Serra Club Happenings

Serra Club Picnic a Hit!

The 2022 Serra Club Picnic at the Arth Farm was a rousing success! Hosts Don and Janice Arth provided the main course of a great BBQ and fried chicken dinner, with club members providing sides and desserts. The gathering enjoyed conversation, friendship, and a wonderful late summer day. The group said a Rosary for Vocations before closing out the day at sunset.

SEPTEMBER 17 ANNUAL SERRA PICNIC A HIT!

Kudos to Don and Janice Arth and hearty thanks, too, for opening the Arth Farm and their farm home to Serra club members for the return of the Annual Serra Picnic, which has been absent from the calendar since COVID. Serenity (apart from an isolated episode of locking one’s keys in one car!) prevailed. A staple of the Serra summer experience prior to COVID, the picnic was a wonderful and welcomed respite!

Located about an hour and fifty minutes east of Overland Park, the farm sports 225 acres of corn and soybeans, and a 10-acre farmstead that qualifies as a top-notch bed and breakfast. The JOCO Serra Board of Directors arrived late Friday afternoon and spent the night at the farm. Other club members began arriving mid-morning on Saturday. By early afternoon, 19 folks gathered for farm tours, fishing, and hanging out together in the peaceful surroundings.

Don Arth enthusiastically provided farm tours to groups of four on his Ranger. The picturesque setting, complete with an oxbow lake, became a little corner of Paradise for the group encounter.

Pictured right are Don Arth (driving), Joane and Bryan Wilkerson, and Mike Skoch on a tour of the farm.

Picture below (back row, left to right): Larry Ryan, Kathy Ryan, Bryan Wilkerson, Don Arth, Janice Arth, Ginny Skoch, Mike Skoch, Dale Romme, Chuck Lillis; (front row, left to right) Rosemary Weber, John Weber, Wally Foote, Joane Wilkerson, and Len Chmekla.  Not pictured with the group below but in attendance were John Caton and 3 of his grandsons (who were fishing at the time!) and George and Maggie Lentz (who arrived early and had to leave early due to a prior engagement at home.) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The picturesque setting above is an "oxbow" lake on the Arth Farm. Don Arth described an oxbow lake as one formed when a river changes its course, cutting through a strip of land in the middle of an oxbow, abandoning its previous course and isolating water in the newly-formed lake. A shallow lake, Don says it boasts "excellent fishing." The lake is now spring-fed. 

Make sure the 2023 Summer Serra Picnic gets on your calendar when announced! You won't want to miss it!

 

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