Pay it Forward event in Baudette
Aug 25th, 2016 by OutdoorsFIRST
Modified Aug 25th, 2016 at 12:00 AM
It’s starting to become a tradition. For the third straight year, the 60 veterans, gold sponsors and guests who are part of the Pay It Forward event at Lake of the Woods will travel into town Saturday night to hang out and break bread with residents of Baudette, MN at the Lake of the Woods County Fairgrounds. “It is really special to bring veterans from around the U.S. to Baudette. This is small town America and everyone is so nice and appreciative of the veterans,” explains Joe Henry, Director of Tourism for Lake of the Woods. “There is something special when the community rubs elbows with our veteran guests and vice versa.”
The City of Baudette Municipal Liquor Store will provide a bar, volunteers will be frying fish and the Knight Lighters will be playing music all at the Fairgrounds. In addition, there will be some great speakers including Deven Schei of the Wounded Warrior Project. Deven was wounded in the military when he was struck with four 80mm rockets. He has endured 17 surgeries and brings a message of hope and life beyond the military.
All are invited to this great event. If you happen to be in town or would like to come up, you are welcomed! Come enjoy some great fish, listen to some great speakers with compelling messages, enjoy great music from the Knight Lighters and rub elbows with some of America’s finest men and women.