providing safe, lowcost, no travel fun for the whole community next New Year.