Yaak Outhouse races offer a cure for cabin fever
This handmade Yaak Community Hall Commemorative Quilt is the grand prize in a raffle to support renovations at the building. Tickets are $10 each and will be available at the brunch at the Feb. 16 outhouse race. The drawing is on July 4 during the Hall’s 100th birthday dance celebration. (Courtesy photo)
This is the time of year when Lincoln County residents are tired of dark, cold days, feeding the wood stove and shoveling snow.
We tend to hibernate in our homes and venture out only for essentials. Cabin fever has set in!
But don't despair, the Yaak Community has a cure for your winter blues!
Sunday, Feb. 16, the Yaak will celebrate winter with the annual Yaak River Tavern and Mercantile Outhouse Races. The day will be full of other activities that will include a vendors market beginning at noon at the Dirty Shame Saloon, music by JJ Kind starting at 3 p.m. in the Tavern.
The main event, the outhouse races, will start at 1 p.m. on the Tavern property. The Yaak community invites you to spend the day starting with a Sunday brunch from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Yaak Community Hall. The adult brunch will cost $15 and a child’s portion is only $5. Brunch will include homemade biscuits and sausage gravy, scrambled eggs, hash brown patties, fruit salad, homemade scones and cinnamon rolls and a choice of juices.
Your coffee cup will be bottomless and the woodstove crackling so you can sit and visit friends and neighbors for a while. The brunch is another fundraiser for the floor and foundation repair of the 100-year-old Yaak Community Hall.
The Community Hall Board is waiting to hear if they will receive a Historical Preservation grant through the Montana Department of Commerce. The Hall’s grant application was ranked No. 2 out of 17 statewide projects.
The $168,000 grant requires a local match and a very dedicated fundraising committee has been busy raising those funds through a variety of activities.
One fundraiser is a raffle for a handmade Yaak Community Hall Commemorative Quilt. Tickets are $10 each and will be available at the brunch.
The drawing is July 4 during the Hall’s 100th birthday dance celebration. You can be part of the “100 for $100” campaign where you can purchase a larch disk for $100 and have your name or the name of a loved one wood burned into the disk. The disks will be displayed in the hall after the renovations.
Look for an on-line auction coming in March and check out the GiveSendGo page which is another way to donate. The fundraising committee has helped raise $37,000 out of the $42,000 that is required for the match.